EL PUENTE ARTS
Cultural Organizing and Artivism
El Puente Arts centers its efforts on the development and collectivizing of Intergenerational Artists in growing in their mastery as Professional Artists and Cultural Organizers. Our Artists are not only trained to create skillful Art, but are grown in their capacities and skills to use their Art to educate around, inspire connection and directly support the efforts of Social Justice Movements, campaigns and initiatives aligned with El Puente mission and “Action Platform for Collective Self Determination. They are guided in their Arts Development through our Global Justice Institute frameworks of the Creative Justice Approach, Transformative Community Building and Principled Leadership for Liberation.
At El Puente we fight for the Self-Determination & Liberation of all Oppressed Peoples in relation to policing/public safety, housing, climate, food, economics, education, and gender, sexuality, racial and migrant equity.
We know The Arts is a powerful organizing tool because The Arts organizes our people by creating opportunities to be inspired and nurtured to make change through
COMMUNITY
“The Arts is Connective”
We us the Arts to brings us together- whether to be in audience or in collaborative creation, the Arts creates the means to gather. The arts conveys and also facilitates connection.
EDUCATION
“The Arts Communicates Beyond Difference”
We use the Arts to offer Awareness, Accountability and Agency in relationship to the issues that affect our communities.
HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT & HEALING
“The Arts is Generative”
The Art impacts our lives beyond the moment of first engagement. It stays with our body, our mind, our spirits and has the ability to grow us and to inspire us in different areas of our lives.
The Art defies the bounds of any language and evokes a visceral experience of communicating that is not just understood through cognition, but also feeling.
