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Nkeiruka Oruche

Nkeiruka Oruche

Nkeiruka Oruche is an arts administrator, cultural producer and multidisciplinary performer of Igbo descent, who specializes in urban culture of the African Diaspora and its intersections with personal identity, public wealth and sociopolitical action.

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Since 2002, Nkeiruka has played a crucial role in ushering African culture unto the global stage from working as Editor-in-Chief of Nigerianentertainment.com, a digital magazine, and as co-founder of One3snapshot, an art collective.  In 2018, she wrote and created ‘What Had Happened Was… An Afro Urban Musical’, a hot-blooded urban dance theater piece exploring a timeline of afro urban dance and music from 1910 to the present.

She is a 2018 NYFA Immigrant Artist Fellow, recipient of The Creative Work Fund, and the MAP Fund. Other grants and awards include Kenneth Rainin Foundation, California Arts Council, The Zellerbach Family Foundation, The East Bay Funds for Artists, Dancer’s Group/CA$H, ACTA Living Cultures, City of Oakland and Akonadi Foundation.

With her work as Executive Artistic Director of Afro Urban Society she hopes to deepen and sustain progressive and grassroots opportunities, and economic sustenance for artists and cultural workers of African descent.

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