Save the Date! Ujima Café → Cultural Rights Conversations w/ cultural workers + artists. 📍 Dorchester Food Coop (195 Bowdoin St) 🗓 Thurs 7/31 | ⏰ 5–7 PM In partnership w/ @dotartproject – come through + build w/ community 💭 #UjimaCafe #CulturalRights #ARTSBOSTON

Massachusetts has no shortage of creators and innovators. We just need to back their ideas with the right opportunities and investments. That’s why @FCHWPO started @BostonXchange and teamed up with the @thejlhfund to launch an accelerator built for creators. Because they’ve

"It's only a chase if you don't believe you'll ever catch it." - HAAWWS (Artist) #ARTSBOSTON

"I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines." - Audre Lorde (Poet/Activist) #ARTSBOSTON

"Our ancestors dreamed us into being." - Walidah Imarisha (Poet/Scholar) #ARTSBOSTON

"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality." - bell hooks (Author/Activist) #ARTSBOSTON

"To tell your own story is to defy erasure." - Saul Williams (Poet/Musician) #ARTSBOSTON

"The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." - Steve Biko (Activist) #ARTSBOSTON

"Our job is to tell the truth through art, even when it’s uncomfortable." - Ava DuVernay (Filmmaker) #ARTSBOSTON

"You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." - Malcolm X (Activist/Orator) #ARTSBOSTON

"Art has the power to empower the oppressed and hold the powerful accountable." - Bryan Stevenson (Lawyer/Advocate) #ARTSBOSTON

"We build our world through the stories we tell." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Writer) #ARTSBOSTON

"I feel that the artist’s responsibility is to get the world to see the beauty in things." - Faith Ringgold (Painter/Writer) #ARTSBOSTON

"I create out of a need to survive, to exist, and to resist." - Mickalene Thomas (Artist) #ARTSBOSTON

"Painting is a language of freedom, and I choose to speak it loudly." - Kara Walker (Visual Artist)

"My identity is not determined by others. My identity is my own to define." - Zanele Muholi (Photographer/Activist) #ARTSBOSTON

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." - Bertolt Brecht (Theatre/Activism)

"Art must be an integral part of the struggle. It can't simply decorate the struggle; it must actively participate." - Emory Douglas (Visual Artist/Activist) #ARTSBOSTON

"An artist’s duty is to reflect the times in which we live." - Nina Simone (Musician/Activist) #ARTSBOSTON

"The things that make us different, those are our superpowers." - Lena Waithe (Writer/Producer) #ARTSBOSTON