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Unmanageable Mutual Aid
Unmanageable Mutual Aid

the Unmanageable Giving Circle provides relief for artists in order to advance their art-making. Every dollar donated goes directly to artists. No overhead, no strings attached, just 1:1 support. This spring, the Unmanageable Giving Circle launched a Mutual Aid Fund for Nashville-based artists who have lost work for speaking out against oppression, or for folks who are sheltering in place in response to ICE enforcement and are having to turn down gigs, touring, or other work.

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Black Opry
Black Opry

Black Opry is a fast growing organization that seeks to create equity and opportunities for Black artists working in the country, Americana, folk, and roots music industries.

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Rancho La Puerta Artist Retreat & Folk Festival
Rancho La Puerta Artist Retreat & Folk Festival

The annual Rancho La Puerta Artist Retreat and Folk Festival in Tecate, Mexico, includes a wealth of collaborative concerts, artists talks, and spontaneous performances, sharing the power of folk music traditions while focusing on diversity, collaboration and the dissolution of boundaries through creative exchange.

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Rhiannon Giddens’ Biscuits & Banjos Festival
Rhiannon Giddens’ Biscuits & Banjos Festival

Curated by GRAMMY & Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens, Biscuits & Banjos is a 3-day festival dedicated to the celebration and exploration of Black music, art and culture in her home state of North Carolina.

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The Once & Future Sounds Fund
The Once & Future Sounds Fund

The Once & Future Sounds Fund works to improve equity in the music industry by elevating artists from historically marginalized and exploited groups. The Fund will launch two signature programs — The Once & Future Laureate Program and the Once & Future Festival — over the next three years.

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Kyshona Armstrong's YOUR SONG
Kyshona Armstrong's YOUR SONG

Your Song, founded by songwriter and music therapist Kyshona Armstrong, is a collaborative songwriting program that connects performing arts centers, musicians, and artists with vulnerable communities to promote healing and community connectedness.

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SHOCKOE INSTITUTE PRESENTS
SHOCKOE INSTITUTE PRESENTS

Unmanageable is proud to be a producing partner, alongside Founding Artistic Director Leyla McCalla, of a series of multidisciplinary conversations presented by The Shockoe Institute, a new national organization headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, dedicated to revealing the enduring impact of racial slavery on our shared American experience.

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STAY RIGHTEOUSLY UNMANAGEABLE
STAY RIGHTEOUSLY UNMANAGEABLE

Stay Righteously Unmanageable is a series of monthly zoom convenings for artist-activists and cultural organizers facilitated by Je Naè Taylor (cultural organizer at Highlander Center & founder of Taylor Space). These monthly virtual meetings allow space to build community, create strategies out of rage, and discuss your role in movement as an artist in this time.

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Amber Rubarth's COVER CROP MUSIC
Amber Rubarth's COVER CROP MUSIC

Created by artist, producer & actor Amber Rubarth, Cover Crop is an episodic video series bringing music performances to farms across North America with the aim of creating more generosity, connection, and sustainability through food, community, and music.

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We Are North Nashville: Community Elders Storytelling Project
We Are North Nashville: Community Elders Storytelling Project

We Are North Nashville is a two-year multimedia storytelling project. Led by artist, author, activist, and community organizer M. Simone Boyd, with the support of Andrea Tudhope and Steve Haruch, the project has a goal to gather, document, and share wisdom and sacred knowledge from North Nashville community elders to fortify us for the uncertain future ahead. The project will also redistribute wealth via resources raised for the project to community members.

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Rosetta Records Project: Celebrating Women in Early Blues and Jazz Music
Rosetta Records Project: Celebrating Women in Early Blues and Jazz Music

A series of LPs from Spinster and Americana Music Productions celebrating the centennial of Rosetta Reitz and her legendary feminist record label Rosetta Records.

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Bread & Roses: EVERYBODY EATS
Bread & Roses: EVERYBODY EATS

Produced by Bread & Roses Collaborative, Everybody Eats is a six-part docuseries which takes you on a cross-country road trip to meet folks who have always had to build systems of care and economy outside of dominant societal structures.

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Joshua Moore's THE RECISSIONS
Joshua Moore's THE RECISSIONS

Joshua Moore's 'The Recissions' is an archival mapping project that looks to create a visible record and a network of solidarity and awareness among artists, agencies, and organizations in the regional South East that have experienced funding shortfalls, disruptions, and cancellations due to the 2025 claw backs in Federal arts spending.

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Missy Lane's Charitable Foundation
Missy Lane's Charitable Foundation

Missy Lane's Charitable Foundation is on a mission to expand the audience for jazz and improvised music. With a primary goal of educating, preserving, presenting, and promoting all forms of jazz as an American art form, Missy Lane’s is based in Durham, North Carolina.

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Daisy Friedman's HOW TO BE A SLUT WITHOUT DYING
Daisy Friedman's HOW TO BE A SLUT WITHOUT DYING

HOW TO BE A SLUT WITHOUT DYING, a short film by Daisy Friedman, is an autobiographical story that explores the lengths disabled people take to be desired and the consequences of that desire. The film is a call for change, not only about the deep-rooted ableism within the medical system, but about the painful lengths disabled people often go to to be seen as desirable.

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Daisy Friedman's THE SQUAD
Daisy Friedman's THE SQUAD

Directed by Daisy Friedman, The Squad is a short documentary which explores the impact of a medical mystery, the failures and successes of the American medical system, and a unique community that has formed in its wake.

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Taylor McFadden’s LOVERS
Taylor McFadden’s LOVERS

Lovers is a narrative feature film created by writer/director Taylor McFadden. The story is told from the unique perspective of female artists and musicians, emphasizing the importance of friendship and the value of community. The film touches on suicide and addiction that so often permeates creative culture, with the hope of bringing awareness about the importance of mental health in artistic communities.

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Radio Resistance
Radio Resistance

Radio Resistance is a podcast featuring experimental music makers in the South. Each episode shares the music and personal story of a local artist making unconventional, genre-defying work, and programs their music alongside artists who have influenced their creative path.

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Anna Roberts-Gevalt's SICK CENTER
Anna Roberts-Gevalt's SICK CENTER

Sick Center, created by Anna Roberts-Gevalt, is an experimental audio series exploring the creation and history of Sick Music through interviews, research, and collective experiments around the making of art with illness.

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