Using the arts to share the experiences of homelessness.

When explaining homelessness, statistics are used to demonstrate the scope of the issue, but can the arts create awareness and understanding about homelessness that numbers can’t? Mike Rios-Keating talks with Maren Ward, Artistic Director of the zAmaya Theater Project about the organization’s unique approach to community collaboration and partnership using performances and storytelling to share experiences of homelessness through those who have experienced homelessness, are experiencing homelessness and those with no experience with it.