El Rumbon Cubano Friday 14th September
El Rumbon Cubano is back to kick start your autumn with some Cuban flavour! We have a very special party on Friday 14th September with live music from London's newest Cuban band Son Yambu.
Their fantastic new album 'La Maravilla' is released on 10th September and the official album launch party is taking place at the Rumbon. The band features Yuri Moreno and some of London's favourite Cuban musicians.
DJ, teacher and compere extraordinaire, DJ Richard Fallon, will be on the decks until 4am keeping the dance floor blazing with the best Cuban salsa and timba.
Richard will also be teaching a very special class - Putting Sweet Son into your Salsa. Join him to add some Cuban sabor to your salsa before practising your new moves when the band play!
Dance class (intermediate/advanced) 9-10pm
Doors open 8.30pm - DJ til 4am
HAPPY HOUR AT THE BAR! Enjoy 2 cocktails for £6 right up until 11pm - including the special 'El Rumbon Cubano' cocktail! Plus offers on beers, spirits, and mixers.
Entry prices (including dance class and live music)
£10 on the door
£8 with advance registration via website
£7 on the door with a promotional flyer
At the Latin Groove Lounge Club
34 Archway Close, London N19 3TD
(Opposite Archway Tube)
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Baila Londres is back with Cuban Combination, DJ Javier, and Osbanis & Anneta - all at our new Euston venue!
Saturday 22nd September
Baila Londres has had a short summer holiday, but is back on Saturday 22nd September at our new venue - the Elixir Bar, Eversholt Street, NW1 (just 5 minutes from Euston Station).
To celebrate the move, one of London's favourite Cuban bands - Cuban Combination - will be playing live. Plus DJ Javier until 3am.
Pre-club class for intermediate/advanced levels with Osbanis and Anneta. Beginners Salsa also available.
Doors open 8.30pm ~ Dance class 9-10pm ~ Club til 3am
Entry £10 on the door
Dear colleagues,
I've been working with the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) who are keen to encourage applications from BME women's projects.
Oxfam’s Routes to Solidarity project and HLF are working together to show groups how this funding is relevant and accessible to grassroots women's groups. The fund is ideal for groups that want to run projects on cultural traditions, community memories and people’s stories.
About the Heritage Lottery Fund
Heritage projects are a fun and creative way to build stronger communities that help people to explore and share traditions; enabling communities to uphold their cultural heritage. Many projects bring groups, often of different generations, together to develop their creative, technical and personal skills.
Here’s an example of BME / women's projects HLF has funded:
Passion for Fashion (£25,000)
Fashion has inspired culture, ways of life and challenged our attitudes to style and women’s role in society. Young women and girls groups from across Tameside explored their heritage through fashion and the impact that eastern and western trends have had on society over the past 50 years. Participants interviewed older women about fashion over the decades and created a catwalk show and exhibition at Tameside Art Gallery . First Step Heritage Project (£32,500)
Focusing on the cultural heritage of women from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities living in Newcastle, 24 women from a diverse range of cultures, will come together to use heritage craft skills to express the history of their culture. Heritage craft and storytelling workshops will enable the women to share their life stories and compare and contrast their craft practices, such as basketry in Bangladesh , with basketry in Northumberland. The women will be supported to deliver presentations, exhibitions, a DVD and a web page to reach out to wider audiences. Come along to a half-day workshop to find out more!
The workshop will:
· explain what can and can't be funded by the HLF
· help you develop and shape your project ideas
· give guidance on the application process, including writing project outlines
· link you with other BME women's projects interested in heritage activities.
The workshop will be run by HLF staff who can help you prepare your application. I will also provide ongoing support to groups who wish to apply to HLF. The workshop will take place in the week beginning 15th October.
What next?
If you are interested in this workshop please let me know by Friday 7th September, and I will reserve a place for you. Travel and other expenses may be covered, depending on the nature of your group.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Maya x
Please note: I work Mondays, Tuesday and Wednesdays (9.30am - 5pm)
Maya Sharma
Project Officer
Routes to Solidarity Project UK Poverty Programme, Oxfam
Oxfam Office
494 Wilbraham Road
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Manchester
M21 9AS
Tel: 0161 861 7940
Fax: 0161 860 5600
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/uk
Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering
Oxfam GB is a member of Oxfam International and a company limited by guarantee registered in England No. 612172.
Registered office: Oxfam House, John Smith Drive , Cowley, Oxford , OX4 2JY .
A registered charity in England and Wales (no 202918) and Scotland (SC 039042)
Dear Friends of the Africa Centre,
Our Africa Salon season is coming to an end this month, but we are going to finish it with a number of great events with something for everyone, including performances by YAABA FUNK and CLEVELAND WATKISS, two more great African films and "Africa Is A Continent" - a celebration of African Diaspora Literature. But even once the Africa Salon is over we've got some great events planned for you, including RISE KAGONA! Keep an eye on our website for more details about upcoming events: www.africacentre.org.uk/events
See you soon at the Africa Centre!
Kind regards,
The Africa Centre team
13 September 2012, Africa Centre
Cleveland Watkiss: Vocal Workshops and Concert
Suitable for all levels, the award-winning Cleveland Watkiss offers vocal techniques with jazz improvisation – release your inner musician! Workshop followed by a public concert
7pm til late
TICKETS: £15 / £10 workshop and concert, £9 / £7 concert only“Its my personal understanding that given the right kind of encouragement we can all Sing! Singing is not learned, its a gift we’re given.
Sometimes that gift may get suppressed through bad teaching or discouraging words. My job is to give you keys to unlock the song within you”
Cleveland Watkiss
Cleveland Watkiss is a British virtuoso vocalist, actor and composer. He was the winner of the London Jazz Awards for Best Vocalist in 2010 and was voted Wire/Guardian Jazz Awards best vocalist for three consecutive years
Watkiss studied voice at the London School of Singing with opera coach Arnold Rose and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was also one of the co-founders of the vastly influential Jazz Warriors big band. Watkiss was then entered for the Wire/Guardian Jazz Awards and was voted best vocalist for three consecutive years, and was the opening act of choice for two of the world’s greatest female jazz vocalists, Cassandra Wilson and Abbey Lincoln. John Fordham, the Guardian music journalist, described Cleveland as “arriving on the scene with a bang”.
Watkiss has performed with a diverse range of artists from around the world, including: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, James Taylor Quartet, Abdullah Ibrahim, Stevie Wonder, Patife, Lepaja Symphonic Orchestra, Robbie Williams, Joe Cocker, Bobby McFerrin, The Who and many more.
Watkiss is also a keen music educator, working as a voice instructor for Singup, with workshops in venues/schools, colleges and universities around the UK .
14 September 2012, Africa Centre
Joyful Noise
presents
Yaaba Funk
Featuring DJ Chief Commander Yaaba
Opening Night of The London African Music Festival
7.30pm til late
TICKETS: £10 YAABA FUNK creates a floor-filling extravaganza combining the tightest rhythm section this side of Accra , fat analogue bass lines, blazing horns, sparkling African guitar riffs and gritty rock guitar lines have made Yaaba Funk one of the finest afro-funk bands in the UK .
The band was born in Brixton in 2006. The core members of Yaaba Funk met on the South London African scene in the late 1990s when, as well as studying African music, many wild nights were spent jamming together at house parties – drumming, dancing and DJ-ing till dawn spinning Afrobeat, Mbalax, Cuban rumba, Brazilian grooves, broken beat,70s Nigerian funk, reggae and of course Hi-Life.
The name Yaaba Funk comes from an album called Yaba Funk Roots, the only album ever released outside of Africa by Captain Yaba, a musician from northern Ghana and exponent of the 2-string ‘guitar’ called the koliko. The band has gigged extensively around the UK , building up a loyal fan base with their exuberant live shows and have toured Europe and Africa . Their debut album “AFROBEAST” was released in May 2010 by Sterns Records.
9 September
U-Carmen
2pm
FREE ENTRY, but booking essential
This new take on Bizet’s 19th opera, sets the classic story in a contemporary township of South Africa . Relying on the music of South African performing arts company Dimpho Di Kopane along with the original score of the opera Carmen makes U-Carmen as musically dynamic as it is visually pleasing with performance that showcase some of South African best young talent.
Running Time: 120 mins.
28 September
RISE KAGONA ( Malawi )
TICKETS: £12.50 / £107.30pm
We Salute ….
Rise Kagona is a true African music legend. Born in Malawi , Rise Kagona is the founder, lead guitarist and sole remaining member of Zimbabwean rock band Bhundu Boys. The Bhundu Boys were known as ambassadors of African Music and were one of the first African groups to tour the world. In the mid ‘80s, Rise, along with the original Bhundu Boys, mixed Zimbabwean styles with rhumba influences from the Congo , and labelled their fast paced music ‘Jit Jive’.
Tonight Rise Kagona plays with his band – The Jit Jive Band – and features songs from his legendary career and new songs from his forth coming album.
10 September
Kayo Chingonyi: Africa Is A Continent
A Celebration of African Diaspora Literature and its many forms
7.30pm
TICKETS: £5 / £3 concessions
Image by Kim-Leng Hills
Curated and hosted by Kayo Chingonyi
With Belinda Zhawi, Sam Elmi, Warsan Shire and Nick Makoha.
Kayo Chingonyi's poems have been published in a range of magazines and anthologies including The Best British Poetry 2011, The Salt Book of Younger Poets (both from Salt Publishing, 2011) and The World Record ( Bloodaxe, 2012). His first pamphlet of poems, Some Bright Elegance, is out now from Salt Publishing.
The Africa Channel on Sky 209
The Africa Channel delivers a broad range of content inspired by Africa , from award-winning documentaries, daily live news to ground-breaking films.
In September, watch Cuba, An African Odyssey, the story of Cuba ’s support for African revolutions during the Cold War. Rare footage and interviews with key figures including Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela, shed light on this little-known history.
Keep up-to-date with our latest programming news, sign-up for our newsletter.
www.theafricachannel.tv
16 September
Heremakono - Waiting For Happiness
2pm
Rescheduled from 3 September 2012
FREE ENTRY, but booking essential
( Mauritania , 2002)
Set between the Sahara desert and the sea, Waiting for Happiness unravels a lush mosaic as the film follows the lives of several characters that intertwined in the coastal city of Nouadhibou in Mauritania , as they await travel to Europe . Caught between African ‘tradition’ and western ‘modernity,’ young Abdallah has come to Nouadhibou from Mali on a particular mission to visit his mother before leaving for Europe but finds himself both isolated as strange in a foreign land and in a liminal state, on the brink of a new life.
With its inclusion of non-professional actors and its poetic use of images, Waiting for Happiness relies less on a rigid narrative structure yet draws its audiences in with the lives of these compelling characters.
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