What is the Anchor Campaign?
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It is time to offer those who are suffering an anchor.
The Anchor Campaign is a grass-roots initiative focusing on bringing awareness to the stigma surrounding mental health issues, suicidal ideation and self harm. The campaign was founded by Lucas Silveira after rising out of his own personal mental health struggles and having realized that silence is the greatest road block for individuals seeking the help they need. Our goal is to reach those suffering in isolation primarily via social media by offering inspirational artistic content that brings about awareness on the importance of self-love and self-care to our daily lives as methods of prevention and connection. In the initial process of releasing this campaign, it became clear how difficult and triggering it could be to those who suffer to tell their personal stories due to stigma. This learning curve changed the trajectory of the campaign to offer connection with content rather than rely on participation to bring about awareness. Our hopes are that this can be a small corner of the world where we can offer some kind of connection and hope to those in need through the simplicity of telling a personal story through art from struggle to triumph, or simply to express where you are currently sitting in your struggle. Lucas will be using his own artistic platforms via Instagram and Facebbook to reach others and will no longer be directly asking for participation. But those who choose to, whether through song, literary or visual art, dance, film or photography, are welcome to donate their artistic voices to the conversation and send their work to us to post under the #anchorcampaign hashtag via a pseudonym of their choice or can choose to post it themselves on their pages. We welcome any creative response to the topics of discussion. Whether a representation of the isolation you feel or what anchors you in difficult times. Our goal is simple. It is to reach those in isolation to let them know that you are loved, you are seen and that you matter. IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING SUICIDE OR SELF HARM PLEASE VISIT THESE WEBSITES FOR HELP NEAR YOU. IF YOU CANNOT FIND HELP NEAR YOU, PLEASE CALL YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY SERVICE. www.thetrevorproject.org www.suicide.org , |
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Please Consider Donating to The Anchor Campaign
All donations will be used to pay artists an honorarium for the creation of content, including music, photography,
dance, literary and visual art, film and design. We also welcome services donated in kind in all of the above and especially in
knowledge that will contribute to the conversation.
dance, literary and visual art, film and design. We also welcome services donated in kind in all of the above and especially in
knowledge that will contribute to the conversation.
To donate, please fill in amount in the Price Per Item section.
