With support from the California Arts Council, Cheza Nami Foundation will sustain and expand our year-round, culturally responsive programs for children and families across the Bay Area. Funding will strengthen staffing, outreach, and accessibility efforts, allowing us to deepen impact in historically underserved communities and preserve African diasporic cultural traditions.
We offer activities to community organizations, schools and corporations while addressing educational and social needs that help foster community building, global citizenship and personal enrichment through our core programs:
Cultural Arts and Learning (CAL) school assemblies for K-12, Drumming & Dancing Workshops – in-school and in-community workshops, Community engagement Drum Circles, Summer Camps for k-12 youth, Community arts programs for hand on engagement in center of learning on public community spaces, Taste of Africa Festival – Cheza Nami’s signature annual extravaganza and community celebration of African art, food music and dance, Essence Production: Cheza Nami’s music and dance production that celebrates the oneness of humankind through music and dance that brings together local master artists to collaborate on fresh works for public presentation annually.

