Silk Road Cultural Center Information

From Silk Road Theatre Project (2002) to Silk Road Rising (2012) to Silk Road Cultural Center (2024), our Silk Road story continues to inspire. OUR MISSION Silk Road Cultural Center is an interdisciplinary arts organization rooted in Pan-Asian*, North African, and Muslim experiences. We embrace the arts as a catalyst for connecting people, places, histories, and futures. *We define Pan-Asian as inclusive of all cultures that span the Asian continent, including their diaspora communities. OUR VISION At Silk Road Cultural Center we know that representation matters; it shapes perceptions, informs conversations, and influences policies. In our increasingly diverse American society, we view representation as key to having a seat at the table. Understanding that cultures are inherently linked and not ranked, our artwork explores the intersections of cultures without undermining the specificities of cultures. In striving for a society that values art over ideology and inquiry over dogma, we welcome the complexities and contradictions of our human experiences. Through theatre, film, and digital media, music and dance, visual, literary, and culinary arts, we embrace storytelling in many forms. At Silk Road Cultural Center, art is both a crossroads and a destination; a sanctuary for healing ourselves, healing our communities, and healing our world.