AEPOCH Arts Fund - Grants Awarded

Art in Action, Oakland, California

Art in Action is based in West Oakland and promotes positive alternatives to violence, empowers youth leaders and builds community through the use of music, hip-hop, dance, theater, digital storytelling and spoken word. AEPOCH supported their participation in "Silence the Violence," a community collaboration to create concerts, trainings, zines and youth-led theater tours. AEPOCH has also provided general support for capacity building and year-round programs including week-long youth camps, weekend workshops, facilitator training, and an Arts Activist Jam. Fiscal sponsor: YES! www.artinactioncamp.org

Artist Network of Native Movement, Flagstaff, Arizona

The vision of Native Movement Art Collective (NMAC) is to heal and strengthen indigenous peoples through conscious art. NMAC provides mentorship, encouragement, and a space for young artists to create personal and distinctive art free from societal restrictions. Projects infuse art with regional environmental justice campaigns, sustainability work, and cultural preservation and renewal efforts. AEPOCH has supported the teaching, design and coordination of large, youth-run, public art projects throughout Northern Arizona on critical issues of food security, water scarcity, environmental justice, indigenous people's rights and sustainable living. www.nativemovement.org

Ashé Cultural Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

Ashé Side by Side Project (AshéSBS): Recrafting Our Lives and Our City Together is an effort to support New Orleans artists and culture bearers displaced by Hurricane Katrina to come back home. AEPOCH has supported the coordination of three AshéSBS Artists Spotlight Events for returning visual and performing artists to showcase their creative talent and gather community support for themselves and their families. These community events will include on-site healing work; as well as community-based services open to all participants. Each Artists Spotlight Event will include an interactive exhibit space for SPIRIT REACH - a visual art project dedicated to healing and spiritual rejuvenation for the people of New Orleans. AshéSBS also offers Artists Support Workshops on grant writing, credit management, taxes, and housing for displaced and returning artists. http://www.ashecac.org

Sins Invalid/The Dancing Tree, San Francisco, California

Sins Invalid incubates, showcases, and celebrates artists with disabilities, exploring the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body. Conceived and led by people with disabilities, it creates a space where disabled artists can develop and present cutting-edge work where normative paradigms are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all individuals and communities. AEPOCH has provided general support for Sins Invalid, including the annual two-day performance event. Fiscal sponsor: Dancer's Group http://www.sinsinvalid.org

Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project, Oakland, California

The Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project's mission is to challenge and end the human rights abuses committed against transgender, gender variant/genderqueer and intersex (TGI) people in California prisons and beyond. AEPOCH supported the production of "Emancipate", a series of digital stories by and about the lives and liberation struggles of transgender and gender variant people currently and formerly imprisoned in California. www.tgijp.org

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