We Are the Seeds of CultureTrust celebrates and educates about contemporary Indigenous arts and cultures, creates expansive and holistic opportunities for Indigenous artists, and provides positive and accurate representation of Indigenous peoples.
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Growing Our Listening Garden, Save the Date for Seeds Philly 2026, and our new theater work!
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Save the Date: SEEDS Philly 2026. September 19-20!
Thank you for being part of this beautiful and important journey for our Seeds team, our community, and for Philadelphia. We can’t wait to gather with you!
Support Indigenous Stories, Artists, and Communities
Artwork by PowowPopArt, Sosakete Roger Perkins
Help Us Reach Our Goal
As We Are the Seeds continues to create spaces for Indigenous artists, storytellers, and communities to gather, we invite you to support our work. This month, our goal is to raise $5,000 to help sustain our programming and community initiatives.
Every gift, no matter the size, helps us continue building Indigenous futures rooted in creativity, culture, and connection.
Thank you for being part of our community and helping us reach our goal.
This garden builds on years of work to advance representation, support Native artists and Philadelphia’s communities, and increase opportunities for cultural exchange and record.
The foundation of our garden is native, culturally significant plants rematriated to the soil. It's the setting for soundscapes and sculptural installations by Indigenous artists, storytelling and archiving with the Philadelphia community, and organizing for environmental and climate justice.
We are grateful for early funding from the People's Media Fund, Bread & Roses Community Fund, and the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Using Penn’s Treaty with the Indians as a conceptual anchor, this multimedia theater piece centers contemporary Indigenous presence, creativity, and joy while confronting historical erasure and ongoing threats to sovereignty. The work invites audiences to reflect on how myths become monuments and who those myths serve.
Staged reading at FringeArts, December 2026. Lead support provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Artist-Partner Spotlights
Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being
A multidisciplinary exhibition featuring historical ephemera, beadwork, and photography, exploring how memory, storytelling, and perception shape our understanding of ourselves, others, and the world around us. October 20.
Premiering at The Fringe Festival, Native Nations Dance Theater & AfroDanze presents a multicultural dance extravaganza that expresses cultural identity, unity, strength, and the will to endure. September 12-13.
Commissioned by ArtPhilly as part of the What Now: 2026 Festival, Root Song blends live vocal chamber music by Roomful of Teeth with storytelling by Tchin, creating an immersive experience that channels the wisdom of our forests.
Dawn and Cassius Spears of Ashawaug Farm shared about the preservation of Indigenous agricultural knowledge through Three Sisters' cultivation and the funding challenges that exist for small-scale farmers.
Sherenté Mishitashin Harris (Narragansett) shares the importance and power of family, their journey dancing Fancy Shawl as a Two-Spirit person, and their commitment to academic achievement.
We Are the Seeds of CultureTrust celebrates and educates about contemporary Indigenous arts and cultures, creates expansive and holistic opportunities for Indigenous artists, and provides positive and accurate representation of Indigenous peoples.
Join our community gathering! "Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being" Exhibition Opening & Celebration, October 20 Join us on October 20 for a community gathering and opening celebration for our new exhibit "Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being". The exhibit features the work of four artists and curators who explore how memory, storytelling, and perception shape our understanding of ourselves, others, and the world around us. Through wearable arts, a historical postcard collection, and photography, the...
Vote for us in the Signal Awards! 🎉🎉🎉We’re a 2026 Signal Awards Finalist! 🎉🎉🎉 Our episode of From Here, With a View, hosted by scholar and artist Sherenté Mishitashin Harris and featuring drag artist Landa Lakes, is a finalist in the Individual Episode: LGBTQ+ genre of the 5th Annual Signal Awards! We’re so proud of this conversation and grateful to Wilfredo Hernandez of the Drag Arts Oral History Project, the People's Media Fund, and our brilliant We Are the Seeds podcast production team for...
It's Seeds Philly time! Here's what to enjoy Seeds Philly is September 19 & 20 at Cherry Street Pier. Let us know you're coming by registering on Eventbrite! Here's a quick rundown of everything good this weekend: SATURDAY IS POWWOW TIME! TWO incredible drum groups - Youngblood Singers & Silvercloud Singers - will lead us through the day. Come with your dancing shoes on because there will be social dances for everyone to join in! Grand entry is at 12pm. This is when all our dancers - over 40...
