Christine Alcindor
Christine Alcindor will create "The Beauty of Black Life" - a set of two portable murals that represent being Black in America. The murals will be painted on wooden panels that can move to any location. Both murals shed light on the Black experience, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the beauty of being Black.
Mila Fields-Zayas
Mila Fields-Zayas will create a mural based on responses she receives from questions asked of BIPOC women around communites where we are taught that we are less than. This will include Mila filming the process and creating a documentary of the work as she creates the art and includes clips from community members themselves.
Silvina Ibañez
Silvina Ibañez will create "The Paper Theater Project," a collaborative opportunity for the Latinx community to make everyday micro-stories visible. The project aims to create a space of radical imagination and expression, giving a voice to those who need to be heard.
Mariona Lloreta
Mariona Lloreta's short experimental film“Altars” will highlight the Black and brown men in her neighborhood. The film negotiates a space between darkness - dehumanization, erasure, violence and trauma - and light - life, truth, empowerment, love.
Nate McLean-Nichols
Nate McLean-Nichols' series will feature local artists rapping and singing about their experiences with racial injustice as it pertains to various institutions.
Micah x Ireon
Through their project, Micah x Ireon imagine the podcast form as a medium to create, record, and share the oral histories of the RIRJ grant.
Leonard Tshitenge
Leonard Tshitenge will create "Black Fathers Are Sleeping with One Eye Open," a creative arts experience that is animated, interactive, and connects spoken word, expressive writing, and multidisciplinary arts.
Aggrey Twinomugisha
Aggrey Twinomugisha's project "Just Beyond Your Self" will make and distribute free re-useable face masks/covers to the homeless community of Boston through ground street outreach.
Irischa Valentin
Irischa's project "Medicina For The People" is a vision that dreams of providing herbal medicine and aromatherapy to Black, Indigenous, and people of color who in direct and indirect ways are fighting at the front lines of injustices and anti-oppression
Adobo-Fish-Sauce
Young Boston migrant youth-leaders/poet-chefs will collaborate with Adobo-Fish-Sauce (AFS) and I Learn America to cook up stories -- poignant, provocative, but always flavorful -- that will help participants create art celebrating their cultural identity; share meals with cross-cultural dialogue; and engage family and communities to better understand their humanity, thus challenging racist stereotypes.
Nia Holley
Nia Holley's project will center curating and supporting spaces that allow for folx to ‘just be’ for a moment (or more). Nia imagines and affirms that racial justice is just that-- an allowance for us to be our full selves as living beings. It is clear that for over the last 500 years, specifically Black and Indigenous communities have yet to have the space in this world to just exist.
Fabiola Méndez
Fabiola Méndez's project "Negrura" is an audiovisual experience that aims to create spaces for conversations about colorism, anti-blackness, discrimination, and racism within our own Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx community, by engaging with the Latin Quarter Cultural District in Jamaica Plain.
Husain Rizvi
Husain Rizvi's "Games for Justice" project aims to create an independent game development studio structure that centers economic democracy and transformative justice (rather than capitalism and oppressive mainstream game industry standards) by supporting young game designers of color in the Boston area.
UnBound Bodies Collective
Roots + Futures is UnBound Bodies’ three part exploration into QTBIPoC futurity, liberation, and active archiving. Living Altars, co-created with QTBIPoC Elders, layers landscapes with memories, sited throughout Boston where our Elders shaped their lives and our legacies.