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| Reminder from: | MiamiDrum Yahoo! Group | |
| Title: | Nigeria/West Africa Drum, Dance, Song class | |
| Date: | Saturday July 11, 2009 | |
| Time: | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | |
| Repeats: | This event repeats every week. | |
| Location: | Miramar Youth Enrichment Center | |
| Street: | 7000 Miramar Parkway | |
| City State Zip: | Miramar, FL | |
| Phone: | 786-991-3907 | |
| Notes: | Instructor Dele Adefemi was born and raised in Nigeria to a family of cultural artists from which he has been molded in the cultural music tradition of Nigeria and West Africa all his life and has helped to spread this culture for over 35 years. The oracle was consulted many years ago and it was said the Dele would travel across great waters to the West and bridge the gap for his lost brothers and sisters to come back to their African roots and return home by way of the drum. The oracle proved correct as Dele relocated to the U.S. in 1987 and began teaching “Ancestral Rhythms in the Diaspora” shortly after. Dele has made his mark in cultural communities in Los Angeles and Las Vegas and has recently set foot in South Florida. African Arts Productions is a 501C3 Organization with (Non-profit Status). The company works with at-risk youth, offering mentoring and tutoring. The organization features dance troupes, including belly dancers, drum teams, solo artists and storytellers. Dele says, "I like being a teacher because it is a way of leaving behind a legacy. It is a way of leaving culture. It is a way of uniting the efforts to be who you are,"…"You can be whatever you can be, you just need to put your mind to it, we are the culture and the music is it’s melody." African Arts Productions is not just for people from Africa, It's for everybody, all mixes of people," this great history must be promoted and shared with the world. African Arts Productions The class fee is $10 | |
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