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Mother of Oshún Ku’uipo 🌊🍯✨
Author & Illustrator 🌕
BAY AREAAA Culture Keeper 🧡

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"I'm her mothership and my job is to open her roads."

Sophia Tupuola is a visual artist, advocate, and proud mama of her child Oshun, who she lovingly describes as a warrior and world-maker. Sophia's own practice as an artist is deeply informed by her lineage, culture, history, and advocacy.

#TheCultureKeepers uplifts the artists who make the Bay Area a place where our futures are inevitable and irresistible. Thank you, Sophia, for the radical love you bestow on our community and future generations.

See more of Sophia's story at theculturekeepers.com (link in bio).

🎥 Directed by Jean Melesaine (@bayarealife) and Leo Maco (@leomaco_tv)
Cinematographer, Leo Maco (@leomaco_tv)
Producer, Carolina Quintanilla (@tierna_nena)
Composer, Isaac Mailach (@isaacmailach)
Executive producer, Bay Area Culture Keepers @bayareaculturekeepers by @fia415

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🍯🤲🏽🌊⚡️✨ What a Powerful Day to be a Liberated Kid ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️🍯🌊✨🤍🧿 taken in Sunnydale Projects by @fia415

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Me & You forever girl 💘 visiting our story on the Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier in New York. taken in Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 3 by @fia415

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Welcome to The Afro Block Party!: @sfzinefest 2026
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Thank you SF Zine Fest. We were honored to have you as a guest on #thablock
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Our gratitude to @blackandwhiteprojects_sf for crafting the Cutie Pie Pins (which SOLD OUT😳), postcards, bandanas & other adorable collectable The Afro Block Party exclusives for our guests at the SF Zine Fest.
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For even more cuter things from tha block, check out the new & great shopafatasi.com
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Tha Block also appreciates & acknowledges:
🎨: @fia415
🌐: @evieleder
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#theafroblockparty #sfzinefest #cutiepiepins #thetakeoverbegins by @fia415

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Come join us for our 2026 SEASON FINALE!

Same positive, infectious energy and incredible talent! This time on a new historic stage. The exquisite, Ruth Williams Opera House!

Honored to be in partnership with @faamamalu_designs @bvoperahouse and @hellapasifika.

Limited early bird tickets on sale tonight at 8pm! General tickets start selling Sunday 10am September 6th. TICKETS SOLD ONLINE ONLY.

UPSCALE ATTIRE REQUIRED. No athletic wear. Polished outfits encouraged.

More info on our link in our bio.

LIVE BAND: @sambam_witdaslap
💿: @djmykeone
🥃: @peninas.mixes
🎤: @philgoodcuts taken in Ruth Willams San Francisco Opera House by @fia415

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#fablabfridays with @stopwaste @laneycollegeart @tracewilliams15 @fia415 @castlemonthigh @castlemontfarm8601

Mural lead design by Civic Squad’s @lanagene @selfish_machine8 and @jy_youning taken in Castlemont Farm by @fia415

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⚡️MEET OUR 2026 Hella Pasifika ARTISTS⚡️

These aren’t just artists and creatives, these are world makers, change agents, sculptors of our Pasifika identity in the Oceania diaspora.

Join Us as we celebrate them & Pasifika Culture bearing 🌊✨

Hella Pasifika 2026 Opening Reception
🧡September 5th | 1pm - 7pm
🧡 Ruth Williams Bayview Opera House

⚡️Month long Exhibit and Activations

Register: bit.ly/hellapasifika2026 taken in Bayview Opera House by @fia415

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⚡️JOIN US for Hella Pasifika 2026 ⚡️

Opening Reception
🧡September 5th | 1pm - 7pm
🧡 Ruth Williams Bayview Opera House

⚡️Month long Exhibit and Activations

Join us as we Talk Story through exhibition about Pasifika Joy: A Collective Homecoming 🌊

Register: bit.ly/hellapasifika2026 taken in Bayview Opera House by @fia415

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#sunnydale #malosi means #strength with @fia415 @tracewilliams15 and the residents we had so much fun with!

It’s an honor to be in these cross cultural spaces, and work with those that live there to take pride and ownership in #sharedcultures.

Thx to @mercyhousing for the ongoing partnership towards building and rebuilding communities through art, connecting and dreaming together. taken in Sunnydale by @fia415

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Today Kurt & I had the honor of hosting an APRI workshop for the Us4Us Youth Workforce ✨✨✨ @us4us.bayarea ⚡️⚡️⚡️ We talked story about our community, learned about systems through activity and even had a mini tour of sites along Innes where community stood in solidarity to enact change. Co-Facilitating today with Kurt gave me so much joy and so much pride! We still got It / missing my RYLA babies and our RYLA space taken in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco by @fia415

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“Like a lot of Samoan people, we do it beautifully. There is an art in the way that we exist naturally and that informs my eye for beauty.”

A first-generation Sāmoan-American visual artist, Sophia Tupuola's practice is rooted in her culture, her community, and the radical love she's passing on to the next generation of world-makers.

#TheCultureKeepers exists because artists like Sophia deserve to be supported and invested in the scale of their impact. Hear more from her at theculturekeepers.com (link in bio).

Interviewed by Weyland Southon by @fia415

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