dorchesterartproject

Save the Date! Ujima Café → Cultural Rights Conversations w/ cultural workers + artists. 📍 Dorchester Food Coop (195 Bowdoin St) 🗓 Thurs 7/31 | ⏰ 5–7 PM In partnership w/ @dotartproject – come through + build w/ community 💭 #UjimaCafe #CulturalRights #ARTSBOSTON

Massachusetts has no shortage of creators and innovators. We just need to back their ideas with the right opportunities and investments. That’s why @FCHWPO started @BostonXchange and teamed up with the @thejlhfund to launch an accelerator built for creators. Because they’ve always shown up for Boston, on and off the court. Had the opportunity to meet some of these incredible entrepreneurs last week. The talent and drive are here - and these founders are ready to hit the ground running.

"It's only a chase if you don't believe you'll ever catch it." - HAAWWS (Artist) #ARTSBOSTON

"I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines." - Audre Lorde (Poet/Activist) #ARTSBOSTON

"Our ancestors dreamed us into being." - Walidah Imarisha (Poet/Scholar) #ARTSBOSTON

"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality." - bell hooks (Author/Activist) #ARTSBOSTON

"To tell your own story is to defy erasure." - Saul Williams (Poet/Musician) #ARTSBOSTON

"The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." - Steve Biko (Activist) #ARTSBOSTON

"Our job is to tell the truth through art, even when it’s uncomfortable." - Ava DuVernay (Filmmaker) #ARTSBOSTON

"You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." - Malcolm X (Activist/Orator) #ARTSBOSTON

"Art has the power to empower the oppressed and hold the powerful accountable." - Bryan Stevenson (Lawyer/Advocate) #ARTSBOSTON

"We build our world through the stories we tell." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Writer) #ARTSBOSTON

"I feel that the artist’s responsibility is to get the world to see the beauty in things." - Faith Ringgold (Painter/Writer) #ARTSBOSTON

"I create out of a need to survive, to exist, and to resist." - Mickalene Thomas (Artist) #ARTSBOSTON

"Painting is a language of freedom, and I choose to speak it loudly." - Kara Walker (Visual Artist)

"My identity is not determined by others. My identity is my own to define." - Zanele Muholi (Photographer/Activist) #ARTSBOSTON

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." - Bertolt Brecht (Theatre/Activism)

"Art must be an integral part of the struggle. It can't simply decorate the struggle; it must actively participate." - Emory Douglas (Visual Artist/Activist) #ARTSBOSTON

"An artist’s duty is to reflect the times in which we live." - Nina Simone (Musician/Activist) #ARTSBOSTON

"The things that make us different, those are our superpowers." - Lena Waithe (Writer/Producer) #ARTSBOSTON