The Yeredon Center

The Yeredon Center continues to offer new and exciting programming as a model-

school for international exchange and research on art and social service projects. It

currently supports researchers from all over the world to come and utilize the

library and facilities while in the country. We continue our work with a community

youth dance and musical troupe, Troupe Yeredon, and their public service film

making initiatives.

Our Mission

Our mission at the Yeredon Center remains focused upon cultural

preservation projects by supporting Malian artists in micro-financing projects, by

documenting rural village ceremonies that are disappearing from the cultural

patrimony, and by engaging communities in sustainable education and public

healthcare programs on malnutrition prevention, farming and water-well projects

in the rural village of Jinijela, and community art projects on malaria prevention.

The library at the Yeredon Centre continues to be upgraded in its collection of books

on Mande culture in French, English and Bambara on Contemporary African Art,

Dance, Textiles, Society, and Music. Documentary Films are currently being made of

the youth groups who reside and train at the Yeredon Center. These films keep the

research going and inform us of the most recent developments in Contemporary

Mande Dance and Music.

We are currently in the process of digitizing and editing over 30 years of footage taken during the past twenty-five years in Mali.