Category: Cultural Organizations

Sacred Birthing Village is a Black women-led, community-rooted care ecosystem restoring the village through relationship, shared responsibility, and communal care.

Rooted in Black maternal liberation, reproductive justice, birth equity, ancestral wisdom, and the midwifery model of care, SBV works to expand access, support, and community participation around birth, family, and wellness while helping steward and preserve culturally rooted birth options and care practices.

Through Web of Care circles, community activations, SisterKeeping, birthworker formation, and relational support systems, we are rebuilding the conditions where care is no longer carried alone, but practiced collectively across generations.

Every Place Is a Concept Southcoast (EPIC for short) is a dedicated non-profit in the Southcoast of Massachusetts . We work with a diverse and inclusive body through communally made music, visual arts, poetry, dance and storytelling to imagine and bring to life a concept of place.

The Artists Index offers an excellent opportunity for family members, friends, or acquaintances of South Coast artists, whether contemporary or historical, to bookmark their place in history by contributing the story background, passions, dreams, and accomplishments. The Index is committed to the present and passionate about the past and to continually feature local contemporary and historical Visual, Performing, Literary, and Culinary Artists, Community Art Leaders, Art Organizations, and Art Industry Professionals.

New Bedford Creative is housed at the New Bedford Economic Development Council, and tasked with implementing the city’s first-ever strategic arts and culture plan, published in December 2018. The vision of the plan is that “In New Bedford, the creative community is an engaged and powerful partner, inspiring social, economic, and cultural growth. In this authentic seaport city, each and every person enjoys an opportunity to experience a diversity of cultures. Art is everywhere, encouraging fun, provoking thought, and nurturing the soul.”

The mission of the Co-Creative Center (CO+) is to establish a footprint for creative enterprise in the historic downtown of New Bedford, which connects, supports and celebrates artists and cultural entrepreneurship.

The Co-Creative Center is a platform for the creative community that provides access to a flexible a workspace, studio, classroom, exhibition space and event space as needed. In fact, the Co-Creative Center is designed to provide all of the needs for creatives to thrive and build capacity in the city and region.

Beyond its physical attributes, CO+ serves as an active creative community hub. That provides the opportunity to build relationships among peers, partners and organizations by working together, sharing resources and benefiting from the art of community.

Pilgrim United Church of Christ is an historic church that welcomes and affirms all people regardless of their age, race, class, ability, gender identity, sexual orientation. Our church service is at 10am every Sunday. Mercy Meals & More is a non-profit human service organization that operates out of the historic Church Home across the street and offers a free breakfast and other services Monday through Saturday each week to those in need from 6:30-7:30am. Both the Church and Church Home buildings were constructed in the late 1800s on the corner of Purchase and School St. as the Trinitarian Church and Booker T. Washington gave a speech at the Church Home in 1895.