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, EDUCATION & HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT & HEALING.
About El Puente Arts
Our Sacred Calling- ArtsLeadership Cohort
The Inaugural “Our Sacred Calling- Arts Leadership Cohort”, is a collective leadership space designed to support Artists, Arts Educators and Community Artists with practices and processes that cultivate, affirm, sustain and elevate their creation work as means for Cultural Organizing. We have designed this space for those who are mid-level in their Arts and Social Justice careers/paths, though welcome any artists who are seeking to build in cohort and community working to be responsive to the times we are living in where injustice is being even greater systematized and our communities are being further threatened.
Day 1- AWARENESS:
Responding to the Times- The Arts IS Cultural Organizing
Honoring the Arts for Liberation Lineage
Day 2- ACCOUNTABILITY:
Tending to Our Spiritual Wake for Channeling Creative Justice Source
Embodied Resistance Rituals and Practices to Fortify Our Collective Fight
Day 3- AGENCY:
Protocols, Practice, Process, Pedagogy and the Creative Justice Approach
Collective Self-Determination- Begins with Collective Radical Imagining
Objectives and Cohort Take Aways
Gain rooting in protocols, practice, process, and pedagogy that honors the arts as cultural organizing.
Explore frameworks and histories of arts as cultural resistance and reflect on/honor the lineages from our arts journey and social justice journeys.
Engage in embodied practice of the El Puente Arts frameworks of The Creative Justice Approach and The Art-ivation Model for Cultural Organizing.
Decolonize artistic purpose through work that grows and challenges awareness, accountability, and agency.
Engage in activities and experiences to strengthen the ability to cultivate, enact, and live creative justice.
Build on the artist community to coalesce and collectivize in response to community issues.
Co-create and design arts for cultural organizing spaces for our communities.
Enact ritual and be witnessed in ceremony that commits art/creation work to liberation.
Registration Details
We prioritize QTBIPOC Community and will limit our program to 20 Participants. Commitment Exchange
$525 FULL PAYMENT
$600 INCREMENTAL PAYMENTS
$825 FULL PAYMENT
$900 INCREMENTAL PAYMENTS
$1125 FULL PAYMENT
$1200 INCREMENTAL PAYMENTS
We ask that if you have the means to offer the higher tier of our sliding scale that you do so for financial equity.
We also offer a limited amount of Partial Scholarships- if you’d like to request this application please email jumipig@elpuente.org
Apply to join!
Registration is open from April 18th until May 19th. Those selected for the program will be notified by May 23rd. First payments are due May 30th.