Come dance with us! Come drum with us!  Come and celebrate our Cultural Connections!!!

Join us at the 6th annual Cleveland African Dance and Drum Festival hosted by Djapo Cultural Arts Imstitute.

 

This year's event celebrates the life-long connections that are made to enhance the lives of family, self, and community while interlacing a theatrical infusion of dance, poetry, drumming and song from June 20th to June 21st.

Saturday and Sunday features a community-wide African dance and drum conference with master teachers from Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Ivory Coast and the United States.

 

Saturday night features “Connections” – a Juneteenth Concert performance choreographed and produced by noted artist, choreographer and dancer Talise Campbell. Cleveland's own Djapo Cultural Arts Institute will join master teachers and area performers for a moving tribute in celebration of our continuing legacy, conceivable through our connections made through our rising journey.

 

Tickets for the concert are $25 in advance $30 day of show, and can be purchased online at www.djapo.com or from cast members. Don't delay: last year's concert sold out quickly.

Tickets for the dance workshops are $12 per class for teens and adults and $8 for children. Buy tickets here, or email conference coordinator: info@djapoarts.com

 

What: Sixth Annual Cleveland African Dance and Drum Festival  

 

When: June 20th – 21th, 2015

 

Where: Dance/Drum Workshops: Phillis Wheatley Assoc. 4450 Cedar Avenue Cleve. OH. 44103

Classes are $12 adults/teens, $8 children

 

Saturday Night Concert Performance:

Breen Center 1911 W. 30^th Cleveland, Ohio 44113

8:00 pm. $25 in advance $30 day of show

*Reception immediately following the show

 

Saturday Schedule  June 20, 2015

10:00 – 11:30 a.m.    Sabar Class with Diene Sagna *children 5 and up free

11:30 – 12:45 p.m.    Djembe Drum with Assane Mbaye

11:45 –   1:15 p.m.    Serer Dance with Idy Ciss

  1:30 –   3:00 p.m.    Kutiro Dance with Assane Konte

  3:15 –   5:00 p.m.    Djembe Dance with Alseny Soumah

 

Sunday Schedule    June 21, 2015

10:00 – 11:30 a.m.   Djembe Dance/Song with Mouminatou Camara

11:45 –   1:15 p.m.   Zumba with Afeni Mack

12:30 –   1:45 p.m.   Sabar Drum with Papa Dame Gueye

  1:30 –   3:00 p.m.   Djembe Dance with Assane Konte

  3:15 –   4:45 p.m.   Wango Dance with Idy Ciss

  5:00 –   6:30 p.m.   Djembe Dance with with Alseny Soumah

  7:00 –   8:30 p.m.   Sabar Explosion with Diene Sagna