Culture Builds Community
Past Events & Activities

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Rise Up & Dance! Intensive Cultural Residency (ICR) Project Winter 2011 This 10-week project paired internationally-renowned artists with local artists and community-based organizations. Together they worked with at-risk youth and community members of all ages and skill levels in underserved Dayton neighborhoods to create a spirited and moving performance told through music, dance and poetry from the Islands of Haiti to the urban communities of Los Angeles, CA.
Peoples' Puppet-Play Spring - Summer 2010 at various locations Residency with The Zoot Theatre Company culminating in a performance at the 2010 Cityfolk Festival
Wacongo Dance Company Residency April 6 - 9, 2010 at various locations See a slideshow from their April 6 lec/dem at Sinclair Community College View flier for the April 8 event at the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission in English or Swahili See a slideshow from their April 8 event at the MVRPC
Drums, Fun and All That Jazz Thursday, February 25, 2010 at Cleveland PK-8 Neighborhood School Center View Poster: English
Son de Madera Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at Kiser Neighborhood School Center View Poster: English - Spanish
Prophecy Music Project It Takes A Village: Coming to Our Community! Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at Fairview Elementary Neighborhood School Center View Flier African Drum & Dance Workshop Monday, September 14, 2009 at Fairview Elementary Neighborhood School Center View Flier
Celebrating Family Traditions: Hoops & Shoes March 3, 2009 View Flier: English - Spanish
Celebrating Community January 2007 East End Community Services 10th Anniversary Open House Celebration

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Newsletter Articles
Autumn 2006 -- New Community Partnership Enlivens Long-Standing Goals
(Description of the program in its early stages and plans for the first community residency)

Winter 2007 -- Fall Residency, A Success
(Description of first CBC residency project)

ENews articles
October 2006 -- Photos from the first CBC residency project

August 2007 -- 9th Annual Twin Towers Community Appalachian Festival
(Summer community residency project)

November 2007 -- Skeletons in October, CBC gives it new meaning!
(Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead community project)

For information or to volunteer, please contact Jean Howat Berry at (937) 223-3655 ext. 3008

Culture Builds Community is made possible by...

A host of community partners: Cleveland Neighborhood School, Dakota Center Inc., Dayton Public Schools, Dayton Urban League, East End Community Services Corporation, East End Art Center, Edison PK-8 Neighborhood School, Fairview PK-8 Neighborhood School, Fitz Center for Leadership in Community at the University of Dayton, McClendon Institute for Learning, Ruskin PK-8 Neighborhood School, Twin Towers Block Leaders, Twin Towers Neighborhood Association, Unified Health Solutions, Wright-Dunbar Inc., Sinclair Community College, and YMCA of Greater Dayton.

Our generous supporters: Culture Works, The Dayton Foundation, MetLife Foundation, Montgomery County, and Ohio Arts Council.