STORIES FROM LEAF GLOBAL ARTS

Celebrating 30 years of extraordinary stories & connections across the world.

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LEAF Global Arts is on a mission CONNECTING CULTURES and CREATING COMMUNITY
through world music, arts education, preservation and experiences.
The closest distance between two people is a story, a song, or a dance.

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LEAF Celebrates the History of Jazz

Jazz music is widely considered one of America’s greatest contributions to the world–it completely revolutionized ...

LEAF Celebrates Black History, by Staying the Course

With Pan-African programming spanning from Africa to WNC, honoring and reflecting Blackness is business as ...
LEAF Global Star

LEAF Global Makes You A Star

The LEAF Global Classroom has become a shining example of what new possibilities can come ...

New Year, New Dates and A Newly Imagined LEAF

Every year around this time we announce the dates for the coming year of LEAF ...

Tragedy in Haiti Creates Powerful Art

The world tends to feel incredibly big – especially in an era when we are ...

2020 Highlights

Celebrating Our 25th Anniversary Year! LEAF International 22 Culture Keepers were supported so they may ...

 

AN URGENT LETTER FROM THE LEAF BOARD:

For nearly 30 years, LEAF Global Arts has connected people through the power of art, music, and culture. Every shared moment has been made possible because of you – our community.

The LEAF Festival is critical to funding LEAF’s larger work: providing global cultural arts programming for thousands of local youth and preserving cultures and traditions around the world.

This year, we are facing a financial crossroads: between the loss of last fall’s Festival, losing a majority of our arts education funding in 2025, and not fully recovering from COVID, the future is bleak. The upcoming LEAF Festival could be our last if we don’t come together to sustain the heart of LEAF’s mission – but we have seen what this community can do when united for a cause greater than itself.

To open the Festival experience to as many people as possible, and to rally the full spirit of LEAF, we are offering a limited number of LEAF LOVE Tickets at a significant discount.

These special tickets, offered at 30% off (our highest discount, even more so than our Early Bird pricing) are our way of ensuring everyone has a place in this story. Full-priced tickets also remain available for those with the means to give a little more to help support LEAF’s vital work.

Your presence, your voice, and your support matter more than ever right now. Join us in making this LEAF Festival one that the world will never forget and ensuring the music continues for generations to come. 

Mayani is a Maasai boy from longido Arusha. He went to boarding school at 6 years old and lost his Maasai language and tradition. Since joining the LEAF program, he has learned to sing Maasai songs, practiced the ‘jump’ tradition and wear Maasai shukas (traditional clothing). Mayani is extremely happy and is currently teaching other youth the culture.