Nationally, we amplify impact through large-scale participatory actions and calls for creative response, building momentum for positive social change and democratic cultural policy. To date, more than 40,000 people have participated in all fifty states. Here are some of our initiatives.
This year, we asked what it might look like to transform our grief and rage into justice. We are honored to present you with this year’s Poetic Address to the Nation, crafted by Emmy Pérez, 2022 USA Fellow & 2020 Texas Poet Laureate. Pérez draws upon her visit to Uvalde last month in the days after the massacre to memorialize the victims, and to call for change.
Check out our newest guide: Imaginings: A DIY Guide to Arts-Based Community Dialogue, everything you need to know to host a vibrant, creative, equitable, and powerful community dialogue.
A call for artists, creative organizers, concerned citizens, and all community members to draw inspiration from and breathe new life into the prophetic words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., strengthening our commitment to speak truth to power and sparking creative action in the year ahead.
Disrupt narratives of hate. Model participatory democracy. Here are nine creative ways to step up with a Super Public Act of Compassion or Participatory Act of Culture!
Help spark a movement to acknowledge original Native inhabitants at the opening of all public events.
