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CLASSES LESSONS EXHIBITIONS EVENTS FOLKLIFE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARTISTS Diversity Equity inclusion and Accessibility at Perkins To promote a full and creative life for all members of our communities Perkins Center for the Arts commits to championing policies and practices of cultural equity that empower a just inclusive and equitable society. Perkins Center for the Arts embodies the values policies and practices that ensure that all peopleincluding but not limited to those who have been historically underrepresented based on raceethnicity age disability sexual orientation gender gender identity socioeconomic status geography citizenship status or religionare represented in the development of arts policy the support of artists the nurturing of accessible thriving venues for expression and the fair distribution of programmatic financial and informational resources. Honoring Original Indigenous Inhabitants Perkins Center for the Arts sits on the native land of the Nanticoke LenniLenape Native American Tribe. We acknowledge that the land of the Nanticoke LenniLenape upon which we sit today is historic land from which many were forced to leave.