Programs

Community Development

Through our collaborations with the African Women Solidarity, a Sister Ngo, we are designing and implementing programs that impact the Refugee community in Las Vegas in the following areas:

  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal and mental health
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • Ensure environmental sustainability

Community History Project

The Ebibiman Community History Project is a program to document the histories of Africa beyond Africa and the Black Diaspora communities in Las Vegas. Looking at how blacks are affecting America especially Nevada in meaningful ways.

Publications & Recordings

Using new research and materials from the archives, ICACA will produce a number of publications and recordings that interpret specific traditional arts and artists for the public.

Radio Productions

The Center has created a number of online radios in collaboration with the Zeno FM Inc. Working with selected community based NGOS and media houses, we are aiming at helping produce and sponsor educational programs on radios in English and most African languages. Our goal is to entertain, educate and inform our global audience about Africa and Black Diaspora especially Nevada.

Archives

Over the years ICACA will accumulate a significant collection of primary materials from research projects and from contributions of folklore scholars who have worked in the continent and in Diaspora. The collections will include audio and video tapes, photographs and slides, interview transcripts, student research projects and books. These are the primary materials upon which we will base our projects, such as exhibits, publications, and radio programs. Materials from our collections would be made available to students, scholars and the general public for educational purposes.

Documentation

Identifying,Recording and Documenting Individuals and Community Cultural groups with expert knowledge about traditional life and arts. By interviewing people and documenting them with audio or video recordings, photographs, and field notes, we are able to prepare and preserve a record of local life for later generations.

Festivals and Sankofa Heritage Awards

ICACA has one of its strategic plans to hosting annual community festivals aimed at bringing artists together to network, share their experience and to promote the culture. During these festivals, special awards will be giving to deserving people in the country who have made tremendous contributions to the cultural arts and community development. Sankofa Heritage Awards will honor and recognize the contributions of individuals, families or community groups who have mastered traditional arts or customs identified with the continent and have remained committed to passing them on to future generations. These awards are given at special festivals organized by the Center or in collaboration with other organizations or institutions at home or internationally.

Consulting Services

Our staff is available to consult with faculty and administrators of schools, community arts organizations or historical societies, and with corporate, business or civic leaders about developing African centred cultural arts programs. The focus of these programs will be in the performing arts from which all aspects of African Culture emanates.

ICACA Folklore Cyber Classroom

ICACA has plans to create a website dedicated to educational resource materials for school age and adult learners and teachers about the folk culture and traditional arts of the continent and the diaspora. Programs at the site will include music, art, architecture, food, and more.

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