What's happening.* DanceAfrica has always celebrated African and African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. rhythmic movement. This year, the festival (pictured above), which kicks off at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Brooklyn Academy of Music, performing arts center located in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. and popularly known as BAM. Founded in 1859 and opened in 1861, it is the oldest such institution still in operation in the United States. (BAM Bam (bäm), town (1996 pop. 70,100), Kerman prov., SE Iran, on the intermittent Bam River. Located on the western edge of the Dasht-e Lut, Bam is a trade center in a henna-growing region. Dates and other fruits are also grown; camels are raised. )in Brooklyn, New York, May 24-26, also commemorates 25 years of music, song, and artistic expression. Other tour cities include Washington, D.C and Chicago. For more information, call 718-636-4100. * Dionne Warwick will be a long way from San Jose when she finds herself being honored with the 2002 Harlem Renaissance Award at Aaron Davis Hall Aaron Davis Hall is a Performing Arts Center located in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. History Aaron Davis Hall was founded in 1981 and is located on the campus of the City College of New York, between West 133rd and 135th Streets on Convent Avenue. Convent Ave. on May 6 for her 40-year career and her commitment to humanitarian causes. Proceeds from the event will support the performing arts programs and educational activities at Aaron Davis Halt. Call 212-757-2669 for more information. * There'll be a tropical cookout, midnight cruise, street party, beach soiree soi·ree also soi·rée n. An evening party or reception. [French soirée, from Old French seree, from seir, evening, from Latin , and, of course, films at the first annual African American Film Festival in Barbados, May 22-27. Sponsored by Showtime Networks, the tropical island will [lost a who's who of scheduled panelists, presenters, and guests, including directors George Tillman and John Singleton. Contact the Barbados Board of Tourism for more information at 212-986-6516. * Yvette Freeman is stunning in Dinah Was, the off-Broadway play that is her brainchild, written by Oliver Goldstick and directed by Gordon Hunt Joined by members of the original off-Broadway cast, she will perform the musical biography of blues singer Dinah Washington for LA Theatre Works' live radio theater series, May 8-12, at the Skirball Cultural Center  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . in Los Angeles For reservations, call 310-827-0889 --S.A. |
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