As we reflect on 2024, SVCREATES would like to thank the artists, arts leaders, and arts supporters who strengthened our community and brought us comfort and joy through their performances, poetry, and works of art. It has been our honor and pleasure to partner with and support you, and we’re proud to share our annual report showing the results of our … Read More
Health, Healing, Hope: The Shape of Arts Advocacy in 2025
This month, we’re honored to feature a guest blog from Tracy Hudak, Director of Field Engagement & Advocacy at CA for the Arts. . . . We are all feeling it – this sensation of surfing tectonic shifts in technology, government priorities, and civic life. Uncertainty is causing unease while also making room for new possibilities. These possibilities are where we should … Read More
An Interview with Erin Salazar
This month, we continue our Conversations Series, where SVCREATES Board members sit down with local arts leaders and culture bearers to learn what’s top of mind. In this interview, Toni Vanwinkle, SVCREATES Board Treasurer, talks with Erin Salazar, Executive Director of Local Color, about her vision for a community where local artists thrive and are embraced as part of the cultural landscape. . … Read More
A Year in Review: Conversation between Vicky and Alexandra
This month, SVCREATES continues our Conversations Series. Board Chair Vicky Phan and CEO Alexandra Urbanowski sat down to discuss their new roles, both started in January 2024, and reflect on the past 12 months. . . . Alexandra: We are now one year into our terms! What are a few of the highlights from your work with the board this year? … Read More
Become a Content Member
Become a Content Member This holiday season, support SVCREATES’ mission to give visibility and voice to our region’s creatives by becoming a Content Member. Content Magazine is the longest-running arts focused media platform in the South Bay. Since 2012, the magazine has featured over 1,000 local artists through a quarterly high-quality print publication, video production, and monthly podcast. Your membership provides … Read More
An Interview with Roy Hirabayashi
This month, SVCREATES continues our new Conversations Series, where SVCREATES Board members sit down with local arts leaders and culture bearers to learn what’s top of mind. This month, Board Vice Chair Vicky Phan talked with Roy Hirabayashi about our state arts council. . . . Vicky: Thanks for your time today, Roy. Can you give us a quick intro … Read More
Urbanowski: Working Together for Arts Education
SVCREATES’ CEO Alexandra Urbanowski writes that collaboration between arts leaders, school administrators, and educators can leverage #proposition28 to enhance arts education in Silicon Valley. San José Spotlight has more: https://bit.ly/3BnUVwL
Content Pick-Up Party | November 22
The winter issue of Content Magazine will be released on November 22, and we want you to experience it. Order your copy by November 5 to receive free shipping. For orders placed before November 5, you will not pay the shipping fee. After November 5, the shipping fee applies. (The issue will be received after November 22) Save the date! Content Pick-Up Party … Read More
The Arts are Alive in Gilroy
Guest Blog: The Arts are Alive in Gilroy This month, we are pleased to feature a guest blog from Zach Hilton, Gilroy City Council Member, about the power of the arts. This letter was first printed in the Gilroy Dispatch. . . . Nestled in the heart of Downtown Gilroy, the La Ofrenda Festival—Gilroy’s second annual Día de Muertos Festival & Wellness … Read More
It’s Time For a Cultural New Deal in Silicon Valley
This month, we’re honored to feature a guest blog from Demone Carter, an award-winning Hip-Hop artist, podcaster, creative catalyst, and non-profit leader who fosters inclusion within San José’s arts and cultural ecosystem.The recently released Silicon Valley Pain Index, a project of San José State’s Institute of Human Rights, puts a statistically fine point on the bleak situation we see and … Read More
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