Educarte, Incorporated

EducArte works to ensure equity in the performing arts and arts education for Brazilian and Latin American audiences and artists in the Greater Washington DC region. We offer music and dance programs that celebrate the cultural knowledge of African, Indigenous, and European communities in Brazil and throughout the Americas. We envision a performing arts and arts education landscape in which local and visiting performers and educators in Latin American traditions reflect the demographic makeup, aesthetic values, and cultural traditions of our local audiences, and where creatives feel free to explore these rich traditions to create new works and innovate their practices. Our guiding values are to elevate equity and diversity in the arts, pay artists fairly, build community through creativity, and respect all cultural traditions equally. We approach our projects and community with a deep commitment to social justice, equity, inclusion, and equality. We create educational programs to promote and support local and visiting artists. Our work sparks cross-cultural communication through workshops, lectures, discussions, residencies, and community events in traditional and non-traditional arts spaces.