Values

We celebrate the diversity of our communities and neighborhoods.

We work in solidarity with communities of color to create more just and equitable places. Our cultural values and ways of knowing are not universal across all AAPI communities, and thus, our creative placemaking work looks very different in a Southeast Asian refugee community or the Native Hawaiian community or long-standing Japanese American and Chinese American neighborhoods. We celebrate our distinct but connected communities.

Vision

  1. We are part of an intersectional movement for justice and equity.
  2. Our communities exercise self-determination as liberation.
  3. Our communities feel that they belong.

Values

  1. Arts and culture are inherent expressions of our communities and expansively defined.
  2. Artists and cultural bearers are leaders in this work.
  3. We have a responsibility to place.
  4. We have a responsibility to each other.
  5. We celebrate the diversity of our communities and neighborhoods.

Practice

  1. We are joyful in our work.
  2. Our approach is comprehensive and connected.
  3. We build brave spaces to experiment, play, fail, learn, grow, and reflect.
  4. We are responsive to our communities.