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September, 2010
United States
“CELEBRATE SUDAN” — a cultural extravaganza!
September 19, 2010
Who: Anyone who wants to learn more about the beautiful culture of Sudan
What: Celebrate Sudan, a cultural extravaganza, replete with food, musical performances, costumes, and a raffle — with a grand prize trip to Sudan!
When: Sunday, September 19 from 11am – 5pm
Where: Live Oak Park, Berkeley
Why: Like many African countries, for long, Sudan has been portrayed in the media for its poverty, disease, political turbulence and war. And while all these do sadly exist, there is indeed much more that isn’t portrayed. Americans traditionally haven’t been exposed to the beauty that Africa’s largest country has to offer- its rich culture, hundreds of spoken dialects, religious and ethnic diversity, flavors of food, colorful traditional costumes and dress, and beats and rhythms born and bred in Sudan.
United States
P.O.V. Presents Bronx Princess
September 22, 2010
The Film
“Auntie” Yaa Otoo has a great blessing in her life. The Ghanaian immigrant owner of a Bronx beauty shop has a daughter, Rocky, who is bright, vivacious, popular and poised to graduate from high school and be the first woman in her family to attend college — on a full scholarship at that. But Auntie Yaa, who dispenses warmth and wisdom to people in the neighborhood along with beauty lotions from her store, also has a problem. Rocky is willful, disrespectful and determined to leave the Bronx behind — above all she wants to escape her mother's values, which she sees as stifling. Now, in the summer between high school and college, Rocky will travel to Ghana to visit her father, who is a traditional chief of the Ga people. As captured in the new documentary Bronx Princess, airing on PBS' POV (Point of View) series, Rocky imagines the trip as the first chapter in a new life of freedom. Auntie Yaa worries she is losing her daughter forever. Theirs is a typical mother-daughter relationship, one where banter and tears alternate, but with a royal twist, and it informs Bronx Princess from beginning to end.
August 4, 2010
6:00 PM
Women's Empowerment Summer Screening Series
SF Public Library
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
August 7, 2010
5:30 PM
Women's Empowerment Summer Screening Series
Leeway Foundation
1315 Walnut St., 8th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
August 24, 2010
2:00 PM
Women's Empowerment Summer Screening Series
WXXI
280 State St.
Rochester, NY 14614
PBS P.O.V. Broadcast on Sept 22 September 15, 2009
Mark your calendars, we days away from the national broadcast of Bronx Princess on September 22 on PBS' P.OV. Check your local listings, but most stations will air it at 10PM. Check out the Bronx Princess PBS POV site for special content launching after the broadcast!
United States
Nneka’s US tour dates
September 25, 2010
Singer Nneka Egbuna goes simply by her first name. Nneka was born in Nigeria to a Nigerian father and German mother. She has been called an “Afro-German warrior princess
Nneka’s US tour dates
Sat, 31 July 2010 Newport, RI Distant Relatives Tour – Newport Folk Festival Fort Adams
Sun, 01 August 2010 Hartford, CT Lilith Fair – Comcast Theatre
Mon, 02 August 2010 Highline Ballroom New York, NY
Tue, 03 August 2010 Columbia, MD Lilith Fair – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Wed, 04 August 2010 Raleigh, NC Lilith Fair – Time Warner Cable Pavilion
Fri, 06 August 2010 Charlotte, NC Lilith Fair – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Sun, 08 August 2010 Chicago, IL Distant Relatives Tour – Lollapalooza 2010
Tue, 10 August 2010 El Mocambo Club Toronto, ONT
Thu, 12 August 2010 Crocodile Cafe Seattle, WA
Fri, 13 August 2010 Dog Fir Lounge Portland, OR
Sun, 15 August 2010 San Francisco, CA Outside Lands – San Francisco, CA
Mon, 16 August 2010 Troubadour West Hollywood, CA
October, 2010
United States
Iyeoka Upcoming Shows
October 16, 2010
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo is a Poet/Recording Artist, the 2nd place 2009 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and a 2010 TED Global Fellow. A first-generation Nigerian-American, Iyeoka was a practicing pharmacist before launching her career as a poet, presenter, activist and educator. Among Iyeoka’s individual lists of credits is performing at the Kennedy Center for an award event honoring activist and actress Mia Farrow, being commissioned by Discovery Channel for their 2008 brand campaign, being commissioned by a top-twenty ad agency to write a piece for a diversity training tool, receiving a Massachusetts Industry Committee Hip-Hop Award for Spoken Word Artist of the year, and a New England Urban Music Award for the Best Female Spoken Word Poet. She holds the distinction of being the only member of the nationally competing Boston Lizard Lounge Slam team to have earned her position nine years in a row. Iyeoka is currently partnering with selective arts organizations to present her WORD SPEAKING TRIBE’S Professional Development Workshops on a 2010 nationwide tour.
Oct 16, 2010
Time:9:00 AM
BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL BOSTON, MA
Oct 21, 2010
Time:7:30 PM
The Spotlight Cafe at Capitol Center for the Arts Concord, NH
Oct 23, 2010
Time:12:00 PM
Hawaii Spirit Festival (Turtle Bay Resorts) North Shore, HI
