Voices United

About Voices United 

Voices United is a home for stories, healing, and creative connection. For 36 years, we have brought youth, elders, artists, and educators into circles where imagination leads, movement teaches, and shared stories reveal the truths that bind us together. Our roots are in Miami, yet our branches reach across the ocean to Rothe, Lesotho—two communities in conversation, learning from one another in ways that honor history and spark possibility. 

At the heart of our work is the Voices United Process—a living methodology born from decades of play, dialogue, embodied practice, and deep listening. The Process helps communities preserve culture, confront challenges with honesty, and uncover solutions that rise from within. It is the foundation of our school programs, our residencies, and our intergenerational gatherings. 

Our newest expression of this vision is Voices United Village in Lesotho—a place where local youth and elders gather freely to make art, share wisdom, and strengthen the stories that root their identity. It is also a place where artists from Miami and across the U.S. can experience artmaking in its earliest sense: communal, embodied, ancestral, and connected to land and history. In the Village, visiting artists are invited not only to teach, but to listen, to sit in humility, and to learn what it means when creativity is woven into daily life. 

The lessons they carry home—about community, resilience, cultural memory, and collective creation—flow back into Miami’s classrooms, rehearsal rooms, community centers, and social impact spaces. In this way, the Village becomes a global bridge: a place where traditions meet innovation, and where creative practices rooted in the mountains of Lesotho help strengthen the work of artists and changemakers across the United States. 

Voices United is more than an organization—it is a living conversation, a circle of exchange, and a belief that when people feel seen and heard, they can reshape their world. Your support keeps this circle growing, nourishing creativity, connection, and community-led change across continents 

 

Mini Arts Residency 2025: Where Stories Meet the Sky 

This December, the hills of Rothe will welcome two artists who have walked with Voices United since their youth—Eddie Brown and Aaron Fishbein—returning not as students, but as guides, listeners, and bridge-builders. 

The residency is held with care and intention under the leadership of Katie Christie, Founder of Voices United, and Mosotho Chochie Bereng, Village Co-Director and cultural steward. Together, they shape a space rooted in respect, listening, and deep community partnership. 

The work begins the way it always has at Voices United— with shared meals, open hands, and stories carried in from many directions. 

Using the Voices United Process, Eddie, Aaron, Chochie, and Katie will sit with youth, elders, and community members to listen for the heartbeats of Rothe— the memories that must be preserved, the challenges that quietly shape daily life, the visions waiting to be spoken aloud. 

Together, the community will create— through movement, storytelling, song, and laughter— discovering not only art, but understanding, possibility, and pathways forward. 

Here, solutions rise from the people themselves— from the wisdom already living in the village, from the stories that refuse to be forgotten, from the belief that creativity can open doors that hardship once closed. 

And when the residency ends, the lessons do not stay behind. They travel back with us— to Miami, to classrooms and rehearsal rooms, to artists and changemakers searching for tools that honor community and nurture connection. 

Your Give Miami Day support keeps this circle alive—linking villages and cities, lifting voices across oceans, and reminding us that art, when shared with love, can transform us all.