From time to time we like to let you know of events we think you might like. We've just found out about an exciting weekend of Cuban and Afro-Cuban dance and music workshops in Ibiza coming up at the end of the month...
AN AFRO-CUBAN DANCE AND MUSIC WORKSHOP WITH YANET FUENTES & RAFAEL DEL BUSTOCHANGO IS BEWITCHED BY TANIT – THE GODDESS OF IBIZA
ENJOY A WONDERFUL WEEKEND OF CUBAN DANCE, PERCUSSION AND SINGING, RIGHT NEXT TO THE SEA IN GORGEOUS IBIZA
London based Spanish dance teacher Marian Duarte will be hosting a series of workshops with World Salsa champions Rafael Del Busto and Yanet Fuentes, accompanied by English singer Jo Howard.The weekend includes two days of dance workshops and an optional singing workshop.
Each day culminates in a performance by Rafael and Yanet and music sung by Jo.
The price includes 2 nights accommodation and breakfast on Friday and Saturday. You will be staying in a beautiful hostel right next to the sea in a perfect location.
We recommend booking early to ensure a room in the hostel. There are doubles, twins, triples and single rooms available.
*PLEASE NOTE FLIGHTS ARE NOT INCLUDED – SEE LINKS BELOW TO SOURCE WELL PRICED FLIGHTS DIRECT TO IBIZA
Date: Saturday 31st July and Sunday 1st August 2010Where: Santa Eulalia del Rio, IbizaPrice: £250 per person inclusive of all workshops, accommodation and breakfast.To book, or for more information, please call: 07798 610977
Or email: angela_taylor@dsl.pipex.com
PLEASE QUOTE BOOKING REFERENCE: CCML
WORKSHOPS ARE AS FOLLOWS (ALL CUBAN SALSA)Ladies Style Salsa - Beginners, Intermediate & AdvancedMen’s Style Salsa - Beginners, Intermediate & Advanced
Rueda de Casino - Beginners, Intermediate & AdvancedPartner Salsa - Intermediate OnlyRumba YambuRumba GuaguancoAfro Cuban - LadiesAfro Cuban - MenSon (traditional and modern)PercussionSinging for beginners (optional workshops)
The full workshop timetable is available and can be emailed on request.TRANSPORTFlights to Ibiza:
www.easyjet.com
www.ryanair.com
www.monarch.co.uk
www.ba.com
Afro Brazilian & Cuban drum, song & dance in the countryside. Camp Iroko's early bird payment of £150 all inclusive of workshops, meals & accomodation finishes on the 1st August the price is then £170. Book now for reduced price!more info & bookings...
Come and enjoy a feast of drumming, singing and dancing located in the Hertfordshire countryside. Our base is an Activity Centre in Wymondley Woods and adjacent is a 20-acre conservation area with mature woods, stream, pond and grassland. There’s access and facilities for the disabled. Workshops will be held in the Activity Centre and in yurts.
ICONIC ARTISTS AND INSPIRING SOUNDS
MART'NÁLIA Saturday 10 July Hear the soul of the Rio de Janeiro samba scene.Buy tickets / More info »
MARIA BETHÂNIA Saturday 17 July A rare London performance by Brazil's most famous diva: sister of acclaimed singer Caetano Veloso, Bethânia has herself sold over 28 million copies of her albums to date.Buy tickets / More info »
OS MUTANTES Sunday 18 July Experience the psychedelic rock of Os Mutantes, the 1960s pioneers of Tropicália, a cultural and political movement which changed the country forever.Buy tickets / More info »
GILBERTO GIL Wednesday 21 July Gilberto Gil returns to Royal Festival Hall to perform music from his new album, inspired by the forro sounds of northeastern Brazil.Buy tickets / More info »
BRAZILIAN WORDS AT THE LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL
A WOMAN'S EYE ON BRAZIL Friday 9 July Novelist Ana Maria Gonçalves, novelist Patrícia Melo, and writer, activist and nun Maria Valéria Rezende.Buy tickets / More info »
JOÃO PAULO CUENCA AND TATIANA SALEM LEVYSaturday 10 July Two of Brazil's most dynamic new novelists.Buy tickets / More info »
BENJAMIN MOSER: THE LIFE OF CLARICE LISPECTORMonday 12 July Bringing to life Brazil's answer to Virginia Woolf.Buy tickets / More info »
ARNALDO ANTUNESThursday 15 July Musical and literary games with this genre-defying poet and musician.Buy tickets / More info »
THE BOYS AND GIRLS FROM BRAZILFriday 16 July Hear from the Brazilians who've added some Latin spirit to London's lesbian and gay scene.Buy tickets / More info »
MILTON HATOUMSaturday 17 July One of Brazil's greatest living writers, author of Ashes of the Amazon.Buy tickets / More info »
TALKING TROPLICÁLIASaturday 17 July Extracts from Paula Cosenza's film Tropicália, documenting the rise of the movement that changed Brazilian culture forever.Buy tickets / More info »
A SAFE HARBOUR FOR ELIZABETH BISHOPSunday 18 July UK premiere of a performance piece by Marta Góes, about the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, who was inspired by the colours and rhythms of her time in Brazil in the 1950s and 60s.Buy tickets / More info »
SÓCRATES: FUTEBOL AND BRAZILSunday 18 July Football legend Sócrates, best known as the captain of the great 1980s Brazilian football team, in conversation.Buy tickets / More info »
DEBATES: FORGING THE NEW BRAZIL
THE POINT OF CULTURE: IMAGINATION AT THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE Wednesday 21 July How have the rich participatory and celebratory cultural traditions of Brazil become part of the solution to its social crises and injustices? What can we learn and share with Brazilians about a vision for the arts in the UK today?Buy tickets / More info »
THE EDGE OF THE FUTURE – RENEGOTIATING POWER Friday 23 July Cultural reformers and policy makers discuss and debate the fundamental renegotiations in power – between rich and poor, women and men, black and white, indigenous and immigrant, and city and rural communities.Buy tickets / More info »
THE DRAMA OF VIOLENCE Saturday 24 July Is the image of modern Brazil – distinguished worldwide by its reputation for extreme street violence as much as for samba, accurate – or has the global media escalated a reputation that has led to a false identity? Luis Eduardo Soares, previously Secretary of Municipal Valuation of Life and Prevention of Violence in Nova Iguaçú, appears in conversation.Buy tickets / More info »
BRAZILIAN FOOD & DRINK
Across the whole site this summer, our restaurants, bars and cafes are celebrating the flavours and ingredients of Brazilian food and drink. Enjoy samba-sushi, traditional Brazilian bean and beef stew, caipirinha ice cream and more.More info »
DMAC UK (Dance Music Arts Colllective) PRESENTS:SIZZLING SENEGALESE SABAR DAY in BRISTOLon SUNDAY 1ST AUGUST 2010at DMAC STUDIOS, HAMILTON HOUSE (2nd floor)Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3QY (Entrance at Canteen West, opp. Jamaica Street)Join us for an exciting day of Sabar drum & dance workshops with some of the most talented professional Senegalese griot artists in the UK – you will not be disappointed! Taught by Amdi Ngom, Sabar drummer from Dakar, and female dancer Awa Goudiaby, from Ziguinchor, with support drumming from Karim Mbaye & Batch Gueye. Amdi & Awa toured the UK & Europe recently with the spectacular show AfrikaAfrika! Morning:10.30-12.30 SABAR DRUMMING WORKSHOP, LED BY AMDI NGOM – all levels welcome (please bring your own drum if you have one, otherwise a limited number of drums can be borrowed – booking & pre-payment is essential to secure your place)12.30-14.00 Lunch BreakAfternoon:14.00-17.00 SABAR DANCE WORKSHOP, LED BY AWA GOUDIABY, with live drumming – all levels welcome (booking & pre-payment not essential but preferred)Drum workshop: £15, Dance workshop: £20, or both: £30For more information & to book, please contact Sara Seydi: Tel: 07765 846875 Email: sarawatchet@ yahoo.co. ukVisit & join the facebook event `Sizzling Senegalese Sabar Day' DMAC UK website: http://www.dmacuk. com
Cali the Salsa Fortress (film & lecture) - FREE EVENT Rescheduled for Sunday 18th July 6-9pmat Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1 (nearest tube Holborn)
With Alejandro Ulloa - Colombian popular culture anthropologist and Salsa historian
Salsa is a Latin Pan-Caribbean music and dance expression, with its roots in Afro Cuban music. Traditionally Cuba, Puerto Rico, Latin New York and Latin Miami are considered the main centres for Salsa yet neither of these can rival Cali's fascination with Salsa music and its dance.
Although this two and a half million city is not in, nor near the Colombian Caribbean coast, the feel, mood and spirit of Cali is closer to the Caribbean than what a city at the foot of the Andes should be like.
This music style and its dance are closely related to the history and development of this Colombian city. This Caribbean music and dance genre is what ultimately gives a particular cultural identity to Cali and its inhabitants, the 'caleños'.
Ulloa's first book 'La Salsa en Cali' 1992, was a breakthrough study on popular culture's uses and practices, an almost unexplored topic in the country before the 1990's. In this book Alejandro Ulloa traces back the origins and development of Cali's obsession with Salsa music and dance.
+ Film 'Paso a Paso La Salsa en Cali', a documentary film (in Spanish) made by Alejandro Ulloa and Antonio Dorado in 2009, about renowned Salsa dancers from Cali, such as 5 x world champions Swing Latino dance school and their director Luis Eduardo Hernandez 'El Mulato'. (25 minutes)
Thursday 15th July - lecture and film
The Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University, Russell Square, WC1H OXG
7pm-9pmFREE EVENT
'La Salsa en Discusion'with Alejandro Ulloa followed by 'Beats of the Heart: Salsa' documentary film by Jeremy Marre (1979)
Anthropologist, linguist and Salsa specialist, Alejandro Ulloa from Cali, Colombia presents his new book 'La Salsa en Discusion'. Ulloa's new book constitutes a debate of the various academic theoretical studies of Salsa, written by authors of different countries: Leonardo Acosta in Cuba, Cesar Miguel Rondon in Venezuela, Angel Quintero Rivera in Puerto Rico, Vernon Boggs in New York, amongst others, as well as his own personal theoretical views about the subject. The lecture will be held in Spanish with an interpreter present.
Faced with the idea that Salsa was primarily a commercial phenomenon, promoted by a brand, the book looks in depth at the cultural history that contextualizes the genesis of Salsa in the Spanish Harlem, the South Bronx and Santurce (Puerto Rico); the fast way of life of the big city played a defining role in this process.
The evening concludes with the film 'Beats of the heart: Salsa', which looks at the music through the eyes of musicians like Tito Puente and Celia Cruz on the one hand and social activists on the other. Of course, the commercial pressures that produced Fania's slickest productions are caught here on the turn as more conscious lyricists like Ruben Blades reclaim in words
the spirit of resistance that the music has nurtured in its rhythms.
The film captures a moment in time, explored through different people's eyes in a community united by a shared experience of marginalisation but fired by the crushing, pulsing, explosive rhythms what we now know as Salsa.
Friday 16th July - El Grande! @ Club Colosseum, Vauxhall1 Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5NQ
London's Biggest Salsa Monthly Event4 Rooms - Salsa & Kizomba classes - Dance Shows & More!
'El Grande' at Club Colosseum has undoubtedly established itself as the biggest Salsa Monthly event in London, possibly the UK, organized by Salsa Republic on the third Friday of every month, this night is a must go for all Salsa lovers regardless of their style of dance preference.
Salsa and Kizomba classes at 9.45pm, followed by music till 4am.
Times: 9.30pm - 4am / Entrance: £10
Saturday 17th July, 7.30pm - Lecture & film & partyVoices of Latin RockConway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, WC1R 4RLFREE EVENT
Voices of Latin Rock(Jim MacCarthy) - Book presentation followed by rare film of Santana on tour in 1971 in Europe
The author of 'Voices of Latin Rock' chronicles the development of Latin Rock in San Francisco, a style combining a fusion of Latin music, Salsa and Rock developed mainly by young Latino musicians in the late 60's and 70's and epitomised by Carlos Santana.
Directly from the Mission District in San Francisco, the explosive fusion of Latin, salsa and rock is chronicled from a writer who has followed the music and the musicians for over 30 years. The book covers the stories of prominent Latin rock bands including Santana and Malo, examining in detail the pioneering records and the ways in which both reflect a wide spectrum of Latin influences.
The book highlights the cast of characters and emerging period in the US during the late '60s, with all the cultural background events including the Summer of Love, Woodstock, political activism, and the record label expansion. Legendary figures such as Bill Graham, Clive Davis and the Escovedos family play crucial roles in the development of this sound.
The lecture will be accompanied by records and a Latin
percussionist.
The lecture will be followed by the rare and completely unseen film 'Santana On Tour - Europe 1971' (45 minutes)
The Lecture and film will be followed by a Partywith live music and DJs.
CHECK OUT THIS MONTHS ISSUE OF RICENPEAS.COM NOW!!! www.ricenpeas.com
RICE N PEAS FILMS WILL ALSO BE HOSTING A DOCUMENTARY DOUBLE BILL. ROARING LION - THE RISE OF RASTAFARI & WITH OR WITHOUT FIDEL. TWO DOCUMENTARIES THAT SHOULD NOT BE MISSED. (FOR MORE INFORMATION CHECK OUT THE TRAILERS ON OUR WEBSITE).
1. INTERVIEW: KEN O'KEEFE. ACTION NOT PROTEST
Former U.S. Marine turned activist Ken O'Keefe, talks to RNP about the recent Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara, how he disarmed one of the Israeli soldiers on board and why he favours direct action to street protest.
2. WHO WILL STOP THE WAR? Is Karzai turning against his masters?
3. THE CONGO: NUMBERS MATTER, 5 million dead and still counting.
4. THE OBAMA/BUSH STRATEGY, Something new or more of the same?
5. LIES & CRIMES: FREEDOM FLOTILLA, Israel's crimes on the high seas.
No comments:
Post a Comment