Sofa Stories uses live theatre and digital media to amplify the stories of young people impacted by housing insecurity or homelessness who may have resorted to couch-surfing as a means to survive.
Featuring monologues created in collaboration with those who have experienced homelessness or housing insecurity, we hope to bring attention to an often invisible crisis and imagine a world without youth homelessness.
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Sofa Stories Detroit is based in and creating work on Waawiyaataanong, also referred to as Detroit, the ancestral and contemporary homeland of the Three Fires Confederacy. These sovereign lands were granted by the Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, and Wyandot nations, in 1807, through the Treaty of Detroit. The forced removal of Indigenous people from these lands is a history that must be acknowledged, along with the current struggles of all Indigenous people. Sofa Stories Detroit affirms Indigenous sovereignty and honors all tribes with a connection to Detroit.