With over 70 residents from 15 countries across 4 continents, Oroko Radio & Artist Residency aims to connect, inspire and empower Africans and the Diaspora across the globe through conversation and collaboration. — Radio Broadcasts have always been part of Kikelomo Oludemi’s life. Today, with Oroko Radio & Artist Residency, she hopes to create a platform for African musicians and artists to share music, ideas, and revolutions.

NYC SALT is a non-profit organization based in Washington Heights in Manhattan that offers photography training and multidisciplinary programs to the youth of New York. — Alicia Hansen founded NYC SALT in 2008 from a small photography class. Today, they guide students from their teen years through the early stages of their careers in the visual media fields and continue to inspire youth to unlock their creative potential.

RYSE CENTER, based in Richmond, California, is a cultural center that creates safe spaces grounded in social justice that build youth power. We center the lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and Young People of Color (BIYPOC), and we lead with love and rage to cultivate healing and build movement. — Lana Tilley, Development Director, speaks about the impact they are building over the years, and what will come next following the opening of RYSE Commons.

The transformative power of Art in Community Dialogue and Peacebuilding — A portrait of the organization Visual Voices, as featured in Folios V4: Creativity in Conversation: On Culture, Community and Transformation “Youth organizations and activists around the world are working to build peace and prevent violence in their own communities. Youth should actively be engaged in shaping lasting peace and contributing…

On practices of de-canonization and building spaces of unlearning and sharing — Adama Sanneh (CEO of Moleskine Foundation) speaks with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung — independent curator, author and biotechnologist, founder and artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, artistic director of Sonsbeek20–24 in the Netherlands. From 2023, director at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Adama Sanneh: The first thing…

An introduction to Folios Volume 4, “Creativity in Conversation: On Culture, Community and Transformation” by Adama Sanneh, CEO and co-founder of the Moleskine Foundation. — “Creativity in Conversation,” the Moleskine Folios N°4, can be read as an editorial table which brings together cultural practitioners from various fields. The conversations at this table touch upon the roles which art, creativity and cultural initiatives play within the complex fabrics of our societies.

In February of 2015, the Moleskine Foundation conducted the third chapter of the AtWork program in Kampala, Uganda, under the theme “Should I take off my shoes?”. Among the twenty students, many have persevered in their artistic career and transformed the Ugandan creative environment. — Martha Kazungu is a curator, Art Historian and Founder of Njabala Foundation, an organization that curates periodic exhibitions as well as organizes a public program of activities to create a safe space for female artists to thrive and blossom.

Kitambo is a non-profit organization based in Bogota that promotes contemporary African art in Colombia and Latin America, support the visibility of the creation of Colombian artists interested in inquiring about African and diasporic identities and tell their own stories, thus addressing issues of memory and identity. — Co-founders Catherine Dunga and Marleen Palmaers talk about the projects they were able to put together in the past year and their artistic response to the country’s political climate in 2021.

Words Beats and Life is an arts education non-profit located in Washington DC which advocates for the transformative power of hip-hop culture in all its forms. As they celebrate their 20-year anniversary this January, founding executive director Mazi Mutafa looks back at the impact they’ve had on their community in the past year. — Fari Sow: How are you doing? How are things with Words Beats and life?