This is our plan

ARTS EDUCATION

The Afro Cultural Arts & Humanities supports, encourages, and creates Performance Opportunities for families, youth, Aspiring, emerging and established creatives, in order to help foster their artistic and cultural based careers goals, dreams and ambitions.

  • Financial Support
  • In-Kind Opportunities
  • Partnerships

Afro Cultural Arts & Humanities

  • Mentoring
  • Networking Experiences
  • Publicity, Promotion & Programming

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

The Afro Cultural Arts & Humanities has a variety of cultural and arts based education outreach and performance-based programs for all backgrounds and ages.

  • Young Scholars Academy for school age youth, aims to elevate the voices of young urban black millennials through storytelling and community-building projects from a African/African American cultural context.
  • Regular scheduled Open Mics Performance Space and Monthly Performance Art Events
  • Art Exhibits and Lecture Series
  • Panel Discussions & Workshops
    • Health & Culture
    • Mental Health
    • Women’s Wellness
    • Birthing Black Mothers
    • Black Families, Art & Culture
    • Black Men Self-Defining Black Men

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: for arts administrators and artists of color

  • Arts based workshops and technical assistance. Technical assistance inclusive of direct assistance setting up business entity origination documents.
  • Commercial Financial Management and technical assistance inclusive of overviews of business accounting programs including but not limited to Quickbooks and Oracle.
  • Grant opportunity workshops and technical assistance inclusive of direct support in completing grant applications and compiling grant opportunities.
  • Commercial Banking preparation workshops and technical assistance inclusive of direct support in understanding the banking process and compiling requisite documentation
  • Budgeting and financial management workshops for creatives
Card to Culture We are proud to participate in the Card to Culture program, a collaboration between Mass Cultural Council and the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program, and the Massachusetts Health Connector, by broadening accessibility to cultural programming. See the complete list of participating organizations offering EBTWIC, and ConnectorCare discounts. EBT and WIC cardholders receive 50% off of all of the events, panel sessions, and activities that we organize, and events we host like our Springfield Indie Soul Festival.