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

Friday, July 3, 2009

Giving Voice

  Barbershop/
Beauty Parlor
Radio Station The Oratorium The Stoop Young Wordsmiths
11:00 Hair Stories with Brother Blue and Victoria Burnett In Our Voices ML King in a Hip Hop World: Asante Touring Company Stoop Stories with Holly Bass and Toni Blackman The Blues, Raps, Rhymes, and Snaps
 
 
 
 
 
12:00 Storytelling with Joni Jones and Tejumola Ologboni WPFW-FM Live Broadcast: Don't Forget The Blues Storytelling with Nothando Zulu and Onawumi Jean Moss Storytelling with Valerie Tutson and Mitch Capel Poetry Workshop with Sonia Sanchez
 
 
 
 
 
1:00 Poetry with Holly Bass and Tonya Matthews Me and My Radio: The Narrative Stage with Phyllis Stickney and Candy Shannon "Frederick Douglass Now" with Roger Guenveur Smith Poetry with Kenny Carroll, Thomas Sayers Ellis. and Christylez Children's Storytelling with Dylan Pritchett
 
 
 
 
 
2:00 Beauty Tales with Diane Ferlatte and Onawumi Jean Moss Vintage Black Radio Rebroadcast of MLK Addresses Black Broadcasters Association ML King in a Hip Hop World: Asante Touring Company Diva Stories with Toni Blackman and Branice McKenzie The Blues, Raps, Rhymes, and Snaps
 
 
 
 
 
3:00 Hair Stories with Phyllis Stickney and Valerie Tutson The Persona of the Black Deejay: Narrative Stage with Jacquie Gales Webb Drama with Sonia Sanchez ML King in a Hip Hop World: Asante Touring Company Asante Children's Theater Workshop
 
 
 
 
 
4:00 Storytelling with Mitch Capel and Brother Blue Vintage Black Radio: Africa and the Black Liberation Struggle: Steven Biko and Shirley Graham DuBois Diva-tude with Tonya Matthews and Branice McKenzie Stoop Stories with Joni Jones and Tejumola Ologboni Word Play Workshop with Kenny Carroll, Christylez, and Baba Jamal Koram
 
 
 
 
 
5:00 Black Radio and Women Deejays Poetry with Thomas Sayers Ellis
 
 
   
 
 

Las Americas

  Folkways Salón La Peña Salón de Baile
11:00 Mariachi Chula Vista Strings Workshop Currulao: Las Cantadoras del Pacífico
 
 
 
 
  Son Jarocho: Son de Madera Caja, Maracas & Guacharaca Sonoran Music Traditions: Don Beto Cruz & Jesús García
12:00
 
 
 
  La Chanchona de los Hermanos Lovo Traditional Music on the (Inter)National Stage Jíbaro Music: Ecos de Borinquen
 
1:00
 
 
  Joropo Llanero: Grupo Cimarrón Huasteco and Jarocho Dance Workshop Los Maestros del Joropo Oriental
 
 
2:00
 
  Música de Arpa Grande: Arpex Learning Mariachi Music Workshop Las Estrellas del Vallenato
 
 
 
3:00
  Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos Sonoran Music Traditions: Don Beto Cruz & Jesús García Son Jarocho: Son de Madera
 
 
 
 
4:00 Los Maestros del Joropo Oriental Folkways Recordings Studio Experiences Huasteco Music & Dance: Los Camperos de Valles & Artemio Posadas & Dolores García
 
 
 
 
  Currulao: Las Cantadoras del Pacífico Song Stories Música de Arpa Grande: Arpex
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: The Valleys Only Men Aloud!
 
 
  The Arts in Action: Innovation Across Crafts Genres
12:00 Harp and Voice Poetry and Song Bread and Cawl Fiddles, Pipes and Guitar
 
  Working and Playing Outdoors: Farming
 
1:00 Stories with Music Stories of Everyday Life through Song: Giving Voice, Las Americas, Wales Game and Wild Foods Crasdant
  Wales and the World: Wales to the World
 
 
2:00 Ceri Rhys Matthews and Christine Cooper Poetry about Welsh Identity Curing and Pickling Heritage Meets Innovation: Learning Welsh, Old and New Parti Cut Lloi
 
 
  Think Globally, Act Locally: Preserving Special Places
3:00 Sild Stories from the Mabinogion Stews with Spice Welsh Dance Music
 
  Adapt, Reuse, Recycle: Swansea Projects
 
4:00 Andrew McLauchlin, Stephen Rees, and Guests Poetry in Welsh and English Local and Seasonal Favorites The Hennessys and the Griffiths
  Reimagining Community: Food and Community
 
 
5:00 Welsh Lesson: Telling Time Teatime Favorites Planning for the Future: Medicine Singer-Songwriters
 
  Evening Concert
Pub Performance
 
 
6:00   Evening Concert
Cuerdas Cruzando Continentes
(Strings Crossing Continents)
Catrin Finch and Grupo Cimarrón
 
 
 
7:00
 
   
 


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