Africa
Rooted. Alive. Celebrated.
A living home for African performing arts.
Preserve · Celebrate · Connect
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Your contribution preserves heritage, funds artists, and builds community.
NACAPA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit · EIN: 41-5043697 · Donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.
NACAPA Choir
NACAPA Choir brings singers from across Los Angeles together around African and African-diasporic choral music, cultural exchange, and community.
Now beginning its 2026–2027 Founding Season, the choir is NACAPA’s first ongoing performing ensemble and a living expression of our mission to preserve, present, and advance African performing arts.
Answering Africa’s
Quiet Call
Across North America, millions carry Africa in their blood but have never heard the music their grandparents danced to. Never witnessed the theatrical traditions that shaped their lineage. Never tasted the specific nostalgia of a culture fully alive.
The North American Center for African Performing Arts exists to close that distance, whether it is between the continent and the diaspora, between heritage and lived experience, or between what was preserved and what can still be celebrated.
We are not building a museum of frozen artifacts. We are building a living platform for African performing arts, performed, taught, documented, and carried forward in North America. NACAPA is African-centered and outward-facing. Alongside preserving and presenting African traditions, we create exchanges with orchestral, jazz, mariachi, theatre, dance, and other cultural communities, building collaborations that respect the integrity of every tradition involved.
“Culture is the soul of a people made visible. NACAPA exists to ensure that soul never falls silent in North America.”
We give it a stage.”
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“Many carry a quiet hunger to reconnect with something they can feel but cannot fully name. NACAPA exists to answer that hunger.”
Born from a Conviction
NACAPA was founded on a simple conviction: that African performing arts are not artifacts of history, but living, urgent expressions of humanity’s greatest cultural inheritance, and they deserve a permanent institutional home in North America.
We are based in Los Angeles, home to one of the most diverse African and African-diaspora communities on this continent. We believe this city deserves an institution that does not merely represent African culture, but embodies it.
Our Flagship Event African Music & Arts Festival
A celebration of Africa’s musical soul: live, unfiltered, and unforgettable.
A new African music and arts festival for Los Angeles.
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Upcoming at NACAPA
First Official NACAPA Choir Rehearsal
NACAPA Choir begins its 2026–2027 Founding Season with its first official rehearsal and orientation in Los Angeles. Founding members will gather for music-making, orientation, and the beginning of NACAPA’s first ongoing performing ensemble.
View Event Details →Christmas at NACAPA
An evening of African music and the sounds of the Christmas season, featuring the NACAPA Choir alongside instrumental artists, dance, orchestra, and special guests.
Concert Details →African Music and Arts Festival
NACAPA’s flagship celebration of African music, performing arts, culture, food, and community — bringing a major African-centered festival experience to Los Angeles.
Follow Festival Updates →The mission of the North American Center for African Performing Arts — Los Angeles, California · Founded 2026