Restoration Village Arts

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Artistic Advocacy

“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Restoration Village Arts views collaboration and intercultural exchange as an opportunity for learning and transformative peacemaking. Our philosophy ...

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You can give online or send checks to Restoration Village Arts, PO Box 4051, Austin, TX 78765. Restoration Village Arts became a nonprofit in 2003. We truly believe relationship, music and modeling a transformative way of life and artistry is what we have to offer the world. We have a sense of urgency when it comes to sharing beauty, building relationships and encouraging people’s artistic expression and we invite you to participate with us! Monthly Partners Monthly giving is what ...

Our Work

We facilitate international collaboration and community for the sake of human flourishing and transformative peacemaking.

Songs For 1,000 Days

Restoration Village Arts, on behalf of Bread For the World Institute and Women of Faith For 1,000 Days is happy to present Songs For 1,000 Days, artists advocating for the food security of vulnerable women and children. The CD release will be at the Bread National Gathering in Washington DC, June 8-11. To register for the event visit Bread.org. The 1,000 Days movement promotes targeted action to improve nutrition for mothers and children in the 1,000 days between a woman’s ...

Stranger Film

Produced by The Work of the People.

Hold On To Love

This electroacoustic world gospel project was released April of 2011. Practically, these songs are written for walking and chanting. In the spring of 2009 Tracy did an artist-in-residence with New York Faith and Justice and then spent a summer with the people of Amahoro-Africa. With both of these experiences she encountered walking, whether it was in the streets of New York City engaging in non-violent direct action, or the refugee and internally displaced communities in Africa, people who were forced ...

Arte y Misión Integral

Arte y Misión Integral (art & integral mission) is a network of artists committed to integral mission and seeking to facilitate the transformation of culture and society. The movement was organized through the Latin American Theological Fellowship (LATF) in 2011 when an international artist forum was organized in Heredia, Costa Rica. The network solidified as the artists continued to collaborate in preparation of CLADE V, the Fifth International Congress of the LATF for which Restoration Village Arts created and administrated an artist ...

Retreat

Restoration Village Arts plans artist retreats at different locations in the US and Latin America. These retreats often focus on building a deep understanding of how our artistic expression might facilitate advocacy and transformation as well as international collaboration and the production of new work. If you would like to apply for an upcoming retreat, please click on one of the links below to learn more. There are no upcoming retreats scheduled. Please check back soon.