REACH
Racial Healing and Creative Equity Grants
Over a Million Dollars Awarded
23 Individual Creatives
7 Non Profit Organisations
30 Projects
The Arts Council teamed up with the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven for a new project-based grant opportunity that launched in 2021. The goal for the initial year was to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with cultural experiences that center racial justice, collective healing, and youth development. A Community Advisory Team helped support every step of this process, including the grantmaking decisions.
In 2021 the Advisory Team chose to support seventeen local artists and art projects including a Black film festival, neighborhood jazz workshops, youth podcasting and a platform for local hip-hop artists are receiving funding awards from a new pilot grant program aimed at promoting community healing and racial justice.
New Haven Cultural Fund
27 Projects Supported
A partnership between the City of New Haven's Department of Arts, Culture, and Tourism and the Arts Council of GNHV with funding from the American Rescue Plan Act. This fund supported community-based arts and cultural initiatives within the City of New Haven through September 2022.
Profile: Reach Grant
Luis Luna- Movement Building Radio
Luis Luna, one of the co-producers on "Abolition Transmission," speaking at a recent launch event for the show at Possible Futures bookspace. Lucy Gellman Photos.
Read more about the event here.
Movement Building Radio shares the voices of community members involved in grassroots struggles. Mass incarceration and deportation has had a huge impact in our communities and the voices of those who are directly affected are silenced or ignored. This project aims to highlight these inequities and bring power back to our community members who are impacted by these systems.
Luis’s project Movement Building Radio was supported by the REACH with a grant of $22,500 in 2022.
Profile: Reach Grant
Everyone Deserves to Come Home to Flowers, a mural by artist Kwadwo Adae that now adorns the Hillside Family Shelter at the corner of Sylvan Avenue + Stevens Street.
Made possible with a REACH grant of $22,000
Lucy Gellman Photos.
Read more about it here.
Profile: Reach Grant
Black Haven Founder and Creative Director
Salwa Abdussabur. Lucy Gellman Photo.
Black Haven is a collective of creatives and admins who activate art justice through movement building events, initiatives and programming. We aim to be a creative playground for culture creators to be uplifted in their visions where they are provided partnerships and resource equity. Goal was to organize the second Black Haven Film Festival in September 2021 with the goal of sustaining as an ongoing annual event.
Read about Black Haven Film Festival here.
Black Haven was supported by the REACH with a grant of $44,000 in 2021.
Profile: Reach Grant
Kulturally LIT is an organization created to enhance awareness of the significance of the Arts of the African Diaspora on societal culture. Their goal is to produce Kultural experiences that support and develop opportunities for access to cultural empowerment for Artists of the African Diaspora.
Read more about LIT Fest here.
Check out images from LIT Fest 2022 here.
KulturallyLIT/ Elm City LITFest was supported by a REACH grant of $42,000 in 2022.
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