Los Angeles Public Humanities Institution
Storytelling as a way of healing.
Kind Kulture is a Los Angeles public humanities institution dedicated to storytelling as a way of healing, so that kindness, love, hope, and empathy prevail. We are building the Kind Kulture Institute in front of witnesses: a permanent home for survivor testimony, art, and human dignity.
Rwanda is the founding heart. Humanity is the destination.
Programs & Initiatives
The work, in many forms.
One institution, many doors: exhibitions, letters, classrooms, and dialogue, all in service of memory and human dignity.
Stories in Color
A survivor-led traveling exhibition and living archive of human dignity, our founding exhibition.
Learn more →Dear Humanity
A public letter on survival, healing, and what it means to be human, published every Sunday.
Learn more →The Kind Kulture Institute
The permanent Los Angeles home being built for testimony, art, and human dignity.
Learn more →Educational Partnerships
Survivor-led storytelling made with schools and universities, grounded in Mirror · Bridge · Change.
Learn more →Cultural Preservation
Gathering and safeguarding survivor testimony before it is lost, building the founding archive.
Learn more →Community Storytelling
Dialogue across difference, bringing neighbors, officers, and communities into the same room.
Learn more →At the Institute
What’s happening.
Upcoming · Los AngelesButterfly Night · a gathering of light, hope, and human connectionDate, time & place announced soon · RSVP →
Past · February 2025 · Los AngelesBreathe Easy LA · 454 air purifiers to nearly 400 householdsThe story →
Past · Kigali, RwandaUmbrella Cinema Promoters · where the work beganThe story →
Stories in Color: A Human Dignity Exhibition
The founding exhibition.
A survivor-led traveling exhibition and living archive, opening in Los Angeles in Spring 2027. Stories in Color travels until it comes home. When it does, the Kind Kulture Institute opens its permanent doors.
A Decade on the Record
Impact, in the open.
Ten years of survivor-led work: the rooms we’ve entered, the conversations that changed people, and the testimony we are keeping safe before it is lost.
Be Part of the Founding
Help build a permanent home for memory.
You’ve seen the work, and the story behind it. If it moved you, you can help carry it forward. Every gift funds survivor-led education, the living archive, and the institution itself, given once or monthly. No gift is too small to be part of the founding.
Stand With UsOr start another way: read Dear Humanity · book Dydine to speak
Kind Kulture is the public name of Umuco Love, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit · EIN 85-0780571 · gifts are tax-deductible.
“One’s own life experiences are not theirs to keep, but ours to teach.”
DYDINE UMUNYANA ANDERSON
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT
Photograph by Dan McMahon
In Their Words
A movement carried by many.
Students, educators, survivors, artists, and partners who have stepped into a room with Kind Kulture, and left it changed.
Your presentation today has truly been one of the most powerful and moving speeches I’ve heard.
What made your talk so powerful was how you used storytelling as both a teaching and a healing tool.
Your message of hope is so uplifting and inspiring.
Dear Humanity
A letter, every Sunday.
Letters on survival, healing, and what it means to be human, written by Dydine, published every Sunday on Substack.
A new letter arrives every Sunday. Read the latest, and subscribe to receive each one.
On the Horizon
What is being built next.
The Founding Report
One letter a month, from the founding.
Where the Institute stands, what your support built this month, and one story worth keeping. Plus Dear Humanity, Dydine's letter, every Sunday.
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