#leannerhodes

[therosemaryrhodes-a]

Closed Event Starter || @leannerhodes​ (Pumpkin Patch) 

“You know, one of the things that was hard about being away at school was missing stuff like this.” Rosemary told her mother as there had been times that she was very homesick. But now she was thankful to be back, even if it meant the loss of some of her freedom. See watched as she young children ran excitedly to pick out their pumpkins. “I guess there really is no place like home.” 

[theharperphillips-a]

Closed Starter: @leannerhodes​

In the last couple of months, Harper hadn’t seen Leanne as much as she used to. It just seemed that both of their lives were quite busy. Which was sad, but it was just the reality of things. Either way, she was happy to be getting coffee with the woman and catching up.  While Harper waited, she watched the snowfalkes fall lightly onto the ground. She sent a small wave at Leanne when she noticed her. “Hey, I am glad you could come.” 

[veritysinclair-a]

closed | @leannerhodes​

Verity had been wiping down the counter top while preparing to finish off her shift of the day at the Pit Stop Bar when one of her colleagues asked her if she could bring over a customers order. It was a glass of red wine, so to her it seemed easy enough. After having prepared it, she exited from behind the bar and started walking over to the table in the corner. She was surprised when her hues met with the last person she figured would be visiting the bar, even more so ordering an alcoholic drink! Her steps turned a bit more hesitant as she approached the woman, offering her a small smile as she came a bit closer to her. “Hi - Is um.. Is this your order?” She asked her out of curiosity, figuring her colleague might have written down the wrong table number. 

[concordiairvinetheatre]

Abolishion

Abolishion exists to break the systems that keep people in sexual slavery. #abolishion

This week we have been blessed to have Leanne Rhodes, CEO and Founder of Abolishion with us.  Abolishion is an organization that uses a multi-pronged plan to fight sex trafficking.  On Monday she was a Concordia Convocation speaker, on Tuesday she spoke to the Around-the-World group (who will meet her next fall in Athens, Greece to do street theatre to raise awareness about sex trafficking).  Today, she spoke to Prof. Vezner’s Acting 2 class about how theatre can be used to raise the veil of secrecy around the problem and help change the narrative about this problem.  We encourage you to go to the Abolishion website above to learn more.