Awakenings

pride exists because q***r people survived 💜

happy pride from Awakenings 🦚

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Come celebrate Pride Month by creating a bouquet and painting of your favorite florals, sip on a house-made cocktail, and raffle with prizes from .shop and ! Join us for a step-by-step guided painting tutorial for painting your favorite flowers. 💐

Two ticket options are available:
* General Admission tickets ($50) covers most of our expenses for your supplies and paying our teaching artist for their time.
* General Admission Donation Amount ($75) covers your workshop costs and includes an additional donation that helps Awakenings continue providing free, trauma-informed art programs for survivors in our community. Your extra support helps keep our doors open for those who need healing spaces most.
Both ticket options grant you access to the event equally!

🗓️Wednesday, June 17th | 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Doors open at 5:30pm!
📍4001 N Ravenswood Ave. Suite 204C, Chicago, IL
🎟️ $50-$75, link in our bio!

What to expect:
* Arrive at our beautiful Ravenswood Art Studio loft space, grab your drink and a spot
*Q***r inclusive environment
* Choose which fresh stems that you would like to make your bouquet with
* Out of the flower-types provided, receive a step-by-step tutorial on how to paint each one by a professional teaching artist, and draw inspiration from the bouquet you created
* Go home with your bouquet and your new painting!

What’s included in your ticket:
* House-made cocktails, craft beer, and seltzer water🍸
* Snacks
* Flowers💐
* Painting supplies🎨
* Your finished painting and bouquet
* Automatic single raffle entry!

This workshop is perfect for a date night, girls’ night, solo self-care, or birthday gifts/celebrations!💜

Only 25 spots available!

Come celebrate Pride at the studio! 💜

Join us for a special Paint & Sip on Wednesday, June 17th for a fun bouquet painting Pride celebration AND the chance to win 2 tickets to a Mixology 101 class at !! BIG thanks to and for their very generous donations to this event this month 🫶🏼

Our newest workshop, Painting Dreamscapes, is on June 24th, and we are SO excited to add this to our workshop offerings. Join us for a fantasy and dreamscape painting workshop 🦋

And last but not least, join us for an extra special Q***r Crafting on Friday, June 26th to close off Pride Month 🎨 Please remember Q***r Crafting is a mask required event. N95’s and air purifiers are available in the studio.

Pride Month is a celebration of identity, resilience, and the right to live authentically, but it is also a reminder that LGBTQIA+ survivors deserve spaces where they can heal safely and fully as themselves.

At Awakenings, we are committed to supporting q***r survivors not just during Pride Month, but all year long through free, trauma-informed healing arts programming grounded in creativity, community, and care. 💛

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These nights are always SO special for us at Awakenings. Tonight, members of our Spring 2026 Cogenerational Cohort spoke to their family, friends, and loved ones about the art they created, the community they made, and the self discoveries they experienced during these past 9 weeks. 🎨

We are so grateful to have been able to share another Cohort with the world, and even more grateful to our Cohort members for showing up and sharing their creativity with us 💜

A BIG thank you to who made this Cohort possible. We are so grateful for their support in our mission 🦚

Join us on Thursday to celebrate the conclusion of our Spring 2026 Cohort with a gathering of survivorship, art, and community. 🦚

We want to invite you to an exclusive viewing of artwork created by our Spring 2026 Co-generational Healing Arts Cohort, joined by the cohort members, as a celebration and reflection of their healing journey and the community they have built through this program.

🗓️When: Thursday, May 28th.
6:00pm - Doors open
6:30pm - First Speaking Time
7:30pm - Second Speaking Time
8:30pm - Doors Close
📍Where: Awakenings Art, 4001 N. Ravenswood Ave, Suite 204-C
🎟️Tickets: Free! Link in our bio.

The Awakenings Cohort program is a 9-week healing art program where participants attend weekly art workshops that build on themes surrounding survivorship, healing, and reflection. This Spring, we brought together survivors aged 55+ and survivors aged 18-25 for a collaborative art-making experience that explores healing across generations from sexual violence.

At Awakenings, we believe that artmaking can be an extremely powerful tool for survivors of sexual violence to process and move through their emotions about trauma and healing. Our Cohort program strives to facilitate the opportunity for further healing and reflection, while also providing a space for community and belonging. 💜

We’re doing it again!! Create a bouquet of your favorite florals, sip on a house-made cocktail, and paint a canvas of your bouquet to last! Join us for a step-by-step guided painting tutorial for painting your favorite flowers. 💐

Two ticket options are available:
* General Admission tickets ($50) covers most of our expenses for your supplies and paying our teaching artist for their time.
* General Admission Donation Amount ($75) covers your workshop costs and includes an additional donation that helps Awakenings continue providing free, trauma-informed art programs for survivors in our community. Your extra support helps keep our doors open for those who need healing spaces most.
Both ticket options grant you access to the event equally!

🗓️Wednesday, June 17th | 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Doors open at 5:30pm!
📍4001 N Ravenswood Ave. Suite 204C, Chicago, IL
🎟️ $50-$75, link in our bio!

What to expect:
* Arrive at our beautiful Ravenswood Art Studio loft space, grab your drink and a spot
* Choose which fresh stems that you would like to make your bouquet with
* Out of the flower-types provided, receive a step-by-step tutorial on how to paint each one by a professional teaching artist, and draw inspiration from the bouquet you created
* Go home with your bouquet and your new painting!

What’s included in your ticket:
* House-made cocktails, craft beer, and seltzer water🍸
* Snacks
* Flowers💐
* Painting supplies🎨
* Your finished painting and bouquet

This workshop is perfect for a date night, girls’ night, solo self-care, or birthday gifts/celebrations!💜

Only 25 spots available!

It’s that time! Join us to celebrate the conclusion of our Spring 2026 Cohort with a gathering of survivorship, art, and community. 🦚

We want to invite you to an exclusive viewing of artwork created by our Spring 2026 Co-generational Healing Arts Cohort, joined by the cohort members, as a celebration and reflection of their healing journey and the community they have built through this program.

🗓️When: Thursday, May 28th.
6:00pm - Doors open
6:30pm - First Speaking Time
7:30pm - Second Speaking Time
8:30pm - Doors Close
📍Where: Awakenings Art, 4001 N. Ravenswood Ave, Suite 204-C
🎟️Tickets: Free! Link in our bio.

The Awakenings Cohort program is a 9-week healing art program where participants attend weekly art workshops that build on themes surrounding survivorship, healing, and reflection. This Spring, we brought together survivors aged 55+ and survivors aged 18-25 for a collaborative art-making experience that explores healing across generations from sexual violence.

At Awakenings, we believe that artmaking can be an extremely powerful tool for survivors of sexual violence to process and move through their emotions about trauma and healing. Our Cohort program strives to facilitate the opportunity for further healing and reflection, while also providing a space for community and belonging. 💜

Thank you for supporting us during Sexual Assault Awareness Month

As a survivor resource, Sexual Assault Awareness Month is a special time for us to build awareness and celebrate survivors, but that doesn’t mean the work is over.

Awakenings is a free survivor resource in operation 12 months a year, and you support allows us to continue. Thank you.

This month we have a lot going on!

This weekend Awakenings will be facilitating our Relief Printing workshop for survivors at the Trans Youth Summit, and invite you to join us!

Our public Re-Printing Memories workshop is taking place on May 12th, and is a masked workshop. RSVP or join the waitlist!

At the end of the month, we have our coveted Art Walk-lthrough for our Spring 2026 Cohort. Join us at the studio on May 28th as a celebration and reflection of the healing journey and the community our Cohort members have built through this program!

Lastly, we are now taking newsletter announcement requests! So if you have survivor events, opportunities, or would like to shout out a survivor-centered organization see the link in our bio for the request form!

Thank you for your support!