The Cultural Survival Summer Bazaars Are Back! Join Us in Celebrating Indigenous Arts, Cultures, and Brilliance

Thanks to the generosity and assistance of the Tiverton neighborhood, in Tiverton, there will be a youngsters’s camping tent, live cultural efficiencies, and booths from our Indigenous craftsmens and cooperatives sharing their passion and imagination.

The Social Survival Marts are annual festivals that support Aboriginal arts and incomes on a worldwide range. The Marketplaces supply a chance for the public to engage with Indigenous artists and experience various worldviews. When acquiring arts and crafts from Native musicians and cooperatives, customers contribute to supporting millennia-old practices and the lifeways of Aboriginal areas worldwide. Annually, the Bazaars generate nearly $500,000 for Indigenous artists, performers, and jobs benefiting Aboriginal neighborhoods worldwide.

Visit our markets this summer and take pleasure in an ambience that pays regard to traditional arts and practices while inviting the chance to pick up from and get in touch with Native musicians. Store Indigenous!

A few of the musical highlights consist of performances by Carmen Lienqueo (Mapuche), an Andean singer-songwriter that won the PULSAR honor for best origins songs album of 2021 and Carried out at Lollapalooza in 2022; The Groovalottos’ Mwalim, “Da Phunkee Professor” Peters (Wampanoag), a three-time recipient of the New England Urban Music Honor for Jazz and a multi-Grammy-nominated soul-funk band; Tia Roberts (Narragansett), a fancy professional dancer, Miss Sweetie America 2024; and Deejay KT in Newburyport. Juan Lazzaro (Quechua) musician, author, and founder of musical group “Markama” (pueblo); Annawon Weeden (Wampanoag), a multi-talented entertainer, educator, and storyteller that has appeared in National Geographic, PBS, and on the History Channel; and Nuttukkusq, a Wampanoag singing group will likewise carry out at the Tiverton place.

June 20, 2024 – Cambridge, MA.Indigenous Peoples’ civil liberties company, Cultural Survival, returns in organizing their eclectic Summer Marketplaces featuring Aboriginal societies, arts, songs, and food from around the world. The Social Survival Bazaars are annual events that sustain Native arts and resources on a global scale. Started by Cultural Survival Creators, Harvard University Anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis and his partner, Pia Maybury-Lewis, the first Mart was held in 1975 at Harvard University in an initiative to educate the public concerning Indigenous Peoples and the concerns they were encountering. The Cultural Survival Bazaar was a result of the Maybury-Lewises’ interest for boosting Native Peoples, strengthening Indigenous cultures, supporting Indigenous-led services, and working towards securing Native Peoples’ rights. Considering that 1972, Cultural Survival has supported for Aboriginal Peoples’ legal rights around the world and supported Native areas’ self-reliance, societies, and political durability.

Begun by Cultural Survival Owners, Harvard College Anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis and his wife, Pia Maybury-Lewis, the very first Mart was held in 1975 at Harvard College in an effort to inform the public concerning Indigenous Peoples and the concerns they were facing. The Cultural Survival Exposition was a result of the Maybury-Lewises’ interest for boosting Indigenous Peoples, reinforcing Aboriginal societies, sustaining Indigenous-led solutions, and functioning towards protecting Indigenous Peoples’ legal rights.

“I assume the outlets for Native artists are extremely limited where I am, in the Western component of the USA. Doing this occasion [the Cultural Survival Market] and being able to share my operate in Boston with Cultural Survival is an additional electrical outlet and I appreciate that. Cultural Survival is another opening for Native Peoples to reveal their work and discuss their society to people. It’s the link that reveals people that this is what we do and exactly how we live, and this is the beauty we produce, which’s something that I like about it,” claims silversmith Phibert Begay (Diné/ Navajo).

Social Survival is an Indigenous-led 501(c)( 3) nonprofit based in Cambridge, MA, with 44 staff members in 16 nations. Considering that 1972, Social Survival has promoted for Aboriginal Peoples’ civil liberties around the world and supported Native communities’ self-reliance, societies, and political durability. We do this with a four-pronged strategy of grantmaking, advocacy, capacity building, and communications. Find out more at www.cs.org.

“Join us at the Cultural Survival Bazaars and come to be an ally for Indigenous Peoples. By going to, you support earth-based incomes, self-reliance, and Native cosmovisions, contributing to producing positive adjustment worldwide, says Cultural Survival Marketplace Manager Candyce Testa (Mashantucket Pequot).

June 20, 2024 – Cambridge, MA.Indigenous Peoples’ legal rights organization, Social Survival, returns in hosting their eclectic Summertime Fetes featuring Native cultures, arts, songs, and food from worldwide. After a respite because of the pandemic, on July 20-21, 2024 the Cultural Survival Mart will take place in the historical city of Newburyport, MA, at Inn Road & Market Square. On July 27-28, 2024, the Cultural Survival Marketplace will certainly go back to Tiverton 4 Corners Art Center, in Tiverton, RI, for its 21st period!

From the Musicians
“I have actually appreciated conference individuals from various cultures, making pals, and finding out about their customs. I really feel connected to my culture via my art since the Ayacuchano retablo is Peru’s cultural heritage.