April is nationally and locally proclaimed as Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Child Abuse Prevention Month. Live Violence Free will be hosting events throughout the month to increase awareness of the impact of violence.

Goals are to celebrate survivors and encourage the community to break the silence and become allies in the movement.

Live Violence Free will be hosting a Clothesline Project. The Clothesline Project is a visual display of T-shirts with messages or illustrations designed by survivors of violence or supporters of non-violence.

Shirt-making workshops throughout the month will provide a space for victims and allies to come together and create a shirt. They will be April 11 from 9-noon, April 19 from 9am-2pm, and April 24 (Denim Day) from 9am-3:30pm.

The Clothesline Project display will go up on April 29 from 9am-4pm. All workshops and display will be at the Live Violence Free office at 2941 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe.

The nonprofit will also be hosting self-defense training classes in collaboration with the Escobar Training Grounds and the South Lake Tahoe Police Department. They are April 12 and April 19 at the Escobar Training Grounds, 972 Tallac Ave.

To wrap up the month, the 5th annual Bowl-a-Thon fundraiser will be April 26 from 6-8pm at Tahoe Bowl.

For more information, contact Diana Meza Cabrera at dmezacabrera@liveviolencefree.org or (530) 544.2118, ext. 7628.