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20 YEAR CAPOEIRA LEGACY AT THE HISTORIC MALONGA CENTER  <FREE CLASSES OFFERED BY OMULU CAPOEIRA KINTUARI > CAPOEIRA*DANCE*BATIZADO*MACULELE*MASTER INSTRUCTOR FREE Dance Class 6:30p-8:00p  Afro Brasilian,  Fri. DEC. 13, 2013, 2nd flr Studio A - LIVE Drum s! Oakland, CA --     Maintaining a deep connection with  Omulu Capoeira , pioneered by  Mestre Preguiça  30 years ago,    Regina Califa  strives to    cultivate these traditions and its sustenance at the Malonga Center, lead by  Anthony Busca  Hé  Fidel  since 2006 along with the leadership of  Mestre Preguiça now based  in Los Angeles; Miss Califa was i nitiated into the roda in the late 90's under the aegis of Mestre Carlos Gilberto Aceituno , dynamic teacher and illustrious founder of the Oakland "Kintuari" chapter in 1993.  The chapter's name  Kintuari [Unity] was  adorned by  the late   Ta...

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Sheer gratitude for Sway Calloway of "Sway In The Morning Show" SHADE45 (Sirius XM Radio) for powering up Our campaign with a Facebook post of support this morning. Post by Sway Calloway . Funding for Our #NOLA kinship supports 23 students K-12 to participate for the 1st time in New Orleans Fringe Festival Nov. 21-24: http://www.gofundme.com/Negras-Quilombolas _____________________ UPDATES  #NOLA Teaching-Artist/ Producer wins for 23 Youth  in Arts Campaign Success! Just yesterday Friday, November 16th nzo.califa Dance Works joined powerful #Dance-building movements through harvesting our network resources to get on board to the #Powerof3.  One of our target cohorts " Negras Quilombolas " initiated by  Ja'neese Brooks-Galathe of New Orleans, rally's support from New Orleans loyal Community supporters to online efforts launched through a 30-day GoFundMe crowd funder on Facebook. With a celebrated $2151.00 raised to date , even unt...

nzo.califa Dance Works is excited to align with such creative and powerful #Dance movements in Community-building, preserving legacies for generations today and next. Please extend beyond an arm's reach and exercise your GIVE with kinship alike. Knowing that the journey along the way yields the best rewards, help these Leaders reach their intended GOAL where everybody wins!   ~A Heartfelt thanks. *live links for each project below, just read & then click* abunDANCE Donor Campaign empowering the GIVE revitalizing philanthropic efforts in our Community *campaigns listed in order of time-sensitivity _____________________ #New Orleans   Negras Quimbolas:  http://www.gofundme.com/Negras-Quilombolas  #Oakland   Dancestory2013: http://youtu.be/1nQfV3evqBI/ #St. Louis   80 to Sustain: Katherine Dunham Museum: http://kdcah.org/membership-giving/ # in gratitude

Baron Samedi-Haitian and his purple'd lovelies - Artist: Gerard Fortune *  compiled by nzo.califa Dance Works  -   in Go[o]d Spirit of the Season Sat. 10.26 4p-9p_ Finehouse Art Collective - 3192 St, MLK-Ashby BART  #OAK Wanda Kruda, La Prima & Collette Eloi & El Wah Movement  Fri/Sat. Nov. 1st-3rd | Fet Gede Mko nou c Vodou | FB: "maknoucvodou " Jacmel, Haiti 8 Rue de E'glise |   entre la Place et la Cathédrale Fri. Nov.01 7:15p-8:45 _Ms. Blanche Brown's Afro Haitian Dance  #SFO ODC Dance Commons - 351 Shotwell St | nr 16th st BART Fri. Nov.01 6p-11p _Plezi Gede - DROM 85 Avenue A | regine@haiticulturalx.org #NYC Haitian Cultural Exchange, La Troupe Makandal & Makini Sacred Arts Fri. Nov. 01 10p-until Tap Tap Restaurant - Haitian Cuisine/Culture  819 5th Street Miami Beach, FL Fri. Nov.01 4p _33rd Gede Ceremony 7p 3319 Rosalie Alley off Rampart: btwn Piety/Desire #NOLA The Island of Salvati...

A Message from the Artistic Director of Dimensions Dance Theatre - Ms. Deborah Vaughan, Cultural Visionary: Dimensions Dance Celebrates 40: Community Dance Revelry! Oakland, CA  [Sept.12th]  The Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts , known as the Bay Area portal and home to legacy companies of African and African Diaspora Arts and Culture, culture place where the works of  Bay Area Cultural architects in the field of "multi-ethnic Dance and Drum forms thrive and known for its signature programming, keeping its Oakland Bay Area location as a hotspot for building Dance, Drum and Culture. One such company, Dimensions Dance Theatre raises its banner commemorating 40 years strong  1973-2013: kicking HIGH, turning FAST, building, creating and elevating along the way!  The Company presents  a Dance Concert Performance Celebration, Sat. Oct. 5th at 8p. “ Celebration at 40  affirms Dimensions’ vital legacy as one of the most l...

July/2013 | Oakland, CA --Humanist Hall: An intimate night of honor featuring an Honorary Dance Tribute to Blanche Brown & Lynn Coles , Pioneers in Traditional Haitian Dance Traditions * featuring Rara Tou Limen & former members of Blanche Brown's Petit La Croix . Warmly encrusted with the special ingredients that make a night like this so special. Rasanble2013 did not disappoint as participants entered the space displaying that which makes Haitian Cultural Arts, Community and the people so special. Joined in kinship via Congo SQ West Kinship Society was pleased to serve as Community partner and took on another year serving as Madamemosille of ceremonies while cohort Janeen Johnson midwifed the evening with production expertise, bearing a special love for Rasanble and its leadership. Rara Tou Limen Haitian Performing Company led the evening with its signature "Rebirth"  choreography, dancing Yanvalou leaving the space transformed into temple with an...

lft to rt: Festival Co-Director, C.K. Ladzekpo; Deborah Vaughan Founder, Dimensions Dance Theatre; Colette Eloi, Artistic Director, El Wah Movement; Ms. Blanche Brown, Haitian Dance Pioneer; Latanya Tigner, Director Dimensions Extensions/Dancer-Dimensions Dance Theatre | photo cr: Jan McDermott TAKE5 :  SF-EDF2013 YBCA - LAM Theater "...when I think of the African Diaspora, I think of it in terms of movement." Dance Pioneer Ms. Blanche Brown , reflects upon seeing her Aunt dancing the jitterbug in the 40's as she further comments that African Diaspora people have, "... an Ancestral memory in our body that makes us move in a certain way."   june 29, 2013_San Francisco, CA -- Ms. Blanche's formal training of African Diaspora Dance was under the aegis of Dance Educator, Cultural Ambassador Ms. Nontsizi Cayou , whose formidable spirit principled the campaign, which led to the formation of San Francisco State University's Dep...