The Athens-based nonprofit Project Safe is holding its annual Groovy Nights retro lip sync battle on Saturday, September 6th. Nine teams are battling for bragging rights. Joan Prittie is executive director of the organization.
“We hold it at the VFW, I think we’ve been doing this about 22 years now,” Prittie. “It is our loving way of blowing a kiss to the era that our movement and our organization was founded.”
All proceeds benefit Project Safe in its effort to combat domestic violence.
“We do crisis intervention work like hotline and emergency shelter. We do ongoing supportive services like support groups, like our summer camp for children who’ve witnessed domestic violence. We have some longer-term housing programs. We do prevention and education, we have a text line, we go into schools, really anywhere that will have us; to teach people about domestic violence and we do systems change advocacy, legislative advocacy.”
Doors open at 7 pm on Saturday and the show starts at 8 pm. Takes place at the VFW.
In 2024, Project Safe answered nearly 3400 hotline calls, sheltered 124 adults and children, and provided services to more than 760 domestic violence survivors.
