The JoyCore Project is all about joy access and joy recovery—especially for communities who are rarely centered in conversations about rest, healing, and pleasure. We blend creativity, collective care, and cultural work to build more livable futures.
The JoyCore Project is where art, care, and justice meet to make joy possible for everyone — not as a privilege, but as a birthright. We’re dedicated to joy access and joy recovery, especially for communities too often left out of the conversation around rest, healing, and pleasure. Through expressive arts, cultural healing, and community-rooted care, we create spaces where BIPOC, disabled, LGBTQIA+, youth, and low-income communities can reconnect with the joy that fuels survival, creativity, and liberation.
We believe artists are public health workers, culture bearers, and frontline architects of collective care. Our programs honor embodied and ancestral ways of knowing, weaving them alongside evidence-based practices to create futures that are more livable, just, and deeply human. Every offering — from our workshops to our community events — is intentionally designed as an act of resistance, healing, and redesign.
Because when we center the wisdom of the most vulnerable, we create systems that heal us all. And when joy is accessible, anything becomes possible.
