“LIFE HEIST: Stealing Hope While Surviving Diabetes and Homelessness”
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When chronic illness meets homelessness we must get creative to meet the challenges that a worldwide pandemic, overworked and underfunded everything presents. It is time for a heist. Ocean’s Eleven meets the actual decline of western civilization?
About the Creation of LIFE HEIST
People who are homeless die of preventable causes, including diabetes, at younger ages than their housed peers. LIFE HEIST is inspired by the research of a team working with Dr. Katherine Diaz Vickery at Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute called Diabetes Homeless Medication Support (D-Homes).
Members of the team hold knowledge derived from living with type 2 diabetes, experiencing homelessness or housing instability, as service providers, community engagement facilitators, and/or academic researchers. The research aims to design a coaching program to better support people experiencing homelessness and type 2 diabetes.
Through captivating performances and creative collaboration workshops, zAmya Theater builds understanding and connection between citizens who have experienced homelessness and those who have not.
Together, zAmya Troupe Members and research team members collaborated to create LIFE HEIST, an original play in a unique experiment between participatory theater and community-engaged research that aims to challenge your perceptions about diabetes and homelessness.
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