Journey Project @ Washington Square Park
Nov 1st, 2025 by Viviane
| November 10, 2009 12:00 PM | to | November 16, 2009 8:00 PM |
Time: 12:00-8:00 PM
Location: Washington Square Park
This month, if you see seven shipping containers in Washington Square Park, that’s the Journey project, sponsored by the Helen Bamber Foundation:
The aim of Journey is to bring the reality of the sex trafficking industry to the forefront of social consciousness and empower people to take action. Shackles bind perpetrators to victims, and victims to the punters who exploit them. The links extend to every level of society even to the organisations that care for the victims. They extend down the halls of government who pledge to act and pass laws to stamp out trafficking. The links form an invisible chain that binds us all together. It is the chain of modern day slavery.
It takes the audience on her journey of transformation from a childhood full of hopes and dreams into the harrowing reality of sex slavery, void …of freedom and self.
Each stage of this brutal journey has been interpreted and created by a different artist, titled Hope, Journey, Uniform, Bedroom, Customer, Stigma and Resurrection.
There will facilitators after you tour the installation…you might even meet Bamber Foundation trustee and actress Emma Thompson.
Journey exhibit slideshow
Emma And Elena, Exposing The Sex Trade (NPR)
Bondage from Freedom’s Facebook page
Photo from the Trafalgar Square installation of the Journey Project, courtesy of Bondage for Freedom.
Tags: sex trafficking, sex work