OUR MANIFESTO 


Art is Boundless.
It is our well for survival, healing, and new worlds.  Our events shift fluidly between community conversations, performances, open mics, movement jams, exhibitions and much much more. We encourage everyone who attends our events to feel free to step outside their groups and talk to one another. We centre all our events around communal gatherings, we listen to what the community needs and build each event around that.  



Community at the Centre.
TRIBE is a living, collective practice. We centre Darkskin Black and POC Trans and Queer people in every space we create. Not only as participants, but as the heartbeat of our gatherings. We believe in homes for those too often pushed to the margins: spaces where our vulnerability is honoured as strength, where care and honesty open portals to imagination. TRIBE was founded out of survivorhood, we understand the isolation of this experience and especially prioritise survivors in our space. Following the igbo proverb that states “when two things witness one another, only then do they exist,” We hope to confirm our existences through respecting and witnessing each other in our expansivity.



Together is the Only Way.
Our work is grounded in the Igbo proverb Gidi Gidi Bu Ugwu Eze — In unity, there is strength. TRIBE rejects individualism; we believe power must be shared, not hoarded. Every gathering is co-created with our community, shaped by care, listening, and collaboration. We are not interested in replicating systems of harm that already exist, or in performative ideas of community. Instead, each TRIBE space is intentionally crafted with spiritual presence. We do not believe we hold all the answers but we hope to be a place where we can put to practice the tools necessary for navigating the community. Practices that echo beyond the walls of TRIBE, into our daily lives.



Art as SurviVAL AND FREEDOM.
At TRIBE, art is alchemy. It transforms grief, joy and memory into sources of living, breathing power. Dreaming is revolutionary. Daily lives. We are not just holding moments; we are practicing the future we long for, communal, beautiful, and lasting.