This holiday season, we are excited to expand our programming into two new locations, featuring arts, music, dance, performances, food, workshops, and speakers.
Celebrate this annual event, which honors Indigenous talent and traditions through handmade art, demonstrations, music, and dance. We invite you to visit and shop Cultural Survivals Bazaars, where you will find one-of-a-kind Indigenous, handmade, and traditional jewelry, clothing, accessories, housewares, paintings, sculptures, Palestinian blown glass, and more from artists and cooperatives from more than 20 countries spanning across 6 continents. Featuring 50+ artists and community representatives!
CON AMAZONIA was born as a solution to the major challenges faced by Amazonian Indigenous businesses in accessing markets and showcasing their unique value. Over time, these projects have received support in production, processing, and management, but have lacked solid business strategies to enable them to grow and become sustainable. Jewelry, weavings, cosmetics, and food products from the Amazon.
Pequot Beauties (Pequot)
Beaded jewelry, art, apparel, and cat toys from Jivonna & La’Tasha Maddox (Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation). The Maddox sisters were taught beadwork from a young age and now create authentic Native beadwork inspired by life’s seasons.
Chinampa Temachtiani (Nahua)
Handcrafted, crocheted plushies, earrings made of palm leaf, hand-stitched clothing, and beaded jewelry by artists in Mexico.
Featured Performers
Dr. Lyla June Johnston (Diné/Navajo and Tsétsêhéstâhese/Cheyenne) is a musician, author, and community organizer who will perform her inspirational, multi-genre music, centered around Indigenous philosophy, healing, and environmental stewardship.
Samuel Nalangira is a folk musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, choreographer, dancer, and cultural educator from Uganda.
Yarina (Kichwa) is an internationally renowned musical group of eleven Cachimuel brothers and sisters from Ecuador.
Annawon Weeden (Mashpee Wampanoag/Pequot/Narragansett) is a multi-talented performer, educator, artist, and storyteller.
2067 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02140
(617) 441-5400
www.cs.org
Cultural Survival advocates for Indigenous Peoples' rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures and political resilience since 1972. We envision a future that respects and honors Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination and self-governance.
