Just two weeks ago, Milwaukee was thrilled to host its first Listen To Your Mother Show.
Our show was successful in every sense of the word. We brought 14 community voices together to tell their stories to an audience who, at show’s end, applauded for what seemed minutes upon minutes.
We forged friendships with our community and our cast, and our world was made larger and better through meeting amazing people we never would have otherwise met. Our 2013 LTYM cast will know each other always. Our FB group is talking of summer get togethers and coffees in the park.
Our May 5, 2013 show was beyond the magic we knew it would be. The indescribable joy of pride, unity, love for those in attendance is something difficult to capture here, but how I wish you would have been in our hearts that day.
Jen and I wanted to ask everyone in the audience that afternoon to please, wait… don’t leave!
We want to thank each and every one of you, and tell you how much we appreciate you coming and supporting our show and our readers, and the Listen To Your Mother Mission: that of building bridges, connecting communities, hearing and speaking and listening to the sound of voices uniting us all.
Producing LTYM was something that changed so much in all of us, for both Jen and me, especially.
The most obvious is that of seeing the work, and the joy of the work, that fueled us. We look at so many things differently now that we’ve worked on the other side of LTYM.
One of the most salient for us being our new understanding of the commonly heard phrase at the beginning and end of shows, “Please thank our sponsors.”
Those words will never sound the same to us again. Yes, please thank our sponsors: for believing in Listen To Your Mother, for supporting Listen To Your Mother, for bringing Listen To Your Mother to Milwaukee, and for making Listen To Your Mother possible.
THANK YOU BlogHer and One2One Network for your national sponsorship
THANK YOU AJBombers for your generous regional sponsorship and cast parties for BOTH Madison and Milwaukee
THANK YOU to Rosen Automotive for your regional sponsorship of not only Chicago but Milwaukee also
THANK YOU to Dave Dider of ReMax United for your generous local sponsorship
THANK YOU to Soulstice Theatre
THANK YOU to Orphonic Multimedia for your generous time and talent with photography and videography.
Thank you to our sponsors, and please support our sponsors. LTYM would not have happened without their contribution.
I can speak for myself and for Jen, when we say the enormity of the impact of our show hit when we saw the Executive Director of our local cause, Sojourner Family Peace Center, walk onstage to open our show.
To hear Debra Fields thank LTYM for their support and contribution left us humbled. We did something GREAT on May 5, and Debra expressing her gratitude to LTYM for our work was a moment seared in our bursting hearts forever.
As soon as we receive our ticket revenue from brownpapertickets, we will proudly be presenting a check to Sojourner Family Peace Center, so they can continue their important community work of providing the shelter, safety and support that is desperately needed to eliminate family violence in our community.
Listen To Your Mother Shows happen because of a multitude of hands, hearts, hours, and devotion.
Thank you to our cast, our sponsors, our audience, our community. You ALL are Listen To Your Mother Milwaukee. We can’t wait for 2014!
Jen and Alexandra
Listen To Your Mother / Milwaukee
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