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Three Rivers Institute of Afrikan Art & Culture

Vision & Mission

Vision 

Three Rivers Insti­tute of Afrikan Art & Cul­ture, Inc.,TRIAAC’s vision is to increase the pro­file of tra­di­tional Afrikan and Afrikan Dias­pora music and artists in North­east Indi­ana and the tri-state region, and see that the ben­e­fits go back to the artists and com­mu­ni­ties that pro­duce the music.

Mis­sion

Our mis­sion is to develop the fam­ily rela­tion­ships required to bring Afrikan and Dias­pora artists to this com­mu­nity as teach­ers and res­i­dents, and thereby to grow a com­mu­nity where the study, pro­motion, pre­servation, prop­a­gation, and pre­sen­ta­tion of the music and its cul­tural val­ues are embraced. 

 

Community-Building

Family Circle1 300x169 Vision & MissionThe log­i­cal exten­sion of the TRIAAC vision and mis­sion is a com­mit­ment to edu­cat­e, engage, and invest peo­ple in the work of rais­ing a com­mu­nity founded in cul­tural clar­ity, per­sonal integrity, and an arts-based devel­op­ment grounded in enrich­ing the cul­tural life of the com­mu­ni­ty in which we reside.

To do this TRIAAC real­izes that the peo­ple build­ing this com­mu­nity must dis­mem­ber the bar­ri­ers of race, class, gen­der, reli­gion, and pol­i­tics, and engage their dif­fer­ences toward the goal of extend­ing family.We under­stand that the tra­di­tional Afrikan drum­ming and oral com­mu­ni­ca­tion arts are key­stones to this process.