Indigo Community Healing Arts

UBUNTU: I Am, Because We Are

Our Mission

Indigo Community Healing Arts' mission is to co-create culturally affirming and accessible programs based in the arts to promote healing through community-based, culturally relevant approaches that lift up Black liberation and well-being.

Black Community Mental Health

Indigo Community Healing Arts is part of an accelerating social movement that calls us to increase the capacity for our community to practice interdependence by increasing support to our own Black healers, as well as cultivating healing and ‘medicine’ from within our own community. Indigo Community Healing Arts’ inaugural programming will answer that call, providing modalities of healing through the arts and creative expression.

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Rooted in the Past, Growing into the Future –Read Dr. Eva Marie Shivers’ message to learn more about past events, ICHA’s evolution and our hopes for its future.

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Inaugural Programs

Indigo Community Healing Arts’ inaugural programming is inspired by the lived experience and healing journey of Dr. Shivers who proudly identifies as a third generation Black Phoenician. Our programming will expand at the ‘speed of partnership.’ That is, as we continue to listen to the needs and desires of Black Phoenicians and as we continue to collaborate with other community partners, we will co-create additional programs that are also aligned with the values of ubuntu, healing, and Afri-centricity.

Intergenerational Sacred Sister Circles with Auntie Eva

To provide and hold space for healing, co-conspiring and solidarity among Black womxn healers.

Sankofa Dance

Developing pride, healing and positive identity development by exploring how contemporary styles of dance are directly connected to our African/Pan-African roots.

Habari Gani: Community Conversations and Film Screenings

Using Black film to ignite conversations about ourselves, our families and our community.

Black Phoenicians: Preserving our Historical Spaces and Places

Preserving the history of Black Phoenix and metropolis through history walks, historical designations, community education and collaborations with artists.