We are reshaping the relationship between youth and adults with a dedication to ending Adultism, the systematic mistreatment and disrespect of young people. We are a youth arts and liberation center in South Phoenix using the arts to reframe spaces and conversations that invisibilize youth from participating in policy and programming creation that directly affects their lives. We are a collaborative home to Phoenix youth and their adult accomplices to holistically serve young people through arts & culture, the humanities, civic leadership, health & wellness, and enterprise.​

OUR VISION

We work towards all young people having the strength, tenacity, and knowledge to continuously recenter themselves as dominant culture shifts its boundaries of power.

OUR VALUES

We support the core values of the national Creative Youth Development movement: racial equity and social justice, youth voice, and collective action.

We have also created five values that are integrated throughout our work and spaces. 

re:frame Theory of Change
​HOW WE LIBERATE OURSELVES & OUR COMMUNITY

Power analysis​

Using an intersectionality framework to grow an understanding of power
flowing within overlapping
​systems of oppression. 

History of Family, Place, and Self​

Understanding where we come from (family), the history of the land we occupy (place), and our generational trauma that influences who we are. 

Joy, Love, Healthy Intimacy

If we are not generous, loving, and joyful with ourselves, we cannot be the same with others.
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"Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end. And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.” 

Audre Lorde: self-proclaimed black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet