BPAC

Boston Progress Arts Collective (BPAC) was founded in 2002 with three primary goals: to support and promote Asian/Pacific Islander artists in the Boston area and nationally, to emphasize the importance of arts for API communities, and to use the arts as a means of educating and organizing API communities.

Boston Progress provides a safe space for Asian Pacific American perspectives to be expressed and observed through visual, literary, and performance arts. BPAC seeks to build a strong sense of community among its membership, and outreach to API communities by promoting the importance of art as a tool for positive social change.

BPAC identifies as a space for API people, while simultaneously redefining the term API to be inclusive of South Asian, Southeast Asian, East Asian, West Asian (Middle Eastern), Pacific Islander, and Multi-Racial peoples. BPAC welcomes all people who work to create positive change, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, or any immutable characteristic.


Welcome

Boston Progress Arts Collective is a community of API* artists that aims to create a supportive space and outlet for personal growth, creative expression, and artistic exploration. We strive to use art as an active means for mobilization and education within our communities locally, nationally, and beyond.

API* is a reappropriation of the term API, which was created by the US government to more easily categorize our communities. While API still stands for Asian/Pacific Islander, with the * we redefine and expand the term to include- but not limited to: South-, Southeast-, East-, Central-, or West-Asian, Middle Eastern, Arab, Pacific Islander, Oceanic, Americans of Asian decent, multiracial, adoptee, “other,” or however one chooses to represent their cultural/political/ethnic identity.

For decades, others have used the category API to tell us what we are to them . But now, we use API* to define who we are to ourselves.

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