Culture Keepers Platform Tour Guide
The Culture Keepers Platform provides film, audio, and written stories featuring Culture Keepers from across the Bay Area. This guide provides direct links to content with artists discussing a variety of topics.
- Artist Resources
- Bay Area History and Community
- Dignity & Advocacy
- Spaces
- Creative Practice
- Artists & Identity
Artist Resources
Pieces that explore resources and support systems artists require.
Listen
Read
Watch
(funding, grants, mental health services/support, housing, studio/work space, healthcare, childcare, equipment, art materials, professional development, legal services, mentorship — any materials that enable artistic practice & sustainability)
Bay Area History and Community
Pieces that explore the historical and contemporary narratives of Bay Area communities.
Listen
Read
Watch
(neighborhood histories, cultural traditions, cultural preservation, community organizing legacies, displacement, gentrification, immigration, intergenerational knowledge, relationships between place, people, and identity in the Bay)
Dignity & Advocacy
Pieces that explore collective organizing, advocacy, and social change efforts
Listen
Read
(grassroots organizing strategies, coalition building across communities, policy advocacy, campaigns, community-led resistance, activism, solidarity practices, leadership development, frameworks enacted for change)
Spaces
Pieces that explore physical, interpretive, virtual, or imagined spaces where culture and creativity thrive.
Listen
Read
Watch
(cultural venues, performance spaces, community centers, gathering places, public art, access, cultural districts, cultural hubs, fight for spaces of cultural expression)
Creative Practice
Pieces that explore the work and processes of cultural production.
Listen
Read
Watch
(methods & techniques, cultural traditions, cultural innovation, storytelling, narrative practices, collaboration, co-creation, pedagogies)
Artists & Identity
Pieces that explore the experiences and work of artists with specific identities.
Listen
Read
Watch
(BIPOC artists, how identities shape creative practice, access, representation, disabled artists, LGBTQ+ and queer artists, immigrant artists, refugee artists, feminist artists, multilingual artists…?)
