Through Community Co-Lab, K-Space collaborates with artists and local communities to radically imagine a culture of peace and non-violence. Through remunerated partnerships with local, community-based, social justice organizations, academic, and cultural institutions, K-Space co-creates brave and inclusive spaces for its community partners to co-design community-driven public events, social media advocacy campaigns and participatory research.
Currently, our Community Co-Lab work falls under five axes:
Through these five axes, Community Co-Lab fosters nonviolent social change by raising consciousness on the systems of oppression that exist invisibly amongst us and by radically destabilizing institutionalized cultural assumptions that normalize direct and structural violence in the world.
Community Co-lab Axis Map
Axis 4
GOVERNANCE & COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS
- We build a culture of consent to be our full selves
- We work with fluidity; we move up when we have the energy and step back when we don’t
- We recognize one person cannot be everything and no one is the single authority on anything
- We vocalize what we need; we are open with the group
- We are OK with not knowing and value everyone’s insight
- We approach what we do with mental health care and care work in mind; we take care of each other, not take advantage of one another
- We explore messiness and believe many hands make light work
- We move at the speed of trust
- We build proactive ways to address toxic/abusive dynamics and call out tendencies for Urgency and Efficiency
- We collaborate to co-create experiences, experiments, and express ourselves as a calculated risk
- We remove the binary of yes/no decision-making by embracing consensus-based decision-making
- We tune in to life-affirming flow with our collaborators
- We honor our commitments
- We welcome our families
Community Partners
Phase 1 Partners (2020-2025)
Community Partners: Asians4Abolition, Asians Fighting Injustice, The Blasian March, Caribbean Equality Project, GAPIMNY, The Exponential Festival.
Institutional Partners: The Brick, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, Flatbush Junction, PeoplesHub, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.
Founding Partners (2011-2020)
Community Partners: ALTA-The Alliance of Latinx Theater Artists of Chicago, API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG NYC, Asian-American Arts Alliance, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance), The Brooklyn Commune, Culturebot, CUNY’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, GAPIMNY, Hollaback!, Invisible 2 Invincible: Asian Pacific Islander Pride of Chicago, Korean Cultural Center New York, Nothing Without a Company, Pop Magic Productions, The Sip, SALGA, Urban Theater Company at Batey Urbano, Q-Wave.
Institutional Partners: Arts Council Korea (Seoul), Baryshnikov Arts Center, BRIC Arts Media Center, The Bushwick Starr, Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (Santiago, Chile), Centro of Theater of the Oppressed (Rio de Janeiro), Columbia University, Consortium of Asian-American Theaters and Artists, DUOC (Santiago, Chile), Ensemble Studio Theater’s Youngblood, Ewha Womens’ University (Seoul), Global Arts Village (New Delhi), HERE Arts Center, Kyung Hee University (Suwon, South Korea), LaGuardia Performing Arts College, Lark Play Development Center, Mabou Mines, Ma-Yi Theater Writer’s Lab, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, New Ohio Theater, Performance Project @ University Settlement, Royal Court Theater (London), Sanskriti Pratisthan (New Delhi), Second Generation Productions, Soho Theatre’s Writer’s Hub (London), The Sol Project, The Tank, Theater C, University of Washington, Vermont Studio Center.
