TFOM: THE FIRST OF MANY

VFTM: Voices from the Margins

For the stories we carry quietly and the healing in saying them out loud.

Voices from the Margins is a monthly storytelling circle where healing, truth, and deep connection meet. This is a sanctuary for those stories that live just beneath the surface, the ones you may never have spoken aloud, but they shape who you are.

Each month, we’ll center a theme connected to truth, identity, and the inner narratives we’re still learning how to say out loud. We’ll gather in an intimate, judgment-free space to listen deeply and reflect honestly. Whether you choose to share your story or simply hold space with others, you will leave feeling seen, understood, and a little more whole.

Every gathering features a powerful guest speaker—an artist, creative, healer, or visionary who shares their own journey and guides us through reflection. Their story becomes a mirror, inspiring you to dive deeper into your own truths and creative spirit.

This isn’t a workshop or panel. It’s a circle of realness where your voice, your silence, and your presence are all honored. You’ll learn from others’ courage, resilience, and healing and discover new ways to access your own inner wisdom.

Participants are encouraged to go deeper than you’ve had the time or space to, or allowed yourself to. You are encouraged to reflect, write and share verbally if you’d like to release.

We do not record conversations unless clearly communicated in advance for documentation, research purposes, or as part of ongoing graduate work at MICA. However, by attending this event, you consent to being photographed for media and promotional purposes.

Voices from the Margins is a live, healing-centered space rooted in trust, vulnerability, and deep listening. To honor the intimacy of these gatherings, we do not record sessions unless clearly communicated in advance as part of documentation or research tied to our mission or Jasmine Gabrielle Washington’s ongoing work as an Interdisciplinary Artist, Curator, Writer, MFA Candidate and Cultural Worker.

Your presence matters. Be in the room. Witness and be witnessed. Bring your voice, your silence, your presence.

A year in the making, this program was developed by our founder, Jasmine Gabrielle Washington.

Why?
Some artists live at the margins of greatness
not because they lack talent or vision,
but because they’ve never had the space to just be,
the freedom to create without survival breathing down their necks,
or the access to people who could see them, support them, and say, “You belong here.”
Voices from the Margins exists to name this truth, and to build the space where that greatness is no longer postponed.

Why the name Voices from the Margins?
Because the margins speak.
Voices from the Margins was born from a deep conviction that the stories too often silenced are the ones that most need to be heard. The name honors those who live, create, and survive at the edges—where systems forget but wisdom grows. It is a declaration that those pushed aside are not voiceless; they have always been speaking. This space simply listens.
By naming this program Voices from the Margins, we commit to centering the brilliance, grief, resistance, and becoming of those historically overlooked—not as an act of charity, but of reverence. We believe the margins hold maps: to memory, to truth, to the futures we are imagining together.

What’s Included?

• All materials (notebooks, writing tools and etc..) are provided, however feel free to bring your own.

• Light Refreshments 

Who Should Come?
If you’re an artist, creative, visionary, or entrepreneur who’s walked a path few see, who holds stories of survival, hope, and unspoken dreams—this circle is for you.
Come as you are. Bring your story, your silence, your longing for healing. Together, we’ll hold space—one story, one truth, one breath at a time.

Ready to step into the circle?
Join us at Voices from the Margins—where your story matters, your silence is honored, and healing begins in community.
Reserve your spot today and be part of a gathering that holds space for your truth, your voice, and your journey.
No pressure to speak. Just show up. Be seen. Be heard. Be held.