LA FRATERNIDAD TEOL´OGICA
LATINOAMERICANA
Tracy is honored to be helping launch an international network of artists, poets and musicians who are also committed to a holistic way of life, faith and community and who desire to resource communities and churches working to do the same. The FTL (Latin American Theological Fellowship) works to resource Latino/a communities navigating specific and unique challenges as they seek to live in faith and hope. This network seeks to do the same be producing creative and liturgical resources, contextualized for the unique challenges, hopes and opportunities in Latin America and the international diaspora. Tracy is aware of her Gringa (from the US) status but has been welcomed and recognized in her attempts to build relationships and learn from friends in Latin America and Latino/a communities in the US. She is also passionate about sharing these rich resources and relationships of the FTL with communities in the North. For more information please visit www.ArtesTransformacionales.com.
HOLD ON TO LOVE
It has been over two years since The Restoration Project has released an album. Since then, Tracy has traveled through Africa, done an artist in residence with New York Faith and Justice and been inspired by countless composers and songwriters around the world. With "Hold On To Love," Tracy attempts to bring world sounds, melodies and rhythms into electroacoustic compositions wrapped around melodies that were written, "for people to sing while they are walking...or marching." Inspired by South African choral music, Southern Gospel and Taize, the melodies settle easily into the hearts of listeners. Tracy hopes the songs are used by groups of people who gather and want to sing together... The CD production has an ambitious undertaking as Tracy has reached out to friends in South Africa, Boston, Portland, Seattle and Colorado to contribute, all the while working and composing in Cambridge MA where she lives. "Hold On To Love" is a collection of songs for peace, for people active in peacemaking, or for people displaced by violence.
PEACEMAKING, COLOMBIA AND THE US/MEXICO BORDERLANDS
Drawn to the area because of friends suffering in the intensity of drug violence and trafficking along the US/Mexico Border, Tracy has continued to learn of the border's complexity and the importance of immigration and trade reform to aid justice throughout North Central and South America. In addition, Seth has been working with Christian Peacemaking Teams and served on a delegation in Northeast Colombia in order to know and learn from people in high conflict areas and participate in nonviolent direct action. In this current season, Seth and Tracy are actively exploring how the creative work of The Restoration Project might continue to catalyze relationship and transformation across borders.