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2009 Festival Schedule

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Select Date:        Select Program: Giving Voice  |  Las Americas  |  Wales

Giving Voice

  Barbershop/
Beauty Parlor
Radio Station The Oratorium The Stoop Young Wordsmiths
11:00 Storytelling with Tejumola Ologboni and Dylan Pritchett WPFW-FM Live Broadcast: In Our Voices Poetry with Kenny Carroll, Toni Blackman, and Tonya Matthews Stoop Stories with Nothando Zulu and Len Cabral Puppet Theater with Schroeder Cherry
 
 
 
 
 
12:00 Beauty Tales with Diane Ferlatte and Victoria Burnett WPFW-FM Live Broadcast: Don't Forget the Blues Ella Jenkins Humor with James Hannah and Phyllis Stickeny Poetry Workshop with Kenny Carroll
 
 
 
 
 
1:00 The Barbershop with Baba Jamal Korama and Mitch Capel Black Radio - "Telling It Like It Was": A Woman's Touch Drama with Holly Bass Poetry with A. B. Spellman and Charlotte Blake-Alston Puppet Theater with Schroeder Cherry
 
 
 
 
 
2:00 Beauty Tales with Toni Blackman Telling It Like It Was, Black Radio: A Woman's Touch Storytelling with Sankofa and Diane Ferlatte Drama with Christylez Sing-along with Ella Jenkins
 
 
 
 
 
3:00 Storytelling with Charlotte Blake-Alston and Victoria Burnett The Persona of the Black Deejay, with Deborah Smith-Pollard and Documentary Footage Humor with Royale Watkins and James Hannah Giving Voice to a Museum Poetry Workshop with A.B. Spellman
 
 
 
 
 
4:00 The Barbershop with Sankofa and Nothando Zulu Black Radio - "Telling It Like It Was":: A Woman's Touch Storytelling with Len Cabral and Mitch Capel Stoop Stories with Tejumola Ologboni and Brother Blue Poetry Circle with Tonya Matthews
 
 
 
 
 
5:00 Hair Stories with Brother Blue Vintage Black Radio Humor with Phyllis Stickney Hair Stories with Christylez Storytelling with Dylan Pritchett
 
 
   
 
 
6:00 Evening Concert at Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History
An A Capella Spiritual and Choral Music Performance by The Heritage Signature Chorale
 
 
 
 
 
 
7:00
 
 
   
 
 

Las Americas

  Folkways Salón La Peña Salón de Baile
11:00 Los Maestros del Joropo Oriental Music and Land Currulao Las Cantadoras del Pacifico
 
 
 
 
  Conjunto de Arpa Grande: Arpex Conjunto Tejano Aesthetics Grupo Cuero Madera y Costa CUMACO
12:00
 
 
 
  Paraguayan Harp: Marcelo Rojas & Alvaro Marazzi Jaranero Movement Joropo Llanero Grupo Cimarrón
 
1:00
 
 
  Conjunto Tejano: Los Texmaniacs Drumming Workshops Conjunto de Arpa Grande Arpex
 
 
2:00
 
  Bomba y Plena: Viento de Agua Joropo Traditions Son Jarocho Son de Madera
 
 
 
3:00
  Currulao: Las Cantadoras del Pacífico Folkways Recording, studio session stories Merengue Tipico La India Canela
 
 
 
 
4:00 Afro-Venezuelan Traditions: Grupo CUMACO Strings Workshop Las Estrellas del Vallenato
 
 
 
 
  Joropo Llanero: Grupo Cimarrón Paraguayan Harp Bomba y Plena: Viento de Agua
5:00
 
 
   
 
 

Wales

  Rugby Club Story Circle Taste of Wales The Square Mile Welsh Dragon
11:00 Stories with Music Stories for Children Preserves, Jellies, and Syrups My Square Mile: North Wales The Hennessys
 
 
  The Arts in Action: Ruthin Crafts Centre
12:00 Harp and Voice Poetry at Lunch Bread and Cawl Welsh Dance Music
 
  Adapt, Reuse, Recycle: Music
 
1:00 Sild Welsh Poetry Wild Foods and Game Parti Cut Lloi
  Wales and the World: Conversation with Rhodri Morgan
 
 
2:00 Fiddle and Pipes Stories from the Welsh Landscape Curing and Pickling Heritage Meets Innovation: The Eisteddfod Crasdant
 
 
  Think Globally, Act Locally: Global Connections to Wales
3:00 Singer-Songwriters Welsh Lesson: The Weather Stews with Spice Singer-Songwriters
 
  Lift Up Your Voice Singing Workshop
 
4:00 The Hennessys Stories in Welsh and English Local and Seasonal Menus Parti Cut Lloi
  Reimagining Community: Youth
 
 
5:00 Poetry Teatime Favorites Planning for the Future:Poetry Welsh Fiddle Music
 
  Evening Concert
Pub Performance
   
 
6:00 Evening Concert
Folkways Recordings' Blodeugerdd—Song of the Flowers CD Release Celebration and Welsh Dance Party
 
 
 
7:00
 
   
 


Select Date:        Select Program: Giving Voice  |  Las Americas  |  Wales