Did you feel a sense of community, connection and belonging when you attended your first Castle of our Skins’ event?

Caption: Making connections at 2024-2025 Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence Carmin Wong’s Them Poems Alone Won’t Save Us.

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Were you left curious and inspired to learn more at one of our edu-tainment workshops or thought-provoking concert experiences?

Caption: Exploring South African indigenous instruments and sounds at our Kusha performance.

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Did you experience something new, engaging, and culturally enriching when you joined thousands of people at our season opener celebration: MassQ Ball 2025: Color?

Caption: Dancers from Isaura Oliveira & Power of Skirts perform Afro-Brazilian indigenous performance rituals.

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These memories, feelings, and experiences weren’t created by a single person, artist, or leader. They were created by and in close conversation with a dedicated and caring community (i.e. YOU!).

YOU have been a key contributor to Castle of our Skins from its first concert days to now, our 13th Season. YOU have been a confidant, mentor, creative, collaborator (the list is long and bountiful…) offering your time, talent and treasures to ensure we can continue our mission year after year. And perhaps most tellingly, YOU have been a fierce advocate for our work, supporting us every step of the way with every dollar donated, concert attended, and newsletter shared.

Despite the ongoing threats and attacks on our values, sector and livelihoods, it brings me such strength knowing that we have each other to lean on. That together we can create new memories, calls to action, and experiences, impacting hearts and minds at this time of great unrest and uncertainty.

Knowing that we have YOU - our thriving community - journeying with us makes me so excited for the evolution to come! I know, without a doubt, that “We Gon’ Be Alright.” Because together we will keep making memories, dreaming new realities, and building strong futures.

Thank you for helping us bring beauty, creativity, joy, community, action, love, love, and more love into the world from 2013 to now. And thank you for helping us continue to do so for the years to come.

For all of us, together.

Warmly,

Ashleigh Gordon
Artistic Director & Co-Founder
Castle of our Skins

2025 End of Year Campaign