Fight Catcalling with TIWIFL
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Watch the AJ+ Feature on THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE and please donate to help us bring the exhibit to other countries and to college campuses!
THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE is an auditory art exhibit designed to help shift society’s treatment of women by providing men with the opportunity to experience being on the receiving end of catcalling. One at a time, participants enter a dark, narrow corridor, walk up to a mirror, put on a pair of headphones, and intimately face this jarring reality. The audio they hear is a compilation of various male voices stating real catcalls submitted by brave women who were willing to share their experiences via interview.
Following a tremendously successful opening in February 2017 at Art Street in Sacramento, CA that saw an unprecedented 15,000 participants come through the exhibit, THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE (TIWIFL) traveled to Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, TN in June 2017, introducing the first ever TIWIFL “pop-up” exhibit to thousands of festival goers. The impact has been undeniably profound. Many men have come out of the exhibit distraught and in tears, empowered by their newfound empathy and determined to be the change that is needed. Many women have emerged expressing gratitude for validating their own experiences and for giving them a voice in a world in which they have felt silenced.
To educate, validate, and empower thousands more people all across the United States, it is imperative that we create a mobile version of the exhibit. Considering the modern on-campus sexual assault epidemic, one of the most pressing needs is to bring this experience and perspective to the college-aged demographic. Help us reach our fundraising goal ASAP so the mobile version of TIWIFL can be built in time to make these critical appearances on college campuses beginning this Fall!
Your donation will go directly towards:
- A mobile trailer to house the exhibit
- Materials to build a permanent exhibit inside the trailer (plywood, paint, curtains, mirror, lighting fixtures, tape, electrical elements, etc)
- Pop-up boutique within trailer for selling merch and giving away informational literature
- iPad for audio playback portion and social media upkeep
- Headphones for audio experience
- Branding + Signage
- Conducting organized surveys of women in various cities, colleges, and regions to document catcalls they’ve heard
- Enlisting men to record those catcalls
- Recording studio rental costs to record those men’s voices
- Audio engineering fees to edit that audio, which will yield a custom experience authentic to each region the trailer visits
THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE has so many more lives to reach and we hope you will help us reach them. Please donate and join our stand against the oppression of women.
Thank you for your time and generosity,
TIWIFL Project Team
MORE INFORMATION: https://ThisIsWhatItFeelsLikeProject.com
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THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE is an auditory art exhibit designed to help shift society’s treatment of women by providing men with the opportunity to experience being on the receiving end of catcalling. One at a time, participants enter a dark, narrow corridor, walk up to a mirror, put on a pair of headphones, and intimately face this jarring reality. The audio they hear is a compilation of various male voices stating real catcalls submitted by brave women who were willing to share their experiences via interview.
Following a tremendously successful opening in February 2017 at Art Street in Sacramento, CA that saw an unprecedented 15,000 participants come through the exhibit, THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE (TIWIFL) traveled to Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, TN in June 2017, introducing the first ever TIWIFL “pop-up” exhibit to thousands of festival goers. The impact has been undeniably profound. Many men have come out of the exhibit distraught and in tears, empowered by their newfound empathy and determined to be the change that is needed. Many women have emerged expressing gratitude for validating their own experiences and for giving them a voice in a world in which they have felt silenced.
To educate, validate, and empower thousands more people all across the United States, it is imperative that we create a mobile version of the exhibit. Considering the modern on-campus sexual assault epidemic, one of the most pressing needs is to bring this experience and perspective to the college-aged demographic. Help us reach our fundraising goal ASAP so the mobile version of TIWIFL can be built in time to make these critical appearances on college campuses beginning this Fall!
Your donation will go directly towards:
- A mobile trailer to house the exhibit
- Materials to build a permanent exhibit inside the trailer (plywood, paint, curtains, mirror, lighting fixtures, tape, electrical elements, etc)
- Pop-up boutique within trailer for selling merch and giving away informational literature
- iPad for audio playback portion and social media upkeep
- Headphones for audio experience
- Branding + Signage
- Conducting organized surveys of women in various cities, colleges, and regions to document catcalls they’ve heard
- Enlisting men to record those catcalls
- Recording studio rental costs to record those men’s voices
- Audio engineering fees to edit that audio, which will yield a custom experience authentic to each region the trailer visits
THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE has so many more lives to reach and we hope you will help us reach them. Please donate and join our stand against the oppression of women.
Thank you for your time and generosity,
TIWIFL Project Team
MORE INFORMATION: https://ThisIsWhatItFeelsLikeProject.com
FOLLOW US :
CONTACT:
[email redacted]
PRESS:
Huffington Post
Bustle
Nasty Gal
Girl Boss
Indian Women Blog
The Sacramento Bee
To donate via Paypal, follow .
Organizer
Terra Lopez
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA