JANUARY 2007
Saturday, January 6, 2007.
7PM
Chopteeth.
Inaugural Gala for Washington, DC
Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Place
NW, Washington, DC 20001. 800-368-9000
Saturday,
January 13, 2007. 8PM
Sunday,
January 14, 2007.
4:00PM
KanKouran West African Dance Company. Traditional West African
dance. Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE, Washington, DC
Thursday, January 18, 2007. 8PM
The AfroFunk Forum Dance
Party -
Chopteeth,
DJ Thick,
Elikeh.
DC9, 1940
9th Street, NW Washington, DC. (202) 483-5000.
Saturday, January 27, 2007.
Queen Nur: Sweet Potato Pie and Such. Stories, songs and dance
accompanied by live African instruments. Olney Theatre Center for the Arts,
2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Rd., Olney, MD. 202-397-7328
Saturday, January 27, 2007. 8:00 PM & 10:30PM
Franck
Amsallem Jazz Trio.
Bohemian Caverns, 2001 11th Street, NW Washington, DC. Born in Algeria,
Franck Amsallem has been a professional pianist and composer for over 25
years.
FEBRUARY 2007
Monday, February 5, 2007. 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Cabral/Truth Circle at
Busboys and
Poets.
Transafrica Forum
Sunday, February 18, 2007. 4 p.m.
Soweto Gospel Choir.
African gospel music.
Center for the Arts - George Mason University, 4400 University
Drive, Fairfax, VA. 888-945-2468
Friday, February 23, 2007. 12 Noon
National Museum of Natural History.
Orixas
(2006, 28 min.). African gods in Brazil! Enslaved
Yoruba peoples from Africa (Benin, Nigeria and Togo) brought a
belief system with them and, unwilling to lose their souls or
identity in difficult circumstances, maintained a strong oral
tradition through which the tenets and practices of their religion
have survived, flourished and evolved in the Bahia region of Brazil.
By Maria Esperanza Palau for the University of the Andes. Following
is Ilé Aiyé/House of
Life (1989, 51 min.), David Byrne’s musically rich
documentary on the African-influenced religion, Candomblé.
Discussion with anthropologist Dr. Michael Atwood Mason.
Baird Auditorium
Saturday, February 24, 2007.
12 Noon
National Museum of Natural History.
Visual Griots of Mali - African
Children Tell Their Stories with Cameras. Malian and
U.S. photographers traveled 500 miles southwest of Timbuktu to help
youth photographically document their lives.
Baird Auditorium
Sunday, February 25, 2007. 3pm
Petronel Malan. BlackRock Center for the Arts, 12901 Town
Commons Drive, Germantown, MD. Classical Piano. A cultural icon in
her native South Africa, pianist Petronel Malan’s influence runs the
gamut from the intellectual to the whimsical.
MARCH 2007
March 7, 2007
Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
South African group. George Washington University - Lisner
Auditorium, 730 21st St. NW, Washington, DC. 202-397-7328
March 31, 2007
Toumani
Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra.
Toumani Diabaté is at the vanguard of a new generation of griots
from Mali who are both modernizing and honoring their traditional
music. George Washington University - Lisner Auditorium 730 21st St.
NW, Washington, DC. 202-397-7328