Festival Weekend: Friday, June 10th – Sunday, June 12
ODUNDE, has gained a reputation as one of Philadelphia’s brightest cultural jewel. The word ODUNDE originates with the Yoruba people of Nigeria, West Africa. It means “Happy New Year”. The ODUNDE festival is an occasion marked by joy and hope, a joy which is highlighted by a colorful procession to the Schuylkill River (at noon) where offerings of fruits and flowers are made to Oshun, the Goddess of the River.
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Saturday, June 4, 2011:
Saturday morning will be filled with fun, free family activities for children! Make-and-take arts and crafts, storytelling, face painting, and Hip Hop Dancing Clowns entertainment.
The afternoon is for the young people, with young adult author readings, bucket drumming, and breakdancers. And meet extreme sports snowboarder Brian “Deka” Paupaw!
Live music, comedy, poetry, hip-hop, and more!! Throughout the day we will keep the party going with serious fun on the main stage. Exciting performances with a DJ will make literature come alive all day long. Featuring performances by comedian Anthony “Tmor” Morris, poet “Just Greg” Corbin, trumpeter Hannibal Lokumbe, DJ and MC MH The Verb and a special performance by rocker Res!
Gil Scott-Heron died Friday afternoon in New York, his book publisher reported. He was 62. The influential poet and musician is often credited with being one of the progenitors of hip-hop, and is best known for the spoken-word piece “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Read more here…
Job Opportunities at SEPTA
SEPTA and I have teamed up to educate individuals on what SEPTA’s expectations are for finding qualified applicants.
Not your “average” career fair, this will give you the opportunity to have the inside track for employment.
The event will take place on Tuesday, June 28. Visit www.senatoranthonyhwilliams.com for updates, including time and location and the names of other major employers who will be participating.
There will be three presenters from SEPTA’s Human Resource Department to identify what skills and experiences the company would like to see in applicants. Dan Amspacher, who is a talent director at SEPTA, will talk about the experience required for different positions within the company. George Spellman will go over the SEPTA culture, history, and standards. A member of the SEPTA Transit Police Department will talk about what it takes to be a police officer for SEPTA. A SEPTA representative will be on hand to explain how to fill out a SEPTA job application.
In the meantime, visit SEPTA’s Careers section for more information on job opportunities.
For more information, call Don Cave or Desaree K. Jones at 215-492-2980 or visit www.senatoranthonyhwilliams.com.
Joan Williams
First Vice President
and Director of Programs and Projects
West Philadelphia Coalition
of Neighborhoods and Businesses
5070 Parkside Avenue, Suite 1416
Philadelphia, PA 19131
(215) 476-0400 (O)
(215) 476-0600 (F)
Wednesday May 25, 7pm – Non-Fiction
Lily Yeh author of
Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossoms ($34.95 New Village)
Once described as the “Mother Theresa of community arts,” Lily Yeh is a Philadelphia-based visual artist by way of China and Taiwan. She has won numerous awards, including an Arts and Healing Network Award as well as a Founder’s Award from the Fleisher Organization. She has completed residencies and given keynote speeches at universities throughout the United States. Lily emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s to attend the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate school of Fine Arts. A successful painter and professor at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, Lily traveled to Beijing in 1989 to show her work at the Central Institute of Fine Art. There, she witnessed the tragic events of Tiananmen Square. Over the 1980s, Lily gradually realized that being an artist “is not just about making art . . . It is about delivering the vision one is given . . . and about doing the right thing without sparing oneself.” She founded The Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia and continues pursuing her vision through her new organization, Barefoot Artists, which teaches residents and artists how to replicate the Village model in devastated communities around the world. Lily is most noted for transforming an urban neighborhood in North Philadelphia into an inner-city work of art. Once an empty lot, Yeh worked with the community to create an interactive park space filled with gardens and mosaics. Lily’s vision has rippled out far beyond North Philadelphia’s borders. She inspires and collaborates with prison inmates to create beauty and art, and does the same with thousands of adults and children who live in some of the world’s most broken communities. She has collaborated with residents of the Korogocho slum near Nairobi to enliven a barren churchyard with colorful murals and sculptures and traveled to Ghana, Ecuador, The Ivory Coast and the Republic of Georgia to work on similar projects. Her most recent endeavor is the Rwanda Healing Project, in which she worked with hundreds of children and families to transform their bleak village into a place of beauty and joy.
The A.W.A.R.D. Show! (which is an acronym for Artists with Audience Responding to Dance) is an opportunity to see 12 different local dance artists/companies over three nights (May 18-20). Each night four different dance artists will present their work and afterwards the audience will have a chance to engage in discussion of the work with the artists and fellow audience members; and to chose a finalist by popular vote to advance to the “final round.” Culminating on Saturday, May 21st, the three finalists will perform again for a panel of judges that teams with the audience to determine the grand prize winner of $10,000.
So come out see a great show, partake in some lively conversation, enjoy the light eats at the after performance reception and vote to empower an artist to create and dream bigger. You could make a difference in the life of the arts in Philadelphia and have a great night out to boot, all for a low ticket price of $15.
Tickets are $15 per show or $40 for four shows and can be purchased at Ticket Philadelphia; 215-893-1999 phone 9 am-8 pm or in person Kimmel Center Box Office, 300 S. Broad St. 10am-6pm. All performances are at the Arts Bank, 601 South Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19147
The May 18th program features Eric Bean, (Koresh Dance Company member) in Prime set on the dancers of Eleone Dance Ensemble. Eleanor Goudie-Averill (dancer for Group Motion and founder of Stone Depot Dance) presents the premiere of Convictions 1-111. Meredith Rainey (retired PA Ballet dancer and director of Carbon Dance Theatre) will perform This Is It/It Is This, a duet with Sun-Mi Cho. Brian Sanders (MOMIX Alum and founder of Junk) will show excerpts from his latest creation Dancing Dead.
The May 19th program features Zane Booker (Philadanco, White Oak, Complexions and NDT dancer and artistic director of the SLJ Initiative) in Black Power, a trio to Zoe Keating’s music. Bronwen MacArthur (international performer, a Susan Hess Choreographers Project resident and founder of MacArthur Dance) premieres Interrupt Rondoset to the music of Curtis Institute faculty member David Ludwig. Gabrielle Revlock (Jeanne Ruddy Company member and founder of Mano/Damno) debuts I Made This For You for 15 performers. Yu Wei (principal dancer of the Wuhan Song and Dance Theater and founder of Yu Wei Chinese Dance Collection) performs a recreation of her solo Water to music by Chinese composer Wan Li.
The May 20th program features Tyger B in the premiere of Autobiography/Rehearsal, a large ensemble work. Sarah Konner (dancer for Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Co. and Olive Prince) performs the Philly premiere of Heavy is Good, Dead is Tender featuring seven dancers and two singers. Rain Ross (founder of Rain Ross Dance and Assistant Professor at Stockton College) debuts Composition #43, a collaborative work with composers Robert Alexander and Patrick Whitehead. Raphael Xavier (Rennie Harris Alum) presents Black Canvas, an autobiographic story of his introduction to Breaking.
The final program on Saturday, May 21 will be announced after Friday evening’s performance, featuring the finalists from the previous three programs.
The A.W.A.R.D. Show! is administered by The Joyce Theater Foundation. The Philadelphia Awards have been generously underwritten by The Boeing Company. General program support is also provided by Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Philadelphia Cultural Fund. The Philadelphia presentation is in partnership with University of the Arts and DanceUSA/Philadelphia.
Engaging Diversity, Keeping It Real:
An Introduction to Intergroup Dialogue
May 20, 2011 8am-5:30pm
Temple University
Over the past year, almost 200 professionals participated in the Engaging Diversity, Keeping It Real Symposiums. They said:
Engaging Diversity, Keeping It Real: An Introduction to Intergroup Dialogue will provide faculty, teachers, administrators, social service and human resource professionals, community leaders and activists with an opportunity to participate in intergroup dialogues with professionals from throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Unlike most diversity education programs, intergroup dialogue creates an open, honest and equal space for communicating deeply about historically challenging issues as part of the process for building bridges among groups.
Engaging Diversity, Keeping It Real: An Introduction to Intergroup Dialogue centers learning on the knowledge, experiences and perspectives of participants facilitated by trained professionals. Each participant will select two separate dialogue topics – one morning session and one afternoon session. The dialogues offered will be on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and class.
Registration Cost: $50 (includes price of lunch and refreshments). $15 for Temple University employees and graduate and professional school students. Online payments accepted and encouraged.
Registration Deadline: May 11, 2011!
Join other professionals from throughout the region to build bridges through dialogue.
Milton Myers: Violin Concerto
Christopher Huggins: Cottonwool
Ray Mercer: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Rennie Harris: Philadelphia Experiment
Beloved for its dazzling, visceral style and devotion to promoting African-American traditions in dance, Philadanco returns to the Kimmel Center with works by stellar contemporary choreographers, including the Philadelphia premiere of Ray Mercer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, based on the controversial 1967 film.
‘The company style…is visceral…fierce and sensuous by turns…elegant and ingratiating.’ —New York Magazine
Following the May 6 performance at the Perelman Theater stage, Philadanco will participate in an Artist Chat moderated by Joan Myers Brown.
15TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
15th Anniversary Season
Get your tickets now for our 15th Anniversary Spring Concert,The Elements “Earth, Wind, Fire & Eleone!” and please join us for our 15th Anniversary Crystal Gala Reception ” Moving and Dancing into Gtreatness” .
Black Writers Museum Poetry Marathon
To recite call 267.297.3078. Guests $6, 12 & under FREE. Students and Seniors, Unpublished and Professionals. An intergenerational tapestry of Poetic Bliss… A “Living Legend of Black Poetry” award presented to Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez. African Marketplace with vendors, jazz, food and fun An Entire Family Event! “History in the room, while history is made in the room.”
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