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Ka Mali Don
African Performance Weekend 2011

 

Ka Mali Don, “to know Mali” in the native language of Bambara, is this year’s African Performance Weekend.  The Mali Awareness Weekend Festival celebrates the power of Contemporary Mande Performance to bring people together around a common purpose, to sensitize thought into action, and to move us beyond our own cultural comfort zone. This festival of Mande song, dance, and oral history is an immersive experience of learning, sharing and investing ourselves in ways that open us to change and service to others. Educators, world-class musicians, dancers, actors, storytellers and ritualists are collaborating to create a weekend of ceremony, performance, and workshops.

 

Friday, February 25th

OPENING CEREMONY
7:30-9:30 in the Ashamu Dance Studio

Guest speakers and performers from Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, America, and the Caribbean will engage you in a high- energy evening of performance, call and response, and ritual. Adopt-A-Doctor, Right To Play, The Yeredon Center, MHOP and others will present their organizational work in Mali and offer creative ways you can become an active participant.

Saturday, February 26th

9:00 – 10:30 am
WORKSHOPS

  • Yoga w/Sharon Kivenko (Ashamu)
  • Mali Song w/Yacouba Diabate (Cave)

10:45 am – 12.15 pm
WORKSHOPS

  • African Dance w/ Seydou Coulibaly
  • Djoun-Djoun Drumming w/ Joh Camara

1 – 2:30 pm
Keynote Lecture & Discussion:
“Locating Mande Performance on the Global Stage”

Discussing Malian Dance, Music and Culture with scholar Cherif Keita, anthropologist Sharon Kivenko and Michelle Bach-Coulibaly

2:45 – 4.15 pm
WORKSHOPS

  • Malian Dance w/Joh Camara
  • Malian Drumming and Song w/ Seydou Coulibaly

4:30 – 6:00 pm
WORKSHOPS

  • Contemporary Mande Dance w/ Lacina Coulibaly
  • Djembe Drumming w/ Sidy Maiga

6:15 – 6:30 pm
Closing Ceremony and Song

10:00pm – 1:00am
AFRICAN DANCE PARTY with UHURU AFRIKA:
“Afro-Diasporic Dance Floor Explosion”
at the Grad Center Lounge

Uhuru Afrika throws multi-sensory celebrations of culture born from the African continent and the Diaspora. Rooted in deep soulful afro-centric house music, Uhuru Afrika features resident DJs Adam Gibbons & Max Pela, resident Malian percussionist Sidy Maiga, and resident VJ Jay Medina. Uhuru Afrika occurs monthly in Cambridge, MA at AllAsia, extends into live music with regular JUMP! parties, and travels around the world to spread the love – at the Winter Music Conference in Florida, Mi Casa in Mexico, Cielo in NYC, and beyond.

Registration For Festival:

Register online here.

Pricing:
(Performances & Workshops):
All Events included @ $85.00
Individual Workshops:
Suggested donation $20 per class

Make checks payable to:
Brown University, Ka Mali Don African Performance Weekend 2011

Mail to:
Michelle Bach-Coulibaly
Attn: KA MALI DON Festival
Box 1897, Brown University
Providence, RI. 02912
401-588-1688

Questions?
email tellicoulibaly@gmail.com

All information is on the blog:
http://kamalidonfestival.blogspot.com