Creating and cultivating opportunities for cultural connections that support living traditions and energize vibrant communities.
We are creating a more empathetic world—where people respect and celebrate one another’s cultural expressions—through the sharing of traditional arts, customs, and lore that promote cultural exchange, understanding, and honor artistic mastery.
The Center for Cultural Vibrancy (CCV) creates and cultivates opportunities for cultural connections that support living traditions and energize vibrant communities.
We are creating a more empathetic world—where people respect and celebrate one another’s cultural expressions—through the sharing of traditional arts, customs, and lore that promote cultural exchange, understanding, and honor artistic mastery.
We believe that traditional arts and culture present the best of ourselves—providing a uniquely powerful vehicle for cultural diplomacy and engendering lasting cross-cultural respect and appreciation.
Updates from CCV
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Stellar lineup at the 2023 Richmond Folk Festival
The Richmond Folk Festival is in the DNA of the Center for Cultural Vibrancy. This FREE Festival is one of Virginia’s largest, drawing fans each year to downtown Richmond’s riverfront…
Khayaal: teaching to heal mind and spirit
Early this summer, we supported the launch of a new, transformative project in Lahore, Pakistan. “Healing Khayaal” follows the preeminent family of an ancient Islamic traditional musical practice as they…
Cultural Programs
CCV produces and provides resources to support programming that brings together tradition-bearers and master practitioners of the traditional arts—musicians, craftspeople, dancers, cooks, and storytellers—from richly diverse cultural communities across the globe. These programs enable artists and tradition bearers to share their deeply cherished crafts and to explore the continuities within differences, making the “strange” familiar, and moving us all beyond a dichotomy of “us” and “them.”
Cultural Exchange
Creating dynamic, engaging public programs to transcend the cultural barriers that divide people, CCV strongly values traditional knowledge and artistic expression, cross-cultural sharing and exchange, and diversity and inclusion.
Vibrancy
Creating dynamic, engaging public programs to transcend the cultural barriers that divide people, CCV strongly values traditional knowledge and artistic expression, cross-cultural sharing and exchange, and diversity and inclusion.
Ethiopian dance group Fendika visits students from their cultural center in Addis Ababa.
World Culture in Context
World Culture in Context takes students on a virtual field trip by connecting them with renowned performing artists and community tradition-bearers from across the globe. Through this dynamic program, students experience participating artists in the places that have profoundly shaped their work.
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