During our first-ever Creative Convergence event, which took place at the Mingei Museum, members of our vibrant creative community gathered to engage in powerful discussions on a variety of important topics.
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Reflections about Belonging and Creating from You Belong Here August 2023, Artist in Resident, Sarah Cusey.
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While the artist statement and artist bio serve different purposes, they are both important tools for artists to communicate their art and themselves to the world.
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Hosting art showcases that address social justice issues, and marginalized identities is an important way to use art as a tool for social change. These showcases can raise awareness, foster empathy, amplify marginalized voices, and encourage dialogue - all of which are crucial for creating a more just and equitable society.
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Monetizing your You Belong Here membership is possible. Here’s how to do it with creative ideas for small business owners. We share how to take advantage of our photo studio, podcast studio, entire event space, and so much more when you #StartHere.
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Photography has always been something that I love to do, then I found out that I could make it into a career, and it was the best decision I ever made. The best part is working on multiple projects and sharing them with my community. For this project, I decided to collaborate with my mother and help tell her story.
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Ballot Party Tips and Voter Guide resources for the November 2020 Presidential Election.
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We began discussing how altar building can be a form of healing and connecting with our spiritual selves and ancestors. This year has brought so much challenge, loss, and spiritual attack, that we both felt that perhaps our community would need this spiritual form of healing.
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As many of you know, January was National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Here at YBH, we partnered with Shyne San Diego and Amari Dixon Photography to present Behold Her, a portrait exhibition featuring local survivors of human trafficking.
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When I graduated from college, I hitched a ride across the country with two women I’d met the week before. I rode with them from Olympia, Washington to somewhere on the east coast, where they dropped me off at a train station and I caught a train into New York City.
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The dramatic play, “To Fall In Love,” (winner of the Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Drama awards at San Diego’s own Fringe Festival in 2017), has nabbed at spot at Edinburgh’s fest this year, and the team is working to fundraise their way across the pond.
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May was Mental Health Awareness Month. This year at YBH, we wanted to acknowledge this by participating in a community event that tackled the subject of mental health in a creative and meaningful way. We were proud to join forces with Ramel Wallace and Daniel Koestner of The Holyfield to present Monsters, a multi-media exhibition exploring the manifestation of monsters in our lives and the transformations that are possible when we “turn our monsters into masterpieces.”
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Two weeks after opening our doors last November, we hosted our first holiday pop-up market/benefit drive at You Belong Here. It was a teeny but mighty pop-up. In our 1250 square-foot space, we had twenty two local vendors showcasing their goods, plus holiday-inspired cocktails from Please & Thank You and a cheese and charcuterie spread (to die for) presented by Smoke and Brine Co. Meka Coffee brought their coffee cart. Rebecca Eichten put together a wreath-making station. And three local bands sang their hearts out. Everyone came together for some serious holiday cheer.
And it was all done in support of a local non-profit.