BOLD envisions a global culture that uses the Arts to celebrate women-centered birth, honor diversity, and create space for a woman to make empowered choices about her birth experience. BOLD inspires communities around the world to create a new women-centered global culture around birth through education, truth and action.

BOLD is a global arts-based movement inspiring communities to create childbirth choices that work for mothers. We do this through:

Education

• Informing and empowering women about their birth options
• Providing a nurturing environment for new activists to learn strategies for social change
• Reaching out to diverse populations and meeting them where they are
• Using the arts to support new & creative ways of educating people about maternity care

Truth

• Encouraging the examination of evidence-based data
• Helping individuals and communities express their own personal truths about birth
• Using a multi-sensory, Arts-based approach to telling and hearing information & experiences about birth

Action

• Providing a vehicle for local community action
• Encouraging new activists in local communities
• Bringing conversations about birth to diverse forums
• Communities taking action to foster local change
• Communities taking their message to people and institutions that can affect change