In Discussion: Imagining Collective Futures

Join us for the launch of Collective Futures Fund with a panel discussion with artists and community advocates Demita Frazier, Erin Genia, Nakia Hill, and James Vamboi and Cierra Michele Peters (representing Ujima Fund), moderated by Penn Loh, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Public Policy Program and Community Practice at Tufts University.

March 30th at 6 PM - Zoom
REGISTRATION LINK: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2sfJF9jJSsiI1luDmji3Og

In a time of urgent widespread care needs, the pandemic has brought communities together to take care of each other’s basic needs and build structures of mutual aid. This is not without precedent, and like previous movements for access to healthcare and community resources, this crisis disproportionately affects communities of color and the economically vulnerable. This discussion will focus amplifying these histories and collective structures of care and solidarity work in Boston so that we may better understand how to take care of each other and the part artists and culture workers can play. This discussion opens the application period for Collective Futures Fund, a new grant for artist-run platforms and experimental, public artist projects in the Greater Boston area.

Image: Erin Genia, “Sound Vessels,” 2018. Courtesy of the artist.