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AgitArte is an organization of working class artists and cultural organizers who work at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality and ideology. Through a praxis of cultural solidarity, creative process and popular education, we initiate and facilitate arts and cultural projects with grassroots communities that contest U.S. cultural hegemony and propose alternatives to existing systems of oppression. We do this in our creative work by centering the experiences of oppressed people in resistance through interdisciplinary storytelling/media, and in our mutual solidarity, through trainings, workshops and running a physical space for educational programming in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
AGITARTE BOARD
Saulo Colón | Dey Hernández | Javier Maldonado | Paulina Helm-Hernández
CULTURAL SOLIDARITY
We focus on cultural solidarity with individuals, communities, organizations, and their struggles rooted in the holistic understanding that humans require more than their material needs satisfied. Cultural work facilitates emotional as well as economic development.
POPULAR EDUCATION & AGITATION
We help to build the cultural infrastructure of grassroots struggles (using street theatre and political puppetry, etc) while also educating and agitating for the social, economic, and human rights of the diverse communities of the working class.
ARTISTS/CULTURAL WORKER DEVELOPMENT
Our work requires the artistic and educational development of cultural workers committed not only to their art but also to the social and economic progress of the people most involved in these struggles, especially those most impacted by the enduring inequalities in the United States and Puerto Rico.
¡AGITARTE
PARA LA
ACCIÓN!
CULTURAL SOLIDARITY
We focus on cultural solidarity with individuals, communities, organizations, and their struggles rooted in the holistic understanding that humans require more than their material needs satisfied. Cultural work facilitates emotional as well as economic development.
POPULAR EDUCATION & AGITATION
We help to build the cultural infrastructure of grassroots struggles (using street theatre and political puppetry, etc) while also educating and agitating for the social, economic, and human rights of the diverse communities of the working class.
ARTISTS/CULTURAL WORKER DEVELOPMENT
Our work requires the artistic and educational development of cultural workers committed not only to their art but also to the social and economic progress of the people most involved in these struggles, especially those most impacted by the enduring inequalities in the United States and Puerto Rico.
¡AGITARTE
PARA LA
ACCIÓN!
NEWS | NOTICIAS
May 1st is an important day for workers in Puerto Rico (and worldwide) but it also carries significance among our crew of artists and cultural workers because it is the anniversary of Papel Machete’s first street action as a collective.
In our most recent newsletter, we’re highlighting our first graphic novel project, Mucho Mango, an adaptation of Papel Machete’s 2010 tabletop puppet play El Barrio del Mangó Bajito.
“Few initiatives have left as much of a lasting imprint on the visual and affective archives of the political landscape of this U.S. Caribbean colony (or ‘unincorporated territory’) over the last quarter century as AgitArte…”