Flutes At Dawn

Founded in 2021, Flutes at Dawn is a nonprofit organization focused on community-based education and cross-cultural understanding through music, dance, and digital media. Our mission is to provide high-quality programs through vulnerable communication, cultural relevance, and shared positive experiences. We create safe spaces where people learn about themselves and connect with others in the process of expressing and making art/media. Through community workshops, live performances, and video content, we work to respect, understand and elevate cultures, people, and art forms that are historically undervalued and misunderstood."Flutes at Dawn" is a metaphor. It's about the moment of inspiration and the creative process that gets us there. It's the ah-hah or eureka moment, the spark in a student's eye when something clicks as a new connection is made (with a person or idea); it's about finding new perspectives and ways of relating; it's the peaceful time of self reflection in the morning, the music that plays at the beginning of a new day. Because my family has been such a big support and part of this journey, Flutes at Dawn is a tribute to my parents' names - Murali, which is the name of the flute Krishna plays in Hindu mythology, and Usha, which means dawn- Kiran Vedula, founder