NEWS: We are looking to move into our building by the end of April, 2008.

NEWS: AMA received a generous grant of $200,000 towards the renovation of the Mutli-Arts Complex from the McKnight Foundation. We are all excited and looking forward to when our doors will reopen.

For 15 years, Asian Media Access (AMA) has successfully supported the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in utilizing media arts and information technology for social betterment.  We believe the media arts and information technology empower all of us with critical thinking and promote good citizenship—especially important as we prepare young people to be tomorrow’s leaders. Our thought-provoking media exhibitions, resourceful educational products and youth programs encourage deep reflection, challenge previous assumptions, provide solace, and allow participants to develop their own way of connection in timeless works of creation, communication and community building.

Despite our success, AMA has not owned any facilities, but has conducted activities through partners' sites. As successful as we are, being without a permanent exhibition and programming space has severely constrained the growth of AMA.

• Our award-wining cable series - East Meets West, airing since 1989 with over 180+ episodes produced, still has no permanent editing suite nor properly temperature-controlled footage storage location.  
• Our critically acclaimed Cinema with Passion series, Chinese Film Showcase and Asian Children's Film Festival, with over 1200+ showings, lack consistency in programming and showing venues which has seriously jeopardized its mission of bridging the cultures.
• Have served 2500+ youth over 7 years. But the absence of permanent classrooms, computer/media labs, and a secure youth gathering space have made it impossible for AMA to reach its potential in education and youth development.

We need your support NOW, together we can make this Multi Arts Complex a reality.

1. AMA's Office Headquarter (1000 sq. ft.)
2. Asian Performance/Movie Theater/Noodle Shop (3000 sq. ft.)
3. Multi-media Training Center (1500 sq. ft.)
• Computer Lab (500 sq. ft.)
• Media Lab (500 sq. ft.)
• Classroom (500 sq. ft.)

Asian Media Access seeks to raise $1.6 million in funding to establish a Multi Arts Complex to present Asian films and theater performances, to encourage Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) youth's creations and interactive activities and to provide training space for media/digital arts, leadership and communication skills.

So far Asian Media Access has raised about $730,000 from various sources, and is looking to break gound at coming summer. Building renovation will be done in phases. First renovation step being put in a good roof, and finish out our office space and to put in the computer lab.

The funds will be used to create a community hub, a building at 2412-2418 Plymouth Avenue North in Minneapolis.  The newly remodeled Multi Arts Complex will serve as a vibrant beacon of the arts/cultures, embodying AMA’s organization values of openness, energy, and respect for diversity.