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We Value Culture, Community, and Connections
The Cultural Wellness Center (CWC) is a community-initiated multidimensional organization focused on promoting health, healing, and Cultural Wellness within diverse communities, especially among people of African descent. Founded in 1996, the CWC empowers and engages communities, by assisting them in reversing the problems created by individualism, loss of culture, and loss of community. The CWC work includes connecting to cultural heritage, acknowledging value, and by fostering a sense of community belonging, identity, and acceptance.
Located in South Minneapolis, the center offers a variety of programs and services, including community development and research, health and wellness initiatives, leadership development, cultural education and reconnection, and entrepreneurship support. A central tenet of the CWC’s mission is the idea that wellness goes beyond physical health—it also includes spiritual, emotional, and cultural dimensions.
Our Annual
Join Us for Our Pan-African Kwanzaa Remembering 2025
Date: 12-26-2025 - 12-31-2025
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Midtown Global Market
920 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN 55407
We are gathering. We are remembering. We are reconnecting.
The Cultural Wellness Center invites you to our Annual Pan-African Kwanzaa Remembering 2025: Honoring Our Elders & Reconnecting to Our People, Culture, and Heritage.
For 6 powerful days, we will celebrate Global African culture and Our Elders through:
🖤 Fabric & fashion🖤 Food & community vendors🖤 African drum, dance & song🖤 Cultural expression, memory & joy
✨ One of the signature highlights: A Qe’Bella Couture Fashion Show featuring one-of-a-kind pieces by visionary Couture Fashion Designer Keiona Cook, founder of the Lovely’s Sewing & Arts Collective.
This is more than an event
🌍 This is culture.
🌍 This is legacy.
🌍 This is a Global African Celebration
📣 Bring your family. Bring your elders. Bring your joy.
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What We Offer
The Cultural Wellness Center offers community development and research, health and wellness initiatives, leadership development, cultural education and reconnection, and entrepreneurship support. Each person participating explores and reclaims their cultural roots. The center collaborates with other community organizations, educational institutions, and health providers to customize pathways to address self-determination, community reconnect, economic stability, family reunification, social support, social cohesion, and health education.
A selection of classes are taught through the Invisible College (ancient wisdom teachings, genealogy, family history research). Health Institute (mind, body, spirit healing) and Member Services (community development).
Examples Are:
• A Year of Learning for leaders and health practitioners
• Training & Certification for Female and Male Doulas (Birth Attendant)
• Birthing Teams Support for parents during pregnancy, birthing, parent child health, and development
• Transformational Leadership Training for Professionals and Staff Leaders
• Residences-in-Training ( Cultural Health Practitioners)
• Cultural Wellness Griot Fellowship
• Cultural Rituals & Ceremonies including Familyhood & Kinship Network
• Age Stage Rites of Passage ( 0-7 up to Elders)
• African Cultural Reconnection through Dance and Drumming in schools and out of school
Highlights at CWC
In 2025 the Cultural Wellness Center will host the National Program Office of Community Solutions for Health Equity - Partnership (CSHE-P)
The Cultural Wellness Center (CWC) has partnered with Community Solutions for Health Equity (CSHE) since 2020. In 2024 CWC began functioning as the host organzation for CSHE-P which includes 11 funded partners offering technical assistance and training on the 'Cultural Wellness Approach'.
INSIDE OF EVERY HUMAN BEING IS A SPARK. WE IGNITE THAT SPARK