Butterfly Night.
Upcoming in Los Angeles. One night. Every city. One light. Free to attend.
Our Impact
The work, measured in the open.
We move slowly and count honestly. Ten years of survivor-led work: the rooms we’ve entered, the years we’ve sustained, and the testimony we are keeping safe before it is lost.
Milestones
- 2012Umbrella Cinema Promoters founded in Kigali; Women's Potential in Cinema workshop.
- 2014Classroom and speaking work begins, the decade that reaches 100,000+ students.
- 2016Embrace Life published; United States book tour.
- 2020Kind Kulture (Umuco Love, Inc.) founded in Los Angeles; I Am You launches.
- 2025–26The rebuilding year; Kwibuka observed in Los Angeles; the founding archive takes shape.
- 2026Annual Humanity Report, Issue 1; The Founding Gathering.
- Spring 2027Stories in Color: A Human Dignity Exhibition opens in Los Angeles.
- 2028–31The traveling years, and the Kind Kulture Institute opens its permanent doors.
Annual Reports
Why We Gather
Stories are powerful. But stories shared in community are transformative. Every Kind Kulture gathering creates space for people to listen deeply, ask courageous questions, and discover that our differences are often smaller than our shared humanity.
Because healing was never meant to happen alone.
Come curious · Come with an open heart · Come willing to listen
Featured
A few events told in full.
Most events live as a date and a line in the record. A small number are milestones, given the full account, with photographs, partners, and the long arc of what followed.
March 2013 · Kigali, Rwanda
Women’s Potential in Cinema
The workshop that started everything. Twenty young Rwandan women, fifteen days of filmmaking training, and the launch of Umbrella Cinema Promoters at the Kigali Serena Hotel.
Read the full story →January and February 2025 · Los Angeles
Breathe Easy LA
When the 2025 wildfires filled Los Angeles with hazardous smoke, a relief effort co-led by Kath Nash and Kind Kulture put 454 free air purifiers into the homes of families who needed them.
Read the full story →Recent Engagements
A working selection of past events.
A decade of rooms. What follows is a working selection: the speaking engagements, gatherings, and community moments that have shaped the institution you are looking at now.
April 2025 · Los Angeles
Kwibuka 31.
Dydine speaks at the annual commemoration of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi.
February 2025 · Museum of Tolerance
Tools for Tolerance Command Staff.
A speaking engagement with high-ranking law enforcement officers from Canada and the United States.
Talks at Google
On storytelling, memory, and survivorship.
Hosted by Google’s Talks at Google program.
Harvard Kennedy School
Public policy and human rights.
A campus dialogue on memory, governance, and the long work of memorial institutions.
University of Southern California
Classroom storytelling and dialogue.
A semester engagement with USC students on survivor testimony.
Universidad de Cartagena
Abrazar La Vida launch.
The Spanish-edition release of Embrace Life, in partnership with Artimaña Editorial.
2020 · Online
The I Am You Gala.
An online gala held during the pandemic, headlined by author Consolee Nishimwe, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, in conversation on survival and healing, with an auction of one of Dydine’s paintings.
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Be there when it opens.
Founding Partners and Founding Circle members are the first to know what is being built and when.