ROYA was founded in Boston in 2020 to center arts and culture in the struggle for liberation. We recognize that arts and culture have historically advanced social justice through healing, solidarity, and political action. ROYA continues this tradition, guided by the questions:
1. What role do artists and culture workers play in advancing social justice?
2. How do we create spaces that propel these movements forward?
As a growing community-based arts and culture organization, we are a fully remote team of multidisciplinary cultural workers, artists, organizers, and practitioners from the global diaspora. We are committed to creating spaces for us, by us.
ROYA is an organization dedicated to building a creative community for liberation. We believe in arts and culture as a tool to advocate for social justice and to advance liberatory struggle.