The primary purpose of Tauraro Artist in Residency and Film Festival (Star Fest)…

Is to elevate Black Indigenous and greater global Indigenous trans, queer and greater

2sLGBTQIA+ creatives through the medium of film.

Tauraro is deeply committed to recognizing that there is no one fundamental way to

build healthy communities. What makes us human is the vast and varying ways in which

we as human beings build and share community. As an organization we value

thoughtfulness, presence and dynamic relationships as we grow. We value differences

of opinion and ongoing conversations on what Black and Indigenous Futurism can,

should be and is.

Our Future is not rhetorical or historical. It is constantly arriving and we mean to step

fully into our agency as individuals connected to a larger system of community

experiences. We believe in celebrating both individual and community wins as we see

them as interconnected. In recognizing the different communities we represent, we

choose to support them through an unapologetic lens of decolonization and hold those

not in our inner communities accountable to the importance of healing and expression

through the life work of decolonization.

We defy harmful, culty and outdated practices of community care that do not include

healthy abundance, breadth of accessibility, different intelligences,different learning

types, body positivity, all genders, all sexualities, different heritages, different incomes,

different living situations, different speeds and modes of engaging and healing

generational trauma and colonial trauma on our own terms.

We believe that even as rest is resistance there can be peace between the reality of

addressing the urgent needs of our communities and holding healthy boundaries that

protect our energy, time and connection to self. Being efficient is not so separate from

the virtue and action of compassion. An organization and a people need both of these

tools in order to be balanced and enjoy longevity.