The City of San Diego is launching a cultural planning process to capture the power of our many traditions, ecologies, and creative capital to propel our city and transborder region forward as a more equitable place of inspiration and prosperity. It supports artists and creative inventions across sectors, fostering greater possibility and sustainability for us all.

To this end, we’ve wrapped up an epic season of public engagement for the Creative City cultural planning process. Local artists conducted community conversations through targeted outreach activities as part of this engagement, making Creative City a truly creative planning process.

Diana Cervera and Josemar Gonzalez are multidisciplinary transborder artists and organizers whose practices include community engagement through cultivating partnerships with cultural leaders and organizations to craft and inform their work. As part of their Creative City project, the artists conducted in-depth video interviews with cultural community stakeholders, sharing issues, goals, and values central to their work rooted in improving their communities and creativity within the community.

This video features an interview with Khalil Blue, an artist and organizer.

Learn more about Creative City and how you can get involved. Visit sdcreativecity.com for details.

Credits: City of San Diego; project by Creative City artists Diana Cervera and Josemar Gonzalez.