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The Outlast Project

Rachel McKibbens website

The Outlast Project


05/07/16 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM


191 Highland Ave., Somerville


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THE OUTLAST PROJECT is a cathartic poetry event & interactive healing art project designed to empower survivors of sexual assault.

A collaboration of Books Of Hope & City of Somerville/Somerville Arts Council Poet Laureate Nicole Terez-Dutton.

The Outlast Project is a production by Rachel McKibbens, a Chicana poet, activist, & mental health advocate with nearly two decades of involvement exposing the transformative power of poetry to a broad spectrum of humans: from needle exchanges to high schools, half-way houses to Ivy League universities.

7:00pm: Youth Poetry Showcase, featuring Books Of Hope
7:30pm: Music by Mal Devisa
8:00pm - 10:00pm: Rachel McKibbens & The Outlast Project

Adults: $10 Suggested Donation, Youth: FREE

Also sponsored by The Massachusetts Cultural Council & Arts at the Armory. Books Of Hope is a program of The Mystic Learning Center.

FB event :https://www.facebook.com/events/1094400430622196/