The *Cultural Caravan for Peace and Solidarity Through Latin America* is a project that brings people together to nurture a deeper and more sustainable solidarity movement-rooted in the arts & healing as a means of social change -between Latin America and communities of color in the United States. We also use the arts & healing to raise awareness about the issues affecting our lives and to bring our communities together. We seek to make connections and understand how each of us works to resist oppression in our communities and how we create & make the world better, to have true solidarity with each other across the Americas.
The Caravan will depart from the United States and promote street theater, poetry, healing, music, and other political and native art forms, while sharing the stories of resistance, transformation, and sociopolitical victories in our communities.
*Through this experience, we hope to:
- Learn from each other ways of working to increase liberation and to decrease violence
- Build and strengthen a movement for peace and justice by supporting local artistic initiatives for social change.
- Heal collectively from the effects of violence and colonialism through sharing our personal and collective stories of resistance.
- Share ideas and knowledge with the purpose of learning from one another and to strengthen our political, cultural and community work.
- Collaborate through community cultural projects.
- Support and contribute to the movements to end militarism, violence, inequality, and exploitation in all forms
- Share our Healing work which is integral to making our cultural and political work sustainable and transformative
*WE ARE LOOKING FOR FOLKS of color who are:
~committed to our mission and vision, ~radical transformative politics that are about justice, peace and love ~artists, educators, activists, organizers, poets, musicians, creative folks willing to share and create with communities of the global south that build solidarity and healing ~folks excited about working in an intergenerational community ~can work in community and individually to do some grassroots fundraising ~committed to creating an accountable relationship with communities in resistance in Latin America ~and have a personal commitment to transforming their lives and living free from violence and internalized oppression.
We are especially excited to welcome folks from the African Diaspora, queer community, young people, native communities, immigrants, and more!
*THIS YEAR WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE GOING TO………….COLOMBIA in **August 2011!*
We will be holding open meetings for folks interested in meeting the group and dreaming together and creating this project. Please contact me us for more information!
E-mail us at caravana.cultural.nyc@gmail.com
