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Ad Salespeople Wanted
Calabar Magazine is seeking Ad Salespeople for The International African Arts Festival Edition. Salespeople will be commission based only. Must begin immediately. Please email resume to info@calabarmag.com.
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WNYC Presents In MLK’s Footsteps: Education as a Civil Right
Join WNYC’s Brian Lehrer and Jami Floyd, managing editor of The Global Game, for an invigorating afternoon of discussion, performance and personal reminiscence. Singer-songwriter Toshi Reagonperforms live. Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:00 PM Tickets: Admission is free, bu
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Second Annual Crown Heights Film Festival (CHFF) at Five Myles Gallery
The Second Annual Crown Heights Film Festival (CHFF) will take place Thursday, October 13, 2011 through Sunday, October 16, 2011 at FiveMyles in Brooklyn, NY. The Festival will showcase local and international filmmakers’ documentaries, narratives, animations and fine art/experimental films.
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Re-building a Brand: Moving Beyond Disasters and seeing Opportunities
by Atim Annette Oton Some people experience a disaster and it ends their businesses; I see it as an opportunity. So, in June of this year, when a fire destroyed our store, Calabar Imports on Washington Avenue. My business partner and I took time off – she traveled and I spent th
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Brooklyn’s Oyster Frenzy
by Krystal DeVille Over the summer, I began my journey to find the best oysters in Brooklyn. I searched far and wide from my surrounding neighborhood of Crown Heights, across town into Bedford Stuyvesant, down to the docks of Sheepshead Bay and I ended up at Coney Island. During my restaurant "
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Join us for Afro Fest 2011 in Brooklyn
NY Afrobeat Festival, Inc.’s Afro Fest 2011 which celebrates African rhythms, roots culture and the United Nation’s designation of 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. New York Afro Fest will include an African Literary Conference, film screenings and performances fe
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Wired Perfectly. Beauloni Style: Designer Sherri Hobson Green
by Cassandra Bromfield I remember exactly when I met Sherri, it was in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (where I grew up). Two blocks from my house, on Broadway, there was a fabric store, Sutter Fabrics. When I walked in the store there was a young lady who had such a familiar face. She looked like a h
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The Lost and Found Generation
by Ezinne Adibe In this so-called post-racial society and the era of the first "African-American" president Barack Obama, son of a Kenyan father and a white American mother, identity will continue to crop up even more, whether in coffee shop conversation, academia, online, and so forth. Addit
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CALABAR MODELS are REAL people
Name: Tania Molina. Age: 30’s. Work: In Banking Culture: Garifuna. Lives: Crown Heights Food: Ethnic. Bar: NoBar Fashion: WOW WOW by Wunmi at Calabar Imports, Dumbo and Brooklyn Flea Photos: Fredrick V. Nielsen Photography, http://www. featherrock.smugmug.com
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the hotness list: what’s hot in brooklyn Fall 2011
food Oysters drink Witches Brew by nucomme business Inkwell Deals person Anthony Mackie book A Belle in Brooklyn technology Iphone 5 fashion item Fedora music Hurricane CD by Grace Jones bar NoBar on Nostrand Avenue online Huffington Po
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The 39th Annual International African Arts Festival
June 9, 2010 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton The 39th Annual International African Arts Festival starts Friday, July 2nd through Monday, July 5th, from 10 :00 am until 9:00 pm, at the spacious Commodore Barry Park, at Park Avenue and Navy Street, Brooklyn, NY 11205. Festival goers will gather each day to enjoy live music, dance, spoken word performances, African [...]
2010 - articles, Culture, Travel & Heritage, Features, Uncategorized|No Comments
Tags: Boys and Girls High School, Brooklyn, brooklyn fashion, Brooklyns African arts community, Freedom Now - UHURU SASA, International African Arts Festival
Testing the boundaries of Black Art, ArtCurian begins a movement
February 15, 2010 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton, February 15, 2009 Every so often the work of contemporary black artists is selected and curated in a series of exhibitions that gives one just a slice or taste of the range of the work that is being created; but their work as a collective is rarely seen in one setting with [...]
2010 - articles, Culture, Travel & Heritage|1 Comment
Tags: Ademola Olugebefola, AL Johnson, ArtCurian, Artists Speaking for the Spirits, Betty Blayton, Che Baraka, Dindga McCannon, Doba Afolabi, Emmett Wigglesworth, Gaylord Hassan, James Denmark, Linda Hiwot, Otto Neals, Ramona Candy, Stanwyck Cromwell
Small Business Dramas: Surviving the Depression
February 6, 2010 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton, Feb 6, 2010 Even as the media continues to proclaim that things are getting better and the statistics are showing some improvements, the truth is for small businesses in local communities, it’s not getting better. Just talk to any small business today and you will hear the “pain” as well as [...]
Working Your Creative Enterprise|2 Comments
Tags: Bread-Stuy, Brooklyn, export, Obama, partner, recession, small business, state of the union
MLK: Generations Speak
January 12, 2010 by Administrator
Description: Two generations have come of age since the 1968 assassination of civil rights visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Join WNYC’s Brian Lehrer and Celeste Headlee, co-host of The Takeaway, for a lively multi-generational discussion about the impact of Dr. King’s life and legacy. Moderators: Brian Lehrer, host of WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show Celeste Headlee, [...]
Columns, News: Events & Stories|1 Comment
Tags: Brian Lehrer, brooklyn museum, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, WNYC
Opening up shop… the basic steps to do
January 9, 2010 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton, May 2006 For those thinking of opening a store…check out how we create our brand, Calabar-Imports-Prototype So, you finally have come up with a great idea for a business? Congratulations and welcome to the “biz mind” field called business ownership. My first step is to ask you this questionFirst, ask yourself this [...]
Haitian Flavor: MADAFI and BUYU AMBROISE
January 9, 2010 by Administrator
by Peter Kondrat, May 2006 After Port-au-Prince, Brooklyn has more Haitians than any city in the world. Language, poverty and cultural misconceptions often conspire to keep this creative, vibrant and fascinating community on the outskirts of our awareness. Wyclef and Edwidge have become virtual household names, but other talented Americans of Haitian descent like Madafi [...]
Culture, Travel & Heritage, Features|No Comments
Tags: buyu ambroise, haitian jazz, hatian, madafi, music
Brooklyn’s Fashion Melting Pot: Who are the African, Caribbean, Asian and Latino Fashion Designers in Brooklyn?
January 9, 2010 by Administrator
by Bonnie Sandy Sterling, May 2006 In an industry where a shooting star could take years to rise, Brooklyn’s independent designers stand out for the uniqueness of their designs. Many foreign design students who come to attend New York’s design schools opt to settle closer to relatives, which often means living in Brooklyn. For designers who [...]
Tags: black designers, Bonnie Sandy Sterling, Brooklyn Boutiques, brooklyn fashion, brooklyn fashion gallery, Brooklyn Style, Brooklyn's creative industry, fashion industry, Kimera's West of East, moshood, Yvonne Chu
African Design and Asian Style: African Zen Modernism in Brooklyn home interiors
January 9, 2010 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton, May 2006 A quiet revolution is shaking the design world, and its base camp is in Brooklyn. The borough’s renowned melting-pot neighborhoods are producing a mix of styles and flavors that merges Asian and African design. Just enter several homes in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Prospect Heights or Crown Heights, and you’ll see the [...]
Cosmopolitan Brooklyn – Bed Stuy.
January 9, 2010 by Administrator
by Patricia Spears Jones At the performance in February at Le Dakar, Senegalese Chef Pierre Thiam’s Clinton Hill eatery, Kim Lyons, a poet opined, unlike in Manhattan, directions in Brooklyn are vague, things are not “between,” but near or far. There’s no real single grid in Brooklyn, but rather many grids, so being “off the [...]
Columns, Cosmopolitan in Brooklyn|1 Comment
Tags: Afro-Gothik, Bed-Stuy, Grand Dakar, Kim Lyon, Pierre Thiam, Prospect Heights, Ratner
Launch Editorial
January 9, 2010 by Administrator
Dear Reader: Welcome to CALABAR, a new publication about home décor, fashion, culture and the arts in the hottest borough of the greatest city in the world. Why Brooklyn? Look around – Brooklyn is booming … not just with new construction everywhere, but with creative energy and entrepreneurial verve that we haven’t seen in ages. [...]
Departments, Editorial|1 Comment
Tags: African, American, Asian, Bonnie Sandy Sterling, calabar imports, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, patricia spears jones