WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“We are a complex community - international, intergenerational, multilingual, multifaith, and more. Working with Micah, Austin and the team at Raise Your Voice Labs taught us that through collaboration, creativity and listening, we can transform that complexity into beauty and power. The outcome of our joint-work was a series of moving videos that will stay with us as part of our organizational heart for years to come - but beyond that, we saw what might be possible when we allow ourselves to come together with openness and our deepest intentions - and that is a priceless discovery. From here anything is possible.”
““It’s powerful to experience how Austin and Micah integrate the arts into interactive experiential learning, how they raise questions, how they raise the voices of the people in the group. They offer a human, creative, experience, to help people become more aware, more awake, to stretch to be at their best. In this moment of turbulence, Raise Your Voice Labs has an important role to play.””
“Micah Hendler’s multi-talented approach to creating art which transcends boundaries, is one which will leave you anxiously waiting for the next verse to start....He listens to his clients and caters to every beat and tempo with the utmost enthusiasm and professionalism. I believe in his vision in bringing ideas to life and so will you!”
““Austin connected us to our creativity in unexpected ways. The team was hesitant...but ended up really liking it! Thanks again for your partnership!””
““I feel like I’m more willing to put myself out there (for example, I raise my hand a lot more in class; signing up for things spur-of-the-moment) after The Lab.””
““The Lab taught me many things about being open minded to new ideas and cultures. It made me more excited and hopeful about the future of our diverse world!””
RECENT WORK
Juvenile Hall Songwriting Workshop
Southern California - June, 2024
Collaboration with Children’s Creative Project to provide an emotional literacy workshop interwoven with a songwriting workshop. Three songs emerged from the week-long collaboration. Photos & video are unavailable.
Environmental Peacebuilding Conference
The Hague, Netherlands - August 2024
Austin was awarded the 2023-2024 EnPAx Arts Fellowship and shared his work at the Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding in The Hague. Austin’s fellowship followed writing “The Path to Peace”, a song Austin wrote in collaboration with Nature Footprints in response to a series of Peace@COP conversations held during the lead-up to COP28 in Dubai. Activists, artists, policymakers, funders, and researchers from around the world shared their concerns, values, and goals for a peace-centric, conflict-sensitive set of climate change negotiations. Austin listened, shared, and amplified their voices. https://naturefootprints.org/path-to-peace/
Austin composed and produced “Sing Me a Song,” in collaboration with the attendees of the songwriting workshop he lead at the conference. He also spoke on the importance of art & music in environmental peacebuilding in the closing plenary.
Strength in Numbers Choir
Washington D.C. - February 2024
Our 3rd collaboration with Children’s Chorus of Washington and DC Public Schools! This song was born out of an in-person Lab.