The Love Locked Down Theatre Project uses creative arts, music, movement, film and transformational storytelling combined with guided group discussion to address issues challenging communities such as mass incarceration, bias and inequity, generational trauma and the current public health crisis.

Participantts will be introduced to the broad topics of race, culture and poverty, etc as well as Trauma Informed Care Practices, ACES,

mindfulness exercises and Circle Process.

All will be guided in the process of storytelling, storyboarding and visual story development  and movement as creative therapy,  Examining narratives that do not serve and developing ones that do.

Youth create their own stories based on these topics.  Youth will explore various modalities in storytelling in order to create their best story - music, set design, spoken world, directing and photography.

The LLDTP team is diverse and uniquely qualified to address the needs and concerns of youth in marginalized communities, emphasizing reading, comprehension and intentional listening.

The teams includes professional writers, musicians, movement instructors and visual artists. Visual storytelling - video, set design, photography and prop construction.

Participants will engage with community members to develop their solution oriented stories to combat community trauma and create new narratives through storytelling that will reduce trauma.