HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH SERIES:
From the Block to the Mic: Voices from the Barrio
Cultura + Corazón: Organizing Through Art & Story
🗓 Date September 9th 2025
📍 2301 Lexington Avenue KCMO 64124
⏰ Time: 6-8pm
We're not just organizing, we're reclaiming.
We're not just storytelling, we're shifting narratives.
We're not just creating, we’re healing, advocating, and building juntos.
Cultura + Corazón is a hands-on, heart-led gathering where we explore what it means to design and lead culturally rooted organizing campaigns that go beyond flyers and hashtags. This is about creating real movement, using our art, our voices, our abuelita’s lessons, our hood, our joy, and our fight, to push for change on our terms.
🧠 Learn how to weave together policy advocacy, community power, and cultura
🎤 Hear stories from KC organizers, artists, and culture-keepers
🎨 Create on-the-spot visuals that speak our truth
💥 Leave with a campaign idea or action plan rooted in YOU
Whether you're an artist, an advocate, or just someone with a story burning in your chest — come through. This space is ours. This work is ours. This future is ours.
🫶🏽 Open to youth, artists, organizers, and everyday people who believe in our power.
Let’s organize with corazón and cultura. Let’s move different.
#ChicanoCenter #CulturaEsPoder #StorytellingAsResistance #Artivismo #KCOrganizing #LatinxPower #HealingInPublic #ThisIsForUs
Raíces y Voz: Leadership From the Ground Up
September 11TH
6-8pm
Too often, leadership gets boxed into degrees, titles, or boardrooms.
But real leadership? It’s in our barrios, kitchens, classrooms, and studios.
Raíces y Voz is a leadership experience created for us, by us. It’s not about "empowering" you — it’s about amplifying the power you already hold as a parent, student, artist, and changemaker in your own right.
🎤 Workshops + story circles to reclaim your leadership journey
✊🏽 Skill-building around organizing, advocacy, and communication
🧠 Discussions on navigating civic systems without losing your cultura
🎨 Art-infused strategy sessions: because leadership can be creative and powerful
💬 Peer-to-peer learning: no experts, just lived wisdom
👩🏽🎨 Artists.
👩🏽👧 Parents.
🧑🏽🎓 Students.
💯 All leading in their own way.
We’re not teaching you how to lead — we’re creating space to remind you that you already do.
This isn’t a training. It’s a movement rooted in love, resistance, and community care.
🫶🏽 Light refreshments
🎶 Music and cultura
📚 Resource-sharing
✨ Certificates of completion (for students/parents needing proof of hours)
We lead together. We grow together. We rise juntos.
#RaicesYVoz #LeadershipIsCultural #ChicanoCenterKC #ParentPower #StudentLeaders #ArtistsAsAdvocates #KCCommunity #CivicRooted