The Soul of Nations Foundation relies on an extensive network of non-governmental and government partners, host and key opinion leaders, universities and cultural institutions, activists and policy collectives, formal and non-formal educators and cultural practitioners, grassroots organizations, Tribal governments, charitable foundations, legal firms, sustainable corporations, and community members of all race, gender, and creed—thus helping to ensuring the formation of mobilized kinship with a high level of intellectual capacity.
Soul of Nations will be partnering with Chashama for Soul Center for the Arts to hold its first independent gallery temporary exhibition in February 2023 at 340 East 64th Street, to exhibit Kinstallations, a collaborative performance of Indigenous-infused sound and movement made to evoke the sensations of humanistic flow and queer interconnectedness from the past, present and future.
Chashama helps create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive world by partnering with property owners to transform unused real estate. These spaces are used for artists, small businesses, and for free community-centric art classes. Chashama was founded in 1995 by Anita Durst to celebrate the legacy of theatre visionary Reza Abdoh. Chashama’s initial focus was on the production and presentation of new theatre. Recognizing that a lack of affordable space was the biggest threat to sustaining a diverse cultural environment in New York City, the organization began to work toward securing studio and presentation space in Midtown Manhattan for struggling artists by partnering with Property Owners that provide unused space to Chashama.
Since then, Chashama moved from midtown Manhattan to the boroughs and beyond, giving artists work and presentation spaces, as well as providing free art workshops in underserved communities. Currently, Chashama presents 150 events a year, has workspace for 120 artists, and has developed 80 workshops in underserved communities.
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Partnerships help to ensure the stability and expansion of our work toward fostering art and research programming rooted in contemporaneous and sociocultural empathetic themes.
The Soul of Nations Foundation respectfully acknowledges that we currently operate on the ancestral lands of the Munsee Lenape, Piscataway, and Anacostan peoples, which have not been ceded. Thank you for your commitment to Indigenous and Black communities. Please, share our organization’s work with those in your network who are just as invested in BIPOC progression as we are.