Art, environment, and cross-cultural collaboration between California, Argentina, and Latin America.
CaSAPo is a nonprofit corporation organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code. We work at the intersection of creative expression,
environmental stewardship, and international partnership.
Purpose
The specific purpose of this corporation is to:
a
Support and sponsor artists and creatives in the development of their craft,
including through research, experimentation, education, and collaboration,
and encourage the generation and dissemination of new knowledge and new capacities.
b
Support the cultivation of healthier communities within the United States,
Argentina, and other Latin American countries.
c
Support the improvement to and stewardship of the environment, including
through encouraging sustainability, taking a holistic approach to the
relationship to water and water systems, plants and animals, soil and air,
mobility and bicycling, and the like.
d
Support projects that address the environmental existential crisis with
creative/artistic, expressive, innovative, and/or practical responses and proposals.
e
Support, encourage, and facilitate cross-cultural, international collaborations
between individuals and organizations of Latin America and the United States
in general and of Argentina and California in particular.
f
Carry on other charitable and educational activities associated with these
goals as allowed by law.
Such activities are within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 or the corresponding provision of any future United States internal revenue law.
CaSAPo is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your tax-deductible
contribution helps us fund artists, protect pollinators, and build bridges
between California and South America through creative collaboration.
Contact
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For inquiries, collaborations, or more information about CaSAPo,
please reach out to us.
California South America Pollinator
CaSAPo
Connecting California and South America through art, environment, and community
Art, environment, and cross-cultural collaboration between California, Argentina, and Latin America.
CaSAPo, California South America Pollinator, is a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization created to support cultural, environmental, educational, and community-based projects across California, Argentina, and Latin America.
CaSAPo works at the intersection of creative expression, environmental stewardship, international collaboration, and community development. It helps connect people, institutions, and resources around projects that generate cultural, social, educational, and environmental impact.
Our first and main project is cheLA, the Latin American Experimental Center in Buenos Aires.
Purpose
What we support
CaSAPo supports charitable, educational, cultural, environmental, and international collaboration initiatives aligned with its nonprofit mission.
a
Support artists and creative research We support artists, creatives, and cultural workers in the development of their craft through research, experimentation, education, collaboration, and the generation of new knowledge and capacities.
b
Cultivate healthier communities We support projects that strengthen communities in the United States, Argentina, and other Latin American countries.
c
Steward the environment We support projects connected to environmental care, sustainability, and holistic relationships with water systems, plants, animals, soil, air, mobility, and bicycling.
d
Respond creatively to environmental crisis We support creative, artistic, expressive, innovative, and practical responses to the environmental challenges of our time.
e
Build cross-cultural collaboration We encourage and facilitate international collaborations between individuals and organizations in Latin America and the United States, especially between Argentina and California.
f
Advance charitable and educational work We carry out charitable and educational activities associated with these goals, in accordance with CaSAPo's 501(c)(3) nonprofit purpose.
Main Project
cheLA: a living ecosystem for art, community, and technology in Buenos Aires
cheLA, the Latin American Experimental Center, is one of Argentina's most distinctive independent cultural spaces.
Since 2001, cheLA has transformed a 7,000 m² abandoned factory in Parque Patricios, in the south of Buenos Aires, into a living platform for cultural innovation, artistic research, community action, and technological experimentation.
Each year, cheLA hosts more than 100 projects and engages more than 30,000 people through residencies, laboratories, public programs, educational activities, performances, exhibitions, workshops, and community-based initiatives.
What makes cheLA exceptional is not only its scale, but its model: a rare convergence of space, people, tools, disciplines, and territory. Artists, technologists, scientists, educators, social workers, neighbors, and international partners come together through research, production, education, and community action.
In a region where creative spaces are scarce, technological resources are unevenly distributed, and many communities are left outside sustained cultural investment, cheLA offers something urgently needed: a place where culture becomes practice, knowledge, encounter, and transformation.
Supporting cheLA means supporting a rare cultural ecosystem from the South: a place where communities, artists, researchers, educators, technologists, and international partners work together across art, technology, environment, and territory.
A unique cultural ecosystem needs long-term support
cheLA has spent more than twenty years building something that is extremely difficult to create and dangerously easy to lose: an independent cultural ecosystem with real space, deep territorial presence, international networks, and the capacity to bring art, technology, ecology, education, and community together.
In Latin America, many cultural and environmental initiatives remain underfunded, fragmented, or dependent on short-term opportunities. Spaces like cheLA are essential because they provide continuity: a place where projects can grow, communities can gather, knowledge can circulate, and new forms of collaboration can take root.
CaSAPo exists to help sustain and expand this kind of work.
Every contribution helps sustain a place where culture is not an accessory to change, but one of the ways change begins.
Impact
What your support makes possible
Donations to CaSAPo help support cheLA's cultural, educational, environmental, and community-based work.
Public Programs
Workshops, performances, and exhibitions open to the community.
Residencies
Artist and researcher residencies that foster creative research.
Environmental Projects
Environmental and biocultural initiatives that reconnect communities with their territory.
Community Labs
Community-based laboratories and educational programs for all ages.
Infrastructure
Improvements in cheLA's 7,000 m² facility and accessible technologies.
International Collaboration
Cross-cultural exchanges between California, Argentina, and Latin America.
Donate
Make a donation
CaSAPo is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible in the United States as allowed by law.
Your contribution helps support artists, cultural projects, environmental initiatives, educational programs, and cross-cultural collaboration between California, Argentina, and Latin America.
For major gifts, donor-advised fund contributions, institutional partnerships, or alternative giving options, contact us.
Collaborators
Partners & supporters
We are grateful for the institutions and organizations that share our vision and help make our work possible.
Fundación exACTa
Fundación exACTa
Supporting environmental art and creative research across Latin America.
Metabolic Studio
Metabolic Studio
Philanthropic and creative studio advancing environmental and social justice through art and action.
Fundación Williams
Fundación Williams
Promoting culture, education, and community development in Argentina.
cheLA is a working cultural ecosystem: industrial halls transformed into laboratories, workshops, stages, studios, residences, classrooms, and public spaces. Performances coexist with environmental research, bicycles become instruments, recovered materials become structures, and local communities meet international collaborators.
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For inquiries, collaborations, donations, or more information about CaSAPo, please reach out to us.
