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