African Street Festival
September 20,
2005
11am-6pm
The event was between Tarpley, Dobbs and the Hill
Freeman Library.
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Featuring Workshops
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Velma Maia Thomas:
With a love for music and a voice that deeply touches the
soul, Velma Maia Thomas captures the struggles, challenges
and victories of African Americans through spoken word and
song.
Hear her as she reads and sings from her award-winning book,
Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and
Emancipation. Velma speaks truth to power, honoring African
American men and women whose spirits could not be broken. |
The Georgia
Sea Island Singers:
The Georgia Sea Island Singers of St. Simon’s Island
preserve the rich reservoirs of African-American culture,
customs and the songs of the Gullah language spoken on the
isolated islands of the Georgia Coast.
These islands have been a vital storehouse of
African-American history, because people living here were
cut off from the melting pot on the mainland and retained a
more pure version of the games and songs brought over from
Africa. Frankie Sullivan Quimby, the oldest of thirteen
children, is descended from slaves who could trace their
ancestry back to the Foulah Tribe, in the Kingdom of Massina,
on the Niger River. |
Aisha Rivers of the Ayoluwa
African Dance Theatre
Aisha Rivers of the Ayoluwa African Dance Theatre,
traditional African dance engulfed in the rhythmic sounds of
the drums. Rivers is one of the most energetic and talented
dance teachers you'll ever meet.
The Dance Theatre
music's is composed of
Modern, Jazz, Ballet, African Funk Aerobics, Fusion, and
Hip-Hop Jazz. |
Many booths, vendors, activities, and
tastes of Africa!
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