Batey Urbano

Liberation through the arts

<div><h3><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><font color="#984806">Café Teatro Batey Urbano, a project of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center is a 9 year cultural space/youth center for action and reflection for Puerto Rican/Latino youth. We seek to create meaningful linkages between universities and the community, based on grassroots activism. Premised on the notion that our memories (our history) are the source of our imagination, Batey Urbano is a space for critical expression through spoken word, poetry, dancing, music, painting, and writing. We achieve this by fusing cultural expression and technology as means of organizing in creative ways, our work builds on the human and social capital of our community to develop youth leadership in our many programs and projects. We seek to develop holistic multi- dimensional programming that includes multi-media technology, asset mapping and community involvement. The mission of the Batey Urbano is provide alternatives that are youth-led and youth-driven. We strive for a participatory process that is transformative not only using traditional means of expression but also non traditional forms and variations, thus creating hybrids of multi-media and multi-artistic projects to address youth issues in a creative manner. Simultaneously we actively engage youth in discussing broader community issues and defining solutions. The result of this work, which is both ongoing and continually reflective, has seen a growing number of youth community builders between the ages of 13 and 25 involved in the Batey’s many projects. These organizing experiences have proven to us the importance of culture, identity and youth participation as a base for positive youth development. <!--?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--><o:p></o:p></font></span></h3><p>&nbsp;</p></div>

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