by thesavageway | Aug 23, 2016 | community, services
The 4th Annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Charlotte charity walk for Safe Alliance is taking place this Saturday, August 27, 2016 at 9am at NoDa Brewing Northend.
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes is this Saturday, August 27 at 9am. #thesavageway
This event is all about men (and women) raising awareness about rape and gender violence by walking a mile in heels. To quote Charlotte’s Walk a Mile in Her Shoes ® flyer, “In spirit of the old saying “you can’t understand someone’s experience until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes,” Walk a Mile in Her Shoes ® literally asks men to walk a mile in women’s high heeled shoes. The event is a playful and fun opportunity for men to raise awareness in their community about the serious causes and effects of sexualized violence.”
Come Walk A Mile in heels on Sat. August 27 and support Safe Alliance. #thesavageway
Walk A Mile In Her Shoes benefits Safe Alliance. #thesavageway
The crowd gathering at the 2015 Walk A Mile event. #thesavageway
This year, the event will start and finish from the new NoDa Brewing Company location at 2921 N. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC.
Date: Saturday, August 27th, 2016
Registration Begins: 9:00am
Welcome/Walk Starts: 10:00am
Awards/After-Party: 11:00am
Cost: $25 for Men, and $10 for Ladies.
There is still time to register. Check out this link for all of the information.
The 2016 beneficiary is Safe Alliance. This amazing group “provides a continuum of critical crisis services to those victimized by domestic violence, sexual assault or child abuse. Services include a 24-hour crisis line, the 80-bed Clyde & Ethel Dickson Domestic Violence Shelter, safety planning services, hospital accompaniment, case management systems advocacy, support groups, court advocacy/accompaniment and legal representation. Safe Alliance assists over 10,000 people annually throughout Mecklenburg and south Iredell Counties and reaches an even greater number of people through community educational, prevention programs and institutional advocacy.”
For more information, visit safealliance.org.
(All photos courtesy of the Walk A Mile In Her Shoes website.)
by thesavageway | Dec 3, 2015 | community
The second do good. feel good. SERIES event is this Saturday, December 5. #thesavageway
We (#thesavageway) have joined forces with Breathe Refuge and NoDa Yoga for an ongoing event series called the do good. feel good. SERIES. The idea behind this series of events stemmed from a desire to put our skills and energy back into the community in which we live – Charlotte. Collectively, we saw a need for an event where you are actively bettering yourself and also assisting others at the same time.
The purpose of the do good. feel good. SERIES is to offer the Charlotte community a workshop in a healing area (yoga, breathwork, etc) or to learn a skill. These events are meant to rejuvenate the body, mind and the soul.
The minds behind the do good. feel good. SERIES. #thesavageway
“Bringing our three companies together for an event was a very natural fit,” said Jonathan Winn, owner of Breathe Refuge. “We all exist to positively influence our clients and community. We saw an opportunity to use our areas of expertise to give back to this great neighborhood that we live in.”
THIS SATURDAY: Help the Behailu Academy!
This Saturday, December 5, 2015, we will be hosting a breathwork class led by the one and only Jonathan Winn of Breathe Refuge. The event runs from 1-3pm at the NoDa Yoga studio (3201 N. Davidson St). Event attendees can expect a healing and rejuvenating breathwork class in a safe setting and enjoy a snack from Bruks Bars afterward.
Saturday, December 5 from 1-3pm join in a breathwork class and help local charity Behailu Academy. #thesavageway
Tickets are $30/person and all proceeds benefit Behailu Academy, a Charlotte area kids art program. They are located in the historic arts district of NoDa – and they rock! The Behailu Academy empowers youth to find and use their voices through the arts, academic support and community service.
Here’s what they do:
– A free after-school youth apprenticeship program that encourages students in 9th-12th grade to stay in school, engage in their communities and pursue arts affiliated opportunities beyond high school.
– 5-buck Fridays where youth take short-term workshops to complete a single project and other workshops such as dance, video editing or oil painting at a low cost.
– Bi-monthly youth arts showcase events open to the public during NoDa’s bi-monthly gallery crawls.
These are the kids that will be helped on Sat. Dec 5 during the do good. feel good. SERIES. #thesavageway
Tickets can be purchased by visiting nodayoga.com and searching Workshops. For additional information, please email [email protected].
What started out as a little idea to give back to our community has turned into an ongoing event series that we couldn’t be more proud of. We’d love to see you there on Saturday! Stay tuned for more do good. feel good. SERIES events in 2016!
