Iowa City punk concert benefits Domestic Violence Intervention Program

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – About 100 folks, many with band t-shirts to point out off their punk rock bonafides, gathered on the James Theater in Iowa Metropolis for music and a very good trigger Saturday evening.

The proceeds from Saturday evening’s live performance went to Home Violence Intervention Program. Alta Medea, with DVIP, mentioned there was a connection between the work of the nonprofit and punk rock.

“The punk motion, you understand, has had lots of backwards and forwards in historical past, but it surely’s all the time kind of been these weak communities and taking a stand,“ Medea mentioned. “That’s a part of what’s actually thrilling about tonight is that you just’re taking a stand for survivors and saying, ‘We’re right here and we’re going to supply for people.’”

The cash raised will go to serving to survivors of home violence escape their abusive conditions.

“$47,000 is about what we spend a 12 months on resort stays all through our eight-county service area,” mentioned Medea. “About $35,000 spent in Johnson County alone, clearly one of many costlier locations to have a resort, particularly throughout soccer season.”

Medea added that the resort rooms are along with operating a shelter.

“When our shelter is full, which it’s one year out of the 12 months, it offers us an opportunity to maneuver different folks round and get folks to security after which convey these people into our emergency shelter,” Medea mentioned.

The necessity for $47,000 {dollars} is precipitated by COVID-19 funding coming to an finish. DVIP is confronted with returning to pre-pandemic funding ranges, a 60% discount from the previous two years.

The discount in funding comes as Medea mentioned DVIP is seeing an “unprecedented improve” in folks needing providers.

Medea mentioned she didn’t anticipate to boost all $47,000 on the punk live performance, which had bought 98 tickets when KCRG-TV9 spoke to her earlier than the present began. Nonetheless, she mentioned that the whole lot helped.

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