Charm City Cultural Cultivation, Inc.

Charm City Cultural Cultivation (Charm City) is an arts and culture nonprofit in Baltimore, MD. Our mission is to build opportunities for cultural growth in Baltimore’s inner city with public programs in the arts, social engagements, and educational advancement through informal gatherings. Three core programs take up this work in overlapping but distinctive ways.

• The Last Resort Artist Retreat is a residency space for creatives that subscribes to the concept of leisure as therapy for the Black creative and is committed to offering the space and curated-experience conducive to their rejuvenation.
• The Black Baltimore Digital Database is a collaborative counter–institutional space for collecting, storing and safekeeping the data of local archival initiatives, from the more traditional to the experimental. BBDD will foreground archival projects that feature rich and under-recognized contributions of Black folks in and around Baltimore, Maryland, and provide access, engagement and a sense of agency to citizens, neighbors and visitors.
• Zora’s Den is a sisterhood of writers that allows Black women to be who we are unapologetically, while offering support, encouragement and opportunities to put your writing out into the world. We want to create a sense of belonging, a chill-spot, a place to promote and build-up each other.