Call & Response Episode 2: Alfonso Perez Acosta Creates Migration Flow

This is the second episode in Initiatives of Change USA's podcast series entitled CALL & RESPONSE. Here we have frank, open and insightful conversations with everyday innovators leading change in their communities.

CALL & RESPONSE: Episode 2 introduces Alfonso Perez Acosta (@adrawingtable), a visual artist, teacher, and Art Program Director at Sacred Heart Center in Richmond, Virginia. Initiatives of Change USA has been partnering with Sacred Heart Center and Alfonso over the course of 2019 beginning with our National Day of Racial Healing 2-day event in January called "Something's in the Water." In this conversation, Alfonso discusses how "drawing is a home" that has provided space for mindfulness, healing, and deeper connection to community.

Alfonso also discusses two upcoming events: CALL & RESPONSE (Sat. 9/21, 3-7pm @ Sacred Heart Center, 1420 McDonough St) where he will be leading art experiences between bilingual and multicultural communities as a kind of "third space" of understanding, story sharing, and relationship building.

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On Oct 27-28 at Canvas (3108 Semmes Ave.), IofC USA partners with Alfonso on Virginia's first National Immigrants Day programming with MIGRATION FLOW, a space of drawing exhibitions, diverse dance performances, and intimate conversations about the invaluable contributions immigrants make to the U.S.

For more information about Initiatives of Change USA, visit our website at us.iofc.org.