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Our Voice, Our Power, Our Future

Research & Impact Report: Movement to the Ballot Box

Announcing the 2025 Power Building for Culture Bearers Award & Cohort!

Join us in welcoming 18 inspirational Culture Bearers and traditional artists from across California to our CultureStrike Network!

In Times of Crisis, We Keep Creating Together

Reflections on the 2025 Disruptors Gathering by Julio Salgado and Daniela Alvarez.

Autonomy is My Joy: Resistance

Dive into our campaign of art, activism, health equity, gender justice, trans liberation, and cultural power.

2024: A Year of Impact and Reimagination

Cultural Power’s 2024 End-of-Year Report

2025 Culture Bearers’ Power Building Award and Cohort

Calling Californian-based Culture Bearers: Applications are now OPEN!

Building Narrative Power With BIPOC Artists

There is no culture change without support for artists to become agents of change!

Cinematic Visions for a Climate Just World: An Evening of Climate Justice Storytelling at the New Parkway Theater

Movement To The Ballot Box

Cultural Power's Bold Action to Protect Democracy in Key States.

Autonomy Is My Joy 2024

Storytelling to Defend Bodily Autonomy Ahead of a Critical Election

Imagining Liberation Through Film: Cultural Power at BlackStar Film Festival 2024

Blackfeet documentary wins Center for Cultural Power's...

Meet The Disruptors

10 emerging writers of color set to make waves in the film and television industry.

Meet Our 2023 Constellations Participatory Awardees!

Thirty Artist Disruptors and traditional and tradition-based Culture Bearers using their ways of knowing to help communities reclaim their power.

Propel: The Journey of a Narrative

Narratives act as waves, emerging from larger cultural currents, shaping our perceptions, and propelling us toward new shores

For the Love of Care

We're honored to lean into our love for providing community care to our caregivers as they age with grace!

Threads of Change

Interweaving intersectional stories for a tangible future.

The Border Report 2023

Learnings and recommendations from the Border Futures Narratives Project

Waging Words of Resilience

Illuminating Indigenous Artists and Storytellers

Lil Blk Ass Prince

DAOUI re-imagines a classic story through a collaborative video installation

Black Queer Femme Led Climate Solutions

How Black land stewards and farmers are propelling us forward in the Anthropocene

Meet the Constellations Fellows!

Celebrating the 10 Artist Disruptors and Culture Bearers selected for our Constellations Fellowship

Oakland Futures: Love Life Edition

Announcing a new award fund for Oakland-based artists and culture bearers

Activating Climate Leaders in Social Media Spaces

How The EcoTok Collective is revolutionizing climate activism through educational TikTok videos

The Art of Abortion Storytelling

Celebrating Artist Leaders In Reproductive Justice

Building Collective Power

Applications Launch for the Constellations x California Fellowship

How Art is Healing the Earth

New Narratives in Climate Activism

No Going Back: A COVID-19 Cultural Strategy Activation Guide

Learn how creators and movements can make lasting change NOW

Movement to the Ballot Box 2022

See how artists get out the vote

A Power to Rely On

Watch Indigenous women leading the way in solar solutions

Constellations Culture Change Fund

Learn about investing in culture shift

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Showing results for topics Immigration, Gender Justice, Convenings, Artist Profiles, Artist Leadership and Economic Justice

The Center for Cultural Power and Constellations Uplifts 25 Artist Disruptors

Meet 25 Artist Disruptors to Watch!

Reclaiming the Border Narrative Project

Join us in celebrating binational communities!

Abbas Muntaqim: On Black August

Reflections from the co-founder of Hella Black Podcast!

"Abundance" Q&A w/ Shantrelle P Lewis and Kat Evasco

Join Amber J. Phillips for a talk on her debut film!

PASIFIKA POWER!

Meet 7 Pacific Islander Artists Who Refuse to be Ignored

WE, AS OURSELVES

Experience a new movement for Black women and femmes

Tonatiuh, On Curiosity and Expression

Meet the producer of "The Masculinity Project"

You Good? Black Mental Health

Watch a digital art extravaganza

Disruptors Fellowship 2021

Artist Disruptors - Telling Our Own Stories!

Sons & Brothers X The Center for Cultural Power

Learn about a dope channel we’ve added

¡Printing the Revolution!

Watch Chicanx artists shape the future

All Bodies Deserve: Creating the Future of Us

Draw in our gender just coloring book

Until We Are All Free

Check Out Cultural Strategy for Liberation

Taco Talk with Angelica Becerra

Angelica talks on illustrating women artists and icons and standing up for what she wants

Constellations Culture Change Fund

Learn about investing in culture shift

Confronting Crisis With Imagination

Six visual artists shape narrative in the face of pandemic

Movement Journalism is the Antidote

Read Tina Vasquez's Culture Pulse Essay

Un Nuevo Sol

Meet three young men who came to the US as unaccompanied minors

SuperSheroes

Meet three fierce, undocumented women organizers

Imagine Justice

Listen to a concert get loud on immigration detention

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