Cactus+ Programs

The Cactus+ Accessibility Initiative is a special project that braids infrastructure improvements with artist resourcing and community programming. This work will broaden the reach of who can access the space and impact public understandings of how accessibility is defined. We’re fundraising to make our 140 year old building more accessible to artists and attendees of all mobilities.

Defining accessibility is supremely important to understanding the scope of our work. Improving accessibility is the dismantling of barriers: physical/sensorial, financial, legislative, and cultural. This project is rooted in the belief that art is the road to liberation and that our struggles are interconnected. This project begins with a desire to address needs for mobility access to and within our physical space. The overarching vision is to resource disabled, neurodiverse, poor, multiracial, undocumented, chronically ill, queer and intergenerational artists and community members.


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ITC is one part of Cactus Plus’s Accessibility Initiative. It is intended to provide resources to disabled, neurodiverse, poor, undocumented, multiracial, and intergenerational artists and community members. This project is rooted in the belief that art is the road to liberation and that our struggles are interconnected. Defining accessibility is supremely important to understanding the scope of our work. Improving accessibility is the dismantling of barriers: physical/sensorial, financial, legislative, and cultural.

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Digital and Vinyl DJ Lessons

All people of all levels of familiarity with DJing are invited. Guidance for the equipment will be readily available. Play a couple songs, chat about records and hear new music. If you don’t have your own tracks, you are welcome to play ours.

• Free & All Ages
• Hosted by local artist, Language Models
• two Saturdays each month from 1-5p

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Launched in Fall 2025, Take One is Cactus Plus’ new teen filmmaking course. The program follows a semester-long format with two instructors to guide the classes. The goal is to impart students with an understanding of all elements of the filmmaking process, find what areas of filmmaking interest them the most, make professional connections in the filmmaking community (locally and nationally/internationally), and build confidence as emerging filmmakers. The class accommodates 30 students each semester and registration will be free to all.

Take One aims to foster talent, connect students to broader communities of their interests and celebrate a culture of symbiotic arts education. This program is a crucial exercise in worldbuilding and will demonstrate that access to free equipment and educational resources transforms student experiences and creative communities.


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