Meet Our Founders!
Nobuko Miyamoto
Nobuko is a artist who uses music, theater and dance for her own work as well as for projects she creates with communities.Nobuko has been recognized with the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World Award, and California Arts Council Director’s Award for her contribution to the arts in California.
Quetzal Flores
Growing up in grassroots movements, as the son of labor union organizers, Flores inherited an undying accountability to community struggles. From land struggles with South Central farmers, immigration reform, supermarket workers union strike, and the indigenous Zapatista struggle, to the everyday community struggles in East Los Angeles, he has been active with music in hand.
Since 1993, he has been working as the musical director for the East Los Angeles based rock group Quetzal.
Leslie Ito
Former CEO of JACCC
The Partners that make this happen!
Artivist Entertainment
Sustainable Little Tokyo
Sustainable Little Tokyo
“ Artivist Entertainment strives to support activist-minded creatives across all disciplines, to use their artistic voice to amplify social and political issues and create positive transformation." - Aloe Blacc
Sustainable Little Tokyo
Sustainable Little Tokyo
Sustainable Little Tokyo
Sustainable Little Tokyo is a community-driven initiative working to ensure a healthy, equitable, and culturally rich Little Tokyo for generations to come.
Great Leap Inc.
Sustainable Little Tokyo
Great Leap Inc.
GREAT LEAP, Inc., is a Los Angeles-based, multicultural arts organization which uses art as both performance and creative practice to deepen relations among people of diverse cultures and faiths and to transform how we live on the earth.