Success starts with a story.
You have to see it.
The Dream Project seeks to increase positive representation, particularly of African Americans, across pages, stages, screens, and streams. By placing black and brown youth at the center of a new narrative—one that celebrates their identity and charts a path to success—The Dream Project invites them to envision a future where their dreams are not only possible but put well within their reach.
The Dream Project is a movement about remembering.
Remembering who we were before the world told us who to be.
Remembering that becoming is not a failure to arrive, but proof that we are alive.
Remembering that dreams are not childish ideas, but deep human instructions.
The Dream Project exists to slow us down long enough to notice what’s been shaping us, what we’ve been carrying, and what is still possible. Through story, movement, music, reflection, and shared experience, it invites people back into relationship with themselves and with one another.
This is not about chasing success or fixing what’s broken.
It’s about recognition.
It’s about returning to your breath, your body, your voice, your agency.
The Dream Project is not something you watch.
It’s something you enter.
And once you do, the only question becomes
Who are you becoming?
Creating dance that moves the soul. Creating music that encourages.
Creating opportunities that matter.
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The David C. Herriman Family Fund
Thank you for believing in a dream.
what if?