#SPARKTHEARTSNC ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: AMANDA HOYTE
Join us for two events with Amanda Hoyte, LEAF’s Spark the Arts Artist in Residence for May.
#SPARKTHEARTSNC ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: TESO ELLIS
Join us for two events, May 22 and 28, with Teso Ellis, LEAF’s Spark the Arts Artist in Residence for May.
#SPARKTHEARTSNC ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: LEEDA LYRIC JONES
Join us on Friday, March 15, for a performance by Leeda Lyric Jones, LEAF’s Spark the Arts Artist in Residence for March. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with a community conversation, followed directly by live music. Free event! The North Carolina Arts Council created Spark the Arts as an awareness campaign. It was designed to […]
#SparktheArtsNC Artist Spotlight: Juan Holladay
Join us on Saturday, December 16, 5 p.m., for a free concert by Juan, at LEAF Global Arts, followed by a community discussion.
LEAF Member, David Nachlas, Opens Up
The festival retreat was a fortunate way to emerge from a year or more of semi-isolation, the feeling of gratitude was strong and the people were gentle. I cried for real several times. I had missed feeling kindness from and toward strangers, missed so many silly conversations, missed smiles and kids running crazy. But mainly […]
LEAF International Cultural Exchange in Rwanda and Zambia
REPORT DATE: January 2020 LOCATION: Zambia CULTURE KEEPER: David Kwizera, Rwanda “We have lost our culture & have since started adopting other cultures.” -Senior Chief of Chishi Village Overview of the LEAF International Discovery Expedition: Zambia’s contemporary culture is a blend of values, norms, material and spiritual traditions of more than 70 ethnically diverse people. Most of […]