Project Ricochet

🧥❄️ Help Our Neighbors Stay Sharp and Stay Warm!

Project Ricochet’s African American Barbershop & Beauty Salon Initiative invites the community to support our Winter Stay Sharp, Stay Warm Campaign.

Our goal is to collect more than 100 new winter essentials for youth and adults, including:

🧤 Gloves
🧢 Hats
🧦 Socks
🧥 Coats
🛏️ Blankets

Donations are accepted through November 1, 2026-February 28, 2027.

📍 Drop-off Location
Well Groomed Barbershop and Parlor
470 E. New Circle Road, Suite 4
Lexington, KY 40505

For more information, contact Adria “A.D.” Shouse at (502) 682-1393 or [email protected].
Every donation helps a neighbor face the cold with dignity, warmth, and style. Thank you for giving!

THE URBAN ART COLLECTIVE: THANK YOU, CENTRAL KENTUCKY!

What a beautiful evening of art, imagination, family, and community!

Thank you to everyone who joined Project Ricochet for Art Hop and experienced Paradelia Paradox: Same Image. Different Story., presented through our Urban Art Collective and World Art Camp artists: Andrew, Violet, Lennon, and Stephanie.

This exhibition was created around a simple but powerful idea: We can look at the same image, experience the same moment, or encounter the same world; and still see, feel, and understand it differently. Art gives us a way to explore those differences, tell our stories, honor our emotions, and connect with one another.

We are especially proud to create space where young people and families as a whole are recognized as artists, storytellers, and change makers. Their creativity belongs in galleries. Their perspectives deserve to be seen. Their stories deserve to be heard.

And if you missed opening night, you have not missed the exhibition!

Paradelia Paradox will remain on exhibit at the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center through the first week of November. We welcome one and all to visit, take your time to perceive the work, look again, and discover your own interpretation. Heal from within.

LOOK. FEEL. CONNECT. EXPRESS. BELONG.

Thank you to our artists, young people, families, community members, partners, supporters, and everyone who came out to celebrate creativity with us.

Come experience the exhibit for yourself.

Join us tonight for Paradelia Paradox with The Urban Art Collective’s Andrew Cohen and Family (Violet, Lennon, and Stephanie)! LexArts Art Hop 5-8 PM.

Are You Safe?

Sometimes your life changes before your nervous system gets the message.

You can have stability and still brace for loss.
You can have enough and still fear not having enough.
You can be surrounded by opportunity and still feel compelled to work as though everything could disappear tomorrow.

That is one of trauma’s echoes: The past can continue signaling danger even when the present has become safer.

But healing includes learning to recognize what is true today.

You are here.
You survived what came before.
You have resources you did not have then.
You have knowledge you did not have then.
You have choices you did not have then.
You are safe.

Safety does not mean that nothing difficult will ever happen. It means you no longer have to live every moment as though the emergency is still happening.

Give yourself permission to experience the life you worked so hard to reach.

REALIZING A SAFE EXISTENCE TODAY AFTER A TRAUMATIC PAST.

At Project Ricochet, we believe trauma-informed communities help people move beyond survival toward safety, belonging, opportunity, and possibility.

Communities Heal. People Rise. We Are Stronger Together.

New show coming to the CYG Gallery this week as well!

Paradelia Paradox brings together professional and youth artists through Project Ricochet’s Urban Art Collective and World Art Camp for an intergenerational exploration of perception, imagination, identity, and emotional wellness. Led by artist Andrew Cohen and inspired by a year of community engagement across Lexington, this vibrant, interactive installation invites visitors to look again, embrace different perspectives, and recognize the power of creative expression. 🎨✨ Your future is not a game. Bet on you.

Please share this link. We have over a 110 people that have claimed their turkey. Let's get the word out!

Sign Up Form Here: https://forms.gle/viqcUQhiDU7ZpRi28

🦃 2026 THANKSGIVING TURKEY GIFT — FAMILY REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

The Share Center and Project Ricochet are coming together this Thanksgiving to help families across our community celebrate the holiday with a meal on the table.

This year, we will distribute 900+ frozen halal turkeys to households — while supplies last!

📅 Saturday, November 21, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM–3:00 PM
📍 The Share Center
572 Georgetown Street | Lexington, KY

🦃 One frozen halal turkey per household — approximately 10–14 lbs.

Registration is required. One registration per household, please. No proof of income or religious affiliation is required.

👉 REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/YJ9PFYdtKewgVzwU7

Thanksgiving Turkey Gift Family Registration
This Thanksgiving Turkey Distribution is made possible through the generous support of Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA) and coordinated locally by The Share Center and Project Ricochet, Inc.

🍂 900+ turkeys. 900+ opportunities to support families. One community coming together.

Please SHARE this post so families who may need can register.

*Halal means food naturally prepared and handled with care, suitable for anyone to enjoy.

Healing. Restoration. Empowerment. Peace. 💙🧡

Justice Served: Pathways to Peace offers healing circles for youth, women, families, and returning community members in Fayette, Bourbon, and Jefferson counties.

View the flyer for dates and locations. Note: New and expanded dates and new times in Bourbon County.

Register: https://justiceserved.base44.app