ASHÉ Experience Packages
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the future.”
- Nelson Mandela, Revolutionary Leader
Ashé Cultural Arts Center, in collaboration with local culture bearers, offers a series of culturally significant, integrative, and educational experience packages. These experience tours can be hosted at your site, sites of historical significance, or at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center.
The Kuumba Kids Experience, is a specially curated experience for our youth!
This engaging and educational tour offers a guided exploration of our main building, where young visitors will discover the rich history behind Ashé’s founding, significance of our space, and permanent and visiting art collections on display. They’ll also be able learn about our programming, and conclude with an interactive drum circle to feel the rhythm, energy, and spirit of our cultural heritage.
The MAAFA Movement Experience at Ashé embarks on a journey alongside the ancestors, paying tribute to our ancestors, exploring the dark legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, where thousands perished in the horrors of slavery.
Visitors will witness a timeline of Ashé’s traditions and practices of how we commemorate MAAFA through powerful rituals, African art, and a permanent collection featuring the works of Gason Ayisin. This is a guided tour through Ashé’s Main Building and the Power House Gallery and Theater.
An Ashé Story invites you to experience the power of storytelling through the walls of Ashé Cultural Arts Center.
This guided tour of our main building offers an inside look at the visionaries who shaped Ashé, our permanent art collection that highlights the African diaspora, and visiting exhibitions on display. Visitors will also gain knowledge of Ashé programs that continue to inspire and strengthen our communities.
The Ashé Experience is a passage through time, tradition, and transformation. Walk the halls of Ashé, where history whispers and art speaks as you feel the ancestral drumbeats calling you home. With a guided tour that illuminates the beauty of African heritage, experience African drumming, bring home Ashé keepsakes, learn about the MAAFA while visiting our Power House Gallery and Theater.
Witness Black Masking Indians, African Dance and a New Orleans Brass Band to embrace the movement and become part of The Ashé Experience.