CUENTOS Foundation .... Art Building Bridges.

If you are a first time visitor, Welcome to the Cuentos Foundation Website! I hope you enjoy getting to know about our grassroots arts organization and our founding project, Ritmo del Fuego, built by hands-on and in-depth research through collective, local, and transnational work spanning diverse disciplines. As we reflect back upon our beginnings we look forward to our future and hope you will join us in giving voice to the "stories" (which translates in Spanish as "Cuentos") of our diverse communities: your community.

Representing the global village, our audience participants come from all over Chicago and the world. Our immediate Edgewater/ East Rogers Park community is unusually diverse, a microcosm of all aspects and populations of Chicago. Our neighborhood consists of many immigrant communities (1st and 2nd generations) with strong transnational links to their countries of origin.

Our community-organized events bring together people of Latino, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, African-American, and European origins. We unite all cultures and traditions with respect and appreciation. We are youth, individuals, and families members of all ages. Cuentos’ organization style and structure is open and fluid, and multi-generational.

We invite you to journey with us, brainstorm a new Global Village project, organize a Gathering Seasons happening in our storefront studio space—come read a poem, write a poem, listen to a poem… design a mural, build an offrenda / altar, teach a dance class, embroider a quilt, remember, commemorate, and share your ancestral traditions.

Cuentos believes: Art is Memory . Art Builds Bridges . Art is Meaning . Art Makes Sense .

Join Cuentos in practicing “tikkun haolam”, healing of the world, through our cross-cultural and artistic interdisciplinary work.