Haven for Artists is raising funds to distribute aid, necessities, and warm meals to people displaced by the Zionist war on Lebanon.

The mutual aid Network is active with grassroots initiatives, community collectives, and comrades coordinating distributions of mattresses, blankets, food, hygiene kits, and meds. 

During these times, it is crucial for all of us to take care of each other, and to stand our ground in the face of the enemy. We pray for people's safety. 

Haven for Artists is supported by a global coalition of artists who have donated giveaway items for qualifying donors, including: journals, art work, stickers, and workshops. Donate at the appropriate level for a chance to receive one of these giveaways. Donor giveaways are subject to availability and shipping location.

Available Donor Giveaways:

• The Cholq’ij Reflection Journal is 260-day reflection journal invites you to walk with the nawales, the day energies of the Maya Cholq’ij ceremonial calendar, through a full cycle of ancestral time. Each page offers space for reflection, intention-setting, and tracking dreams, feelings, and events in relationship with the energies of each day. Rooted in Maya cosmology and designed for accessibility, this journal supports both new and experienced practitioners in reconnecting with cyclical, relational time. All USA-based donors who donate $45 or more will be eligible for this giveaway. 1 journal will be given away.
• Two tickets or reserved seats the next live or limited Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop production. All NYC-based donors who donate $50 or more will be eligible for this giveaway. 1 set of 2 tickets will be given away. 
• A 1-hour grant writing (and/or editing) virtual consultation with Adam Odsess-Rubin. All donors who donate $100 or more will be eligible for this giveaway. 1 session will be given away.
  • Adam Odsess-Rubin (he/him) is a queer community organizer and artistic leader advancing performance as a tool for global LGBTQ+ advocacy. He is the Founding Artistic Director of National Queer Theater (NQT) and the Obie Award–winning Criminal Queerness Festival, a platform for censored and criminalized LGBTQ+ artists worldwide. Through NQT, he has produced work by artists from Uganda, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Kenya, Poland, and Palestine, amplifying voices from regions where queer expression is suppressed or outlawed. Under his leadership, NQT has raised more than $1 million for queer and trans artists since 2018 through grants and donations, and developed programs serving hundreds of LGBTQ+ youth, asylum seekers, elders, and people living with HIV. As a grant writer, he has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Ford Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, Stonewall Community Foundation, and many more.
• A three-session virtual consultation package of healing-centered coaching to support changemakers in aligning their practices with their values with Avery Staton. All donors who donate $450 or more will be eligible for this giveaway. 2 packages will be given away.
  • About the coaching:  As an ICF certified healing-centered coach, Avery Staton focuses on helping changemakers align their work with their values. This series of 3, 30 minute sessions is a powerful practice that helps coaches move through challenges and closer to self-identified goals. Topics can come from any sphere from professional to the personal and everything in between--this offering is for people who are looking to develop greater clarity and empowerment in an area meaningful to them.  
  • Avery Staton (they/them), MCP/MPH,  is a Relational Designer and artist working to nurture the connective tissue between people, their communities, the institutions meant to serve them, and their internal sense of alignment and purpose.  Avery moves between spaces serving as an equity design strategist and facilitator, helping institutions develop the capacity to design with – not for – communities impacted by oppression, as well as a certified healing-centered coach, supporting individual changemakers and teams navigating the challenges and complexity of values-aligned work.  They draw on their expertise in city planning, public health, and equitable design, as well as their lived experience as a Black, queer, nonbinary and neurodivergent and chronically ill person.  Avery is based in Oakland, California. Find out more at staton.studio.