Arts & Culture Committee
Weaving the web of Altadena creatives for connection, communication, and restorative transformation.
What We Do
Arts and Culture Coalition of Altadena (ACCA) provides holistic support and opportunities for Fire-Impacted Artists and we work to preserve and promote the rich fabric of Arts & Culture in Altadena. We are a volunteer coalition of fire-impacted Altadenans who are committed to supporting the recovery of creative works and creative work.
Supporting fire-impacted artists and the creative life of Altadena.
How Arts & Culture Work
We believe Altadena’s creative workers are essential collaborators in imagining Altadena’s futures.
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Lean in!
Imagine
Are you a fire-impacted creative work or artist with particular needs related to your practice? Reach out and tell us about what’s going on!
Reach out!
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It takes vision and wild feats of creativity to get where we want to go, so share your vision with the coalition.
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Are you overwhelmed and just exhausted from the endlessness of the recovery process? Do you want to spend time in community with folks who make things together, plan parties and resource fairs, share creative skills, eat each other’s baked goods, and share resources?
Lean in – there’s a place for you with us.
Who This Is For
Arts and/or Culture based organizations, and anyone who identifies as a Creative Worker: Anyone who creates, imagines, crafts, performs, documents, designs, builds, or tells stories across any medium from filmmaking, photography, digital art, music, writing, textiles, ceramics, sculpture, and craft‑based practices to hybrid, experimental, and multidisciplinary work. Whether your practice is professional, community‑rooted, home‑based, emerging, or spans multiple forms, your creative labor and cultural contribution count.*
*This also includes people who create outside traditional categories, make things for joy or healing, run small creative businesses, feel creatively blocked, or don’t always call themselves artists if creativity is part of your life, you belong here.
What We Offer
We practice mutual aid and collective care-taking, and the possibilities for kinds of help on those terms are limitless – so reach out, lean in, and imagine.
Good To Know
We’re not a team of crafty people who mobilize as decorators for community events, but also, if it sounds like fun, we’ll probably mobilize as decorators, but that’s not our primary purpose, and note the FUN part.
FAQs
The Arts and Culture Coalition of Altadena (ACCA) is the Eaton Fire Collaborative's Arts & Culture committee, a volunteer coalition of fire-impacted Altadenans that supports artists affected by the Eaton Fire and works to preserve Altadena's arts and culture.
Anyone affected by the Eaton Fire who creates, performs, crafts, designs or tells stories in any medium can reach out to ACCA, whether their practice is professional, home-based or just for joy, along with arts and culture organizations.