Our Mission
Our mission at POETICAS Institute is to improve and uplift our greater community through the opening and fusion of literary, performing, and other creative arts spaces. POETICAS and its affiliates will focus on the uplifting and amplifying of through creating more inclusive educational makerspaces and accessible relationships with the creative arts and its benefits.
Inclusivity: Art’s Transformative Force
Our Mission: Elevate and Empower
Empowering Communities Through Artistry
Unite and Inspire with Creative Arts
Our Promise
Our promise is to the artist and to the youth that there is room for their voice, their words, their art, their medium and their craft to be created, to be shared, and to be celebrated in their own community and beyond.
Inspiring Community Through Arts
Explore upcoming events designed to inspire and connect, offering enriching experiences to engage with the arts.
Poeticas Film Festival
Jul 24, 2025
Our Flagship Event! Micro Film Festival
Awards: Audience Choice, Judges Choice, Directors Choice, Poets Choice
Novel Awards: Created organically as films are viewed by judge panel.
Assignment: $25 non-refundable entry. Create a 2-5 minute film from an original poem. Films must be submitted between January 13th, 2025 and February 1, 2025.Selected films will be shown on the big screen as part of the Poeticas First Annual Film Festival in National Poetry month of 2025. *MORE DETAILS TBA*
Currently Searching for Manteca Community Members!: Venues for filming and workshops, film viewing, awards ceremony. Donors for participants, winners, mercy, and scholarships. Help spreading the word!
Poeticas Film Festival
We are excited to see all the creativity in our community!
Our Vision
Our vision is to utilize existing and new community spaces for creative literary, performing, and culinary arts, especially to highlight and amplify the diverse voices and experiences of the Central Valley. POETICAS recognizes the value of access to creative spaces and performance venues in all communities and seeks to develop the community’s individual and collective ability to express, imagine, and materialize our voices across mediums and thus bring beauty, function, and wellness to the Central Valley starting with Manteca and other smaller and under-funded parts of The 209 that lack these services in inclusive and quality spaces.
Such spaces will include but not be limited to designated writing spaces, community theaters, production of community written and directed literary art, maker spaces, mobile and storefront commissaries, and cottage food operations, performing spaces, and community gardens.
Through education, celebration, and communication, POETICAS INSTITUTE has a unique vision to improve and uplift our community through a wide range of creative expression. At the heart of our work, we aim to uplift those who have been held down, held back, or left out. Our vision is to heal the spaces and spirits of our communities as an active and thriving entity in the region.
Inspiring Artistic Journeys
Reach Out for Creative Connections
