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Shabaka and the Ancestors: Wisdom of Elders review – pulsing Afro-futurism
Edit The Guardian 11 Sep 2016
Recorded in a single day, the set is steeped in what Hutchings calls Afro-futurism, with the influence of Sun Ra strong in the mix (plenty of rippling Fender Rhodes ......
Verdi Requiem/Last Night of the Proms review – Flórez steals the show on a night of a thousand flags
Edit The Guardian 11 Sep 2016
Nobody understood that better than Juan Diego Flórez, the Peruvian star tenor, who came on for Rule Britannia dressed as an Inca warrior complete with blue and orange feathered headdress and gold earrings as big as beermats, and brandishing an axehead on a staff ... toy Paddington (also a Peruvian guest in London) he’d been handed from the arena....
The Havana Sessions tickets
Edit Skiddle 11 Sep 2016
The Deaf Institute in Manchester. Sunday 11th September 2016. 4.00pm til 12.00am (last entry 10.00pm). Minimum Age. 18. After the first wonderful Cuban party in our sister venue Gorilla we've decided that we need another injection of latino spirit!. Event Info. Venue. Buy tickets securely. Type of Ticket Price QuantityQty. General Admission - £0.00 ... SALSA // LATIN // AFROBEAT // AFRO CUBAN // RUMBA // TROPICAL // JAZZ // ... 18 ... ....
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater review – sorrow, sex and the gospel truth
Edit The Guardian 11 Sep 2016
5 / 5 stars. Sadler’s Wells, London. The American troupe’s thrilling programmes transform oppression into a night of pure joy. @LukeJennings1 ... The evening opens with Rennie Harris’s Exodus ... Facebook. Twitter ... Open Door, another Ronald K Brown work, set to recordings by Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, rolls over you like a river, so bright in its racing cross-streams, so headily engulfing, that you lose perspective ... Dance....
What’s behind London’s new romance with Indian food?
Edit The Times of India 11 Sep 2016
For years, the only choice diners in the UK had was a curry house or Michelin-star restaurants. But now a bunch of casual dining eateries is introducing Londoners to contemporary Indian food at pocket-friendly prices ... But a generation that's forever looking for the latest trend — poke bowls, anyone? — has become aware that what these curry houses serve is not real Indian food ... Peruvian ceviche, Vietnamese pho and Greek food beckon....
Brits, Aussies play Americans in Hollywood movies
Edit The Oklahoman 11 Sep 2016
How peculiar. We’ve come to expect Roman and Hebrew characters in biblical and historical epics to speak with proper British accents ... Gods and Kings.” ... Granted they adopt American accents, but still ... This isn’t something that pings on the politically incorrect radar the same way as Angelina Jolie darkening her skin to play Afro-Cuban Mariane Pearl in “A Mighty Heart” or Johnny Depp playing American Indian Tonto in “The Lone Ranger.” ... ....
On my radar: Yinka Shonibare’s cultural highlights
Edit The Guardian 11 Sep 2016
The artist reveals the best way to see London’s architecture, his love of Pina Bausch and some in-depth reading on African culture. Yinka Shonibare was born in London in 1962 and at the age of three moved with his family to Lagos, where he grew up ... In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Turner prize and was awarded an MBE ... 1 . Garden. Twitter ... 2 . View ... Twitter ... 3 ... African and Afro‑American Art and Philosophy (Robert Farris Thompson, 1983) ... ....
An appeal for a monument to the 1811 Louisiana slave revolt
Edit Open Democracy 11 Sep 2016
Memorialisation in public space in Louisiana fails to reflect the history of the state's black population, or the evils of slavery. It is time for that to change. Illustration by L. J. Bridgman. From M. Thompson (1888). The Story of Louisiana ... It should focus on celebrating its unique Afro-Creole culture, and its public space should be open to the memorialisation of the evils of slavery, as the evils of the Shoah are remembered elsewhere ... ....
New partnership encourages isle visitors to sponsor native trees
Edit Star Advertiser 11 Sep 2016
The Hawai‘i Convention Center has pledged to triple that number by marketing the reforestation project as a way for organizations that use the center to offset their carbon emissions ... As part of this effort, participants were encouraged to mitigate their carbon by donating to the Cordillera Azul National Park Project; doing so would help prevent an annual loss of about 17,000 acres of Peruvian forest ... We were all humbled....
Peace confronts displaced
Edit Arkansas Online 11 Sep 2016
SOACHA, Colombia -- In the nation with more internal refugees than any other, the uprooted and the dispossessed are not found huddled in tent camps or fleeing in long caravans ... They also don't trust the government to protect them ... A disproportionate number are indigenous people and Afro-Colombians living in remote coastal areas that have high strategic value for traffickers and contain little to no government presence, Gottwald said....
Gato Preto and Mankala and Niles Mavis and Mango Park
Edit Skiddle 10 Sep 2016
Gato Preto, Afro futuristic Voodoo Bass and Mankala, Rumba And Reggae and Niles Mavis, Hot Hip Hop Turntablism and Mango Park, Global Bass, Dancehall ... Movimientos presents GATO PRETO, hypersonic afro futuristic Voodoo Bass from Mozambique via Portugal ... Township, the hypnotic grooves of Afro-Beat and Juju to the tribal polyrhythms from West Africa +....
Dj Slick (SO SLICK) Live at Club Reina: Central London tickets
Edit Skiddle 10 Sep 2016
CLUB REINA in London. Saturday 10th September 2016. 8.00pm til 5.00am (last entry 2.00am). Minimum Age. 18. Best Central London club playing Rnb,hiphop, afro beats, bashment, funky. Event Info. Venue. Buy tickets securely. Type of Ticket Price QuantityQty. FREE LIMITED TICKETS BEFORE 11PM - £0.00. £0.00 Face Value ... Accepted ... SAT ... RnB, Hiphop, Afro beats, Soca, Bashment, Funky, Old skool Classics ... ★ BBC 1XTRA (DJ AFRO B) ... 18....
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