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Searching For Identity is dedicated to creating transformative programming by educating, empowering and uniting diverse communities through the visual and performing arts based on the power of the written word.
Searching For Identity: The Second Gen Experience Documentary Film is in production. In this documentary, we share the result of posing this inquiry, Where does your identity as child of survivor end and your own identity begin? Is there, can there be, a distinction? Previously unexplored by our workshop participants, they considered, who inherits the Holocaust experience? Whom will bear witness to the Holocaust experience when the survivors are no more? This documentary film is based on essays written in the SFI Writers Workshop. The film will reveal the experiences of the second-generation Holocaust survivors, the children of those that survived the horrors of Hitlers Final Solution and conveys how the Holocausts effects seep across generational divides and ripple through generations of families. To know these stories is to raise awareness and better care for those with similar reactions as a result of their parents traumatic experiences. Searching for Identity will speak to other second-generation survivors, letting them know that they are not alone. It will serve the academic world, as a vital, historical documented resource and be an important educational tool in the classroom. Second Gen Discussion Group and Writing Workshops enable participants to share, develop and eventually speak in public about their parents survivorship experiences and the inherited effects of the Holocaust on the families of survivors. The Searching For Identity Writing Workshop began in 2013 as a community outreach project for Second Gen Holocaust Survivors in the Jacksonville area. They are the children of parents who identify as Holocaust survivors. The group met monthly, in a confidential and judgement-free setting, and they were provided with a writing prompt related to the Holocaust survivorship experience. The prompt was then explored and discussed at the following months meeting. Today, these writing pieces serve as vital educational bridges between todays Second Gen and tomorrows generations. Art and Literature as Civil Discourse presentations offer programming based on respecting those who share differing views. Entitled LiterARTure, the discussion series uses examples of American art and literature to remind us that although we are divisive in political views, as Americans, we all can share artistic and literary prideLiterARTure aims to encourage all Americans to acknowledge and embrace our countrys inherited arts and literary works. Today, civil discourse has eroded and terms including tribal and the other are used to describe the vitriolic language of our times. LiterARTure reveals the common history we share as Americans: from Winslow Homer and Zora Neale Hurston, Kehinde Wiley to Mark Twain. Emphasizing our shared cultural history, the LiterARTure discussion series focuses on Americas positive, dynamic literary and artistic achievements, illustrating that we can be proud of our shared heritage.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
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| Lucy Cortese | Secretary | 5 | $0 |
| Bruce Goldring | Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Stacey Goldring | Founder | 40 | $0 |
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