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Describe the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC) intends to empower artists of community benefits color and culturally enrich residents in Orange County, California. of this event Through social engagement, diverse arts, equitable practices, and direct action, LMAC aspires to counter the impact of gentrification on the local community by providing culturally relevant arts education and reinvesting profits in the local residents, arts industry, and business economy. Established in 2016 in Santa Ana, LMAC is a community -based collaboration between a mobile bookstore and cultural center practices. It builds on anti -gentrification movement culture and cultivates diversity through literature and the arts by prioritizing Black, Indigenous, people of color and integrating free reading and writing programs, visual exhibits, and year-round creative workshops in Santa Ana, California and its surrounding areas. For six years and as the only cooperatively -run bookstore in Santa Ana, LMAC has been able to realize its vision for a community -based self-sustaining literary arts center gracias to the dedication of the bookstore community. Recognized across the U.S. for organizing and presenting literary arts programing prioritizing BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists, LMAC holds some 30 to 45 events per year, many of which draw intersectional and multigenerational audiences from Southern California and virtually across the nation. LMAC aspires to cultivate writers and artists in our own community, always prioritizing local artists of color. We strive to provide honorariums for all our guest artists — investing in our community and BIPOC artists in order to continue to create and gain sustainability together. All of our events are free and open to the public. As of 2018, bookstore profits, public donations, and capital from grants support the hybrid nonprofit organization fulfill its mission by funding its operating budget, local and guest artists, special exhibitions, establish the Crear Studio gallery, and a variety of arts education programs, including funding Barrio writers — free creative writing workshops for youth 13-21 that has been in existence since 2009. In 2020, LMAC established a community -based advisory board that ensures the mission statement is met through all efforts. Arts cooperative members lead daily tasks and initiatives to keep the bookstore and free programming accessible and sustainable to the general public. Our annual literary arts festival is just one example of how we reinvest by creating visibility and sustainability for our local BIPOC artists, makers, and cultural producers. All local vendors are provided free space and all local BIPOC artists presenting at the event are provided a stipend. We also prioritize using local businesses to accommodate our stage and AV rental, along with promotional items like posters, totes, bookmarks, etc.