The Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism (INSTAR) was founded in 2015 with the goal of using art for the promotion of civic literacy and social justice in Cuba. INSTAR is a living organism: it breathes, feels, reacts, and has memory. INSTAR came to be thanks to a collective impulse. The commitment of 915 founders and our current reality served as motivations as we went through difficult times. Since its inception INSTAR has been a democratic and horizontal space, where decisions are made by consensus. We are interested in defending social justice and human rights, sometimes alien to the Cuban context, such as respect for freedom of expression; fair wages; support for working mothers, independent initiatives, and artists; the recovery of artistic historical memory and independent civil society; and building projects with people who think differently, but who want to make a country for all.