CULTURAL STRATEGY
WITH YOU FESTIVAL
Launched by Kat Evasco’s newly founded narrative strategy organization, the With You Festival features three full length autobiographical solo shows that collectively tackles queerness, immigration, and resilience in the midst of pandemics.
The With You Festival is a narrative strategy project that presents LGBTQI stories we need -stories that defy anti-LGBTQI rhetoric and policies sweeping across the country; stories that reflect how powerful we truly are. Together, the bodies of work in the festival embody three specific core narratives: Let us love. Let us thrive. Let us be free.”
THE DISRUPTORS FELLOWSHIP
A Fellowship for a New World
Culture is power - it shapes us, sets the terms of the world we live in, and informs how we perceive issues, stories, and each other. Yet, white men still control power as culture creators, reinforcing and perpetuating systems of oppression and preventing racial and gender equity from becoming the norm. The Disruptors Fellowship aims to change that.
Dismantling the status quo in Hollywood demands investment in artists who are directly impacted by systems of oppression and who are working toward solutions.
Artists Disruptors are dedicated to their craft and committed to creating a more just and harmonious world. Co-created by Evasco, The Disruptors Fellowship builds new pathways for artist disruptors, enabling them to generate more narratives that inspire empathy. As artist disruptors increase their power and impact, they accelerate narrative change and shift culture.
RECLAIMING THE BORDER
Reclaiming the Border Narrative is an effort to penetrate and shape the national attention on migration and the United States-Mexico border by supporting authentic storytelling by affected communities on the cultures and socio-political dynamics that comprise the region. Funding will enable immigrant rights advocates, artists, writers and organizations to work over the next three years to organize and preserve stories reflecting the dignity and truth of border communities, connecting and empowering them to center their own narrative on their terms and in their voices.
The US-Mexico border is a region that includes US citizens, indigenous communities, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers living and working in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas, as well as migrants from Central and South America and around the world who make their way to the border every day in search of safety and a better life for themselves and their families.