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Join R. Califa of @ nzo CALIFA Dance works in an encore season of #BottleTreeCulture MAKINU in the Park at Bell Street Park.  SUN. JUNE 16, 2024; 3:00P - 5:00P | East Palo Alto, CA.   *Our oil flows with Creative Venture.  Scan the QR code on the flier & learn more,  or visit https://reginacalifa.com   Equally excited to be joined by Tambores Julio Remelexo of Salvador da Bahia, led by Master Drummer JULIO Remelexo. Surdos, beats, and bom energia to rock the park will surely be delivered,  in a fantastic Summer Dance Diaspora JAM!  Remember to bring your blanket, nourishment &  an offering for the Day.     Please Register:  https://www.bopsidy.com/e/2829

Ever so pleased to add another Artistic feather to my Global Carnavalesca Crown. Bom Carnaval! Join me in shared Spirit for the best seats outside the streets. Grandstand Seating: https://givebutter.com/2024CSFGrandstandsTix      *     *     * about Regina "Califa" Calloway, Carnaval SF Grand Parade Judge       Regina “Califa” Calloway  is a distinguished Cultural Arts Producer with a 30-year trajectory as a Global Carnavalesca. She is an African Dance Diaspora Specialist, embodying foundational Dunham, Jazz, Central, and West African Dance training.         A thriving force during the 90s, she trained and performed with Crossroads Dance Collective , Fogo Na Roupa Grupo Carnavalesco, founded by the illustrious Mestre Carlos Gilberto Aceituno , Emesè: Messengers of the African Diaspora, and Diata Diata all-female Drum corp. Califa was vital in advancing organizations like Loco Bloco , Latin Dance Grooves , SambaFunk , and BoomShake Global Street Drum Women of Color . Her Ca

Bay Area Day, Fete & Family Festivals of Celebration   with a Cause!  Contact Fete Fundraiser Coordinator  Janeen Johnson, O.Y.A. Strategies (209) 645-1485 www.fuadiakongo.org/fundraiser-for-sandor-diabankouezi MAY 16-19, 2024 Contact Festival Director: @ nanolenaud_   MAY 25- 26, 2024 CarnavalSanFrancisco.com SAT. JUNE 1, 2024 Info: oaklandcarnival.net *select pix courtesy of @nzoCALIFA media  

!HOUSE LIGHTS ON! 💡 nzo CALIFA  HIGHLIGHTS: Arts & Culture Mavens, Mavericks & the Magnificent Janeen E. Johnson, Grantee 2023-2024 Living Cultures Grant,  Alliance for California Traditional Arts "From Whence I Came: Expressions of Congo" featuring Legacy Congolese Master Artist Tata Pierre Sandor Dianbankouezi  "Johnson will produce an oral history project centered on Pierre Sandor Diabankouezi, Master choreographer of traditional drum and dance from the Republic of Congo." Learn more about this project's important mission to preserve the STORY as Tata Sandor shares his life paths as a Congolese Artist spanning 3 or 4 continents, over 8 decades, to trailblazing the legacy of Congolese Dance and Music Traditions in the United States.  Click & Discover:     actaonline.org/profile/janeen-johnson/ UPDATES:  Mbote Good Folks; WED. May 15, 5P-9P Humanist Hall All important work in the field (O.Y.A Strategies), while collective works behind the scene

 [reposted quiet reflection]  Historically  January 1, 1863,  represents the first effects of the Emancipation Proclamation, serving as a military tactic that first released the bondage of those enslaved on rebellious Southern territory against the Union Army under Lincoln's presidency; this included  some of my own Ancestors of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina; Yet,  it'd be an ongoing battle in the Civil War with others of myAncestors serving in the United States Colored Troops, paving the way towards the abolition of slavery by the 13th Amendment, passed through Congress January 31, 1865, and ratified December 6, 1865.   "I say that my folks, are the most resilient, brilliant Human specie on this planet"  ~ R.Califa           For no matter the tactics or the terror, we were and are a liberation-minded people, who've navigated  slave ship horror stories, launched  scores of uncharted rebellions, to wage the strife of everyday plantation life, striving to th

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