INTRODUCING VITAL CONVERSATIONS
Our movements for justice and liberation are fractured. People are isolated and under attack: hunted on the streets by immigration agents, threatened with deportation for their political expression. And it’s become increasingly clear that we can’t turn to our elected officials for guidance.
At the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, we’re returning to our roots: gathering wisdom from our communities through honest, creative conversations. We're launching Vital Conversations, a new multimedia series where USDAC team members sit down with thinkers, artists, and organizers to ask big and small questions—and make beautiful things in the process.
We’re going to be sharing these conversations in different forms: video, zine, comic, music, and more. We’re engaging our own networks and friendships to model the kind of community connection that’s going to help us fight, and we’re making art while we’re at it.