With our new community arts complex, we will broaden access
to the arts for underserved multicultural youth and low-income
community members through performances, community-based
festivals and art classes with a focus on preserving Latino
folkloric arts and creating cross-cultural collaborations.
Villa
Victoria Center for the Arts (formerly known
as Casa de La Cultura / Center for Latino Arts) is a cutting-edge
multi-functional community arts center whose mission
is to promote, preserve, and celebrate Latino arts and
to create dynamic cross cultural collaborations.The
center offers performances, exhibits and classes in a
variety of art forms, including: Latin jazz, folk dance
and music, poetry, theater and the visual arts. Villa
Victoria Center for the Arts combines a Main Hall (converted
into a 450-person capacity performance venue from a historic
church in 1986) with a new community arts center (historically
renovated from the adjacent parish house in 2003) that
includes a gallery, dance studio and visual arts studio.
The center's goals are to provide high quality and affordable:
Arts Education, particularly for at-risk youth in Villa
Victoria; Advocacy, Coordination, Support and Incubation
for Latino artists and arts organizations; Exhibition,
Work, Rehearsal, Performance and Rental Space; and opportunities
for Cross-Cultural Collaboration between Latinos and the
rest of the city's diverse populations. Celebrating Boston's
growing diversity, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
is taking shape as a new landmark in the city that will
transcend Villa Victoria and the Latino community and
become a fixture engraved into the cultural life of Boston
as a whole.
