On Saturday, October 22, 2022 from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., we invite you to join us and others in our community at the City of Raleigh Museum (located at 220 Fayetteville Street, Raleigh) for A Cause for Celebration 2022, Interfaith Prison Ministry for Women (IPMW)’s fall fundraising event. This hybrid event will feature delicious food, both live and recorded music, video, powerful stories of surrender, resilience, and hope, and the third annual Hope Awards ceremony. It will also feature the official launch of the 25-foot-long tapestry crocheted by justice-involved women while incarcerated in a North Carolina prison during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are grateful for your interest in being a sponsor of this event.
As a form of public art, crochet has the power to make a positive difference in society. Historically, crochet has been a feminine-identified art form in a medium created for comfort, warmth, and versatility. It is also one of the few art forms available to incarcerated women – the three-inch plastic hooks and yarn being deemed no risk to the institution of prison.
In early 2020 during a Duke Divinity School class offered inside the prison, a group of incarcerated women began to envision a quilt that might tell their stories and the stories of the women around them – stories of women doing time for fighting back in situations of domestic violence; stories of complex entanglements; stories of the children left behind. The COVID-19 pandemic provided the backdrop that would eventually weave these stories together into a coherent whole. Thus, Stitching Stories: A Prison Awareness Quilt was born.
The Stitching Stories quilt has spent the past few months traveling to various locations across the State, raising awareness of women’s incarceration, its impact on children, families, and the community, and how the broader public can get involved.
Now in its 42nd year, IPMW provides chaplaincy services, transition education, and vital housing and reentry support to women from the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women (NCCIW) and beyond. We cannot do this work without partners and friends like you.
As a form of public art, crochet has the power to make a positive difference in society. Historically, crochet has been a feminine-identified art form in a medium created for comfort, warmth, and versatility. It is also one of the few art forms available to incarcerated women – the three-inch plastic hooks and yarn being deemed no risk to the institution of prison.
In early 2020 during a Duke Divinity School class offered inside the prison, a group of incarcerated women began to envision a quilt that might tell their stories and the stories of the women around them – stories of women doing time for fighting back in situations of domestic violence; stories of complex entanglements; stories of the children left behind. The COVID-19 pandemic provided the backdrop that would eventually weave these stories together into a coherent whole. Thus, Stitching Stories: A Prison Awareness Quilt was born.
The Stitching Stories quilt has spent the past few months traveling to various locations across the State, raising awareness of women’s incarceration, its impact on children, families, and the community, and how the broader public can get involved.
Now in its 42nd year, IPMW provides chaplaincy services, transition education, and vital housing and reentry support to women from the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women (NCCIW) and beyond. We cannot do this work without partners and friends like you.
Sponsorship Levels
Please review the sponsorship levels below and fill out the form, indicating the level a which you or your company/organization/group are interested in becoming a sponsor. Thank you, in advance, for supporting this very special and timely event.
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For more information, email events@IPMforWomen.org.