T.E.A.C.H. (Transformative Education, Arts & Cultural Healing )
De-Colonial Healing Arts Program for System/Justice-Impacted Individuals
Target Participant : System/Justice-Impacted Individuals
Restorative Cultural Arts™
Praxis
Address and repair the legacy of racism with all forms of oppression in communities of color.
Restore Communities of Color by centralizing cultural aesthetics and practices vital to their empowerment and agency.
Transform the spaces in which Communities of Color live, work, and play in to undo the harms of colonialism and the spread of western European ideologies.
The core of our approach is to utilize a Restorative Cultural Arts™ praxis. Restorative Cultural Arts™ define the concepts and practices in Communities of Color whose processes produce outcomes deeply rooted in the interconnectivity of culture, aesthetics, restoration, and transformation knowledge. This work is significant to demonstrate the importance of shaping the DNA of intergenerational Communities of Color.
Our Work
Since 2018 Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory has served our justice system impacted population of young people with career programming in the arts.
Our program role is to shape and form new concepts and projects to restore communities of Color and transform systems they interact with to embody love, courage, hope, healing, and justice. We are keenly aware through our work with justice and system-impacted youth and their families that we are one of the few collectives who do this work while being led and guided by BIPOC members. To correct this inequity, we intentionally hire credible messengers and justice system - impacted individuals as Teaching Artists to lead culturally relevant programming that is informed by their lived experiences for the explicit purpose of expanding our support systems as a means to center the traditional practices of our collective communities.
System/Justice - Impacted Youth and Adults Served through our TEACH program in California State Correction Faculties, Los Angeles County Camps, Halls, JDRCs, and Group Homes since 2019