The 18,000 square-foot media center is home to CreaTV San Jose and other nonprofits including Works/San Jose and Chopsticks Alley will have festivities Saturday.
After more than four years of construction, COVID-19 delays and a few months of preview events, Open San Jose is ready for its grand opening on Saturday. The 18,000 square-foot community hub in downtown San Jose is home to CreaTV San Jose and six other anchor nonprofits including three arts organizations, Chopsticks Alley Art, Works/San Jose and Mosaic America.
When CreaTV began planning a move from its old studio space on West Julian Street, Johnston said he challenged his board to look at the nonprofit community media center as an instrument for social justice. Anyone with money and tech available to them could already get their own message out without CreaTV’s help, so Johnston saw the opportunity to point their mission toward allowing people and groups traditionally underrepresented have access to the tools to share their stories.
And that meant thinking outside the box. When Johnston and Chopsticks Alley Art founder Trami Cron first started talking about how to incorporate the Asian arts organization into Open San Jose, he thought they might be making a show. But Chopsticks Alley needed gallery space, and Open San Jose had it.
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