Our mission is to create opportunities in and through the arts and humanities. We operate The LAVA Center, a place where all, including marginalized communities and individuals, can have their voices heard. We are an arts incubator, providing many opportunities for creatives and their work to be nourished. Our humanities programming centers on local history, and social & environmental justice themes. We keep our programming low cost or  free of charge for our audiences, most of whom are low to moderate income, preferring to accept voluntary donations and seek grants and other funding that allows us to keep our programming economically accessible to all rather than to exclude those who cannot pay.Since 2018 we have produced programs that center the climate change crisis, providing audiences and participants with ways rooted in the arts and humanities (theater arts, visual arts, oral history, film, etc) to learn more about the impact of climate change and have opportunites to consider together the steps we can take toward creating lasting solutions to this crisis. The variety of programming addresses the full range of issues listed above. Examples: Living Economies - Our free &low-cost programming; Food, Land & Water, Environmental Health - our documentary projects on the farm to table food chain; Climate Change & Energy, Environmental Health, Land & Water - Climate Change Theater Action: perspectives from around the world; all: films, discussions, displays.