Our team will be running the Colfax Marathon Relay on October 16th to raise awareness and support for Mirror Image Arts. Cheer our team on! Whether you donate $5 or $500 or share the mission of MIA with a friend, your support has a ripple effect. Thank you for disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline through your voice and generosity.
OUR WHY:
Our Passion and Purpose are to DISRUPT the School-to-Prison Pipeline throughout the Greater Denver Metropolitan Area. The pipeline is a charged and complicated issue, affecting youth everywhere we operate.
Ensuring “safe” schools through 1. Zero Tolerance Policies and 2. increased police presence in public schools have led to minor infractions being treated as criminal offenses. The result is drastic, exclusionary punishment ranging from detention and expulsion to incarceration. Instead of disciplinary issues being addressed by schools, youth are interacting with the youth legal system.
Mirror Image Arts utilizes interactive theatre, positive youth development, trauma-informed, and restorative approaches. We work with youth (ages 7-21) in schools and juvenile detention centers. Through our work, we aim to give youth access to the arts while opening up spaces for them to express themselves through play, imagination, and dialogue. To feel valued, seen, and heard. To be experts in their own lives and have the opportunity to make mistakes and come back stronger. To practice their resilience and their potential.
OUR TEAM: We are incredibly grateful to our team of runners for volunteering their time to represent Mirror Image Arts at the Colfax Marathon Relay.
Julie Rada: Community Member, Volunteer, Mirror Image Arts board member.
Michael Board II: Community Member, Artist, Mirror Image Arts Program Associate
Chase Pennell: Community Member, Volunteer
Mike Orr: Community Member, Volunteer, Youth Director at Broomfield UMC
Nathan Adams: Community Member, Volunteer, Lead Pastor at Park Hill UMC
OUR FUNDRAISING GOAL: $10,000 (show your support by clicking the button above)