{"id":2058,"date":"2015-05-17T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debralwallace.com\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2016-01-09T20:13:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T01:13:16","slug":"mothers-day-celebration-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debralwallace.com\/mothers-day-celebration-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day Celebration ~ Listen to Your Mother Rochester 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the words of Listen to Your Mother<\/a>, “The mission of each LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER production is to take the audience on a well-crafted journey that celebrates and validates mothering through giving voice to motherhood\u2013in all of its complexity, diversity, and humor\u2013in the form of original readings performed live on-stage by their authors.”<\/p>\n

LTYM also fundraises for local organizations. \u00a0This year’s performance supported both the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children<\/a> and Parenting Village<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year was Rochester’s debut performance and was held at the Memorial Art Gallery on the Friday night before Mother’s Day. \u00a0The cast read their essays to a sold out audience of more than 500 people. \u00a0Their stories covered topics such as secondary infertility, sons who taxidermied roadkill, a son with Downs’ Syndrome whose birth warranted equal celebration, not wanting children and having them on “accident”, anxiety related to being a mom, raising children in a world of privilege and more.<\/p>\n

LTYM was also featured extensively in the media, which you can explore by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A huge thank you to Monica Gebell, Corrie Spike-Carter, Sarah Fitzgibbons and Emily Horowitz for the invitation to be involved and for your leadership and encouragement. I am grateful for the opportunity to have been a part of this production!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the words of Listen to Your Mother, “The mission of each LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER production is to take the audience on a well-crafted journey that celebrates and validates mothering through giving voice to motherhood\u2013in all of its complexity, diversity, and humor\u2013in the form of original readings performed live on-stage by their authors.” LTYM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debralwallace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/listen-to-your-mother-rochester-2015-5155.jpg?fit=1500%2C998&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debralwallace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debralwallace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debralwallace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debralwallace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debralwallace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/debralwallace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debralwallace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debralwallace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debralwallace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debralwallace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}