The mission of Independent Arts & Media is to expand civic dialogue by increasing access to independent voices.

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Democracy Needs Independent Voices

Democracy is more than political parties, opinion blogs and long lines at the local polling station.

Democracy is a conversation, one that’s going on all the time — an exchange of ideas, perspectives, experiences and information about our world and how we want to live in it.

Independent Arts & Media exists to broaden and deepen that conversation.

We support the media producers and culture makers whose important works don’t fit with the commercial mass-media formula — and whose innovations are below the radar of the big nonprofit institutions.