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Malongafest2021: Casting Our Light Week of Nov.8th

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nzocalifa -- The way is open in ire' with libations and prayers of Ase'. as we celebrate the fruits of our Ancestral gifts through Dance, Drum, and Culture. We lift Our Commune+Unity when WE remember. We invite you to join us in shared kinship works. Matondo #Malongafest2021 | Register Today:  https://bit.ly/2ZNcJ1s Dance Virtuoso from Lima, Peru Javier Barrera to jump off $6 Tuesdays LIVE! at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts NOVEMBER 9, 2021 6P-7:30P, 2nd flr Studio A Malongafest2021 "Casting Our Light" Week 1 & 2  

reflect in Remembrance- Give Praise to Life 2021

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[ARCHIVES] nzoCALIFA--Oakland, CA  "Give Praise to the Lives of Our Ancestors  with voices amplified and movement forward." @nzoCALIFA 2017 [ Life is Living 10 & Oakland Pubic Main Library]  OCT.2017:  I served as Lead Artist/Curator envisioned and created as                          Malonga Center Community Ancestral Altar Installation .  "... Teamed with a devoted crew, this vision was Co-commissioned by Adande M'baye and Delina Brooks co-creators of the  Africa Is Oakland - Dance Zone ,   devoted students of the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts  and  Alumni of Fua Dia Congo Performing Company." _______ My childhood stomping grounds and Dance School, West Oakland's Historic  Defremery Park aka Lil Bobby Hutton Park  became a creatively potent sacred portal that housed the first installation of its kind...lead with Ancestral prayers, songs for Egun and ri...