VISION & MISSION
Vision
¡DUENDE! envisions a world in which youth voices and ideas are at the center of community building, transformation, healing, and social justice. We understand and value the power of young people's imagination and passion to create positive and sustainable change. We envision our beloved Long Beach as being the perfect environment for this movement to take root, as its diversity and support of the arts and culture make it such fertile ground.
Mission
¡DUENDE! Long Beach hopes to empower and enable the youth in our community with the creative tools they need to become unstoppable leaders and agents for change. To achieve this, ¡DUENDE! aims to:
¡DUENDE! envisions a world in which youth voices and ideas are at the center of community building, transformation, healing, and social justice. We understand and value the power of young people's imagination and passion to create positive and sustainable change. We envision our beloved Long Beach as being the perfect environment for this movement to take root, as its diversity and support of the arts and culture make it such fertile ground.
Mission
¡DUENDE! Long Beach hopes to empower and enable the youth in our community with the creative tools they need to become unstoppable leaders and agents for change. To achieve this, ¡DUENDE! aims to:
- Provide an open and safe environment for youth to share their stories, ideas, beliefs, opinions, and desires for their lives and futures without judgment or censorship.
- Instill leadership and empowerment skills that enable youth to understand that they have the power and ability to shape and manifest the change they want to see in the world.
- Encourage the development of storytelling, writing, and performance skills through multidisciplinary arts workshops that explore concepts of identity, voice, power, community, imagination, and expression through progressive and inclusive pedagogy.
- Form a youth slam poetry team to compete at the 2012 Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival.