We're a no-audition community chorus, created by and for those who love to sing in Upper Manhattan. 

ABOUT THE CHOIR
WHCC is a no-audition community choir, one of a handful in NYC and the only one serving Upper Manhattan. We're a lively, diverse, and welcoming group that loves to sing and believes in the power of music to spread joy and build community!

REBUILDING OUR FOUNDATION
Established in 2016 by a local church, we were disbanded in May 2022 due to budget challenges. A resilient bunch, we quickly regrouped and reestablished ourselves as a sustainable, standalone nonprofit. We've been on our feet for nearly a year and are determined to remain standing for years to come!

HELP KEEP THE MUSIC ALIVE
We are supported mainly by choir member dues, but they only cover about 2/3 of our expenses. Money raised will help fill the gap, and go toward paying our Choir Director, accompanist, music licensing, marketing and other administrative costs.

Your donation will keep us singing and help us expand our activities in upper Manhattan!
 
Washington Heights Community Choir operates as a project of Players Philanthropy Fund, a Maryland charitable trust recognized by IRS as a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (Federal Tax ID: 27-6601178, ppf.org/pp). Contributions to Washington Heights Community Choir qualify as tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Washington Heights Community Choir

Atlantic Symphony Orchestra is a professional regional orchestra on Boston’s South Shore, under the baton of Maestro Jin Kim, 

Atlantic Symphony Orchestra

Harmony Theater is an organization focused on performing arts for people with disabilities based in southeastern PA. 

Harmony Theater

An organization focused on arts, culture, or humanities. It received its nonprofit status in 2022.

Bearded Ladies Cabaret

Proud to contribute to the rapidly growing world of pageantry arts for the millions of young performers in Southern California. 

The first IYAO organization, from which IYAO gets its name and iconic logo, was Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps founded in 1998. Since then IYAO has helped establish San Diego’s ALLIANCE Drum and Bugle Corps, founded Rhythm Regiment Junior Drum Corps, SoCal Dream, and PULSE Percussion. IYAO is currently home to Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps and Instinct Percussion. 

Impulse Youth Arts Organization

An organization focused on arts, culture, or humanities. It received its nonprofit status in 2021.

Punk Rock Saves Lives

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Music for Autism is committed to raising public awareness and improving the quality of life of individuals with autism and their families through music. Our charity sponsors interactive concerts, specifically tailored to be “autism friendly” and to enrich the lives of those with autism in the United States and United Kingdom.

Music for Autism

Know Theatre is Cincinnati's Theatrical Playground. Let's Play.

Know Theatre is Cincinnati’s Theatrical Playground. The Know showcases unexpected voices, new works, and plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic risks, creating work that is cutting edge and accessible.

We envision a theatre that elevates underserved voices; has a commitment to gender parity, diversity and inclusion in the playwrights it produces and artists it employs; that creates a welcoming space in which to wrestle with challenging ideas; that is accessible for everyone regardless of economic circumstances; and that pays artists a living wage for the work that they create.

We envision a theatre that can change the world.



Know Theatre of Cincinnati

Crossmen Productions, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) musical organization assisting young people on becoming outstanding individuals through the arts.

Crossmen Drum & Bugle Corps

Boise Rock School

Culture Scholar Corporation teaches principles of self worth through the arts, education, performances, and cultural enrichment.

[Benjamin Barnes](https://benjaminbarnes.com/biography)[Culture Scholar Corp](https://culturescholar.org) [Culture Scholar Corporation](https://culturescholar.org), a **501(c)(3)** **nonprofit organization** established in 2022 by [Benjamin Barnes ](https://benjaminbarnes.com/biography)an [Artist](https://bencasso.org), [Musician,](https://bencasso.net) and [Educator](https://BenjaminBarnes.com/lessons). 

Dedicated to improving self worth through the arts education, [our organization](https://Culturescholar.org) offers transformative classes designed to enhance various aspects of individuals' lives. 

Our curriculum includes: Therapeutic Art, Therapeutic Music (covering instrumental skills and music history), as well as Reentry to Society Coursework and Peer Counseling. 

With a commitment to fostering creativity, healing, and personal growth, [Culture Scholar Corporation](https://culturescholar.org) strives to make a positive impact on the community through its diverse and enriching programs.

Culture Scholar Corporation 501(c)(3)

Angel City Chorale is the most entertaining and spirited choir in LA. Our music truly reflects the energy and spirit of LA.


Now in its 27th year among the premier choral groups in Southern California, Angel City Chorale is proud to represent the spirit and diversity of Los Angeles in its membership, its music, and its outreach activities, thereby fulfilling its mission to “Build Community One Song at a Time.” Celebrated Artistic Director Fink founded the Chorale at world-famous McCabe’s Guitar Shop in 1993 with 18 singers – which has now grown to over 180 talented and dedicated singers, presenting a broad and eclectic repertoire including classical, gospel, jazz, pop and world music.

Angel City Chorale

We are a company of immigrants that are dedicated to passionate, imaginative storytelling and new forms of theater.

ABOUT ARLEKIN

Arlekin Players Theatre, founded by Artistic Director Igor Golyak in 2009, is an artist­-driven company created with and for immigrant actors from the former Soviet Union. For over a decade, we have told powerful stories and invented new forms of theater in both Russian and English, working to build vital connections and create shared human experience. We take special pride in exploring questions of self-identity and working on productions that play on the ideas of culture, identity, home, tradition, the idea of nationality, finding common themes that unite us all.

During our first ten years, Arlekin was invited numerous times to perform on the world-famous stage of the Moscow Art Theatre and at international festivals including the prestigious Mondial du Théâtre in Monaco. During our 10th Anniversary Season, we received a sweep of Boston’s Elliot Norton Awards, including Best Production, Best Designer, Best Actress and Best Director, with a ceremony watched on Zoom due to the sudden closures of COVID. During the pandemic, while mosts theaters worldwide were shuttered, we wasted no time in transforming our small theater into the Zero Gravity (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab, developing a new genre and producing two international virtual theater productions, State vs Natasha Banina and chekhovOS /an experimental game/, which featured Obie winner Jessica Hecht as Ranevskaya and Mikhail Baryshnikov as Anton Chekhov. These productions went viral, catapulting Arlekin onto the international stage, receiving international attention (with audiences in over 40 countries) and receiving rave press, including two New York Times Critic's Picks. This work has positioned Arlekin and our founder, Igor Golyak, as innovators and international leaders in the virtual theater movement. 

We remain committed to connecting in new ways, creating meaningful, groundbreaking artistic productions, and continually reinventing what theater is for our community in Boston and for an increasing audience across the globe.  

Arlekin Players Theatre

Nonprofit org that prepares underserved Philly youth for every stage! We provide free and low-cost music programs to help youth succeed in music, school, and life. We serve hundreds of youth every year.

RTTF is a 501(c)3 organization that provides music education to Philadelphia’s underserved youth at no cost to them or their families. Using music, our programs ignite passion and creativity, support academic achievement, and improve self-esteem. Rock to the Future empowers individuals and strengthens communities.

Rock to the Future

Voices Of Our City Choir Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on arts, culture, or humanities. It is based in San Diego, CA. It received its nonprofit status in 2018.

Voices Of Our City Choir Inc

Want to know more about  us? Check out our About Us page: http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/about

We offer artists and arts organizations fiscal sponsorship, affordable insurance options, event ticketing sales services, and an international directory of rehearsal studio spaces for rent.

Fractured Atlas

Uses dance to develop the cognitive skills and social-emotional learning of at-risk youth to ensure that they can succeed in formal education.

MindLeaps uses dance to develop the cognitive skills and social-emotional learning of at-risk youth to ensure that they can succeed in formal education.

MindLeaps

Anelisa Fergus (Musical Director) Lili Clark (Business Manager) Anna Ayres-Brown Gillian Bolt Pascale Bronder Raffi Donatich Alex Gartner Nina Goodheart Meg Guzulescu Me’Lena Laudig Ivanna Soto-Medrano Ashtan Towles Ariela Zebede

Anelisa Fergus (Musical Director) Lili Clark (Business Manager) Anna Ayres-Brown... Gillian Bolt Pascale Bronder Raffi Donatich Alex Gartner Nina Goodheart Meg Guzulescu Me’Lena Laudig Ivanna Soto-Medrano Ashtan Towles Ariela Zebede Meer weergeven

Whim 'n Rhythm

(PMB) is a nonprofit ballet company founded in 1987. Each year PMB performs an original fairy tale ballet, hosts Dance Plano (formerly Plano Dance Festival), and participates in community performances and outreach initiatives.

The mission of Plano Metropolitan Ballet (PMB) is to provide the local community with a variety of affordable, original dance productions of the highest quality.  Our Goals  • Stimulate an interest in the art of dance in citizens of all ages throughout North Texas  • Showcase the talents of community members of all ages through the original choreography of trained professionals and performances by local artists  • Provide a supportive yet challenging atmosphere in which the students are able to enhance their existing dance abilities  • Through the discipline and structure of a traditional ballet environment develop a sense of responsibility for the actions of oneself and the impact of those actions on others

Plano Metropolitan Ballet

Presents artistically excellent Baroque and Classical chamber music to audiences in Seattle and beyond through lively and engagin

Byron Schenkman & Friends presents artistically excellent Baroque and Classical chamber music to audiences in Seattle and beyond through lively and engagin

Byron Schenkman & Friends

To help people with disabilities reach their full potential for a vibrant life, integrate community and aid in filling the gap post-rehabilitation, through the TangoStride(TM) Program, subsidizing classes for those in need.

Hugs that Empower 501c3 was founded to ensure that money is never an obstacle for our brave students who -- despite significant mobility challenges -- show up week after week to do the TangoStride. Donations are tax-exempt. We appreciate your support!

Hugs that Empower

Helping Africa's most vulnerable children today, so they can help Africa tomorrow!

The African Children’s Choir is composed of African children, aged 7 to 10 years old. The children in the Choir represent the potential of the thousands of children in Africa who are trapped in the cycle of poverty. The African Children’s Choir program promotes the beauty, dignity and unlimited ability of the African child around the world, being a voice for the millions of suffering children who cannot speak for themselves. The program provides for the children’s well being and quality education, utilizing the transformative power of music.

The African Children's Choir

Transforms lives by restoring, expanding, and innovating music education in our schools.

Music education changes lives, but only those of the students it reaches.

Sometimes it doesn’t reach students because their school has no teacher or instruments. Sometimes it doesn’t reach them because they can’t see a connection between their music program and music they know and love. Music Will removes these barriers.

We help schools build music programs that are as diverse as the students they serve. Programs that are innovative, inclusive, and culturally meaningful to students . We’ve served over 1,200,000 K-12 students across the country. We know the lifelong benefits that music can bring to students. Our work is to make sure that music will.

Music Will

Develops and presents contemporary theater that explores relevant social/political themes rooted in the South Asian experience while providing a platform for the community to experience and grow personally and professionally through the arts.

EnActe Arts develops and presents contemporary theater, which explores relevant social and political themes rooted in the South Asian experience while providing a platform for the community to experience and grow personally and professionally through the arts.

Enacte Arts Inc.

 Welcome to the HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival, the best little jazz festival in the southwest!

Our mission is to influence the discovery and celebration of live jazz performance and music education through community engagement anchored by a world-class jazz festival in downtown Tucson.



Tucson Jazz Festival

Apples And Oranges Art Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on arts, culture, or humanities. It is based in New York, NY. It received its nonprofit status in 2014.

Apples And Oranges Art Inc

ECDC is the only professional, non-profit, contemporary dance company in New Haven. 

Elm City Dance Collective (ECDC) began in 2008 as a conversation between four dance artists in the New Haven area. Kellie Ann Lynch, Lindsey Bauer, Jennifer Brubacher and Millie VandenBroek envisioned an organization that would offer classes in a variety of movement forms, as well as choreographic and performance opportunities for local dance artists. In addition, the founders discussed a shared commitment to building community and connection through art. They chose the name Elm City Dance Collective to honor the significance of community and place, as New Haven was dubbed the “Elm City” after a number of majestic elm trees were planted there during a public tree planting program.

Elm City Dance Collective Inc

Promusica Arizona Chorale & Orchestra is a nonprofit organization focused on arts, culture, or humanities. It is based in Phoenix, AZ. It received its nonprofit status in 2004.

Promusica Arizona Chorale & Orchestra

Urban Strings Columbus is a nonprofit organization focused on arts, culture, or humanities. It is based in Columbus, OH. It received its nonprofit status in 2018.

Urban Strings Columbus

Cantigas Womens Choir Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on arts, culture, or humanities. It is based in Jersey City, NJ. It received its nonprofit status in 2013.

Cantigas Womens Choir Inc

Bailadores De Bronce is a nonprofit organization focused on arts, culture, or humanities. It is based in Seattle, WA. It received its nonprofit status in 2008.

Bailadores De Bronce

Bringing music across the planet to those who need it most. Can music change the world? We believe it can.

Keys of Change is a charity formed by individuals who deeply believe that playing music can make this world a better place. Keys of Change aims to advance the lives of children and young people around the world through musical education and access to live classical music performances. The charity was set up in early 2011 by the international concert pianist Panos Karan, who works with three other trustees, all involved in music and/or education, and a growing number of committed volunteers in many countries.  ​ Over the past years, Keys of Change has brought classical music, often for the first time, to deprived or suffering audiences, in remote areas of the Amazon basin, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Kolkata and the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima area in Japan, as well as in Greece, Russia and London. Our music has brought alive emotions - fascination, happiness, tears of sadness – and generated hope and encouragement.  Wherever we go to perform, we also set up and fund musical education projects, working in conjunction with local music teachers. In Ecuador, we organise weekly guitar lessons for young people from deprived backgrounds. In Uganda and Sierra Leone, we have provided instruments and music lessons. In Fukushima and India, we have made regular visits to work with young musicians to improve their playing, and give them the opportunity to perform in joint concerts with Keys of Change musicians. In the case of Fukushima this culminated in the founding of the Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta, and organising for up to 50 young Japanese musicians to travel to London, to give a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in April 2014, to Tokyo, performing at Tokyo Opera City in August 2015, and Symphony Hall, Boston, in April 2016.

Keys of Change

Revolutionizing classical music education by bringing world-class piano lessons to new urban environments

Keys 2 Success was founded by Jee-Hoon Krska, a Juilliard-trained classical musician with a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from MIT.  Launched in 2016 with 12 students at a single Newark public school, Keys 2 Success now teach over 150 student in public housing, gardens, parks, and churches all around Newark. 

Keys 2 Success

The Alliance for Middle East Peace is a network of over 170 NGOs conducting peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians.

Alliance For Middle East Peace Inc

Dedicated to igniting positive change through music and education in the lives of young people.

Key to change empowers communities by working alongside students, teachers, parents, and guardians to build consensus, meet teacher needs, and create a holistic environment where students can flourish. Key to Change removes the barrier to entry for low-income students and students of color with an inclusive approach that helps build trust and connection. By offering excellent music instruction below the market rate, Key to Change extends the benefits of a classical music education to a new generation of young musicians.

The Key to Change

Inspiring children of all ages to reach their full potential.

We help children build confidence, character, and creativity through our unique music and theater productions while instilling the value of community outreach and philanthropy.

The heart of the PPF is about giving back to those in need, our community, and the world while also enriching the lives of our participants through music and theater.

Participants in our various productions learn confidence, creativity, empathy, and how to help others. All the while, becoming part of a loving and supportive environment; one that helps foster positive self-image and lifelong friendships.

Peter Pan Foundation

The festival revives, studies, and stages Gioachino Rossini's musical legacy, and features a number of forgotten Rossini operas.

The Rossini Opera Festival is an autonomous body (ente autonomo) promoting international opera festival performances, going under the same name, entirely devoted to Gioachino Rossini. Its aim is to revive, to perform on stage and to study the musical heritage connected with the composer, who, by leaving all his considerable fortune to the town council of Pesaro, gave birth to the Conservatory of Music and the Foundation that bear his name today.

The Rossini Opera Festival was instituted in 1980 by the town council of Pesaro with the intention of backing up and developing, by means of theatrical performances, the scientific work of the Rossini Foundation: this has given birth to a unique multi-disciplinary workshop of applied musicology, aiming at the revival of all Rossini's lesser-known works through musicological research, theatrical performance and publication.

The development and growth of the event has also been made possible thanks to the financial contributions of public and private bodies, such as the Ministero dello Spettacolo e dei Beni Culturali (the government ministry responsible for cultural and archaeological activities), the Regional governmental board of the Marche, the Provincial government of Pesaro and Urbino, banks such as the Cassa di Risparmio di Pesaro and the Banca Popolare Pesarese (now re-named Intesa Sanpaolo), not to mention the local Pesaro industrial firm Scavolini, for more than thirty years a contributor.

For the first five years the Rossini Opera Festival was under the direct control of the Pesaro town council, but then in 1985 it was declared an ente autonomo supported by the local town and provincial governments of Pesaro.

As from April 1994 the Festival has been legally denominated a Foundation, whilst still keeping its original name. The new organisation is supported by the Pesaro town council, the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pesaro, the Banca Popolare dell'Adriatico (now Intesa Sanpaolo) and the Scavolini Foundation. In this new institutional guise the governing body, of whom the Mayor of Pesaro is chairman, is nominated by an assembly of the founder members.

The sovrintendente is appointed by this same assembly; his is the responsibility for artistic appointments and decisions, in which he is able to call upon the collaboration of the artistic director. The Rossini Foundation is the Festival's internal guarantee of musicological standards.

On the 20th December 2012 parliament approved Law N. 238, which includes the Rof in the restricted group of "musical and operatic festivals of great international prestige". A legislative decision such as this underlines the interest that the State has always evinced in the Rof's restoration of Rossini's works, officially included among the operations that govern the artistic heritage of our country ever since Law N. 319/13 of August 1993: "Regulations in support of the Rosssini Opera Festival", which was subsequently confirmed when transmuted into the current Law N. 237/12 of July 1999.

The Rossini Opera Festival is a member of Italiafestival and Opera Europa.


FORMULA AND METHOD

These institutional developments form the background to more than thirty years of practising the formula "musicology applied to theatrical performance": in effect this is the story of a real-life musical pilgrimage in search of Rossini's lost masterpieces, which we have undertaken together with our enthusiastic audiences.

In fact, the Festival has become noted for its own very special atmosphere, which, besides acting as an incentive to work on the stage and behind the scenes, ends up by involving the operagoers themselves in the sense of solidarity binding together performing artists, musicologists, skilled workers, organisers and technicians, each of whom feels himself to be an important link in a rare and unique cultural adventure.

This climate has favoured the emergence of a method of work based on the parallel activities of musicians, musicologists and theatre technicians: problems of staging are dealt with together with problems arising from the score, whilst the musical experts deal with the solving of musicological problems whilst they take an active part in rehearsals. In all this the contribution of the Accademia Rossiniana has been of fundamental importance; this is a permanent seminar of studies on problems of interpretation designed to help theatrical professionals.

Year by year it has become increasingly clear that as the long-forgotten scores are revived one by one, problems in their musical performance and in their staging for modern audiences become increasingly numerous and complex. For this reason the strategy of the Festival is to accompany the re-discovery of Rossini's little-known operas - and, since 1990, the exploration of all his chamber and salon works - with the systematic study of the problems involved with presenting a contemporary audience, for the first time, with theatrical works based upon expressive formulas that are so out of date and apparently out of touch. All this has allowed us gradually to overcome false impressions stemming from conceptions of a supposed Rossinian orthodoxy, dry and dusty, and to create, instead, a meeting place for discussion and research, for ideas and projects.

Apart from the classic masterpieces of the Rossinian canon (such as L'Italiana in  Algeri, Semiramide,
Tancredi, Guillaume Tell, La Cenerentola and others), which have here been restored to their authentic form by musicologists of the Fondazione Rossini, the Festival can also boast a long list of unknown titles, revived in important productions, which critics and audiences alike have greeted in each case as authentic cultural events.

Amongst these we might quote Il viaggio a Reims, Maometto II, La donna del lago, Mosè in Egitto, 
Edipo a Colono, Ermione, Bianca e Falliero, Armida, Ricciardo e Zoraide, Adina, Zelmira, Matilde di Shabran, Sigismondo, Demetrio e Polibio forgotten scores that have gone out from Pesaro to theatres all over the world. The crowning point of this systematic revival of Rossini's "buried" works was the recovery of Il viaggio a Reims, the mythical score that disappeared after its first performances in 1825, and of which not even manuscript copies seemed to have survived. Its accidental re-discovery and its revival in Pesaro in 1984 under Claudio Abbado constitute one of the most important musical events of this century. The fact that Rossini's operas are ever increasingly present in the repertoire of theatres the world over is the best testimony to the decisive contribution made by the Pesaro festival to the Rossini-renaissance.

Rossini Opera Festival

Metropolis Ensemble supports outstanding performers and composers through the creation of new work. We are building a thriving artist collective and a dynamic online platform, supported by a generous community of monthly donors. Out platform provides opportunities for our artists to do what they do best: make and share new music with music lovers everywhere. Please make a donation today and help us bring music to life. You can enter any amount to provide crucial unrestricted funding for Metropolis artists and initiatives. 

Metropolis Ensemble

Our programs help young performing artists bridge the gap from university training to careers in opera and musical theatre.

Music Theater Bavaria (DBA Musiktheater Bavaria) is a Florida-based nonprofit devoted to performing arts education for emerging professional opera and musical theatre performers between the ages of 19 and 30. Students from throughout the United States (singers, dancers, and pianists) are competitively selected for our summer study-abroad program in Germany, where they train intensively for one month with world-class international faculty and perform in public concerts in either our Opera Studio or our Musical Theater Studio.

Our programs offer our students practical career training beyond what is provided in even very fine university and conservatory music and theater degree programs, giving them an extra edge that can make a difference in successfully launching their professional careers, introducing them to international opportunities they may have never dreamed exist, and providing the maturing effect of studying side by side with other highly talented colleagues from throughout the U.S. who are serious about learning how to compete in a tough business where their talent alone does not guarantee a career.

Need-based scholarship funding is a very important part of our mission, as the per-student cost of our month-long program in Germany (including room and board) is about $6,000. Our ability to offer scholarships is wholly dependent on donations to our scholarship fund. Donations to Musiktheater Bavaria through every.org will directly and personally benefit young performing artists, helping us to ensure that top applicants from all economic backgrounds can access these transformative opportunities for career-building and personal growth. Each summer our scholarship fund starts anew from zero, as each year we have awarded all the funds we have raised. Your gift is a gift of access to a highly talented student who could not otherwise dream of enrolling in our program.

Music Theater Bavaria Inc

Providing sustainable and self-reliant rural development solutions since 1972

The Barefoot College, also known as the Social Work and Research Centre is a community-based grassroots organisation working since 1972 based on the Gandhian concept of reaching the last person. It was founded by Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy, to harness the skills and intelligence of rural people and ‘specialists’ people with degrees and formal professional competence, to work together to empower local communities. The SWRC/Barefoot aimed at addressing specifically the issues concerning the marginalised, the exploited and the impoverished rural poor living on less than minimum wages; in practical domains like water, education, solar, health, advocacy and rural livelihoods including handicrafts.

Barefoot has sought to provide the opportunity and the right support for communities to participate in planning, executing, and maintaining their own frameworks for development. These processes have provided the opportunity to the rural poor to lift themselves out of relative poverty with dignity and self- respect. The Barefoot College discussed, defined and consolidated the non-negotiables within its body politic (equality, collective decision-making, decentralisation, self reliance, austerity and openness to learning skills).

Barefoot College has been a place where sustainable ideas and the practical knowledge of the poor have been put into practice through work in education and skill development. This work has, in turn, resulted in large-scale impact in rainwater harvesting, solar electrification, non- formal education, health, conservation, women’s empowerment and culture. Barefoot has shown the potential of giving the rural poor an opportunity and support to develop self-sufficiency. What Barefoot has effectively demonstrated is the sustainability of the combination of traditional knowledge (symbolised by “barefoot”) and demystified modern skills.

Barefoot College

BlackStar, home of the BlackStar Film Festival, celebrates the work of Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists.

BlackStar produces year-round programs including film screenings, exhibitions, our annual film festival, a filmmaker seminar, a film production lab, and a journal of visual culture. These programs provide artists opportunities for viable strategies for collaborations with other artists, audiences, funders, and distributors.

BlackStar Projects

The International Beethoven Project, est. 2008 as a NFP, celebrates the extraordinary lives & creative music of unique composers.

​​The mission of the International Beethoven Project is threefold: 

1) to celebrate Beethoven's music and humanist legacy

2) to make classical music more engaging, exciting and meaningful for all people

3) to serve as an educational resource 

By showcasing Beethoven as the revolutionary musician he was, we believe we can inspire new generations of listeners, performers and arts administrators to appreciate and engage with this art form. To do this, IBP has used many different approaches, from producing numerous events to making films, recordings and educational media.

Launching the "International Beethoven Day" initiative in 2021, IBP seeks to engage even more people across the world in carrying Beethoven's legacy of humanism and music forward.

Upcoming projects include a sweeping multi-media traversal of Beethoven's epic 32 piano sonatas that will include, in addition to recordings and films of the originals, music by contemporary composers and musicians inspired by the sonatas, along with readings of Beethoven's letters by actors and musicians and visual works of art to accompany the whole.

This project will be presented globally as well as brought to schools around the world.

IBP is also currently organizing the first-ever web3/blockchain/metaverse/NFT conference focused on the classical music sector.

From annual celebrations of Beethoven's birthday every December since 2010 and through his 250th anniversary in 2020, to multi-disciplinary festivals that have brought all the arts and many musical genres together under one roof, we have sought engagement across generations and society. 

"An event of world-class importance" (Chicago Tribune), IBP's Beethoven Festival has served as a showcase for what was possible in the future of classical music.

The International Beethoven Project has also produced several critically-hailed recordings, including a now-legendary album with a first-ever recording of a work by Beethoven, the Trio Hess 47, a top 25 on the Classical Billboard charts in 2010.

In the last few years, IBP has produced several music films and documentaries on Bach and Beethoven and continues to work on future productions. IBP's goal is to leverage the wide-reaching impact of audiovisual media to create novel ways of appreciating classical music's great classics, as well as inspiring contemporary composers and musicians. 


Stay up to date by visiting our website or following on social media.

www.internationalbeethovenproject.com 


International Beethoven Project

Celebrate and share Estonian culture in an architectural jewel in the heart of Toronto, North America's 4th largest city.

Estonian Arts Centre (EAC) is the charity associated with KESKUS International Estonian Centre being built in the heart of Toronto, North America's 4th largest city.  EAC promotes development of KESKUS in Toronto in which to further its charitable objects, and these include promotion and support of the arts, multiculturalism, preservation of literary, musical and visual arts and the welfare and education of artists. 

KESKUS will be a dynamic hub showcasing Estonian heritage and promoting Estonian innovation. It will be a vibrant gathering place for Estonians of all generations and backgrounds to connect, celebrate, and share Estonian culture and achievements with each other and the world. It is scheduled to open in the spring of 2025.

Please sign up for the monthly newsletter at our website and donate today, to help EAC achieve its mission in KESKUS.

KESKUS International Estonian Centre

MJW cultivates young musicians through jazz education and performances with professional artist while embracing Jazz.

Presently, Memphis Jazz Workshop programs consist of our Masterclass Series and Elite Saturdays. The Masterclass Series enlists international artists to provide lectures, instruction, and performances for students. In select instances, students are also afforded the opportunity to audition for college scholarships with some of the teaching artists who are college professors. The goal of the Masterclass Series is to host eight sessions throughout the calendar year. Dates for the Masterclass Series are selected and scheduled based upon the availability of each teaching artist. 

Elite Saturdays affords students the opportunity for deeper instruction and learning through four-hour Saturday sessions. Students meet twelve Saturdays during both the fall and spring semesters with an additional three weeks in the summer.

Serving nearly 150 students from the greater Memphis community over the last two years, the Memphis Jazz Workshop has realized several significant successes. MJW graduates are continuing music education and jazz studies in many of the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities. Students have not only learned the language of jazz, but more importantly, they have learned the language spoken by its people through jazz improvisation. Because jazz education and jazz pedagogy are MJW priorities, our workshops directly support and resource many local school music programs. The students we teach go back to their respective schools and their communities with a better understanding of the importance of this vibrant art form.

MJW is committed to college placement and scholarship. MJW student Ljuliana Thomas, earned a full Presidential Scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA – one of only five scholarships awarded at that time. Ljuliana is an excellent example of how a Memphis student can aspire to bold opportunity with the right teaching, training and support network. It is for our students' benefit that we work in partnership with many area high schools, increase interest in jazz education in many middle schools, and provide the space for jazz musicians to assemble, jam, and pass the torch to young musicians.

Sixty-five MJW students have achieved (50) Blue Band and (15) Red Band at All-West through The West Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association. Over the past three Ten MJW students have achieved superior All-State status along with other accolades.

In Memphis, STAX is the only organization that could be considered similar or competing. When it comes to jazz study, MJW is intentional in breaking down the theory behind the music and its history. All MJW instructors have a total of 365 years of performing and/or teaching jazz.


Memphis Jazz Workshop

At LPTM, Black and Brown boys express themselves; navigate life challenges; mentor their peers; and transform their communities.

Life Pieces To Masterpieces (LPTM) provides opportunities for Black and Brown boys and young men ages 3-25 to express themselves; navigate the challenges in their lives; teach and uplift others as mentors; and contribute positively to their communities. 

Boys enter the program as early as age three, with programming including a daily afterschool arts and education mentoring program from 3:00-7:00, which involves transportation and a meal, a college- and career-prep Saturday Academy for high school young men who also serve as mentors, a full-day six-week summer program, and family and community engagement. All programs are free for all youth and families. 

In all programs, LPTM provides an environment of love, security, and expression. Black boys and young men, from pre-school to grad-school and beyond, discover their authentic selves; awaken to a sense of purpose; have their brilliance and humanity valued and nurtured – and see themselves as the beautiful Masterpieces they are. In their artwork, advocacy, and model of mentorship, our Black boys and young men are protagonists of positive change.

Life Pieces To Masterpieces

A grassroots Cambodian theatre group, dedicated to the inclusion of marginalised people and unheard voices.

**Our vision:**
An unheard voice at the centre of every theatre performance in Cambodia.

**Our mission:**
To expand opportunities to create, perform, witness and participate in theatre that explores personal stories and experiences from Cambodian society.

**About LKO:**
Lakhon Komnit Organization (LKO) is a grassroots Cambodian theatre group, dedicated to working with vulnerable, marginalised and excluded community members who face severe barriers to social and artistic participation.

Working as an informal theatre group since 2017, LKO registered as a local NGO in 2019. *Lakhon Komnit* means “Thinking Theatre” in Khmer language: everything we do is motivated by the desire to make people think deeply.

A thriving artform until its destruction by the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime of 1975-1979, *Lakhon Niyeay* is now almost completely unknown. Today, there are only three *Lakhon Niyeay* groups in the whole country, and Lakhon Komnit Organization is the only one based outside the capital Phnom Penh.

From our base in Battambang, we run workshops, projects and performances which engage marginalised people as participants, creators, performers and audience members.

Our team have direct personal experience of poverty, marginalisation, addiction and family violence. We work with communities to explore their issues of concern: domestic violence, discrimination against disabled people, drug and alcohol use, human trafficking, unmanageable debt, emotional and financial abuse.

We perform in non-traditional theatre spaces, on the roadside in remote villages, in school playgrounds, addiction rehabilitation centres and pagodas.

Specialised in Forum Theatre, we address challenging issues in a culture where direct discussion is taboo, asking our audiences to intervene in the action on stage to change the outcome of the play. We create space for people to take a step back and reflect on situations which seem impossible to change when we are too close to them. Opportunities for choice are revealed and participants are motivated and empowered to change their own lives.

*Lakhon Niyeay* fosters critical thinking and connection, improving the lives of Cambodian communities. Lakhon Komnit Organization is dedicated to theatrical regeneration and development, so that Cambodian people can know, benefit from and value this powerful artform.

Lakhon Komnit Organization

ARTNOIR is a female-majority and Black + brown owned, with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color.


ARTNOIR is a female-majority and black + brown owned, NYC-based global collective and 501(c)(3) with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries. 

We seek to empower artists, enthusiasts, curators, forward-thinking organizations, storytellers, designers, and patrons to explore alternative perspectives to the traditional arts narrative while leveraging the intersectionality of art and culture to develop new access points for discussion, exploration, and collaboration.

Over the last 10 years, we have worked with artists, organizations, brands, and collectors around the world, including Hank Willis Thomas, Derrick Adams, Nina Chanel Abney, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Harvard University, Airbnb, Google, UBS, Sotheby’s,  The New Museum, Coca Cola, KITH, and Essence to name a few. We have been featured in press outlets such as CULTURED, Artsy, Complex, and Black Enterprise. 

We were listed in ARTnews's “The Deciders” issue in 2021 as an institution currently contributing to the cultural conversation in a pointed way. 

ARTNOIR has cultivated a global community of over 30,000 people actively working to change the paradigm of the global arts and culture ecosystems while creating forums for all creatives of color and communities of color to thrive and succeed. 

The ARTNOIR Jar of Love Fund is intended to provide relief for artists, curators, and cultural producers of color. The Jar of Love Fund has distributed over $100,000 USD and was first launched in 2020 in response to the unprecedented times of uncertainty, unrest, and the subsequent adverse impact on our community.  

As an organization based on the foundation of community first, we want to do our part to provide love and care for artists, curators, and cultural producers of color when they need it most. 



ARTNOIR

We are driven by a single goal to do our part to make the world better. Community Resource Hub for the Community  and Nonprofits 

Provide Community Resources & Awareness for Seniors, Children, Veterans, Homeless Out Reach, Disaster Relief, Donation Hub. Help Victims and Survivors of Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking Families, Juveniles with support services for Restoring their lives.

Collaborating Voices Foundation

HipHopForChange, Inc. uses grassroots activism to educate people about socio-economic injustices and advocate solutions through hip hop culture.

We are the revolution you have been waiting for!

To enhance opportunities for marginalized people in the Bay Area, HipHopForChange Inc (HH4C) is reclaiming Hip Hop culture as a vehicle for education, empowerment, and cultural innovation. Out of displacement and neglect, inner-city neighborhoods birthed Hip Hop as an outlet for oppressed people to address socio-economic injustices and validate their experiences through music, artistic expression, and storytelling; however, this beautiful cultural art form has been co-opted. 

White Media has historically portrayed Black and Brown communities through skewed frames and stereotypes by centering gross misrepresentations of our experiences and humanity. These media giants have used consumer capitalism and colonization tools to dictate the tone, narratives, and mediums by which people of color can adequately and safely express themselves. This unethical cultural hijacking has usurped Hip Hop's artistry, innovation, and power, caricaturing the culture as hyper-violent and hyper-sexual, promoting criminality, toxic masculinity, and materialism.

We provide solutions through Hip Hop culture by implementing grassroots organizing, arts programming, and educational events to advance our mission. We work with state and local partners such as the City of Oakland, the California Arts Council, the Zellerbach Foundation, the Sierra Club, and others that recognize the importance of arts and culture in POC communities.

We advocate for systemic change rooted in our community, owning the means of our creative production, amplifying our voices, and taking back our narrative. We recognize the colonial systems that use white supremacy to maintain practices that undermine communities of color by denying access to the opportunities needed to secure self-determination and liberty. Our core values stand with diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our goal is to advocate for all marginalized communities, including POC, LGBTQAI, Indigenous/Tribes, Immigrants, disabled bodies, poverty-stricken, systems impacted, and others affected by colonialism in all its forms. 

Hip Hop for Change Inc.

Teaching teens to relentlessly fight for positive social change through practical application of the performing arts since 1999.

A BRIEF HISTORY & MISSION
Developing Artists (DA) teaches undervalued teens to relentlessly fight for positive social change through practical application of the performing arts.  We help diverse students to proclaim themselves as artists and activists, to find their place and their connection in their community, and to bring about positive social change through participation in the arts. 

DA offers rigorous theater education to underserved high school students (aged 13-19) in the New York City metropolitan area and produces REBEL VERSES Youth Arts Festival. Our goal is to provide young people with professional performing arts training that will equip them with valuable artistic and life skills, and the confidence to take action in their lives. 
DA was founded in 1999 with a simple act of protest against youth discrimination. Following Artistic Director Jill DeArmon's experiences teaching performing arts in NYC public schools and established studios, she was astonished by the lack of freedom students were given to create and empower and felt they were censored rather than amplified and trusted. While teaching at one of these institutions, she was threatened to either stay and stick to the status quo or be fired. Jill told her class that she was leaving, because she could not accept ageism towards her students. Every student decided to follow her out and the first DA Ensemble was born. In collaboration with the ensemble, Jill offered classes where teens could be heard, with support to create original work that tackles important social issues. She committed to empowering students through art by giving them practical tools to express themselves and learn to collaborate.

THE NEED OR PROBLEM WE WORK TO ADDRESS 
We impact students by creating a forum to navigate life's increasing challenges (e.g. age discrimination, social injustices, gender inequality, institutional racism, economic disparity, sexism); to use their voice in dealing with these issues; and channel that energy into self-expression and self-confidence. DA has a track record of engaging positively with those who face significant barriers in their daily lives. 

Developing Artists serves students aged 13 to 19 from all five boroughs of New York. 35% of our students identify as Latinx, 40% as African American, 20% as Caucasian, and 5% as Asian/other. Most of our students face socio-economic challenges; many experience physical, sexual or emotional abuse. We are committed to invite and include all of these young artists so their voices can be heard, their lives healed and their lifetime trajectory changed. 

We can confidently say that participation in our programs has a life-changing long-term impact on the young people we serve – 95% of whom go onto college. We know that our students subsequently utilize their arts training in their careers in a variety of different ways – as professional artists, writers, producers, drama therapists, etc. In our recent past, we helped DA students get into notable high school and college performing arts programs, and some have gone on to study at prestigious institutions such as The Juilliard School, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, New School, Royal Conservatory of Scotland, Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts, Fordham University, Rutgers University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, AMDA, Elon College and Yale Drama.

In the past, we charged for classes while providing full or partial scholarships for students in need (about 85% of students received a full or partial scholarship). In 2018, Developing Artists began making all classes 100% FREE so that we could abolish this financial barrier once and for all, and serve those students who were overlooked by so many other programs.

As emphasized in our mission, equity, access and inclusion are some of our primary objectives.  The last three years also helped solidify the identity of DA: Our ensemble engages with individuals on the frontline of important social issues then utilizing various performing arts, we bring to light these issues to a broader audience as we seek allies along the way to impact positive social change. Developing Artists was tapped to perform in numerous events including: We Rise: A Celebration of Resistance at the Delacorte Theatre (Public Forum in Collaboration with Resistance Revival Chorus), New York Women’s Foundations Celebrating Women Breakfast 2019, City Hall rally hosted by New York 4 Culture and Art to protest the proposed 6 millions dollar cut in cultural and arts funding. Developing Artists’ trajectory is leading us to connect and work with many social justice organizations for our future projects. 

Through the years, DA has directly served over 3,000 students and thousands of audience members. DA fostered a community of diverse artist citizens and maintains ongoing connections with our alumni network, some of which return as Teaching Artists. One alumnus, Julian Elijah Martinez, recently made his Broadway debut in NETWORK starring Bryan Cranston and was one of the stars of WU-TANG: AN AMERICAN SAGA on Hulu. Another alumna, Jessica Asch, Program Creator and Lead Clinician at Shine MSD, Inc, became a licensed arts and drama therapist whose work with at-risk youth has included developing and implementing a creative arts therapy program around collective healing in Parkland, Florida.

REBEL VERSES Youth Arts Festival
Founded in 2001, REBEL VERSES is a 2-week festival of performances by some of the best youth companies in NYC & beyond. This festival was born out of the dire need here in New York City for new voices in theater.  It is a journey into the unapologetic, unrelenting creativity of the next generation. Since the festival’s inception, REBEL VERSES has provided youth companies with the opportunity to collaborate and network with their peers and prominent artists, encouraging the development of new works in theater through this two-week event.  In 2017, Developing Artists began a partnership with the notable Vineyard Theatre to co-produce REBEL VERSES. The Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th) hosts RV at its 132-seat off-Broadway venue and provides technical, management, audience development and promotional support, resulting in increased visibility, participation and audiences for REBEL VERSES.

TESTIMONIAL
"I’ve been continually impressed with these students’ critical engagement with the most pressing issues of our day: social responsibility, economic access, representational inequity, voting rights, and much more. On top of their mastery of civic literacy, they are astonishingly talented artists, both as writers and performers.

These teens’ capacity for this level of discourse and creativity is clearly traceable to their training and experience through Developing Artists. Jill and Jinn’s personal and professional dedication to the holistic development and success of each student is total. Their high expectations elicit excellence, dedication, maturity, and long-lasting relationships across a wide diversity of backgrounds. They’ve formed a family commitment to one another that far exceeds any after-school arts program I know."

Kenneth J. Cerniglia, PhD
Former Literary Manager and Dramaturg, Disney Theatrical Productions Past President, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) 