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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

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Showing results for topics Immigration, Artist Leadership, Climate, Racial Justice, Field Building, Artist Profiles and Gender Justice

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.

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

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.

Celebrating the Climate Woke: Create With Us Award Winners

The Center for Cultural Power and BLD PWR are excited to announce the winners of the Climate Woke: Create With Us (2024) award opportunity!

CLIMATE WOKE: CREATE WITH US (2024)

2024 Constellations Folk Arts & Cultural Stewardship Grants

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.

Uplifting our Constellations Fellows and Partners

Learn more about their cultural and artistic projects!

The Border Report 2023

Learnings and recommendations from the Border Futures Narratives Project

California x Culture Bearers & Artist Disruptors Awards

Learn more about our two new awards!

Juneteenth

A Black Radical Tradition

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

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