ACTS OF ART MANIFESTO

We, the Creative Citizens of the United States of America, are gathered as an artistic force to celebrate and protect the Cultural Health of our Nation. We are a population of persons inhabiting this country who value and use the Creative Imagination as a vital means to resolve issues and build a brilliant future.

I. Our goal is to sound a well-heard united voice which will speak in defense of the individual rights and economic livelihood of artists; to protect a happy and healthy existence of artists within our communities, securing the essential importance of the people's right to a Nation's cultural and expressive survival. We will achieve this through exercising our rights of assembly, free speech and pursuit of happiness.

II. As Creative Citizens of this Nation, we hold dearly the rights of the 1st Amendment. We protest the enforcement of doctrines which comprise its integrity, which induces a social climate of mistrust, fear of surveillance and punishment. We vigilantly speak loudly against those doctrines which dampen our freedom of expression, as such; it is a freedom that plays a vital role in a healthy creative process.

III. The Cultural Health of our Nation is derived by the contributions of its Creative Citizens. The well-being of individuals is under direct threat due to our Nation's failure to provide healthcare. As Creative Citizens, we demand an adequate healthcare system which secures individuals' right to proper and modern healthcare.

IV. The commitment to creative careers requires economic support. Funding for artistic endeavors has been dramatically derailed towards economically bankrupting and humanly devastating projects. We, as Creative Citizens, vehemently denounce these projects in the name of humanity. We propose a redirection of government provisions and interest towards the cultivation of an educational and sustaining standard of living which better supports our Nation's Cultural Health.

V. Finally, and with great joy, we gather to raise a spirit of celebration and encouragement for those who wish to pursue and are pursuing a lifetime commitment to an artistic discipline. Within this spirit, we commit to exuberantly fuel a web of dialogue and exchange between artists of all disciplines; to offer these participants the opportunity and tools to create grassroots and personal networks which will act as resources of information, education, representation and connection to and of a political body representing an artistic identity.