Pachamama Fund for Living Culture

Supporting musicians, dancers, filmmakers, and tradition bearers whose work turns strangers into friends and audiences into communities.

For more than fifty years, Quentin Navia has built creative community the old way: live, together, night after night. As co-founder of SUKAY she carried Andean music from Carnegie Hall to Red Rocks, and for the past 27 years she and her husband, two-time Latin Grammy nominee Eddy Navia, have run Peña Pachamama, the San Francisco Legacy Business where emerging artists perform beside master musicians and, as one guest put it after stepping through the door, you enter another order of reality. This fund extends that stage to the world: backing artists who preserve cultural heritage while creating new experiences of connection across cultures and generations, because every community deserves places where beauty, imagination, and generosity flourish together.

medium:music-performance

Eligibility

We welcome artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, storytellers, educators, cultural tradition bearers, and community builders from anywhere in the world. And this fund comes with an open door: artists curated into it may be invited to perform at Peña Pachamama itself, joining a lineage of a quarter century of nights where lasting collaborations begin.
To qualify for this fund:
- Your project should demonstrate artistic excellence, community impact, and a commitment to bringing people together across cultures
- Preference goes to work that preserves traditional knowledge while inspiring contemporary creativity
- Your project should create opportunities for public participation: performance, education, film, storytelling, or cultural exchange
- Collaboration is prized: we fund work where artists inspire one another, across traditions and generations

Projects (17)

17 submitted

Project	Status	Raised
HERITAGE COLLECTION: Fashion, Music & Blockchain Show	submitted	$20,742
We're Loud Fest 2026	submitted	$47,579
The Palestine Music Space	submitted	$106,832
Healing Through Art: The Wellness Workshop	submitted	$1,522
Voices of the Land	submitted	$19,991
Akuya	submitted	$234
MetaGraff Gallery & Hall of Fame	submitted	$120
The International Artists Project Documentary	submitted	$563
Manure 2 Gold	submitted	$2,097
Multidisciplinary Project: "La Historia tambien es Cueca"	submitted	$814
Guy Gottesfeld	submitted	$1,820
Village Futures Project	submitted	$276
XochiPili ARTisan	submitted	$815
Wild Pantry	submitted	$144
Why Are You Not Here? Tv Series	submitted	$7,627
The Poetrical | Radical Authenticity	submitted	$142
GAME OF AKASH	submitted	$0