Beloved\u00a0<\/em>is an anti-gun violence campaign made possible through\u00a0a partnership between the community, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Hope Corps program, and King County\u2019s Zero Youth Detention\/Public Health team.\u00a0Beloved taps local creative talent to bring into focus the systemic causes of community-based gun violence and amplify the voices of those working on treatments and prevention.\u00a0To learn more about\u00a0Beloved\u00a0<\/em>and to get involved visit\u00a0BelovedKingCounty.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Recent data paints a clear and grim picture,\u00a0King County has been experiencing a\u00a0significant increase<\/a>\u00a0in community-based gun violence and homicide. Currently, firearms are the leading cause of homicide deaths among youth and young adults in King County.\u00a0Similar to\u00a0COVID-19, gun violence dramatically affects marginalized communities the most with Black Americans making up the largest share of those killed by guns, suffering nearly\u00a010 times<\/a>\u00a0more gun homicides and 15 times more gun assaults than white Americans.\u00a0As reported in King County census data, the Black community totals 6.56% of the total population but makes up over 50% of the lives lost to gun violence. 85% of all homicides are people of color.<\/p>\n \u201cBetween the pandemic and the protest I lost a countless amount of friends and family to gun violence. I was sad, I was angry, and I felt alone. I felt like I was losing everything. Once I took the moment to look past myself, I realized that it wasn\u2019t just me, it was my whole community feeling this way. All of a sudden we were all in attendance at the same funerals, holding the same pain and holding back the same tears. In this moment I realized I can no longer stand on the sidelines. I can either be a part of the change, the problem, or a victim.\u201d<\/p>\n Erik\u00a0Kalligraphy,\u00a0co-creator of the\u00a0Beloved\u00a0<\/em>campaign when asked why he started this partnership.\u00a0<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Community leadership, by those most directly impacted, is fundamental to the elimination of the epidemic of gun violence. Through a partnership between Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Hope Corps program, and King County\u2019s Zero Youth Detention\/Public Health team with managerial oversight by\u00a0ToyBox\u00a0Consulting and Management LLC. and fiscal Sponsorship by Black Coffee Northwest Grounded in Excellence 501c3, the\u00a0Beloved\u00a0<\/em>campaign utilizes creative activations to amplify those in community working on treatments and prevention, as well as spotlight the systemic causes of community-based gun violence.<\/p>\n \u00a0Media shapes our perspectives about life and how we can\/should or will not live it. Beloved champions a life narrative beyond gun violence awareness. It is open community power of innovative thought replacing pain points through advocacy and action. Its unassailable facts of systemic racism combined with public health truths reframe our opportunities for conversations. It looks to how we engage in our collective valuing of human life leading with Black Lives. Beloved\u2019s collective local voices certify that gun violence, as an epidemic, is an abuse to humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n royal alley-barnes, acting director Seattle Office of Arts &\u00a0Culture<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cGun violence is a public health epidemic. Treating violence as a public health issue calls on the de-stigmatization of those who are suffering and focuses on the \u201cprescription\u201d for treatment and cure, it means taking collective responsibility for the causes, the impacts, and the approaches to solving it.\u201d<\/p>\n Eleuthera Lisch, co-creator of the\u00a0Beloved\u00a0<\/em>campaign.\u00a0<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Over the course of 12 weeks beginning in February, Beloved will work in partnership with\u00a0The Facts Newspaper<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0South Seattle Emerald<\/a>\u00a0to publish four special editions of the paper;\u00a0Northwest African American Museum<\/a>\u00a0(NAAM) to create an in person exhibit; and\u00a0Converge Media<\/a>\u00a0to host four town hall style live stream events, all exploring the causes of gun violence, treatment and prevention, as well as the restoration needed to eradicate gun violence. Beloved will also activate public spaces throughout Seattle and King County with pop-up public art installations and events in partnership with\u00a0Creative Justice<\/a>,\u00a0Forever Safe Spaces<\/a>, and\u00a0Presidential Media Group<\/a>. Many are working to cure the disease of gun violence, and many are affected by it. 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