Archive for December 29th, 2009
Kindred Cool at MoCADA
December 29, 2009 by Administrator
This exhibition was in 2008 In Summer 2008, the Museum of Contemporary African Disaporan Arts (MoCADA) welcomes Kindred Cool: Portraits inspired by the jazz friendship of Romare Bearden, Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray. The exhibition is produced byBrooklyn-based photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn (Calabar Magazine’s cultural writer) in conjunction with Up South, Inc., Kindred Cool highlights [...]
2008 - articles, Culture, Travel & Heritage, Features|No Comments
Tags: Albert Murray, Brian Jackson; trombonist, Clarence Atkins Fellowship from the Jazz Journalist Association, Dick Griffin; jazz-poet Louis Reyes Rivera; photographer, DJ Spooky; jazz pianist, Ellis Marsalis; hip hop artist, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Gerald Cyrus; WBGO jazz radio personality, Inc, Jazz, Ladybug Mecca; pianist, Ralph Ellison, Rhonda Ross; Columbia University jazz studies professor, Romare Bearden, Sheila Anderson; producer, Up South, Vijay Iyer; percussionist, Will Calhoun; singer and actress
Reflections in the midst of a recession
December 29, 2009 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton, June/July 2008 After my last article on Food 4 Thought, a Brooklyn restaurant, I was thrilled to see their re-emergence in the same space with a slew of partners that included Brother Solomon, the guy who created Solomon’s Porch and the Sankofa Collective, a locally based Bed-Stuy organization. My wish for [...]
2008 - articles, Columns, Working Your Creative Enterprise|No Comments
Tags: Brooklyn, Brooklyn restaurants, calabar imports, Food 4 Thought, Harriet's Ego, Pieces, recession
Sabar Dance in Fort Greene
December 29, 2009 by Administrator
by Imani Kaba, June/July 2008: Vol. 2, No. 6 Dance is the physical manifestation of music” says Imani Kaba who teaches West African dance at Charles Moore Dance Theatre in downtown Brooklyn. As we know from our African ancestors music and dance has always been extremely important in African culture. Most all important functions, ceremonies, [...]
2008 - articles, Culture, Travel & Heritage, Features|No Comments
Tags: African-American Arts and Cultural Society (AAACS), Afro- Hatian, Afro-Cuban, Aisha Rivers (formerly Aisha Diaby, Alpha Kaba, Babacar M’beye, Bara MBaye, brooklyn dance, Charles Moore Dance Theatre, Congolese, Djemb, Ebrima Jeng (Gambian Dance Company), Fabayo Manzira, Gambia, Kaolack, Latifa Diop, Marie Basse- Wiles., Marietou Cisse (Les Merveilles D’Afrique), Mohammad Diaby, Papa Hanne, Rich Faye, sabar, Safia, Senegal, Soukous, Thie Bou Djeune, Wayne State University, Yamoussa Soumah
Festival Season and Politics
December 29, 2009 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton, June/July 2008: Vol. 2, No. 6 Editorial Summer 2008 is yet another festival season and for Calabar Magazine, we return to Commodore Barry Park to our staple ritual of the International African Arts Festival for the 37th year celebration. For the second year in a row, we are the publication partner [...]
2008 - articles, Departments, Editorial|No Comments
Tags: Akili na Moyo, Barack Obama, Bearden and Murray, Brooklyn, Commodore Barry Park, International African Arts Festival, New Jazz Photography Exhibit Inspired by Ellison