2024 Annual Fund Campaign

We invite our community to participate in the beautiful world of Indonesian gamelan music, arts and culture. The launch of our 2023-2025 Strategic Plan signaled the start of a new era in our development, rooted in tradition and looking towards a bright future. This plan reflects our commitment to evolving our organization into a sustainable and long-lasting cultural institution, and we need your help to make that vision a reality.

Over the past year, Nusantara Arts:

• Began to study and practice the beautiful musical traditions of Bali. Our community is having fun learning this new material and we are seeing many friendly new faces.
• Have welcomed our first visiting artist, Gusti Komin. Komin has been a vital addition to our community this year, visiting Buffalo twice per month to lead our Balinese gamelan rehearsals. Komin hails from Pengosekan village on the island of Bali and comes from a line of family musicians.
• Began a collaboration with Buffalo String Works to bring Javanese gamelan music to young students who would otherwise not have the opportunity to play any music at all.
• Performed in five Grassroots Gardens around the city of Buffalo. This program helps communities activate and use their beautiful gardens to their fullest, and brings the music of gamelan into spaces where people may otherwise have barriers to entry for seeing world music or other kinds of art.
• Continued our ongoing performances, classes and community building including 4 wayang kulit performances with KRT Midiyanto from Berkeley California.

Your generous gift to Nusantara Arts will support our ongoing work of gamelan music education programming, worldwide gamelan preservation and support our immensely talented and dedicated team devoted to Indonesian culture and gamelan music in our community and around the world. From all of us, we thank you for joining us along our journey and look forward to seeing you down the path.