Come dance with us! Come drum with us!  Come and celebrate the Spirit of the Dance and the Drum!!! Join us at the 7th annual Cleveland African Dance and Drum Festival.

This year's event celebrates the beautiful waters that are constantly moving and making changes in our lives. We pay tribute to the owner of the seas while interlacing a theatrical infusion of dance, poetry, drumming and song from June 18th to June 19th.

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

Saturday night features Dokhe Bou sèle tê rafet -“Beautiful Waters” – a Juneteenth Concert performance choreographed and produced by noted artist, choreographer and Artistic Director, 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 the sweet waters.

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 $15 per class for teens and adults and $8 for children.  Purchase tickets and Register here, or email conference coordinator at: info@djapo.com

(Vendors Welcomed)

What: Seventh Annual Cleveland African Dance and Drum Festival  

When: June 18th – 19th, 2016

Where: Dance/Drum Workshops: Phillis Wheatley Assoc. 4450 Cedar Avenue Cleve. OH. 44113

Classes are $15 adults/teens, $8 children (5-12)

 

Saturday Night Juneteenth Concert Performance:

Breen Center 2008 W. 30^th Cleveland, Ohio 44113

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

*Reception immediately following the show

 

Saturday Schedule

10:00 – 11:30 a.m.    Djembe Dance with Yousouff Kombassa

11:30 – 12:45 p.m.    Djembe Drum with Fode Camara

11:45 –   1:15 p.m.    Sabar Dance with Diene Sagna

  1:30 –   3:00 p.m.    Congolese Dance with Kiazi Malonga

  3:15 –   5:00 p.m.    Kutiro Dance with Marie Basse Wiles

 

Sunday Schedule

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

11:45 –   1:15 p.m.   Contemporary Dance with Nehemiah Spencer

12:30 –   1:45 p.m.   Sabar Drum with Assane Mbaye

  1:30 –   3:00 p.m.   Djembe Dance with Marie Basse Wiles

  3:15 –   4:45 p.m.   Sabar Dance with Diene Sagna

  5:00 –   6:30 p.m.   Congolese Dance with with Kiazi Malonga

  7:00 –   8:30 p.m.   Djembe Dance with Yousouff Kombassa