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Engineering a Bridge made of stories and string.
Phase One Complete: Check out our Digital Program May 2025
The Bridges Project: Our flagship initiative and traveling interactive exhibit is a testament to the power of connection to save lives. This is a year long suicide awareness campaign and interactive art exhibit.
In Phase One, over 200 people wove their stories into our bridge. We made the healing arts accessible through free community workshops, and we educated attendees about the realities of suicide—including the heartbreaking fact that it’s the second leading cause of death among youth ages 10–24.
In May 2026, when we return to the gallery, visitors will walk through the bridge, see their string, and remember: Suicide is the most preventable death there is.
Threads to Hope
Thank you to our Visionary Sponsors Premier Yarn and Universal Yarn for donating all the yarn for this massive collective healing arts experiment.
Each thread in our Bridge tells a story and
represents a life, either with us or lost by suicide.
Every part of the Bridge is a connection to hope, courage, and remembrance. When our Bridge is complete will will have over 700,000 pieces of string, representing people lost to suicide worldwide every year.
Turning Stories into String
It is our prayer that by the time this bridge is complete, we will have made over 700,000 connections—one for every life lost to suicide last year. But instead of marking loss, each string tells a different story—A story of collective healing, of purpose, of courage.
A story that begins with a string, bridges the divide within, and weaves a way across the human experience—together.
Building Community: Threads to Hope Looms
Connecting you to the power of storytelling and the healing arts.
Inspired by HopeWay's Looms the Threads to Hope looms are handcrafted by Shane Baskin Hitlon and specifically made to travel throughout the community, collecting stories of hope, courage, and support, inside cute little Hope Suitcases. Our team would love to provide a Threads to Hope Loom suitcase, and everything you need to weave your own stories into this collective healing and interactive exhibit.
Learn how to bring a Threads to Hope Loom to your next gathering or tabling event.
Help us build a bridge to wellness, one string at a time.
Be a Part of the Bridge to Wellness
We need communities to host, participate in, and help us complete these looms—
Our goal is to collect 40 completed looms—each filled with hundreds of threads contributed by the collective community. We can't build this alone.
Threads to Hope looms provides a safe, kinetic away to connect to our own stories. Wether you are weaving in silent prayer, writing an encouraging word, or holding space for others to weave, these looms are essential to the structure of our Bridge. They become the Hope Spans of our final bridge instillation an act as the guard rails to keep us safely on bridge through the human condition.
Connecting you to the power of storytelling and the healing arts.
For thousands of years, weaving has been a sacred practice in cultures around the world—from the highlands of Peru to Indigenous communities across the globe. In Andean traditions, weaving is not just a craft but a form of storytelling, prayer, and ancestral memory—each thread carrying meaning, history, and connection to the land.
By honoring these traditions, we remember that we are all part of something larger— we are all connected.
Why Bring the Bridge and threads to hope to your space?
Education and Suicide Awarenss
Interactive Art and Storytellling
Interactive Art and Storytellling
When you Host the Bridge you are providing a safe space for suicide awareness and education. We install the exhibit based on your specifications. This included the towers, the suspension cable, and the Hope Spans, plus educational material.
Interactive Art and Storytellling
Interactive Art and Storytellling
Interactive Art and Storytellling
When you host the Bridge, you will also receive the Threads to Hope Looms, as well as lots of string to weave with. This is the interactive piece of the exhibit and participation is encouraged.
Healing Arts Programming
Interactive Art and Storytellling
Healing Arts Programming
While the Bride is up we will also bring in an afternoon of healing arts programming for Free to the community. It is important to the founder that the healing arts are integrated into our traveling exhbit space. Though if you want more information of just bringing the healing arts program we can do that too.