An evening at The Factory

Last December we packed The Factory at Franklin for the first If You’re Breathing night. Friends, neighbors, artists and a lot of people who had only heard about IYB from a post came in out of the cold to see what this thing actually is.

Jeremy took the stage and told the story from the beginning: where the idea came from, why we call the people at the center of every project our artners, and what it looks like to turn the hardest season of someone’s life into art that can go out into the world and come back as real support.

The first art went up on the big screens. The first Artner tees hung by the door. There was good food, good drinks, a lot of hugs and more than a few tears.

It was the night IYB stopped being an idea and became a room full of people.