Projects, Partners & Friends
Global Groove- Musicians United in the Groove 4 Justice & Equality....
In 2020 Global Groove brought New Orleans performing artists together on a virtual stage with performing artists across four continents to support each other in a spirit of mutual care, love of music & united in support of justice and equality for all. It was the beginning of the network of friendship & spirit of welcome you will find here.
Stayed tuned for 2023 dates + go HERE to ? 2 participate
Global Groove is grateful for the kind support of New Orleans Office of Cultural Economy, Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, International Jazz Day Team, and Preservation Hall Foundation.
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Founded in 2022, The BioCultural Institute was created as a "safe space" for relationships, ideas, and potential strategies to develop outside of the sometimes formulaic or limiting assumptions of traditional institutional structures. BCI developed as an outgrowth of a project which began in 2021, entitled "Origins:Amazonia," an effort to create a broad narrative for a U.S. and international audiences of the Amazon, its geography, biodiversity and diverse indigenous communities.
Thobekile Mbanda
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
"Community is the spirit, the guiding light of the tribe,whereby people come together In order to fulfill a specific purpose,the community is that grounding place where people come and share their gifts and receive from others and to take care of one another.The goal of the community is to make sure that each member is heard and is properly giving the gifts they brought to this world.without this giving the community dies."
Bringing songs + instruments of the ancestors.
