LaTreice Victoria
LaTreice Victoria, MFA, GISFA is an award-winning artist, educator, professional speaker, musician, disability advocate and radical wellness practitioner who enriches communities through nature-informed performances, lectures and rest empowerment trainings that inspire stress and trauma relief through guided rest.
Through LaTreice’s deeply spirited vocals, rhythms and delicately arranged nature soundscapes, expect to activate your imagination into a state of "conscious rest", releasing the stress hormones that impair the healing process, while breathing life into the dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins in the brain.
As recipient of the prestigious 2010 Presidential Service Award, LaTreice’s commitment to personal and communal wellness is evident in her work with The National Park Service, Nature Forward, Drexel University’s Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, Collective Climb, Bartram’s Garden, Grounds for Sculpture, The Barnes Foundation, The Elizabeth River Project, Thomas Jefferson University Medical School, The National Sexual Assault Conference, The Lupus Foundation, New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired, WOAR Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Violence, The Mayor’s Office for Engagement for Women, and more. LaTreice is also a recipient of the 2016 Leeway Transformation Award.
Awarded Grants
2023
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
LaTreice Victoria’s project, RAW: The Revival, is a non-denominational, secular celebration of joy, restoration, and love,’ featuring vocal arrangements, spoken word, dance performances, and nature soundscapes. This three-hour experience will take place in the Eastwick Pavilion at Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia and will awaken the imagination into a “conscious rest.” Inspired by the Southern tradition of the church revival, which brought to town the “good news,” RAW’s, sanctuary is nature; the people are the church; the religion is love; and LaTreice Victoria is the “Rest Evangelist.”
Partner
2023
Window of Opportunity Grant (WOO)
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LaTreice V. Branson has been invited to give a keynote address and two performances at the 2023 Taking Nature Black Conference in Silver Spring, Maryland. Themed “Belonging: Engaged and Empowered”, this conference will provide a platform for LaTreice to connect with a growing community of people working to achieve real environmental change.
LaTreice will share her social change art with hundreds of in-person attendees, as well as virtually, deepening her education and building new relationships and audiences to support her work. This grant will support LaTreice’s accommodations, food, and transportation, food – as well as an audio/visual documentation production aid.
2016
Leeway Transformation Award (LTA)
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LaTreice V. Branson is an educator, community activist, and drummer from Philadelphia who enriches her community through interactive drum performances and gatherings that often feature impromptu audience collaborations. Exploring the creation of new soundscapes through improvisation by inviting musicians and non-musicians alike to engage in the process of arranging music, LaTreice has influenced a reciprocal culture of sharing that unites marginalized communities. Her free and publicly-accessible drumming events uplift gender-inclusivity and live collaboration. She also is the founder of Drum Like a Lady, a community cooperative whose mission is to provide a safe space for women of all ages, ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs and lifestyles to express their uniqueness through collective drumming, dance, music education, and mental health advocacy.
