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Mission
The Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance (SAACA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation, preservation and advancement of the Arts.
VisionProviding new opportunities and leadership for the arts to transform people, communities and the daily lives of individuals everywhere.
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With funds generated through community support from individual donors, special event revenues, grants, and collaborative business partnerships, SAACA provides diverse engagement opportunities for artists, organizations, businesses, and individuals in the community. SAACA is committed to the economic and cultural development of Southern Arizona.
Each year the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance provides more than 200,000 unique arts and cultural engagement opportunities for the community.
Each year the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance provides more than 200,000 unique arts and cultural engagement opportunities for the community.
What We Do
SAACA supports and connects creative industries, multidisciplinary artists and arts organizations, and businesses throughout the region. We are honored to serve and connect local arts endeavors to information and opportunities that inspire a creative life. Through innovative arts and business partnerships, arts and healthcare programming, public art, new opportunities for artists, makers, and creatives, education partnerships, and community events, we aim to inspire a vibrant and culturally rich community.
Our Inspiration
SAACA actively advocates for support for arts and cultural resources and programming. We believe that support for artists and creatives is essential to our region’s economic development and to build momentum for future growth. The arts empower a sense of place and reflect a commitment to a brighter future. Through collaboration and community conversation, we implement innovative resources and programming that serve our diverse community.
Why
Arts and culture provide foundational contributions to communities’ well-being. By supporting and developing innovative community arts programming, we help create communities capable of positive, diverse and equitable public dialogue and action. The arts provide a tool for mobilization and help build community leadership and capacity.
Our Work
SAACA’s targeted programming and mission are vital to helping build a better future for our community. Our work facilitates a more connected and relevant voice for the arts and cultural organizations. We support individual artists, makers, and creatives who are central to community enrichment. The arts foster a creative and sustainable economy, which contributes to our sense of place.
SAACA supports and connects creative industries, multidisciplinary artists and arts organizations, and businesses throughout the region. We are honored to serve and connect local arts endeavors to information and opportunities that inspire a creative life. Through innovative arts and business partnerships, arts and healthcare programming, public art, new opportunities for artists, makers, and creatives, education partnerships, and community events, we aim to inspire a vibrant and culturally rich community.
Our Inspiration
SAACA actively advocates for support for arts and cultural resources and programming. We believe that support for artists and creatives is essential to our region’s economic development and to build momentum for future growth. The arts empower a sense of place and reflect a commitment to a brighter future. Through collaboration and community conversation, we implement innovative resources and programming that serve our diverse community.
Why
Arts and culture provide foundational contributions to communities’ well-being. By supporting and developing innovative community arts programming, we help create communities capable of positive, diverse and equitable public dialogue and action. The arts provide a tool for mobilization and help build community leadership and capacity.
Our Work
SAACA’s targeted programming and mission are vital to helping build a better future for our community. Our work facilitates a more connected and relevant voice for the arts and cultural organizations. We support individual artists, makers, and creatives who are central to community enrichment. The arts foster a creative and sustainable economy, which contributes to our sense of place.
Business & Arts Integration
Establishing collaborative and innovative arts and business partnerships. Each day hundreds of businesses are unlocking the power of the arts to expand business development opportunities, inspire employees and brand their business apart from the rest.
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Events & Programs
Creating and producing diverse arts-based community festivals, programming, and events, from culinary to visual arts, cultural events and gallery spaces, no other organization expands the arts across more diverse arts platforms than SAACA in our community.
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Creative Aging & Arts Therapy
Supporting and expanding arts therapy, and life-long learning for seniors and Veterans in our community. SAACA supports Music & Memory Programs, Creative Writing, Music Therapy and groundbreaking visual arts integration programs.
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Arts & Cultural Resource
Expanding networked groups of artists and art organizations, and the engagement opportunities provided to them as a result. Our Undercover Arts program unveils the wealth of artistic resources that define Southern Arizona.
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Arts Education
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Advocacy
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Through a powerful partnership with Community Share, we help connect artists to the classroom. In addition, SAACA supports creative arts programming in the classroom, and engagement programming for youth, through our Musical Gold in the Morning Program.
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SAACA supports efforts to raise awareness for the importance the Arts play in education at all stages of life. In addition, we support the advancement of the Arts in the field of Health, the preservation of Arts funding mechanisms, as well as the role the Arts play in the economic development of Arizona.
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