Cultural Projects & Collaborations

Tradition Café partners with artists, cultural organizations, festivals, museums, and community storytellers to document, preserve, and share culture through interviews, oral histories, podcast conversations, and multimedia storytelling.

Each collaboration is shaped around the people, communities, and stories at its center. Tradition Café works closely with its partners to create thoughtful, engaging media that brings cultural experiences, artistic practices, and community histories to a wider audience.

In June 2026, Tradition Café partnered with Rhythmix Cultural Works to promote Unity Fest through interviews, promotional reels, and podcast episodes. Interviews with Rhythmix’s executive director, the festival emcee, and the headlining performer introduced audiences to the people, cultures, and stories behind the event.

The collaboration highlighted Rhythmix’s mission of building cross-cultural understanding through music, dance, education, and community arts programming, while positioning Unity Fest as the kickoff to its summer festival season. Promotional reels helped build awareness and excitement, and the full audio and video interviews were shared across Tradition Café’s podcast, website, YouTube channel, and social media platforms.

It was a meaningful partnership that expanded the festival’s reach and connected the community with the people who brought Unity Fest to life.

The collaboration positioned Unity Fest as the kickoff to Rhythmix’s summer festival season while also giving the community a personal introduction to Executive Director Jennifer Radakovich. Promotional reels helped build awareness of the event, and the full interviews were shared across Tradition Café’s podcast, website, YouTube channel, and social media platforms.

“Working with Ana and Tradition Cafe was such a joy! Ana has an incredible way of connecting with people and creating a safe space to explore and share stories that focus on what matters most: how our cultural backgrounds and personal experiences come together to shape our lives and influence how we show up and give back to our communities. Thank you Ana and Tradition Cafe for this wonderful gift!”

Jennifer Radakovich

Executive Director, Rhythmix Cultural Works

Tradition Café partnered with Studio 23 and Resistance Press galleries in Alameda to create an eight-artist video oral history series for Art of the African Diaspora Satellite Exhibition. The interviews explored the artists’ personal stories, cultural influences, and the experiences behind their work—bringing their oral histories of creativity to life.

Tradition Café produced social media reels, eight-minute event videos, and full audio and video interviews for its website and streaming platforms. The shorter videos were projected on the gallery’s exterior wall during opening and closing nights, followed by a closing-night Q&A with the artists and curators.

The partnership increased visibility for the artists, galleries, local arts community, the larger annual Art of the African Diaspora exhibition in Richmond, CA, and Tradition Café. It also helped increase attendance over previous years, contributed to greater sales of the artists’ work, and created a joyful atmosphere and strong sense of community among the artists, audience members, art lovers, and collectors.

It was a meaningful collaboration that extended the reach of everyone involved.

“Working with Ana has been an incredible experience. She really works hard behind the scenes and effortlessly captures those attention-grabbing moments that leverages our cultural story. This collaboration has encouraged engagement and attendance at our events. Many thanks to Tradition Cafe!”

Yolanda Cotton-Turner

Owner and Curator of Resistance Press

“Tradition Café was the perfect platform to collaborate with for this program as it focuses on the diaspora or cultural background of the guests being interviewed. Ana’s selection of questions, cheerful and sometimes playful laugh and spirit opens the artists being interviewed in our exhibit up to stories that they may have forgotten existed. They come alive the most when they are being asked about their artwork and cultural backgrounds.”

Eric Murphy

Featured host, curator and artist

Interested in collaborating?

Contact Ana at ana@traditioncafe.com to discuss interviews, oral history projects, exhibitions, festivals, and community storytelling initiatives.