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Home is Where the Art is

ARTS Virtual Spring Open House
May 30th, 12:00 pm via Live Streaming

Community Design Challenge

April 13th, 2020
via Instagram

ARTS @ Home Virtual After School Classes Begin!

April 7th, 2020 | 4:00 p.m.
Virtually via Zoom

Respite Event

This event has been cancelled.

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We ❤️ Passion Planner! We gave each of our i

We ❤️ Passion Planner!

We gave each of our interns a planner to help them stay organized while juggling school and everything that comes with being an ARTS intern!

Last week was our intern, @x_clarizza_x birthday and she decided to share a look at her week with us!

Check out this gorgeous new cover available for next year @passionplanner !

This is a yearly planner like you’ve never seen before. Say hello to the Weekly 2021 Annual Serpent Spring Passion Planner, our first ever colorful hardcover release. This goal planner not only keeps you on track, but gives back to aspiring artists. $1 for every planner sold will benefit ARTS (A Reason to Survive), our non-profit partner whose mission is providing empowering arts programming to South Bay San Diego youth. As San Diego locals ourselves, we appreciate the #PashFam’s help to support creativity and community in our own backyards.

#passionplanner #pashfam #intern #areasontosurvive #ARTS #nationalcity #localbusiness #southbaysd

Join us tomorrow at 1pm on Facebook (facebook.com/

Join us tomorrow at 1pm on Facebook (facebook.com/areasontosurvive) for an ARTS 4 Lunch live conversation with Chelsea Wong @chelswong, Community Relations Lead for @passionplanner @chelswong
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#socalarts #artsorganization #youtharts #youthartsorg #youthartsorganizations #californiaarts #youth #creativeyouth #arts #areasontosurvive #instagramlive #liveconversation #conversation #sandiegoyouth #sandiego #nationalcity #nationalcityyouth

Chef @phillipesteban and the White Rice team @rice

Chef @phillipesteban and the White Rice team @ricebowlsforall have committed to helping keep the community well fed through these times through their RICE BOWLS FOR ALL program.

We will be hosting a free meal distribution on Wednesday, November 11th, 4 - 6pm at the ARTS Center, 200 E 12th Street in National City.

Free meals will be provided for all ARTS families past and present on a first come, first served basis.

For any questions, please reach out to community@areasontosurvive.org.

RICE BOWLS FOR ALL
Our current distribution partners include the San Diego Food Bank, Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center, and local community organizations.

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#1FOR1SD #RICEBOWLSFORALL

Join us tomorrow at 12pm on Facebook (facebook.com

Join us tomorrow at 12pm on Facebook (facebook.com/areasontosurvive) for a special ARTS 4 Lunch live conversation about the election results with Victoria Hamilton, Board Chair for Californians for the Arts. @caforthearts
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#socalarts #artsorganization #youtharts #youthartsorg #youthartsorganizations #californiaarts #youth #creativeyouth #arts #areasontosurvive #instagramlive #liveconversation #conversation #sandiegoyouth #sandiego #nationalcity #nationalcityyouth #partofthesolution #artsareessential #artsvote @artsactionfund #counteveryvote #VOTE2020

Polls are open! Get a free ride today with @sdmts.

Polls are open! Get a free ride today with @sdmts. All MTS and @gonctd services are free today! Let’s make it happen!!

Tomorrow is such an important day to vote for so m

Tomorrow is such an important day to vote for so many reasons! Thanks to @create_ca for making this informative campaign and for helping to get the word out!

The arts are essential to prepare young people to engage in the world around them. Join us #SanDiegoCounty in representing your arts-rich county by voting for arts education on November 3rd! #CreateTheVote

#Repost @thefrontarteculture —Our SD Promise Nei

#Repost @thefrontarteculture —Our SD Promise Neighborhood partner in San Ysidro honored BLM this year in their Day of the Dead altar.

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*Día de Muertos*
Altars exist in many cultures throughout the diaspora and a broad spectrum of traditions have unique altar building practices. If building an altar resonates with your culture and expression, an altar can be a visual reminder of ancestors, Spirit, God or whatever we call that which is bigger than us. Altars can provide a place to reground and reconnect to our lineage and purpose.

This altar was created by Casa Familiar staff to commemorate and honor Black life.
The following words were spoken by Cara Hagan on June 5th, 2020 and we want to thank her for her words --

I ask that you remember that ritual is more than performance. It is both spiritual balm and an act of defiance. In this short time together, we will denounce Black death and SAY THEIR NAMES. We will lift them up with light and prayer and song. We will fight for them, and fight for each other.
“Ceremony has been and will always be a vehicle for grief during challenging times. George Floyd, murdered on May 25th, whose death marks the ignition of a world-wide fight for Black Lives; Tony McDade, murdered on May 27th; Breonna Taylor, on what would have been her 27th birthday, murdered on March 13th; Ahmaud Arbery, murdered on February 23rd; and a host of Black lives lost to anti-Black racism. In our time together I hope we can begin to confront the profound sadness that is the loss of a son, a brother, a cousin, a father, a friend. A mother, a sister, a daughter, a mentor, a lover, a colleague, a familiar face, a piece of one’s community. None of the aforementioned were all of these things. But they were each some of these things and it should be acknowledged that any one of these things, lost to anyone, is sorrow.”

It is likely that no one here today knew George Floyd Personally. It is likely that no one reading this knew Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, or Ahmaud Arbery, personally. What is more likely though, is that you know something about their lived experiences. You are a runner. You go to bed each night, with the expectation that you will sleep

The arts are essential to prepare young people to

The arts are essential to prepare young people to engage in the world around them. Thanks to @create_ca for creating this informative campaign! Join us #SanDiegoCounty in representing our arts-rich county by voting for arts education on November 3rd! #CreateTheVote

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