Border/Arte Fundraiser
& Film Screening
(Tuesday, Dec. 8 @ 7 pm)



Thank you to all that attended our soft-launch for Border/Arte. We raised the funds we needed to continue the work for our initial season. THANK YOU! 

Border/Arte is a Phoenix-based collective of artists, culture workers and arts producers. We bring performance, visual and media art, scholarship and cultural dialogue to public spaces to address social and political issues in Arizona. 

We present rich aesthetic and artistic experiences that invite multiple ways of knowing through intellectual engagement, emotion, participation, and memory.  We are invested in new creating ways of knowing through art and culture that can move us to imagining and advancing a new Arizona politics. 

Unfinished Spaces
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Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.

In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school's first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use, but remain unfinished and decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream.

Location

Phoenix Hostel & Cultural Center
1026 N. 9th Street 
Phoenix, Az  85006

Gallery