A World Music Showcase & Fundraiser
Featuring:
Poranguí · Snow Raven · Mapu Huni Kuin · Acosia Red Elk
📍 Crystal Ballroom, Portland
📅 May 10
Doors: 6:00 PM
Show: 7:30 PM
All ages welcome
A gathering beyond a concert
Cultura is a world music showcase and fundraising series that brings together artists whose work carries ancestral memory into contemporary sound.
This special edition, presented by Reciprocity Music, Beloved, and Soul’d Out Productions, centers Indigenous artists from distinct homelands, affirming the enduring presence, brilliance, and vibrancy of Indigenous culture.
Through music, movement, and shared experience, Cultura creates an immersive space that not only celebrates living traditions, but also supports their continuity.
Silent Auction Initiative
This year’s silent auction will support the birth of Echoes of Ancestry, a gathering produced by Ashley of Sisters of the One Drum.
Their work centers around collective voice, rhythm, and remembrance, and they will be joining us for the evening with a live presence on stage.
What to expect
An immersive evening shaped through sound, presence, and community.
Live musical journeys rooted in ancestral traditions, shared in close connection.
Contemporary interpretations of Indigenous sound carried through voice, rhythm, and movement.
A space held by community, where presence and reciprocity are felt in the way people gather, listen, and relate.
Throughout the night, a silent auction will support cultural initiatives and artist-led projects.
This is a gathering that celebrates lineage and ancestral memory.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Poranguí
Raised between Brazil, Mexico, and the Southwestern United States, Poranguí is a globally celebrated multi-instrumentalist and live looper.
Weaving Indigenous and Afro-diasporic musical lineages, he builds layered sonic journeys instrument by instrument— creating immersive soundscapes that invite presence, movement, and awe.
Snow Raven (SUOR)
From the Sakha Republic of Arctic Siberia, Snow Raven is an Indigenous vocalist and performance artist.
Her work channels the sounds of reindeer breath, arctic wind, and birds into layered vocal textures she calls Arctic Beatbox, blending ancient shamanic traditions with contemporary electronic elements.
Mapu Huni Kuin
An Indigenous leader and musician from the Brazilian Amazon, Mapu Huni Kuin is a celebrated voice on the Grammy-nominated album The Future is Ancestral.
His work blends ancestral wisdom with contemporary music to share a message of Alegria—joy, connection, and healing—while supporting the preservation of the Amazon and Indigenous knowledge systems.
Acosia Red Elk
Umatilla tribal member and internationally renowned performer, Acosia Red Elk is a 10-time World Champion Jingle Dress dancer.
She is the creator of Powwow/Yoga, an Indigenous wellness practice that brings together Tribal Dance and Yoga. Through her 7 Generation Approach, she invites a path of sustainable mindfulness and responsibility toward what is sacred.
Acosia will offer a keynote address during the evening.
Why Cultura exists
Cultura is rooted in the principle of reciprocity—a living exchange between artists, audiences, and community. It exists to support the continuity of Indigenous cultural expression while creating space for these traditions to be experienced, felt, and honored in the present. Through the gathering itself, and the funds it generates, Cultura contributes to artist-led initiatives that sustain and evolve these lineages over time. Each ticket becomes part of this cycle— an offering that helps amplify visibility, deepen recognition, and ensure that ancestral voices continue to resonate within contemporary spaces.