ART TO ACTION

 

What is Art to Action?

We call our audience to action through our art. Continue to learn and grow with us!

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Clare Housing uses affordable supportive housing to create home, health, and hope for over 280 people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS each and every day.

Production support: World AID’s Day

Rainbow Health leads the work for equitable health care access and outcomes for people who experience injustice at the intersection of health status and identity. They offer comprehensive care that is harm reduction-based, trauma-informed, sex-positive, and meets people where they are.

Production support: DIVAS & DRAG

RECLAIM works to increase access to mental health support so that queer and trans youth* may reclaim their lives from oppression in all its forms. Reclaim partners with youth ages 13 – 25 who are marginalized because of their gender identity, gender expression and/or sexual orientation.

Production support: World AID’s Day, DIVAS & DRAG

Using the tools of radical hospitality, advocacy and collective action, Women’s Advocates works toward a community free from violence, where all are safe and can live productive and healthy lives.

Production support: Lucretia, The Sky Where You Are

We build communities free from violence by providing holistic healing for every member of the family. DAP envisions a community free of domestic abuse where families experience healthy, safe and equal relationships.

Production support: Lucretia

Queermunity Collaborative is a gathering space, event venue and café in Minneapolis serving LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities and their allies. Open to the public daily with free general entry, we're sustained by our café, co-working, space rentals, ticketed events, and memberships. We're proud to offer free and low-cost cultural and educational events, a rotating gallery, resilience programming, and collaborative support for local creatives and small businesses.

Production support: Divas & Drag V

Violence Free Minnesota represents victims and survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.  

Production support: Lucretia

SVA provides direct assistance to victim-survivors,
makes referrals to other support services, and conducts community education across Scott and Carver counties.

Production support: Lucretia

Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid (TCTMA) is a self-organized collective of volunteers that fundraises and redistributes funds directly to individuals in the transgender, gender-nonconforming, and intersex communities of the Twin Cities. We raise funds primarily through benefit concerts, direct donations, and long-standing relationships with local artists who donate a portion of their proceeds to our project. Nobody takes a paycheck, and we redistribute every penny we receive. Since our founding in May 2023, we have sent over $200,000 in direct payments to gender-marginalized people in Minnesota.

Production support: Divas & Drag V

The Advocates for Human Rights organization works to change systems and conditions that cause human rights abuses. We fight injustice and improve laws and lives throughout the world while representing individual victims of human rights violations.

Production support: The Consul, Lucretia

Repurposing donated pianos in ways that promote a love of music, provide educational opportunities, and empower creative expression.

TIGERRS is a nonhierarchical collective dedicated to delivering programs and resources that build solidarity and safety among transgender, intersex and gender-expansive Minnesotans.

Production support: Divas & Drag V

RESOURCES

Below is a list of advocacy resources over a variety of topics that specific productions have highlighted or dealt with.

This list is in no way comprehensive. We have compiled resources that we have benefitted from, that have been recommended to us, and that align with AOT’s mission of anti-racism, representation, and inclusion.

Anti-Racism Resources

Environmental Racism Resources