With support from the California Arts Council, One Thing About Us? We Move!’ activates Bay Area dancers, and poets of diverse African ancestry to use their creative practice, personal experience, and cultural connections to collaboratively create townsquare-style performances, workshops, cross-cultural community conversations that bring together distinct Bay Area Black communities.
Incubate: We curate and host various fellowship and training programs enabling our community members to level up on their creative and artistic craft and practice. Our offerings include:
**Lit from the Black!: A design & technical production fellowship and training program for Black womxn and gender non-binary people to create a professional career pathway into the field
**Onye Ozi Artist Fellowship: A multidisciplinary artistic exchange and inquiry on Afro-diasporic relations and identity
**Afro Culture Kids Camp: Pan African Arts & Culture camp for school-age children
Celebrate: We celebrate the work of community of artists and creatives with and through performance, cultural expression, media, and community events such as:
**Bakanal de Afrique: bi-annual multidisciplinary festival that explores and celebrates the odyssey of urban Afro-descended people through art and culture
**Gbedu Town Radio: Afro-pop ensemble of dancers and musicians
**Afro Urban Dance Community Workshops and Events
Elevate:
**Connect our community members with work opportunities beyond Afro Urban Society
**Share about the work of Artists through our various online and in-print publications
**One3snapshot design collective: Original & Unique apparel, merch, publications and art

