With support from the California Arts Council, URBAN x INDIGENOUS (UxI) will produce its sixth intercultural multidisciplinary arts festival, UxI 2021: Between Worlds, at SOMArts Cultural Center in June 2021. Funding will be used to support festival organizer stipends, venue rental, and commissioning and exhibition costs for 8 featured artists and 20 showcase artists who will be invited to interrogate the potentialities of liminality from an urban-indigenous futurist lens.
URBAN x INDIGENOUS (UxI) serves emerging and mid-career Indigenous artists in showcasing new works, cultivating intercultural and intergenerational exchanges, and engaging in regenerative practices around identity, community, and wellness. UxI hosts an annual intercultural multidisciplinary arts festival at SOMArts Bay Gallery as part of APICC’s United States of Asian America Festival to reflect on our roles as settlers of Ohlone Territory/Turtle Island and deepen our connections to our respective ancestral lineages and Indigenous cultural practices. This intergenerational gathering seeks to re-commune, reconnect, and reorganize our urban-Indigenous family through visual art, performance, workshops, and dialogue that speak to the power of uniting in the face of adversity. Throughout the year, UxI offers accessible community workshops and open mic events as holistic process-based spaces rooted in Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and healing through performance.

