The Afro-Latin Lounge

Dear friends Please circulate details of this unique Cuban event in London to celebrate Cuba's National Day of Culture to all your contacts and put on your website and in email newsletters if possible. We also have paper flyers (see attached pdf) for circulation - just call 020 8800 0155. See details in English then Spanish below. Many thanks Trish Meehan Administrator Cuba50 office@cuba50. org www.cuba50.org Tel 020 8800 0155 Cuban Fiesta ‘Día de la Cultura Cubana’ Sun 19 October 2008 3 – 8 pm Cecil Sharp House London NW1 Tickets: £10/£3 020 8800 0155 Come and celebrate Cuba’s National Day of Culture with the UK’s Cuban community in a big family fiesta •Unique live multimedia spectacular by Cuban musicians & artists• Special guests• Reggaeton, classical, rumba, son, descarga, DJs• Dance workshops• Cuban films • Displays• Children’s games, piñata• Cuban food & drink• Bar Venue: Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 Tube: Camden Town Entry: £10 /children £3 /includes food & 2 drinks. (Advance book to guarantee food) Info/Tickets:office@cuba50. org Tel:020 8800 0155 www.cuba50.org Supported by: CUBARTISTA • Embassy of Cuba in the UK ● Marti-Maceo Cultural Association • Cuba50 • Cuba Solidarity Campaign Fiesta Cubana ‘Día de la Cultura Cubana’ Domingo 19 Oct 2008 3 – 8 pm Cecil Sharp House London NW1 Tickets: £10/£3 020 8800 0155 Ven a celebrar el Dia de la Cultura Cubana con toda la comunidad Cubana en UK, en una Gran Fiesta familiar. Espectaculo multimedia unico con todos los artistas cubanos basados en UK● Musica clasica, folklorica, popular,reggaeton● bailes● videos musicales● documentales● pinatas● juegos infantiles,●rumba,sones,●dj●descarga●,talleres de bailes cubanos● comidas y bebidas en el Ranchon Cubano● Lugar: Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 Tube: Camden Town Entrada: £10/menores£3 incluye comida y 2 bebidas (reservar con antelacion para garantizar su comida) Info/Tickets:office@cuba50. org Tel:020 8800 0155 www.cuba50.org Apoyados por: CUBARTISTA • Embajada Cubana en el UK● Asociacion Marti-Maceo •Cuba50•Cuba Solidarity Campaign

AFRO-CUBAN 8 Week Dance Course
organisation name
STUDIO AFRO- LATINO
address
The Space Performing Arts 31 Falkirk St London N1 6HQ
email
inspiredbyluv@ yahoo.co. uk
website
http://www.irisdebr ito.com/classes. php
telephone
07946 551537/ 07956345120
statement
This course aims to provide students with a deeper understanding of Afro- Cuban rhythms, their influence in Salsa as well as the roots and influence of African dance in Cuban rhythms. This course will be taught by Iris De Brito & Zela Gayle. The combined knowledge and experience of these two teachers will provide for a class full of energy, history, and detailed explanation. An informal sharing at end of the course will be performed in front of other students, friends and invited guests. Course content: - Rumba guaguanco - Gaga - Palo congo - Orisha Yemaya
course date
22nd September - 17th November
course times
7.30 - 8.45pm


course cost
Register your place in the course £64 or £10 drop in session

BiographiesIris De Brito teaches in the UK and internationally. She is originally from Angola, a country in the south west of Africa. Trained at "The London Studio Centre" and with the late William Louther (one of the original members of the Alvin Ailey company. Iris has also worked with "Badejo Arts" and "Kokuma Dance Company". Iris is trained in Jazz/Contemporary/ Street Dance & Salsa Dance. Zela Gayle began dancing at the age of 5 in Jamaica, learning Afro-Caribbean dance as well as classical ballet. She continued her training in Contemporary and Jazz dance at WAC Performing Arts and Media college. Furthering her higher education in dance, she achieved a BA Hons in Dance Studies at Winchester University. Establishing herself as an international artist, her experience includes choreography for Crystal Lights Dance Academy in St Lucia, teaching Afro-Cuban dance at the Edna Manley School of Jamaica and lecturer in dance at the University of Winchester in the UK. Zela's professional development has included working with Bonnie Oddie,(U.K) Patsy Ricketts,(J. A) Sheron Wray,(UK) Jackie Guy,(UK) Alfredo Valasquez,(CU) Lola Adodo (UK) and Maya Yoshida(JPN) . Currently improving her skills in networking Zela has established herself as co-ordinator of Feedback33 Mentoring Forum

All; Mama Adelle from Senegal will deliver two, 2 hour Sabar workshops, on Friday 10 October 2008 with Feedback 33 Forum and Sunday 12 October 2008. Please let me know if you are coming Sunday. We need 10 people to make it possible.

Date&Time: Friday, 10 October 2008, 7pm -9pm
Place: London Studio Centre, 42-50 York Way, London N1 9AB
Underground: Kings Cross
Price: £15 with a £5 deposit
------Date&Time: Sunday, 12 October 2008, 2pm – 4pm
Place: Yaa Assantewa Community Centre, 1 Chippenham Mews, London W9 2AN
Underground: Westbourne Park, Royal Oak
Price: £15 conc, £18 with a £5 deposit.
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Enjoy both workshops for £30.
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Deposits can be send to Carolyn Lilly @ 21A Melville Villas Road, High Street, Acton, London W3 6NG. Please include your name and which workshop you will be attending. The remaining amount of the charge, is payable upon registration at the workshop on October 10th/October 12th 2008. This will secure your place. ------------A former dancer with the Ballet National de Senegal and with Ballet Bougarabou, Mama Adelle has taught African dance in Europe, the USA and Scandinavia for over 27 years. In 1991, Mama Adelle established Companie Niaba, and earlier this year organised the first Tanaber (a Senegalese dance event) in Paris, which was a great success. As well as being renowned for the teaching of Sabar, the national social dance of Senegal, Mama Adelle is an expert teacher in numerous dance forms from Senegal, Guinea and Mali. Mama Adelle is well known in the dance community for her passion and wealth of knowledge, and we are very lucky to have secured someone with such a wealth of knowledge in African dance and culture to teach this workshop. Please click on this link to see Mama Adelle in action at Tanaber 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgn5G2wZTbM&feature=related The cost of the workshop will be £15 Friday and £16/ £18 Sunday. You can enjoy both classes for £30. To secure a place for each workshop, a non-refundable cash/check deposit of £5 is required by Friday 12 September 2008. Deposits can be send to Carolyn Lilly @ 21A Melville Villas Road, High Street, Acton, London W3 6NG. The remaining amount of the charge, is payable upon registration at the workshop on October 10th/October 12th 2008.For information about Feedback 33 Forum please contact Paula at 07792236583 or email her at p_j_allen@hotmail.com. Please feel free to forward this email to anyone who you feel would be interested in attending this workshop.Keep Dancin..Carolyn Lilly07979464047

Press Release
For immediate release
October 1, 2008

The Association of Dance of the African Diaspora (ADAD)

Historic ‘Black Dance’ Photographic Exhibition returns to London

4 August 2008 – 28 November 2008
Stratford Circus
Theatre Square, Stratford, London EC15 1BX
Free Entrance
Doors Open: Monday to Sunday 10.00 - 18.00
After a successful launch at the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden and a tour to the midlands, the Association of Dance of the African Diaspora (ADAD) has transferred its photographic exhibition to Stratford Circus in East London. The exhibition ‘Black Dance’ in Britain, 1930's to 1990's – Moments… highlights the enormous contribution made to theatrical dance by Black practitioners in Britain. Photographs featured have been sourced from leading photographers including Roger Wood, Dee Conway and Chris Nash as well as the archives of the National Resource Centre for Dance and the New York Public Library.
The exhibition explores issues of identity, racial representation and notions of diversity and ‘the mainstream’. Talented artists featured include: Namron, Cathy Lewis, Greta Mendez, Carol Straker, Sheron Wray and Kenneth Tharpe who performed with ‘mainstream’ companies such as Rambert Dance Company, London Contemporary Dance Theatre and English National Ballet. The exhibition also offers polemical debate with political material from Arts Council reports, and detail on the formation of organisations such as Minorities Arts Advisory Service (MAAS). It features images of MAAS Movers, Ekome, Adzido Pan African Dance ensemble and Kokuma Dance Theatre.
Other key dance companies featured that have shaped Black British Dance history include Phoenix Dance Theatre, ACE Dance and Music, the Jiving Lindy Hoppers, Carl Campbell Dance Company 7, JazzXchange, Bullies Ballerinas, Badejo Arts, RJC Dance Company, and Union Dance Company.
ADAD Director, Jeanette Bain says: “These photographs are national treasures and a great educational resource. They are a glimpse into some of the many untold stories of how much Black dance artists have contributed to British culture in spite of the difficulties they have faced.”
The exhibition was created with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England. The tour is supported by East London Dance, Portrait of a Nation, London Borough of Newham, Stratford Circus, and The Drum.
In December 2008, the exhibition will be moving on to The Drum arts centre in Birmingham where it will remain until the end of January 2009.
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For further information, please contact Jeanette Bain jeanette_adad@danceuk.org on 020 7841 7357.

THE OFFICIAL CREOLE DAY 2008 PARTY Sat 4th Oct @ The Rocket166- 220 Holloway Road (Holloway), N7 8DB Kizomba UK brings you this unmissable partyFrom 10 pm: FREE dance classes Kizomba by Iris de Brito & Caribbean Rhythms by Yamide DagnetFrom 11pm till 4.30am :YES, an extra 1h30 of KIzomba UK Vibes!!!DJs from Martinique, Angola, and beyond will be spinning Kizomba UK upbeat mix of Afro & Caribbean tunes: the best Kizomba, Zouk, Cabo-love, Funana, Kuduro, Soukous, M'donbolo, Coupe Decale, Dance hall, Soca and more vibz to keep you dancing & partying till the early morning.EXCLUSITVITY: DJ Klyne and Tony Blanck are joining us straight from Martinique for their 1st time in the UK!!! And of course our usual live percussion, great & up-for-it crowd, joined this time by numerous visitors from France and the West Indies…Guestlist £8 before 11pm / £10 after / £12 on the doorFor guest list and info email md@mdents.comor text 0796 720 4891 See you there, Marie

Come to dance Brazilian Forro with us this Wednesday at:Pe-de-Serra ForAllSee you there!Pedro Campolinawww.londoncapoeira.co.uk/forro.html07780552176