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Imagining Liberation Through Film: Cultural Power at BlackStar Film Festival 2024

Blackfeet documentary wins Center for Cultural Power's...

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!

Propel: The Journey of a Narrative

Narratives act as waves, emerging from larger cultural currents, shaping our perceptions, and propelling us toward new shores

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.

The Power Mural at Climate Week 2023

Art and Culture to drive climate solutions

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!

Oakland Futures Love Life Awardees 2023

12 Artists Shaping Oakland’s Legacy

Juneteenth

A Black Radical Tradition

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

2023 #BeyondStatus Short Film Showcase!

Looking through a loving lens of immigrants’ lived experiences.

Oakland Futures: Love Life Edition

Announcing a new award fund for Oakland-based artists and culture bearers

Black Heroes Month

Telling stories of building power and intergenerational coalition through Black history

Activating Climate Leaders in Social Media Spaces

How The EcoTok Collective is revolutionizing climate activism through educational TikTok videos

Advocating for Artist Leadership at Sundance Film Festival

Activating film spaces to support BIPOC, Queer, and Immigrant Filmmakers

The Art of Abortion Storytelling

Celebrating Artist Leaders In Reproductive Justice

Bringing Cultural Power to COP27

A recap of our recent trip to a global climate convening

Ancestry Through Cultural Collaboration

A celebration of Native American Heritage Month and Indigeneity

Building Collective Power

Applications Launch for the Constellations x California Fellowship

How Art is Healing the Earth

New Narratives in Climate Activism

The Good Energy Playbook

Read the new climate guide for writers!

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

Stories

Showing results for topics Reproductive Justice, Convenings, Civic Engagement, Artist Leadership, Immigration, Racial Justice and Economic Justice

Abbas Muntaqim: On Black August

Reflections from the co-founder of Hella Black Podcast!

"Abundance" Q&A w/ Shantrelle P Lewis and Kat Evasco

Join Amber J. Phillips for a talk on her debut film!

Eda Yu: how ash wood fertilizes the earth

Suspend in the visual poetry of Asian-American belonging

PASIFIKA POWER!

Meet 7 Pacific Islander Artists Who Refuse to be Ignored

Shake Up Climate Action!

Listen to Layel Camargo on The Trail Ahead

WE, AS OURSELVES

Experience a new movement for Black women and femmes

You Good? Black Mental Health

Watch a digital art extravaganza

Disruptors Fellowship 2021

Artist Disruptors - Telling Our Own Stories!

If I Was President

Stream and share Las Cafeteras' hip-hop protest anthem!

¡Printing the Revolution!

Watch Chicanx artists shape the future

Movement to the Ballot Box 2022

See how artists get out the vote

Politics as Imagination

Read the latest Culture Pulse by Prentiss Haney

Until We Are All Free

Check Out Cultural Strategy for Liberation

Taco Talk with Angelica Becerra

Angelica talks on illustrating women artists and icons and standing up for what she wants

Sparking Action and Changing Minds

Meet the Midwest Culture Lab

Let's Make History Together

Check out how artists can build power in the 2020 election

Constellations Culture Change Fund

Learn about investing in culture shift

Confronting Crisis With Imagination

Six visual artists shape narrative in the face of pandemic

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

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