AFRO ALERT: or cp-timed listings

Hey beautiful Afronauts! I got some calls and emails asking me to let y'all know about some marvelous goings on that just never got the PR thang together, but would love an audience and/or participants. And then of course I got some calls about a dinner event I am helping to organize and had to handle that, then what?! The kids are hungry and oh my goodness my Kongo class is in 45 minutes, but listen! There is a dance festival cum fundraiser for Chester Whitmore, a phenomenal tap dancer. http://www.atlantajazzdance.org/images/chester-slideshow.jpg He is presenting/producing a show, "The History of Black Dance in America" on Feb 12. The word from the Crier is that it is a big production but  on 1/15/2011, (that would be tomorrow, Saturday) they are doing a fundraiser for it. THERE WILL BE DANCING ALL DAY LONG!  

Here are the details we could pull together for you fanatics:

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Vermont Square United Methodist Church Community Center

4410 S. Budlong, LA, CA

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First class is at 12:15 PM and will be taught by the legendary

 

Nzinga Camara, price is $12

 

 

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Tap

Line Dancing

and much more!

and, now, Mr. Whitmore in action:

 

And just in case you did not hear, Swing Brazil will perform a the California African American Museum, 39th & Figueroa in LA,  on Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 3 PM as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration program. The full program begins at 1 PM. Lula Washington's dance school will be in the house, too. Those kids are FIERCE!

Though there will be parades all over So Cal, The Kingdom Come Parade will likely be the largest. The sad truth about all this celebrating/reminiscing and dream having/deferring, black people have been disappearing from Los Angeles since the last millennium, down to 9% of the population. And perhaps, numerically speaking, there has not been a true exodus, rather a ballooning of other populations, while black folks headed east to San Bernadino or South to Atlanta. Now theres a story!