Arts & Culture as a Strategy to Counter Displacement
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This session will focus on sharing strategies for incorporating arts and culture as a method of belonging in countering displacement. The two cases studies will feature Staying Power, a Richmond, CA, collaboration integrating resident-driven cultural strategies, policy development, and community organizing, and Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) in Los Angeles whose diverse creative strategies include artist residencies, small business development, and campaigns. Sasha Graham (ACCE), Evan Bissell (Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society), and Grant Sunoo (Little Tokyo Service Center). Lauren Valdez (SPARCC)
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- 1. Arts & Culture as a Strategy to Counter Displacement Share your insights from today on social media #WeAllThrive @SPARCChub
- 2. Share your insights from today on social media #WeAllThrive @SPARCChub Sasha Graham Staying Power Fellow Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Evan Bissell Arts & Cultural Strategy Coordinator Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Grant Sunoo Director of Planning Little Tokyo Service Center Lauren Valdez SPARCC Program Officer Low Income Investment Fund
- 4. Staying Power Housing Policy and Belonging through an arts-based research and organizing fellowship
- 5. Evan Bissell, Arts and Cultural Strategy Coordinator at Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Sasha Graham, Staying Power Fellow and President of ACCE Action state board, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)
- 6. Source: Rosie the Riveter National Park Museum Richmond
- 7. 6 Month Fellowship - 3 Organizations - 6 Fellows Structural Analysis Lived Experience Existing Campaigns & Organizing Arts & Research
- 8. Structural Analysis ● Historical context ● Policy analysis ● City reports and documents ● Contemporary housing research
- 9. Lived Experience ● Writing ● Interviews ● Photo documentation ● Personal maps
- 10. Existing Campaigns & Organizing ● Fair Chance housing ● Rent Control and Just Cause Eviction ● Richmond Renaissance play ● Interest in exploring/passing new policies
- 11. What does it mean to belong in Richmond? structures narratives +
- 12. Fellowship design principles 1. Arts and cultural strategy generates knowledge that helps us make more insistently human policy and practices 2. Co-create platforms for excluded expertise and further development of that expertise 3. Develop the infrastructure to support the fellowship in meaningful ways
- 13. The fellowship works on 5 levels 1. Paid training, skill-building, and leadership development for the fellows and coordinator 2. Collaboration between organizations across sectors or issue areas 3. Building capacity and awareness of organizations around cultural strategy 4. Creation of high-quality arts and cultural projects and processes that shift the public narrative 5. Guiding, realigning and supporting implementation of policy and research
- 14. What we made
- 15. Case studies and designing projects ● Build on existing art and creative organizing models ● Continue to align them with structural analysis, personal experience, and organizing work
- 17. Outcomes ● Know-your-rights mural ● Writing workshops in affordable housing sites
- 18. Outcomes ● Know-your-rights mural ● Writing workshops ● Poetry book based on interviews & research
- 19. Outcomes ● Know-your-rights mural ● Writing workshops ● Poetry book based on interviews & research ● Public performances & presentations
- 20. Outcomes ● Know-your-rights mural ● Writing workshops ● Poetry book based on interviews & research ● Performances ● Video
- 21. Outcomes ● Know-your-rights mural ● Writing workshops ● Poetry book based on interviews & research ● Performances ● Video ● Policy research report
- 22. Outcomes ● Know-your-rights mural ● Writing workshops ● Poetry book based on interviews & research ● Performances ● Video ● Policy research report ● Public symposiums on housing
- 23. The work continues 1. Passing new housing policies: Source of Income Ordinance, Fair Tenant Screening Report Ordinance, Implementation of Fair Chance Ordinance 2. Relationships: An organic network of organizations & people that can support each other
- 24. The work continues 3. New fellowship: focused on equitable development and anchored by the Richmond Community-owned Development Enterprise 4. Sharing the model with other communities and networks
- 25. MORE INFO For the report and creative works: haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/stayingpower Contacts: : Evan Bissell: evanbissell@gmail.com Sasha Graham: sashagraham7914@gmail.com
- 26. LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER Positive Change for People and Places
- 27. v A BRIEF HISTORY OF LTSC v v v
- 28. Positive Change for People and Places Why Creative Placekeeping? Connect People Analyze Complex Problems Effective Storytelling Inspire Action Way of Life Positive Change for People and Places
- 29. Positive Change for People and Places Creative Placekeeping Spectrum Transactional Studio practice Artist commissions Less direct engagement Collaborative Civic Practice Deep Partnerships & Engagements Positive Change for People and Places
- 38. Land Speculation Write out the anti-displacement needs? What policies, narratives, practices, etc. have impacted your community? Undocumented folks not protected Subsidies going to large industries All Latino community with low civic engagement, people unaware of rights & policies Waterfront development starting
- 39. New waterfront park planning process underway with community forums Applications now open for new 100 unit affordable development Very active First 5 program Strong EJ organizing community and nonprofits Active arts leaders at Avalon Cultural Center who host quarterly Art Walk What assets does your community have policies, community leaders, organizations, etc.
- 40. New waterfront park planning process underway with community forums Applications now open for new 100 unit affordable development Very active First 5 program Strong EJ organizing community and nonprofits Active arts leaders at Avalon Cultural Center who host quarterly Art Walk Connecting strong programs with anti-displacement strategies All Latino community with low civic engagement, people unaware of rights & policies Civic Engagement opportunities? Discuss the needs and assets with your group. What do you notice? Group themes.
- 41. Get community involved in waterfront redevelopme nt planning process As a group, choose one need to focus on & place in Box 2
- 42. Create resident leader group and have 100 people attend next waterfront development mtg As a group, discuss an outcome that would address the need you identified place in Box 3
- 43. Create resident leader group and have 100 people attend next waterfront development mtg As a group, choose one need to focus on & place in Box 2
- 44. As a group review the case study examples from Staying Power and LTSC. Which ones stand out add to box 1? Coloring book Poetry personal stories Mural education • Why do the ones that stand out work? What are their strategies and impact? • Write on post-its, which strategies could you borrow from for the need you identified & the outcome you want to achieve
- 45. Remix Approach: How can you best achieve the outcome using the assets you identified and borrowing from the strategies you learned? Share coloring book at ArtWalk & with partners Work with Avalon arts to design coloring book Create resident leader group and have 100 people attend next waterfront development mtg Look at the post-its in Box 1 and move into box 4 to identify your approach. Come up with at least one remix approach that address your identified need or strengthen the work you identified. Work with Community groups to create a fellows group
- 46. Remix Approach: How can you best achieve the outcome using the assets you identified and borrowing from the strategies you learned? Share coloring book at ArtWalk & with partners Work with Avalon arts to design coloring book Create resident leader group and have 100 people attend next waterfront development mtg Look at the post-its in Box 1 and move into box 4 to identify your approach. Come up with at least one remix approach that address your identified need or strengthen the work you identified. Work with Community groups to create a fellows group
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- Identify what tools and strategies were used to help further the agenda What stands out to you? Who were the key players/actors involved Write them down on separate post-its
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- Eli Welcome Goals for workshop Give background on Richmond context and longer arc of the fellowship Explore how the belonging framework allowed us to deepen our work around anti-displacement and place Develop deeper understanding of the Staying Power model and the multiple layers that it works on Share strategies and outcomes of the fellowship as part of a cultural strategy Agenda for today - introduce speakers
- Sasha Richmond basics - where it is, how large, what it’s like, whats the story about Richmond?
- Evan - Vision of the project is rooted in an understanding that there are multiple forms of expertise, and that we need to expand how we understand “anti-displacement” work in order to build communities where people belong both through policies and how they experience a place.
- Evan - This diagram comes out of root causes exercise with tree mapping. Based on research/readings that included articles on housing segregation in Richmond, Mayor’s office branding document, reports on housing and displacement in Richmond and region, analysis of the foreclosure crisis, Richmond Rennaisance play research, and findings from intereviews and lived experience
- Evan - Here we are doing a group analysis of pictures that we took based on writing about belonging through an exercise called “exquisite corpse”... Lots of different activities to explore our own experiences as related to belonging and housing, poetry, writing, tableaus (staged photo exercise), drawing personal maps where we told our stories of movement in Richmond, interviews with people directly impacted by the housing crisis...
- Evan - Intentional that the organizations and whatever kind of work we would create would tie into existing work. It helped drive it but we weren’t overally constricted by it either - we explored our own goals in relationship to organizational goals and needs. Build and expand the power and impact of this work, while also making it more human and better known in the city.
- Evan - So in our work we really focused on two places to enlarge belonging: Structures and narratives and the interactions between these.
- Evan Arts not as communications, but as site of knowledge that enlarges our context and understanding. We used arts based participatory research integrated with narrative development and organizing to do this. This is really rooted in a PAR approach, and stems from the analysis that knowledge is power. Boundary keeping what type of expertise is validated and where it can be mobilized is about reinforcing hierarchies of power and so we sought to directly challenge that. Paid fellowship model (compared to volunteer or member-based organizing), internal staffing for Haas Institute (my role), and close relationship to researchers, so that this project has actually changed what we think is possible at the Haas Institute.
- Evan - This unique web of impacts/outcomes is particular to the interdisciplinary approach of the fellowship. #’s 4 and 5 really bring us back to the issue of narrative and structures, but also that we are thinking about how we are creating new structures within our work through the arts
- Sunny - Used existing models to help spark our imagination around the type of work that we wanted to do. This is a mural from the Bronx, from work by People’s Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability. Here a mural by TATS Crew. We looked at local examples, performances, written pieces, etc.
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- Sunny - City Council study session, Section 8 workshop, Public symposiums, multiple conferences to build the field (Allied Media Conference, ArtPlace, SPARCC, here (Grantmakers in the Arts)
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- Sasha: Passing new housing policies: In late September a group of organizations, including three from Staying Power moved ahead with the two ordinances that were primarily driving through the Staying Power process, the Source of Income Ordinance and Fair Tenant Screening Report Ordinance. We organized focus groups, drafted the ordinances and presented these to city council who unanimously voted to direct staff to draft laws for a vote in late October or Early November. It has kept the implementation of Fair Chance Ordinance in view. Through the fellowship, we realized that landlords and the city were not implementing the policy around “ban the box” for housing, which Safe Return Project and Haas helped draft in 2016. Relationships: The fellowship didn’t create a formal coalition, we were clear about that. But it did create a venue for information sharing, mutual support on projects, and thinking about shared overlaps and outcomes. The familiarity among the participants and orgs allows us to build on existing strengths - sharing resources, showing up for each other, and providing feedback or guidance.
- Evan: New fellowship: Out of this we are developing a new fellowship focused on equitable development and anchored by the Richmond Community-owned Development Enterprise. Out of Staying Power, we didn’t want to just be acting to prevent displacement. People also voiced the need to own and shape development in the city. This second fellowship would work similarly, but focus on the creation of equitable development plans for projects in the city. Sharing the model: in an effort to learn from this work and refine our approach, and offer the principles and processes to others, we are meeting with other community groups, intermediaries, and foundations to share experiences.
- Identify what tools and strategies were used to help further the agenda What stands out to you? Who were the key players/actors involved Write them down on separate post-its
- Identify what tools and strategies were used to help further the agenda What stands out to you? Who were the key players/actors involved Write them down on separate post-its
- Identify what tools and strategies were used to help further the agenda What stands out to you? Who were the key players/actors involved Write them down on separate post-its
- Identify what tools and strategies were used to help further the agenda What stands out to you? Who were the key players/actors involved Write them down on separate post-its
- Identify what tools and strategies were used to help further the agenda What stands out to you? Who were the key players/actors involved Write them down on separate post-its
- Identify what tools and strategies were used to help further the agenda What stands out to you? Who were the key players/actors involved Write them down on separate post-its