The mission of the Victoria Theater Arts Center is to build community power by providing a creative home that incubates the arts and amplifies the voices of all people in the neighborhood.
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OUR VISION
We envision a vibrant neighborhood where the arts welcome, heal, transform and build power for the people of Frogtown and Rondo. The vision for the future of the Victoria Theater Arts Center is captured through authentic community engagement.
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The future Victoria Theater Arts Center
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OUR VALUES
- Intergenerational: We will create spaces and opportunities for people of all ages with a focus on bringing generations together.
- Authenticity: Acting with integrity to the place the people and the art of the community.
- Inclusivity: We will allow people to show up and participate as their whole selves: All People, All Art.
- Radical Hospitality: We will be a gathering place that is accessible and welcoming, takes care of people and treats them with respect, and is a home for everyone.
- Justice: Our work will seek to be restorative and promote equity through healing, reparative action, providing opportunity, and righting wrongs.
- Mentorship: We will lay a foundation for the future by valuing the knowledge in the community and passing it on.
- Stewardship: We will be wise and accountable with our physical, fiscal and relational resources.
Community Engagement
We asked our communities what the neighborhood needed through online surveys, community conversations, and "design parties". Take a look at the responses from Frogown and Rondo residents asked "what would you like to see at your Victoria Theater?"
Frogtown Annual Celebration in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Community Peace Celebration in Saint Paul, Minnesota
We hosted two Design Parties to gather input from residents to inform the architectural plans for the space. Artist Organizers and Youth Fellows door-knocked, flyered, and phone banked to invite stake holders reflective of our neighborhood to attend this non-traditional design charrette.
Design Party #1 Victoria Theater Art Center, Saint Paul, MN
