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MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana
Action Shots
Additional Information
Causes Served: Visual Art, Performance, Literary and Youth, digital media, Education programs
Ages for Volunteer: 15 and up
Hours of Service: At least 2 hours
Minimum Hours Required: 15
Days of Service: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Mission Statement:
MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and community transformation.
Program History:
Founded in 1989 as the result of a broad community mobilization in the City of San Jose and nationwide on behalf of multicultural arts, MACLA has promoted since its inception a vision of arts programming as a vehicle for civic dialogue and social equity.
A hybrid urban arts space located in downtown San Jose and rooted in the Chicano/Latino experience, MACLA intersects many communities, cultures, and aesthetic approaches. The participation of Latino and non-Latino audiences has been a distinctive feature of MACLA since its inception. Our patrons, audiences, and participants are 70% Latino and 30% non-Latino.
From this genesis in advocacy and activism, MACLA has evolved into a community-based arts organization identified in 2003 by Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley as Santa Clara County’s “most practiced and mature site of cultural-citizenship-building through participatory arts.” More than 30,000 children, youth, young adults, families and community residents participate in the 50 programs MACLA produces each year in four core program tracts: visual arts; performance and literary arts; youth arts education; and community development through the arts.
MACLA is committed to emerging Latino artists and audiences. Further, MACLA has an exemplary record of collaboration with other nonprofit organizations and community partners. Many of these collaborations go beyond arts programming to promote the well-being of the Latino community as a vital force in society. The most significant example was MACLA’s participation in incubating and organizing the first charter school in San Jose, Downtown College Prep, which serves primarily Latino youth without a family history of college attendance. In 2010, MACLA was honored to be the only San Jose organization to be named by Philanthropedia as one of the 21 most effective arts and culture organizations in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Events:
Las Cafeteras Friday, October 2, 2015 6:00-11:00 pm
Las Cafeteras Saturday, October 3, 2015 6:00-11:00 pm
Las Cafeteras Sunday, October 4, 2015 1:00-5:00 pm
South First Friday November 6, 2015 6:00-11:00 pm
SoFA Sundays November 15, 2015 10:00-4:00 pm
South First Friday December 4, 2015 6:00-11:00 pm