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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 Economic Justice, Immigration, Cultural Organizing, Civic Engagement, Gender Justice and Climate

Confronting Crisis With Imagination

Six visual artists shape narrative in the face of pandemic

Get #ClimateWoke on Earth Day 2020

Check out art that's calling us to action

Poetry Was Not My Dream Growing Up

Read Terisa Siagatonu's Culture Pulse essay on getting #ClimateWoke

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

Migration Now: Print Portfolio

View a new wave of political printmaking

Art for Earth

The Climate Woke Network launches!

Wildfires and Migrant Communities

Watch how we unite, prepare and protect each other in the face of increasing natural disasters

Youth vs. The Apocalypse

Hear what youth want you to know about #GlobalClimateStrike

Taco Talk with Felipe Baeza

Felipe speaks on busting expectations placed on undocumented artists

Taco Talk with Chucha Marquez

Check out Chucha's views and portraiture of Latinx cultural icons

Taco Talk with Zeke Peña

Zeke talks border town water rights, art influences and militarization

Art Rising from the Fire

After the devastating 2017 North Bay fires, artists help communities heal

Get Crafty with Us

Tune in to these fun how-to videos for making signs, T-shirts, banners and more!

Taco Talk with Yosimar Reyes

Poet Yosimar Reyes talks books, slam poetry, and some famous supporters

Taco Talk with Breena Nuñez

Illustrator and musician Breena Nuñez talks gentrification, immigrant detention, and music

How To Make Butterfly Wings

Create wearable art for a march, rally or event

Border Visions

Artists and activists converge for migrant justice

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