About the Nonprofit
Visit Our Website Nonprofit Category: A - Arts, Culture & Humanities
Exempt Status: 501(c)(3) (IRS Form 990 Filed)
The Center for World Music is a nonprofit organization whose primary purpose is to foster intercultural awareness and understanding through in-depth encounters with the world’s performing arts traditions. To that end, we sponsor educational outreach, performances, and workshops.
Our Vision: Our vision is a world that celebrates cross-cultural understanding, respect, communication, and healing through the performing arts traditions from around the globe.
What We Do: Our programs in San Diego and beyond serve as a model for promoting intercultural communication, awareness, and understanding.
- Through World Music in the Schools, we engage students in music and dance from around the world.
- We sponsor concerts and performing arts festivals in San Diego and other major cities in the United States and abroad. These concerts present highly respected musicians that excite and inspire audiences, opening new cultural vistas. The Center also organizes tours of major artists and groups to cities across the United States.
- We present workshops of music and dance traditions from around the world: India, Indonesia, Mexico, Africa, Spain, and more. We are especially proud of our long-standing Odissi Dance School in North County, San Diego.
- To help support traditional performing artists, we connect musicians with performance opportunities.