Explore our membership.
Join a community dedicated to preserving culture, celebrating heritage, and ensuring every story is remembered.
FESTIVAL LOVERS CLUB
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ARCHIVES & VIBES
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KINKEEPING CLUB
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CREATIVE EXPRESSION CLUB
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FESTIVAL LOVERS CLUB ✳︎ ARCHIVES & VIBES ✳︎ KINKEEPING CLUB ✳︎ CREATIVE EXPRESSION CLUB ✳︎
Choose Your Club
Every DiasporaDNA Membership Club offers unique experiences while supporting our mission of Healing Through Heritage.
Find the community that speaks to you.
Festival Lovers Club
Experience Philadelphia's vibrant festivals through volunteering and exclusive events. Join a community that celebrates culture together.
Archives & Vibes
Explore history, rare archives, books, and collective memory through engaging discussions, research, and storytelling experiences.
Kinkeeping Club
Discover your family's roots through oral histories and preserving the stories that connect generations.
Creative Expression Club
Create, collaborate, and heal through art and writing. Immerse yourself with hands-on workshops in a welcoming creative community.
FESTIVAL LOVERS CLUB
See, Support & Save Philly Festivals · Tour · Volunteer · Community
We go where the culture goes.
We go to festivals. We ride together. We are the crew that keeps the culture alive from the life of the party to the logistics backstage.
What We Do?
Volunteer at fun festivals. Enjoy VIP performances - Witness the creativity behind the scenes. Join our cultural Joy Ride on the Save Philly Festivals Tour. Chat on our social media clubs to make a friend and meet other festival lovers. Rep at our Roll Call during Festival of Festivals. Travel with the crew and experience events from the inside out.
PROGRAMMING
Festival volunteering · Diaspora DNA VIP tour stops · Community festival calendar & podcast · Social media features · Priority access to DiasporaDNA events · Cultural Travel
FESTIVAL LOVERS CLUB ✦
ARCHIVES & VIBES ✦
KINKEEPING CLUB ✦
CREATIVE EXPRESSION CLUB ✦
FESTIVAL LOVERS CLUB ✦ ARCHIVES & VIBES ✦ KINKEEPING CLUB ✦ CREATIVE EXPRESSION CLUB ✦
Student — $2.50/mo
For students who love the culture and want to get in. Valid student ID required. Volunteer access at partner festivals, member newsletter, shoutout on Diaspora DNA socials.
Individual — $5/mo
For the dedicated festival lover ready to ride with the crew. Everything in Student, plus festival tour access, priority RSVP to Diaspora DNA events, 10% off the shop, and annual member recognition.
Family — $7/mo
For households who celebrate culture together. Up to 2 adults and children under 18. Everything in Individual, plus a guest pass per event and a family shoutout on our socials.
Complete— $10/mo
For the culture keeper who wants it all. Everything in every club, plus VIP festival access, genealogy and archive experiences, creative workshops, exclusive artist opportunities, and special recognition for preserving and celebrating our collective stories.
ARCHIVES & VIBES
Archival Curiosity · Literary Meetups · Collective Memories
Read. Reflect. Remember together.
Archives & Vibes is a gathering space for curious minds who want to explore the past and make meaning from it — together. Immerse yourself in Ephemera, Antique Books, rare documents, photos and posters in the Montgomery Collection and local archives.
What We Do?
Read and discuss monthly at Philosophy Circles. Share your knowledge during PowerPoint Parties. Catalogue rare documents. Research archival discoveries. Make zines. Record oral histories. Hear from guest archivists and authors. Pause and feel the weight of what our ancestors left behind. Listen to the stories we carry.
PROGRAMMING
Monthly curated book selection · Literary meetups & reading circles · Archival listening sessions · Rare document reveals · Zine-making workshops · Oral history recording · Guest archivist sessions · Research office hours · Author talks & fireside chats
FESTIVAL LOVERS CLUB ✦
ARCHIVES & VIBES ✦
KINKEEPING CLUB ✦
CREATIVE EXPRESSION CLUB ✦
FESTIVAL LOVERS CLUB ✦ ARCHIVES & VIBES ✦ KINKEEPING CLUB ✦ CREATIVE EXPRESSION CLUB ✦
Student — $2.50/mo
Monthly book selection and discussion guide. Four literary meetups per year. Digital archive preview access.
Individual — $5/mo
Everything in Student, plus a guest pass per event, rare document preview sessions, and zine-making workshop access.
Family — $7/mo
Everything in Individual, plus a private archivist consultation, a named credit in the annual Story Center publication, and research residency access with an archival deposit slot.
Complete— $10/mo
For the culture lover who wants the full Story Center experience. Enjoy unlimited access to all four clubs—festivals, archives, genealogy, and creative expression—with exclusive events, VIP experiences, workshops, and member recognition.
KINKEEPING
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Genealogy · Family Memory · Identity · Lineage
Know where you come from. Honor where you're going.
Your family has a story. We help you find it, preserve it, and pass it on. The Kinkeeping Club is for anyone ready to dig into their lineage — from building a family tree to digitizing old photos to reminiscing on traditions, recipies and wisdom passed down through generations.
What We Do?
Host genealogy clinics. Guidance on filling in gaps in ancestry research. Sit with family artifacts and share stories. Digitize photographs and train how you start a.personal archive. Appreciate.Kinkeepers, elders, aunts, uncles, grandparents and block captains . Map out kinship and build lineage walls. Capture oral histories before they're lost. Help you reveal diaspora links in relationship to your family story.
PROGRAMMING
Genealogy clinics · Scrapbooking sessions · Show & tell of family artifacts · Photo digitization workshops · Family Reunion Planning · Family tree building workshops · Document preservation · Oral history capture · Kinship mapping & lineage walls.
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ARCHIVES & VIBES ✦
KINKEEPING CLUB ✦
CREATIVE EXPRESSION CLUB ✦
FESTIVAL LOVERS CLUB ✦ ARCHIVES & VIBES ✦ KINKEEPING CLUB ✦ CREATIVE EXPRESSION CLUB ✦
Student — $2.50/mo
Four genealogy clinics per year. Family tree starter kit. Show & tell events and digital archive access. Valid student ID required.
Individual — $5/mo
Everything in Student, plus photo digitization for up to 50 images, a guest pass per event, and a DNA interpretation session.
Family — $7/mo
Everything in Individual, plus a private genealogist consultation, an archive deposit slot for documents and photos, and your name on the Story Center Lineage Wall.
Complete — $10/mo
For the lifelong learner, creator, and culture keeper. Unlock unlimited access to all four clubs with exclusive events, genealogy resources, archival experiences, creative workshops, VIP festival access, and special member recognition.
CREATIVE EXPRESSION CLUB
Collage · Printmaking · Dance · Healing
Art & Culture is your birthright.
Make something. Feel something.
This is the club for makers. Whether you've never picked up a printmaking tool or you've been collaging for years, Creative Expression is where you create, collaborate, move, paint, write and find your voice through art. Every medium is welcome. Every level belongs. Everyone is Welcome!
What We Do?
Make collages, prints, paint, pottery, poetry, crafting, trinkets. Move through dance and body percussion. Watch Cinema, Engage with art as a creative therapeutic practice. Collaborate on Art. Exhibit in the pop-up gallery. Use creativity as a medium for storytelling, healing, and expression.
PROGRAMMING
Dance & movement workshops · Art-therapeutic sessions · Mixed-media & textile arts · Cinema.& Illustration, Community mural projects · Pop-up gallery exhibitions · Body percussion workshops · Open studio access
FESTIVAL LOVERS CLUB ✦
ARCHIVES & VIBES ✦
KINKEEPING CLUB ✦
CREATIVE EXPRESSION CLUB ✦
FESTIVAL LOVERS CLUB ✦ ARCHIVES & VIBES ✦ KINKEEPING CLUB ✦ CREATIVE EXPRESSION CLUB ✦
Student — $2.50/mo
Four workshops per year. Open studio access. Member gallery wall feature. Valid student ID required.
Individual — $5/mo
Everything in Student, plus a guest pass per event, a printmaking intensive, a pop-up gallery feature, and art-therapy workshop access.
Family — $7/mo
Everything in Individual, plus a private creative session with a resident artist, a solo exhibition slot in the Story Center gallery, a named credit in the annual art catalog, and access to the art-therapy facilitation training pathway.
Complete — $10/mo
For the creator who wants to experience it all. Unlock every club with unlimited access to creative workshops, genealogy resources, archival experiences, VIP festival opportunities, and exclusive member benefits—all through one membership.
