Bluer Sky Advocates is a new nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide cash grants and other support to artists and creators working in any medium who are creating works that show accurate depictions of people healing from trauma. The leadership of Bluer Sky Advocates seeks people with backgrounds in dance, film, visual art and music who are also interested in trauma healing to join the board of directors. Directors are part of a working board, engaged in fundraising and in seeking...

Starting on October 17, 2020, you'll be able to see a virtual reading of LOOK FOR ME, a new musical about trauma and PTSD, the people living with it, and the people living with them. Free!

Vote for a trauma-informed musical to get $10,000!

Video of the first-ever performances of LOOK FOR ME, the musical about healing from trauma, is now available on YouTube. Look For Me was created to challenge one of the most pervasive myths about trauma and PTSD: that the damage done by traumatic experiences is a life sentence. The video now available is from performances of a 25-minute excerpt of the show presented at the New York New Works Theatre Festival in September, 2018. The excerpt captures the full storyline of the main character,...

Trauma is everywhere in art. In movies, songs, stories and novels, writers and performers create characters who go through terrible, difficult things and who then respond to the world and other people in it in all the challenging ways we know. Past trauma is a convenient shorthand to explain a character's anger, depression, addiction or bad behavior. In 2013, I was frustrated by the lack of trauma healing shown in art. Where are the songs, stories and films that show the real story, that...