African Voices Celebrates 30 Years of Uplifting Arts & Literature!
African Voices Communications, Inc., a non-profit arts organization, is dedicated to fostering cultural understanding through art, literature and film.
Founded in 1992, our mission is carried out through public programs, arts appreciation and the publication of African Voices magazine. The magazine plays a pivotal role in helping writers and visual artists establish careers in art and publishing. Our writers have published work in poetry and fiction anthologies while others have completed novels and memoirs. The magazine reaches 38,000+ followers via our websites and social media network. African Voices has earned national respect among the literary community for publishing excellent fiction, poetry and artwork.
Spelman College, one of the nation’s oldest Black women universities, has acquired African Voices’ arts collection. In 2022, African Voices received the National Endowment for the Arts – American Rescue Plan grant to support our services to community and artists.
Over the past 30 years, African Voices has published the works of over 4,500+ emerging artists of color and presented more than 10,500 community programs to expand access to the arts. Each year, African Voices provides artistic services to 5,000 artists of color and young people throughout New York City and the tri-state area.
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series is devoted to providing opportunities for women of color filmmakers; AV Readings, Performance & Workshop Series, a program that offers writing workshops for emerging artists and presents readings by established authors and poets; and Get Your Read On! (GYRO!), a literacy program that uses the arts to strengthen young people’s math, reading, writing and oral communication skills.
Reel Sisters is the first Academy Qualifying Film Festival for narrative shorts devoted to women filmmakers. Reel Sisters is listed number 3 on Film Daily’s top 10 list of women-centered film festivals. Reel Sisters will celebrate 27 years of serving women filmmakers in 2024. The festival will be held on Oct. 19-20, 2024. Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema Series showcases filmmakers throughout the year our virtual and in-person tea chats, screenings, workshops and film events. The Brooklyn Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts are long time supporters of Reel Sisters.
The festival has awarded $75,000 + in cash to women of color filmmakers through scholarships, cash prizes and Reel Sisters Micro Budget Film Fellowship, a script to screen initiative.
For more information on African Voices call 212-865-2982 or visit www.reelsisters.org.
African Voices is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts – American Rescue Plan, New York States Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, West Harlem Development Corporation, New York Community Trust, Roy Wilkins Found in New York Community Trust, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Council of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP), Amazon Literary Partnerships – CLMP, The Tom Detwiler Foundation and NYC Council members Farah Louis and Crystal Hudson.
