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Wellness on Wheels: When Art, Healing, and Community Collide
FELLOW FEATURE: Learn about the work of ILI Year 6 Fellow April Fitzpatrick, “Pineapple Lady” through her own story about “Wellness on Wheels (W.O.W.)”
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ILI Fellow Almeta Whitis is Celebrated for a Lifetime of Storytelling
ILI Year 5 alum Almeta Whitis is a storyteller, writer, poet and teaching artist, whose life work involves exploring, presenting and honoring cultural connections between
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Expanding the Web: ILI Sparks a Collaboration
In Sept 2024, The FlipCharts trekked out to FPF’s Oglala Lakota Artspace to record new songs produced by ILI Year 3 Alum Talon Bazille Ducheneaux.
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Moving Toward a Vibrant Black Arts and Culture Ecosystem
ILI Year 5 Fellow DeMarcus Akeem Suggs shares his own experience modeling arts & culture ecosystems, his visionary leadership in Black arts, and how interculturality
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Beyond Borders: Dominicans Love Haitians Movement’s 2023 Nou Akoma Nou Sinèrji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival
Guest writer Amanda Ortiz shares the story ILI Year 5 Fellow Clarivel Ruiz’s “Dominicans Love Haitians Movement’s Transnational Film Festival.”
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ILI Fellow Joeseph Arnoux Reflects
ILI Year 5 Fellow Joeseph Arnoux created a video story of his reflections on being in the Intercultural Leadership Institute year-long program.
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The Black Doll Project
ILI Year 5 Fellow Clarivel Ruiz started the Black Doll Project is an act of affirmation that sends Black Dolls to children in the Caribbean
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Deliver Us from Evil: How Via Religion or Spirituality? (an essay in progress)
ILI Year 4 Alum Busi Peters-Maughan has been exploring the differences between religion and spirituality in this essay in progress. She recently shared her thoughts
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Composing While Black: ILI Alum Marshall Trammel Update
Marshall is noted in this new book about Afrodiasporic contemporary music and recently traveled to work with the International Music Institute in Darmstadt Germany.
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Year 4 ILI Fellow Robin Garcia Curates New Exhibition
Year 4 ILI alum Robin Garcia has co-created a new exhibition at USC in Los Angeles. Of Seed, Soil, and Stars – Mediations on Land,
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Met Museum Collects Suzy González Zines (including ILI Zines!)
Congratulations to Year 2 ILI alum Suzy González for being included in the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A collection
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WHY I BROKE UP WITH WEED
“Okay, I did not break up with weed, I broke up with the weed industry.” ILI Year 4 participant Sonia Erika reflects on the concept
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Shin Yu Pai Launches New Podcast: The Blue Suit
ILI Alumn Shin Yu Pai launches a new project with KUOW Public Radio in Seattle. In a world full of stuff, what is worth keeping?
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ILI Alumni Talk Poetry: Shin Yu Pai & Theo Wilson in Conversation
Poet & Producer Shin Yu Pai & History Channel host Theo Wilson talk about their shared ILI leadership program journey and the power of poetry
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ILI Alumni News: Congratulations Esperanza Center & Graciela Sanchéz
The Wallace Foundation named the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center as one of 18 organizations in their 2022 arts initiative. The Center is directed by
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ILI Participant Reflections: Rani Pramesti
We recently caught up with Rani Pramesti to talk about their experience in ILI Year 3, interculturalism, and their current artistic work in the field.
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ILI Participant Livestream: 8/25/21 “Phoning It In”
Open Call for Stories Phoning It In: Acts of Artist Activism Feat. Marlo De Lara/Carol Zou Livestream: Wednesday, August 25th on https://www.twitch.tv/coaxialarts 6PM PST As artists and cultural makers,
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Fellow Story: Tiffany Vega-Gibson
We recently interviewed ILI Year 3 Fellow Tiffany Vega-Gibson about her experience in arts & culture leadership and her hopes for her ILI experience. Please
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ILI Alum Event: 8/21/21 Marshall Trammell’s Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement #1
Pro Arts in partnership with AGENCY Oakland invites you to The LOOM, on August 21st, 2021, at 6:00PM for a public site-tuning event, entitled Ebonics Native
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ILI Alum Event: COVID Stories: When the Hugs Went Away
Check out the new work by #ILIAlumni Jonathan Clark! The Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. Re-Emerges from the Global Pandemic with an Original Virtual Production, COVID Stories:
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ILI Alumni Event: An Offering to Unsettle Settlement
“How does one make sense of their own participation in the world, taking into consideration pasts that have formed legacies of colonialism and disenfranchisement? This
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JUNETEENTH 2020: Sound & Visual Meditation
SPECIAL ONLINE PRESENTATION: SUPER BLUES color Lux bath New work from ILI Alum muthi reed. Presented on this year’s Juneteenth celebration of freedom and resilience, Scribe
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Climate Justice Circle & Strategy Clinic – 6/25/20
ILI Yr 2 Alum and Co-Facilitator Joe Tolbert Jr. organizes Circles & Strategy Clinics through Peoples Hub. How can we confront climate-related injustices while we
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Alum Update: Robert Martinez
Robert Martinez is an ILI Fellow Alum from 2018/19. We caught up with him to hear about what he’s doing now. What have you been working
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New Book Draws on ILI Experience
Drawing the Ensō by Shin Yu Pai, ILI Fellow Alum I chose the title Ensō for my forthcoming book because it expresses both the practice of trying to
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Alum Update: Christopher D. Sims
As the new year proceeds, and as I look towards a year of arts, culture, and all that those things encompass, I move forward knowing
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FAMILI IN THE FIELD: Cultivating Love
ILI Fellow liza garza and ILI Fellow Alum Eli Lakes form the mother/son musical duo GROW. In 2018/2019, they embarked on a tour of
FUNDA FEST 21: Celebration of Black Storytellers
Rhode Island Black Storytellers (RIBS) recently had their 21st Annual Funda Fest: A Celebration of Black Storytelling which took place from Westerly to Woonsocket, Peace Dale
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WHAT IS POSSIBLE
Photo: Kyoung’s Pacific Beat’s PILLOWTALK (The Tank, Jan. 2018). Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk ILI Fellow Kyoung Park guest blogs on Arts Leadership and the future of
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CELEBRATING “HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE MONTH”
Photo: Pūnana Leo o Mānoa Hawaiian Medium Education Preschool students attending the “2017 Ke Au Hawaiʻi- Year of the Hawaiian” ceremony at Washington Place, Honolulu.
LEADING THE WAY TO STATUE REMOVAL
ILI Fellow Joel Garciawas an integral part of the community effort to remove the Columbus statue from Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles. Learn
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DECOLONIZING DEATH
ILI Fellow Tara Moses played a key role in decolonizing Tulsa’s Day of the Dead activities in Fall 2018. Here’s how her involvement and her
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FAMILI IN THE FIELD: CONSIDERING THE COMPLEXITIES OF IDENTITY
Photo by Shin Yu Pai ILI Fellow Shin Yu Pai visited Bhutan and Taiwan in 2018. Here are her reflections on those travels and experiences,