Category: Cultural Organizations
Sangha Yoga New Bedford
SANGHA YOGA NEW BEDFORD is an innovative Community Wellness Center that celebrates freedom, creativity, equity, inclusion, pluralism and accessibility through Healing Arts, Yoga and Meditation practices and services. We believe that nurturing the individual creates a thriving holistic community; and a thriving community empowers its members with interconnection and belonging.
Howard and Jeff, Founders of Sangha Yoga NB, have established a friendly, inclusive, accessible, trauma-integrating Yoga Studio, Yoga School and Healing Arts Center where you can be openly yourself and enjoy the life you love.
Sacred Birthing Village
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
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.
New Bedford Community Health
New Bedford Community Health is a nonprofit, multicultural hub in downtown New Bedford, delivering medical, dental, and mental health care for over 40 years. Everyone’s welcome—insured or not, new to the area or lifelong resident—because quality, compassionate care is for all!
Anomaly Poetry
We are Anomaly Poetry. We are the strange and exceptional.
Hosting monthly open mics, getting poems published, and making some noise.
The Artists Index
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.
WHALE (Waterfront Area Historic LeaguE, Inc.)
The mission of WHALE is to foster historic preservation and continued use of the city’s architectural heritage to enhance community and economic vitality in New Bedford. WHALE accomplishes this through the restoration and reuse of historic structures for the economic and community development of New Bedford,
The First Unitarian Church in New Bedford
The First Unitarian Church in New Bedford is inspired by a long history of tolerance, social responsibility, and spiritual exploration. We envision a congregation in which we practice the principles of our faith. We seek to enjoy peaceful reflection and inspiration in intellectually and spiritually satisfying church services. We aim to embrace the people and efforts of our church community by supporting our children and their programs, our committees and their goals, our staff and their efforts on our behalf, and each other.
We aim to help address the larger community’s challenges in such areas as racial, social, and economic justice; ecological sustainability; education; and support of the arts. We endeavor to reflect in our own growing numbers, the cultural and ethnic diversity of our area. We commit to enhancing our understanding and acceptance of the diverse religious expression present in our greater community, including reaching out to other faiths in mutual respect and with shared goals.
New Bedford Creative at the NBEDC
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.”
