As these young audience members at our 2025 music festival in Zimbabwe would surely agree, our 20th anniversary year was a big success, thanks to donors like you: 

• We returned to Zimbabwe, where we worked with Revival Arts Trust Zimbabwe to present the 10th anniversary edition of the Pfumvudza Arts Festival. Check out the documentary about this extraordinary event: Flowers of Friendship.
• We taught young musicians at intensive summer camps in Tunisia, where we partnered with Atlas Music Academy, and Colombia, where we partnered with Festivando Bogotá. While this was our first year in Colombia, we have sustained our connection to Tunisia every year since our founding in 2005. Here is a documentary about the deep impact of our work in Tunisia on the young people who attend our camps: Songs in a Language We Made Up.
• We continue to support the musical life of the Rarámuri indigenous community in Mexico, as shown in Violins Crossing Canyons.
• We provided small grants to Afghan musicians, both in Afghanistan and those who have escaped, as they struggle to earn a living in light of the Taliban’s total ban on music.

We hope you will join us in keeping this work going as we look beyond our 20th anniversary. Next year, 2026, marks the 20th anniversary of our first visit to the Philippines. We will return to work with the Cartwheel Foundation to present music workshops for indigenous youth. In Tunisia, we hope to expand our work with Atlas Music Academy by reviving the Tabarka Jazz Festival. 

This Giving Tuesday, please support Cultures in Harmony as our melodies continue to connect hearts across the political and cultural divides of our world.