The women’s performance last month was a beautiful celebration of their hard work, as family members and other women at the prison gathered to enjoy their music and cheer for them.
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“I have learned and seen how music can be used to humanize people, to give them emotional outlets and ways to process, and to give them a new skill that they can use to create new and beautiful things.”
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“Hope is what allows us to push on, when the senses we rely on present evidence to the contrary. It is why I leave my bed, why I better myself, why I invest in those around me. So tomorrow might be better than today.” - resident at the Grafton Correctional Institution
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We were so inspired by the stories we heard last fall that we went back for more! This summer we met and wrote DocSongs with Peggi Cruz, owner and chef of Cha’firo and Danielle Piscura, co-founder of the Garden Christian Academy, both located in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood.
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It’s humbling and truly a blessing to see how a community of string musicians has been birthed and now taken on a life of its own at the Grafton Correctional Institution in less than five years.
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We met Kaylyn at our Party with a Purpose, which led her to ask about joining us at the Grafton Correctional Institution.
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The women have put in so much hard work and dedication to learn how to play violin, viola, or cello and we are excited to share that they performed their second concert last month!
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We were honored to be invited back for a second performance at the Maltz Performing Arts Center, and to collaborate with such a special group.
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We are truly honored that our alma mater Westmont College featured Renovare in their magazine!
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"I hate ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town.’ I've always hated it. Because I knew, even as a kid, that there was no way Santa was coming to my hood.”
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This was by far Renovare Music's biggest year yet. Through all of our work bridging divided communities and creating restorative experiences through music, stories, and conversations, we have seen God at work in powerful ways.
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“This process was so cathartic. I’m on a personal healing journey. The ladies didn’t know this but, those [songwriting] sessions were like balm to my soul.”
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Renovare was honored to be chapel speakers at Westmont College, sharing some of what we’ve learned from people who are incarcerated.
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“…The voices of these bold and courageous women are often overlooked or forgotten, but as we listened to them tell their story we learned so much from them…”
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He said: “I am blessed.” I was shocked. Here’s a man with a death sentence, living out the remainder of his life in prison with no freedoms at all, saying that he is a blessed man.
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“Rebecca is not your average cellist... “ says Good Life Television Host, Dean Wilson, in his interview with Renovare’s Founder about why she started the organization.
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Renovare was honored to be featured on Cleveland’s WKYC Channel 3 News.
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Renovare was honored to be featured in the Covenant Companion, the Official Magazine of the Evangelical Covenant Church.
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