The Richard Kemp Center
Welcome
Empowering the Black community by providing culturally relevant programs and services that promote wellness, youth development, and racial equity, honoring the legacy of Richard Kemp by actively addressing historical racial inequities and creating a space for community gathering and cultural preservation.
Jam Session
Music and Healing
Wellness is at the intersection of culture and youth at the Richard Kemp Center and the Jam Session is an amazing opportunity to release and connect. We’re focusing on reaching the youth within our local neighborhoods but individuals of all ages and backgrounds will find a welcoming environment to cultivate resilience, manage stress, and just feel better.
Music Therapy has long been recognized as a powerful tool for wellness. The Djinneaux [ “G’Noh!” ] Music Lab hosts a space for individuals to express and process their feelings in a safe and creative manner. Whether through playing instruments, singing, or simply listening, jam Sessions with The Djinneaux [ “G’Noh!” ] Music Lab is a positive outlet for youth and young adults for expression and social connection.
The Jam Sessions will get you connected and offer opportunities for collaborations. The support and positivity that come out of music collaborations create positivity and a collegial environment where everybody feels welcome. Jam Session is a no-stress environment where everybody belongs, everybody connects and everybody wins. Come jam with us.
More ways you can support the Richard Kemp Center!
Change-Maker
Change-Maker
Change-Maker
Can you contribute $ 100 dollars or less? These contributions will enable us to fund some of our facility overhead and program administration.
Thanks and welcome to the Change-Makers, where we're making a difference at the grassroots level. .
Game-Changer
Change-Maker
Change-Maker
Can you contribute $ 1000 dollars or less? These contributions will enable us to fund some of our community engagement and support stipends and media and communications staffing.
Thanks for being a Game-Changer and closing this important gap!
You will receive regular updates on RKC programs and activities and a Monthly Newsletter
Legacy-Maker
Change-Maker
Legacy-Maker
Are you able to contribute at a level beyond $ 1000 dollars? This will help us add staffing and programming and achieve Phase II and III of our build-out (very exciting)!
We appreciate you legacy-makers!
You will receive regular updates on RKC programs and activities, Monthly Newsletter, logo on RKC Site, access to designated RKC “Legacy Maker” training and programming and appointment of one designee to the Strategic Partner Advisory Committee.
Growing Homes
Healing and Economic Empowerment Program
Systemic racism contributes to the lack of home and land ownership, which is a significant issue across the country, including in Vermont where the data is particularly troubling. Growing Homes is a culturally and economically empowering initiative that will offer participants the ability to learn, grow, heal and build wealth.
Richard Kemp Center activities
Youth Movie Night
Youth Movie Night
Youth Movie Night
Youth Movie Night
Every 2nd and 4th Friday Night. Youth of all ages. Food and Beverages.
Parents are welcomed to drop their kids off or stay.
We hope to see you and your families.
For more information please contact: Info@richardkempcenter.org
Chess Club
Youth Movie Night
Youth Movie Night
Chess Club is hosted every Tuesday @5 PM
Food and Beverage provided.
All ages and Skill levels are welcomed.
For more information please contact: Info@richardkempcenter.org
Game Night
Youth Movie Night
Game Night
A night for the entire family. Board Games, Spades, Charades, Pictionary, Dominos and more....
For more details please contact: Info@richardkempcenter.org
Building a Legacy
Wellness
Wellness
Wellness
Our wellness is at the epicenter of all we do and experience. We must consider every action taken to dismantle systemic racism as an act of enhancing our wellness. We will disrupt status quo systems and develop long-range strategies for black-led alternative approaches to create healthy outcomes. We will fight for wellness as if our lives depend upon it – because they do.
Culture
Wellness
Wellness
Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek, — the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think. Work, culture, and liberty—all these we need, not singly, but together; for to-day these ideals among the Negro people are gradually coalescing, and finding a higher meaning in the unifying ideal of race, — the ideal of fostering t
Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek, — the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think. Work, culture, and liberty—all these we need, not singly, but together; for to-day these ideals among the Negro people are gradually coalescing, and finding a higher meaning in the unifying ideal of race, — the ideal of fostering the traits and talents of the Negro, not in opposition to, but in conformity with, the greater ideals of the American republic, in order that some day, on American soil, two world races may give each to each those characteristics which both so sadly lack. Already we come not altogether empty-handed: there is to-day no true American music but the sweet wild melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales are Indian and African; we are the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. W.E.B. Debois
Youth
Wellness
Youth
Our youth our most precious and hopeful prospect for our future. We take seriously our responsibility to consistently offer space, help, instruction and support. Above all we will teach them their ancestors' contribution, resilience and power and hold them to high standards of excellence.