Empathy Events

When we save one life we save the entire world. What are you waiting for?

1. RSVP Going
Participate from your kitchen

2. SHARE globally.
Let’s from Montreal to Mumbai

3. DONATE: www.empathyevents.com
Our raffle has over $10,000 in prizes and 100% of proceeds go to Jesse’s Fund.

Empathy Events Beauty for the Public Good Event

WARNING: GRAPHIC POST

How do you carry on when someone you love is missing?

Because it’s not socially acceptable to wail in public, maybe you stay indoors.

Maybe the pain is so paralyzing that when you open your mouth to scream you have no voice.

How do you sleep? I imagine you can’t. So you choose: insomnia or nightmares?

When waking hours seem like a “living hell,” it is hard to breath, walk or talk. So I’m sure you take refuge in the memories, the smells, the cadence of your beloved’s voice.

How ever one survives — on a mountaintop, or trying to stay afloat in isolation — our work, as witnesses to the pain, is the same: never, ever be a bystander.

HOW DO WE PRACTICE EMPATHY?

One would be mistaken to believe empathy is about casually stepping into someone else’s shoes.

Without movement towards something greater than oneself, what’s called empathy is actually masquerading for pity.

True empathy has no masks because it makes you One with the people experiencing pain.

This is what you need to know:

Jesse Galganov, a 22 year old backpacker from Montreal, is missing. It’s been over 113 days since he was last seen.

Because we — as sentient human beings —are all interconnected, a part of us is missing too.

You can act out your empathy in these ways:

1. Click GOING to Empathy Events’s for Jesse II. Register to bake and pray from the comfort of your own home.

2. Share this post and write to help spread the word and index our impact

3. Donate or buy raffle tickets to help find Jesse at www.empathyevents.com

ABOUT THIS PAINTING

Art is a secret language, translating our deepest longings and despair into visual expression.

This leads me to my friend Anne Maizia or Maizianne - Art Gallery. An extraordinary artist and person, Anne offered to donate Scream to our / to Help Us Find Jesse.

The painting is valued at $5,000 USD. When Anne, who is based in NY, offered to donate it to the search for Jesse, I was so moved I started to cry. I knew that only someone with a heart that could create a painting this profound would have the soul to let it go in service to something higher than herself.

Please follow Anne on social media, then follow her lead to give as much as you can. Purchase a Raffle Ticket to help bring Jesse home: www.empathyevents.com.

If we receive a donation over $5,000, Scream will be suspended from the raffle and the donor will be entered into a separate auction for this painting. Anyone who donates $5k will also be entered.

People buying raffle tickets will have access to the $5,000 remainder of raffle prizes.

100% of proceeds from our Raffle will go towards efforts to bring Jesse Galganov home.

With thanks to Anne’s brilliance and talent,
Kim Smiley

Scream by Anne Maizia - Artist/painter. 30 x 40 x 1.5. Acrylic on Canvas.

N.B. The winner of this painting will be responsible for shipping and any duty expenses. Thank you.

This Sunday, April 23, 9 am-5 pm, The Empathy Effect and Kim Smiley are hosting a jewellery and Empathy Events show to raise money and awareness for Up With Women. 15% of proceeds from Kim's jewellery and $5 from every pin will help empower formerly homeless women to rebuild their lives through career and business development. Can't come in person? Book on another day or shop at kimsmiley.com with code: UpWithWomen

ATTENTION: GUILT-FREE SHOPPING.

Join Kim Smiley and The Empathy Effect on Sunday, April 23 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. New Designs $50 and up. Artist Kim Smiley and newcomers from Syria in join forces to bring you one of a kind, handmade jewellery and accessories that are as unique as you are. We proudly pay a of $18 per hour.

15% of jewellery proceeds will benefit Up With Women: Empowering former homeless women through career and business building. For every $10 pin sold, we will donate $5 to Up With Women.

Use Code: UpWithWomen to shop online at kimsmiley.com.

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