Thank You to our Inaugural Gala Sponsors, Supporters, and Donors
Ryan Family
Thank You Mrs. Deborah Ryan!
Elite Dental Studio
Thank You Dr. K T Dao!
Bronze Sponsors
Event & Silent Auction Donors
Platinum Donors
Thank You Blackwood Family, Darrow Family, and Simpson Family!
We Are
The Voice Project
We've already made a huge difference for more than 20,000 women
About the Project
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The Hard Truth
Annual Report
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Nataliya Tkachuk
Attorney
Nataliya Tkachuk is a Ukrainian attorney, choreographer, model, director, and yoga practitioner. More than a triple threat, Nataliya works as a Corporate Restructuring and Tax Liability Attorney when she is not teaching Yoga, Ballet, Contemporary dance, or creating and directing Screendance. Nataliya holds an Ashtanga yoga certification and practices globally as well as has studied in India. She has taught dance and presented choreography internationally as well as having choreographed on the Kyiv Ballet. Nataliya holds a Masters of Arts from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, England.
REFUGEES, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS, ASYLUM SEEKERS, AND INDIVIDUALS IMPACTED BY WAR, VIOLENCE, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
THE NEED:
OUR SOLUTION: ACCESSIBLE ARTS OUTREACH
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Dance, Music, & Theatre Workshops & Masterclasses
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Community Performance Opportunities
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Imagination & Improvisation Labs
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Creativity & Composition Classes
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Multi-generational Learning Experiences
Classes and workshops include
Creative Movement, Ballet, Jazz and Contemporary dance; dramatic interpretation, readings, Shakespeare, improvisation, and Physical Theatre; and rhythm, melody, meter, dynamics, instrumentation, and voice.
OVERLOOK: HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH 2022
2 Countries
So far, ASF NGO has provided humanitarian outreach to individuals and families impacted by the Russian Ukraine war in Poland and in Ukraine.
4 Locations
From humanitarian aid centers to makeshift air raid shelters, ASF NGO has taught, performed, and provided outreach and entertainment in cities including Warsaw and Przemyśl, Poland and in L'viv, Ukraine.
745 Participants
This projection denotes confirmed children and adult participants, with the potential the number above should be doubled. Accurate head counts are not always possible in situations of conflict and crisis.
OUR RESPONSE: SOLUTION-BASED PROGRAMMING
OUTREACH
EDUCATION
HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH
Free dance, music, and theatre classes and workshops and free performances and shows for individuals of all ages in areas affected by war, violence, conflict, and humanitarian crisis. We are currently serving individuals and families in Poland and Ukraine impacted by the Russian Ukraine war.
Pictured: Humanitarian aid center housing Ukrainian refugees, 2022
COMMUNITY ARTS EDUCATION
Free and low-cost in-school scholastic enhancement programs for ages 5-18 that aim to make the performing arts accessible through classes, workshops, performances, and labs designed to enrich imagination and engagement.
Pictured: Founder Katie Burks with students of Warsaw Ukrainian School, Warsaw 2022
OVERLOOK: HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH 2022
2 Countries
So far, ASF NGO has provided humanitarian outreach to individuals and families impacted by the Russian Ukraine war in Poland and in Ukraine.
4 Locations
From humanitarian aid centers to makeshift air raid shelters, ASF NGO has taught, performed, and provided outreach and entertainment in cities including Warsaw and Przemyśl, Poland and in L'viv, Ukraine.
745 Workshop Participants
This projection denotes confirmed children and adult participants, with the potential the number above should be doubled. Accurate head counts are not always possible in situations of conflict and crisis.
Humanitarian Aid Center Performance, Warsaw, Poland 2022
Our Impact
Present
February - May 2023
November 2022
June - August 2022
April 2022
RAISE program benefitting economically disparaged youth in greater North Texas + GALA
ASF's second humanitarian outreach serving Ukrainian, Belarusian, and (defected) Russian refugees and displaced persons in Poland in Ukraine brought dance, music, and theatrical classes and workshops to over 1,000 participants across 7 locations
Our local, Texas community came together in benefit of ASF to help gear up for 2023's outreach.
ASF's first humanitarian outreach endeavor benefitting Ukrainian, Belarusian, and (defected) Russian refugees and displaced persons brings dance, music, and theatrical workshops and classes to over 745 participants and performances across 4 locations in Poland and Ukraine.
Artists Sans Frontières is incorporated as a Texas nonprofit corporation under federal code
Our Core Values
Accessibility
ASF-NGO believes the performing arts extend beyond the stage into areas of war, conflict, and humanitarian crisis.
Collaboration
We believe collaboration builds community. We treasure the act of coming together as sacred and we prioritize teamwork. We work to facilitate collaborations with partners, individuals, churches, refugee camps, and more in order to provide the greatest and most efficient performing arts outreach.
Courage
We believe it takes courage to serve the courageous. Our team pledges to reciprocate the strength, bravery, and fortitude presented by the millions of individuals displaced and uprooted from their homes in times of war, conflict, and crisis.
Creativity
From the ability to facilitate unexpected surprises to surpassing the anticipated or expected, we value the product of creative thinking and prioritize its use in all aspects of our organization, be they administrative strategies or in-the-field outreach.
Integrity
We hold ourselves at the highest standards of excellence which require accountability, honesty, and competency at all times - not only to the individuals we serve, but also to each other and our team, to our mission, to our donors, and to the public. Our relationships are founded and fostered on trust, loyalty, and following through on every commitment.
Respect
Disrespect is not tolerated; we respect the needs, values, and traditions of the individuals, communities, and cultures we serve. ASF-NGO recognizes that our success depends on the active involvement of individuals and partners whose livelihoods are linked to the geographic areas in which we seek to provide outreach.
Transparency
This is not a performance. We aim to be open, honest, and forward about all aspects of our organization from administration to on-the-ground operations.
We use dance, music, and theatre
to provide mental and emotional stability.
We use the performing arts to support the integral recovery and resolution phase of disaster relief and humanitarian aid. In situations of disaster and distress, providing food, water, and shelter only solves physical aid. That's why ASF steps in to provide emotional aid and support.
Be it in war zones or our own backyard, our performing arts outreach, enrichment, and entertainment has proven to put smiles on faces even in the most difficult circumstances.
Current: Ukraine
Here’s How You Can Help
Donate Funds
Your generous support brings supplies to children and families in shelters, houses and feeds volunteers, and provides space for classes, workshops, labs, and performances.
Donate Space
FOR CLASSES:
We are currently coordinating with shelters, churches, warehouses, and staging areas housing refugees in order to provide performing arts classes, labs, and workshops. If you would like to donate space that could accommodate a performing arts workshop, please contact us below.
FOR VOLUNTEERS:
We work hard to coordinate housing and feeding our team so that we do not add to the burden of those in need of a place to sleep and a meal to eat in areas of disaster. The graciousness of others offering spare bedrooms, couches, and floors so that our creatives can teach, share, and inspire is overwhelming. If you would like to house a volunteer, please contact us below.
Donate Time: Volunteer
Interested in joining Team ASF-NGO? We would love to hear from you. Please send your resume / CV, a biography, and links to your website(s) and social media profile(s) through the contact form below.
Please note: All volunteers must pass a background check, drug screening test, and Board evaluation in order to receive an invitation for training to teach classes / labs / workshops in the field.
Join us for a swanky and fun evening full of live performances, dinner, beverages, a silent auction, a cash raffle, and dancing!
Proceeds from our Inaugural Gala will support our mission by providing dance, music, and theatrical classes, workshops and performances.
For more event information, please click the link above.
For questions regarding the event or event registration,
please contact us via email at events@asf-ngo.org.
Thank You to our Inaugural Gala Sponsors, Supporters, and Donors
Ryan Family
Thank You Mrs. Deborah Ryan!
Elite Dental Studio
Thank You Dr. K T Dao!
Bronze Sponsors
Event & Silent Auction Donors
Platinum Donors
Thank You Blackwood Family, Darrow Family, and Simpson Family!
OVERLOOK: HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH
Global Reach
From humanitarian aid centers to schools, orphanages, hospitals, senior care centers, and even makeshift air-raid shelters, our performing arts programs reach all.
1,000+ Participants*
In ASF's first year of operation, over 1,000* children and adults participated in dance, music, and theatrical workshops, classes, and performance opportunities.
3+ Countries
Our operations in Poland and Ukraine have served Ukrainian, Belarusian, and (defected) Russian refugees in over 7 cities including Warsaw and Jarosław, Poland and Львів (L’viv), Ukraine.
*Accurate head counts are not always possible in situations of conflict and crisis, and capturing video and photographs to assist confirmation is often not permitted.
We estimate our impact to be around 1500, but can confirm 1,000 smiles via authorized captured media.
274
MILLION
Individuals in need of humanitarian assistance and protection globally in 2022
Source: OCHA
125
BILLION
$
In total damages incl. 178,00+ homes destroyed and 100+ lives lost by Hurricane Harvey (Texas, 2017).
Source: Texas.gov
49%
TEXANS
OF
Reported economic damage and negative effects as a direct result of Winter Storm Uri, 2021.
Source: Univ. of Houston
THE NEED:
Global
REFUGEES, DISPLACED PERSONS, ASYLUM SEEKERS, FAMILIES, AND INDIVIDUALS IMPACTED BY WAR, VIOLENCE, AND HUMANITARIAN DISASTER
Local
YOUTH, FAMILIES, AND INDIVIDUALS IMPACTED BY NATURAL DISASTERS AND ECONOMIC DISPARITY
OUR RESPONSE:
SOLUTION-BASED PROGRAMMING
OUTREACH
HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH
Free dance, music, and theatre classes and workshops and free performances and shows for individuals of all ages in areas impacted by war, violence, natural disaster, and humanitarian crisis. Our largest and ongoing humanitarian outreach program serves individuals and families impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Pictured: Humanitarian aid center housing Ukrainian refugees, 2022
EDUCATION
COMMUNITY ARTS EDUCATION
Free and low-cost dance, music, and theatre classes, workshops, performances, and labs designed to enrich imagination and engagement. Our Community Arts Education program is currently focused on increasing performing arts accessibility to children ages 5-18 impacted by economic disparity in Greater North-Texas.
Pictured: Founder Katie Burks with students of Warsaw Ukrainian School, Warsaw 2022
A bomb explodes. A highly trained extraction team pulls several individuals from the rubble. Medics address their wounds and deem them fit to travel to safety. The individuals move into nearby intermediate housing: a church, a refugee camp, a subway station. And then… they wait. Minutes pass. Days. Weeks. But it is the moments that linger. A moment spent treasuring a child’s laughter. A moment witnessing smiles on adult faces. A moment of active participants singing and dancing despite their reality; a moment of joy. A moment of warranted distraction. A moment of presence. A moment of peace. Perhaps even a moment of freedom from the surreal reality. Perhaps a moment of love - of a moment of feeling at home. That is the vision. Through teaching dance, music, and theatre, to give individuals experiencing crisis simply an option of a moment – amidst destruction, pain, and death– to feel the most alive.
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Our Mission: Performing Arts for ALL
Our Core Values
Accessibility
ASF-NGO believes the performing arts extend beyond the stage into areas of war, conflict, and humanitarian crisis.
Collaboration
We believe collaboration builds community. We treasure the act of coming together as sacred and we prioritize teamwork. We work to facilitate collaborations with partners, individuals, churches, refugee camps, and more in order to provide the greatest and most efficient performing arts outreach.
Courage
We believe it takes courage to serve the courageous. Our team pledges to reciprocate the strength, bravery, and fortitude presented by the millions of individuals displaced and uprooted from their homes in times of war, conflict, and crisis.
Creativity
From the ability to facilitate unexpected surprises to surpassing the anticipated or expected, we value the product of creative thinking and prioritize its use in all aspects of our organization, be they administrative strategies or in-the-field outreach.
Integrity
We hold ourselves at the highest standards of excellence which require accountability, honesty, and competency at all times - not only to the individuals we serve, but also to each other and our team, to our mission, to our donors, and to the public. Our relationships are founded and fostered on trust, loyalty, and following through on every commitment.
Respect
Disrespect is not tolerated; we respect the needs, values, and traditions of the individuals, communities, and cultures we serve. ASF-NGO recognizes that our success depends on the active involvement of individuals and partners whose livelihoods are linked to the geographic areas in which we seek to provide outreach.
Transparency
This is not a performance. We aim to be open, honest, and forward about all aspects of our organization from administration to on-the-ground operations.
Support ASF
Contact
Artists Sans Frontières or ASF NGO
3630 Harry Hines Blvd, Box 17
Dallas, TX 75219
Artists Sans Frontières is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides performing arts outreach, entertainment, and enrichment to individuals of all ages impacted by war, violence, natural disaster, and economic disparity. We believe that the performing arts are essential.
EIN: 88-2077785
Artists Sans Frontières does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender, political orientation, national origin, age, nor disability.
© 2024 ARTISTS SANS FRONTIÈRES ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
ASF is profoundly grateful to our partners, donors, contributors, and sponsors
for their invaluable support and assistance in sustaining our mission.
Blackwood Family, Darrow Family, Simpson Family, Ryan Family
ASF is profoundly grateful to our
partners, donors, contributors, and sponsors
for their invaluable support and assistance
in sustaining our mission.
Blackwood Family, Darrow Family, Simpson Family, Ryan Family
ASF is profoundly grateful to our partners, donors, contributors, and sponsors
for their invaluable support and assistance in sustaining our mission.
Blackwood Family, Darrow Family, Simpson Family, Ryan Family
Support ASF
Artists Sans Frontières or ASF NGO
3630 Harry Hines Blvd, Box 17
Dallas, TX 75219
Artists Sans Frontières is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides performing arts outreach, entertainment, and enrichment to individuals of all ages impacted by war, violence, natural disaster, and economic disparity. We believe that the performing arts are essential.
EIN: 88-2077785
Contact
Artists Sans Frontières does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender, political orientation, national origin, age, nor disability.
© 2024 ARTISTS SANS FRONTIÈRES ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Classes + Workshops
Provided
84
Performance Opportunities
Facilitated
18
1,736
Families + Children
Impacted
Since 2022, ASF has provided performing arts programming to over 1,500 refugee and economically disparaged children and families across 3 countries.