Afro-Brazilian drum group Batala NYC, screening of the documentary film Sweet Dreams and Q&A with director Rob Fruchtman, dance & shekere lesson by members of the Legacy Circle Women Drummers, screening of film clip from Oya: Something Happened on the Way to West Africa with Bronx filmmaker Seyi Adebanjo. Screening of the film, Sweet Dreams, […]
Musical performance by Alessandra Belloni & the Daughters of Cybele, plus a discussion with Mary Gardner, Yvette Ghoughassian, Norka Hernandez Nadal, and Liliana Raposo
In honor of Women’s History Month, celebrating traditional rhythms and sounds of the Adukeiras and Batukadeiras, featuring the Adufe ‐ the frame drum played by women in Portugal. The adufeirasare the symbolsof women's roles as the "messengers" of the ancestors. Batukuisa Cape Verdean rhythm also played by groups of women, which carries the rhythmic subdivisions […]
Tonight we'll celebrate a wedding night Manden tradition in which women from the bride's family form a drum circle and sing songs to welcome children into the marriage. Led by […]