Celebrating 50 Years
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The Loft@50
The Loft has so many things to celebrate—a 50-year legacy of serving writers and readers and a bold new vision for building on that legacy in service to community. We'll be celebrating all of this in the coming year, and we have named this year-long celebration WORD!
In the year ahead, look for:
- A campaign to help support the vision for the organization.
- Our new Strategic Framework and mission, outlining our new mission and vision for our work over the next five years and our commitments to antiracism, equity and access, authentic community engagement, learning and innovation, and organizational health and wellness.
- The Loft's new Lit!Commons, a subscription service designed to help writers deepen their craft, advance their professional goals, and build community
- A special celebration to honor the Loft@50 that took place on June 7th
- The first of our new quarterly Lit!Series weekends (June 7-9, 2024) keynoted by Roxane Gay!
- More shared celebrations, community partnerships, and possibilities.
We can't wait to write the Loft's next chapter with you!
The Loft's Next Chapter
Strategic Framework 2023–2028
The Loft has spent more than a year planning a vision for our future and we have a new mission to show for it. As the sanctity of life in our streets and on our planet is threatened, we explicitly commit ourselves to being an antiracist, multicultural institution and to building just, life-sustaining communities. We believe in the power of language, the cultural practices of sharing stories, and the importance of conversation to counter oppression and dehumanization, to bridge our divides, and to help us to build an essential resilience.
We recognize the vital necessity of the work of writers not only to enrich our understanding of each other and the challenges that we face but to nourish our imaginations and inspire our movements for people and planet.
