Mission/Vision
Mission/Vision | No Coast 2011 | Planning Committee | Co-Sponsors
The theme for this year’s Summit is “Moving It Forward, Bringing It Back.” We envision the 2011 Summit as a space to foster intergenerational dialogue with an explicit elder presence, a youth component, and activities for all those in between. We will also explore the various ways spoken word has pushed into other genres (theater, music, film) while bringing it back to our poetic roots. Similarly, we will foster a dialogue on past APIA social movements and present possibilities, encouraging participants to bring the conversation back to their own organizations and localities.
Mission
The APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit is a biennial gathering of Asian Pacific Islander American community artists and activists. We come together to:
- provide space for artists and activists to learn from each other and build community
- recognize spoken word performance as a source of new language, new ideas, new dialogues and understandings, and creative fodder for activism and organizing
- acknowledge the arts as a critical, elemental component in building, empowering, and transforming our communities and ourselves.
Vision
Our vision is a more socially just future, where a cohesive and sustainable APIA spoken word community uses the tools and practices inherent in the art we make – to creatively engage in social movement building in service of, and in alliance with, the broader APIA community.
Learn more about APIA Summit history. Read Summit reflections from previous attendees.
