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JANUARY 2006
EXHIBITION: African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth
In African By Legacy, Mexican By Birth, the extraordinary photographic work of Ayana V. Jackson and the powerful narrative of Marco Villalobos brings inspired insight in addressing the role of racial and cultural citizenship as it impacts the lives of African descendents in Mexico and throughout the Americas. The exhibition actively speaks to the spirit of the maroon Yanga of Mexico who valiantly fought for the liberation of his people and assured the continuing presence of Afro Mexicans as an integral part of our African legacy in the Americas.
MARCH 2006
March 8th, 6.30pm. A night of films by the renown Mexican Director Rafael Rebollar. Rebollar’s work explores the different historical and contemporary perspectives of Afro-Mexicans within different regions of Mexico. The Center will show “La Raiz Olvidada”, and “From Florida to Coahuila”.
Thursday, May 24th, 6.30pm: Venue: Caribbean Cultural Center
Free Admission
M. Jacqui Alexander is Professor of Women's Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a coeditor of Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! Feminist Visions for a Just World and Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures.
GALA: CCCADI 30th Anniversary Gala & Benefit
CCCADI hosts its 30th Anniversary Gala and Fundraiser, saluting the Center’s many achievements at the beautiful Time Warner Center Café, overlooking Central Park. Hosted by CCCADI’s 30th Anniversary Committee Chair, Susan L. Taylor; Editorial Director of Essence, the renown Jamaican Scholar Rex Nettleford; Vice Chancellor Emeritus of University of the West Indies, as well as President and Founder of CCCADI Dr. Marta Moreno Vega. Featuring rousing live music and a buffet, this wonderful event allows close members and supporters of the Center to celebrate this auspicious moment with us.
April 14,21,28 “Jive, Move and Groove” African Diaspora Musical Series
A series of musical café-style presentations of different musical genres that evolved in the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s, from all parts of the African Diaspora, influencing the music in contemporary society and around the globe. Every Friday CCCADI will feature a difference live band playing music of this revolutionary era for your listening and dancing pleasure! In collaboration with Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM
FILM SCREENING: African Blood
Director Roberto Olivares April 13th, 6:30PM
The documentary “African Blood” reflects the testimonies and powerful cultural expressions made by our brothers and sisters who live in the Costa Chica region, in the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero.
CONCERT: Reuniting of the I-Threes
Join Susan L. Taylor one of our honorary co-chairs, in celebrating the Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute’s 30th Anniversary in 2006!
On June 24th at 8pm the Caribbean Cultural Center and Apollo Theatre present in concert the legendary I Threes; Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt and Marcia Griffiths and 2005 South African Music Award winner Thandiswa in her only US concert. Hosts include wordsmiths Ntozaka Shange and La Bruja.
JULY 2006
EXHIBITION:Beloved: A Tribute to our Ancestors
This an exhibition that looked to the work of our artists that contributed to the forging of an African Diaspora aesthetic that is expressive of our global presence. Tito Puente, TiRoRo, Pierre Verger, Mario Bauza, Celia Cruz, Loremil Machado,
Cheryl Byron, Ambassador Franklin H. Williams who the Center is named after and the many other artists that are reflected in the work of this exhibition by Xenobia Bailey honors their aesthetic creative genius and continues to remind us that their spirit is with us. Their spiritual presence continues to guide the work of the CCCADI .
AUGUST 2006
On August 13th, 2006, CCCADI will present a concert that includes over 50 artists and celebrates Carnivals of the World and features Featuring Calypso great the Mighty Sparrow, Soca sensation Rupee and Caribbean dance troupe Something Positive.
FILM SCREENING: Atlantico Negro (Black Atlantic)
September 13th, 2006 -6.30pm
Panel Discussion with Prof. C Daniel Dawson and Baba Paulo Bispo
Black Atlantic: On the Orixas Route. Director: Renato Barbieri (2001). 55 mins.Portuguese with English subtitles.
CONFERENCE: African Based Spirituality
September 23rd, 2006. The majority of Africans forcibly brought to the Americas during the infamous Atlantic Slave Trade were taken from West and Central Africa. Their philosophy, traditions and sacred practices came with them and were implanted through out the A
mericas. Panelists will address the root sacred philosophy and traditions that are the root of African based spiritual practices in the Americas.
September 28th, 2006. Panelists are: Ivor Miller and Roman Diaz.
Discussion on the early 19th century of Africans in Cuba who created
the Abakuá mutual aid society on the model of the Ékpè leopard society
of West Africa's Cross Riverbasin (Old Calabar) and its influence on
the political, social and cultural systems of contemporary Cuban
society.
FESTIVAL: 3rd Annual Latin Music Collectors Fair
Vendors, writers and musicologists contributed to the success of the Annual Latin Music Collectors Festival in New York for the third year. Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture and the Caribbean Cultural Center hosted panelists from New York, Spain, Puerto Rico, Colombia and Panama for a roundtable discussion.
Film Screening: ‘Quilombo Country’
November 8th, 2006.
Brazil, once the world's largest colony of enslaved Africans, was a brutaland deadly place for millions of Africans. But many thousands escaped or rebelled, creating their own communities in Brazil's hinterlands. Today they navigate the hazards of the modern world. "Quilombo Country" is narrated by Chuck D, the legendary poet, scholar, media commentator and front man of the iconic hip hop band Public Enemy.
PANEL DISCUSSION "Identifying Traits of the African Legacy in the Cuban Hip Hop"
November 16th. Renowned Cuban Hip Hop Pioneer and Entrepreneur Ariel "Asho" Fernandez will discuss the importance of the Cuban Hip Hop Movement on Cuba’s culture and heritage and its similarities to the emergence of Hip Hop movements in the African Diaspora. Through music, visual imagery and videos he will expose the African elements in Cuban Hip Hop’s sound, lyrics and its spiritual, activist and social elements.
PANEL DISCUSSION“Making Money! Optimizing Earned Income as a Teaching Artist”
In this second event, done in partnership with the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, ¡AHA! is proud to announce this interactive panel discussion and question and answer session geared specifically for teaching artists of color in New York City.
