The André Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice (ACC) is a multidisciplinary, community-centered arts, cultural and organic intellectual center dedicated to freedom, flourishing, and the promotion of justice through the arts, community engagement, dialogue, and sustainable arts enterprise development for Black makers

• Revitalization: re-enlivening a historic route of commerce, placemaking, and cultural engagement that pre-dates the city

• IN SPITE OF COLONIZATION and its progeny, gentrification, BAYOU ROAD REMAINS a center of transnational and multicultural exchange. We are reclaiming the historic narrative and purpose of this corridor.

• Ownership: Creating space for Black artists to tell their own stories of the complex, multiple truths of Black life

• Belonging: Solidifying, examining, and expanding the rich cultural heritage of the people of the global majority.

The André Cailloux Center's values are as follows:

Reclamation- valuing good stewardship versus "ownership," we work to reclaim forgotten, lost, and erased narratives belonging to us and use them to guide our present moment and beyond.

Remembrance- we serve as a site and citation of fugitivity and marronage, reclamation of history, culture, narratives, agency, and space, and as embodied memory, honoring past generations and future ascendants.

Belonging- we work to solidify, examine, and expand the rich cultural heritage of the African Diaspora and those belonging to it.