Kwanzaa is an often misunderstood holiday-celebration-week of atonement.
Here's your (and my) opportunity to learn more about it.
KwanzaaFest is on Saturday, December 13 from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.and Sunday, December 14 from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Automobile Building at Fair Park. Estimated attendees for both days exceeded 50,000 in 2007.
From http://www.dallasnews.com/ :
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price will present the annual community festival on Saturday and Sunday at Fair Park. It will feature performances by R&B artists, gospel singers, dancers, jazz ensembles, drummers and more. The lineup will include Jazmine Sullivan, Plies, Baby Bash, Play N Skillz and Mary Mary. Other activities will include a health fair with screenings and information booths, a high school debate competition and a vendor fair. – NANCY MOORE / Staff Writer
This year's KwanzaaFest is noteworthy because a new event has been added to the festival. Inspired by the movie "The Great Debaters," debate teams from Carter and Roosevelt high schools will battle it out Sunday, December 14th at 2pm on the main stage.
http://www.johnwileyprice.com/kwanzaa-main.html
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Cheap Date Alert #7
What: The NOTcracker (modern dance performance)
When: December 8, 2007 @ 3pm
Where: Dallas Museum of Art (Atrium Cafe), 1717 N. Harwood Street, Dallas, TX 75201
Cost: FREE (but you may still have to pay museum admission $10/person; call ahead to verify)
Contact: 214.922.1200
From DallasNews.com:
No snow falls on the Barefoot Brigade's NOTcracker, and no mice invade, either. Resolutely opposed to anything remotely like The Nutcracker, these modern dance companies celebrate the season in their own style. Kimberly Bland from Chiaroscuro Dance Company, for example, performs To the Sea: Metamorphosis of an Ice Sculpture, described as the "odyssey of an ice sculpture as she melts, evaporates into the atmosphere, and rains down into the ocean." Muscle Memory Dance Theatre goes in for "abstract tutus" in Embellish. Other groups include Armstrong/Bergeron Dance Company, Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth, BecklesDancing Company, Dallas Dance Company, 3/A Modern Dance Company and Phase 2 Dance Ensemble. The performance takes place at the DMA's Atrium Cafe. – MARGARET PUTNAM / Special Contributor
When: December 8, 2007 @ 3pm
Where: Dallas Museum of Art (Atrium Cafe), 1717 N. Harwood Street, Dallas, TX 75201
Cost: FREE (but you may still have to pay museum admission $10/person; call ahead to verify)
Contact: 214.922.1200
From DallasNews.com:
No snow falls on the Barefoot Brigade's NOTcracker, and no mice invade, either. Resolutely opposed to anything remotely like The Nutcracker, these modern dance companies celebrate the season in their own style. Kimberly Bland from Chiaroscuro Dance Company, for example, performs To the Sea: Metamorphosis of an Ice Sculpture, described as the "odyssey of an ice sculpture as she melts, evaporates into the atmosphere, and rains down into the ocean." Muscle Memory Dance Theatre goes in for "abstract tutus" in Embellish. Other groups include Armstrong/Bergeron Dance Company, Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth, BecklesDancing Company, Dallas Dance Company, 3/A Modern Dance Company and Phase 2 Dance Ensemble. The performance takes place at the DMA's Atrium Cafe. – MARGARET PUTNAM / Special Contributor
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
First Fridays by the Onyx Society
www.myspace.com/onyxsocietyfirstfridays
June 1, 2007
9pm – 2am
Cityplace
$20 admission
Cash bar
First Fridays. Remember the concept? The first Friday of every month there was a networking/social event for African-American professionals in most major cities. I think the concept originated in Chicago; if I’m wrong let me know in the comments section. Eventually they became more social event than networking event; and eventually patrons included professionals and non-professionals alike. The events were popular about 10 years ago but eventually attendance began to wane and the events died a slow death. Imagine my surprise when I learned that First Fridays had risen from the grave here in Dallas. But maybe the afterlife is where these events should stay.
June’s First Friday was sponsored by the Onyx Society. After extensive research (or an attempt at extensive research) I still don’t know what the Onyx Society is, how you gain membership, or why you would want to be a member. Thankfully, I didn’t need any of the answers to those questions in order to attend the event. The modus operandi of First Fridays hasn’t changed much. There were four party rooms – a steppers room, an old school room, a rap/hip-hop room (one day I’m going to figure out exactly what “hip-hop” means – is it a genre of music, a culture unto itself, a little bit of both?), and a VIP room. Consequently, party goers ranged in age from 23 to 60. Big spread huh? Most of the older guests spent their time in the steppers room. The youngest patrons spent their time in the rap/hip-hop room. The VIP room seemed to be a haven for 30 somethings and 40 somethings who were somehow affiliated with the Onxy Society. Oddly enough, the Old School room remained empty for most of the evening.
Despite its attempt at providing something for everyone, the event was not well attended. I was there for roughly three hours and at its pinnacle, perhaps there were 200 people scattered throughout three of the four rooms. I still don’t understand why the old school room was so unpopular. Perhaps it was the location. You had to search for it a little. The two rooms that were most popular (steppers and rap/hip-hop) were on the third and fourth floors respectively and the floors were connected by a convenient set of stairs making it easy to move back and forth between the two. Speaking of the steppers room…if I knew how to step (some of you may know it as swing dancing), I am sure I would have had a BALL. There was no shortage of dance partners and it looked like so much fun. Note to self, call your uncle and get him to teach you to step ASAP.
In the final analysis – First Friday was a disappointment. It had its good points – great music, lots of free parking, a convenient location, and plenty of sitting areas in case you met someone you wanted to get to know better. But none of those things matter when you’ve got no one to dance with and no one to talk to. Still, I would be willing to give it a second chance. It may be at the bottom of my list of fun ways to spend a Friday night, but at least it’s on the list.
June 1, 2007
9pm – 2am
Cityplace
$20 admission
Cash bar
First Fridays. Remember the concept? The first Friday of every month there was a networking/social event for African-American professionals in most major cities. I think the concept originated in Chicago; if I’m wrong let me know in the comments section. Eventually they became more social event than networking event; and eventually patrons included professionals and non-professionals alike. The events were popular about 10 years ago but eventually attendance began to wane and the events died a slow death. Imagine my surprise when I learned that First Fridays had risen from the grave here in Dallas. But maybe the afterlife is where these events should stay.
June’s First Friday was sponsored by the Onyx Society. After extensive research (or an attempt at extensive research) I still don’t know what the Onyx Society is, how you gain membership, or why you would want to be a member. Thankfully, I didn’t need any of the answers to those questions in order to attend the event. The modus operandi of First Fridays hasn’t changed much. There were four party rooms – a steppers room, an old school room, a rap/hip-hop room (one day I’m going to figure out exactly what “hip-hop” means – is it a genre of music, a culture unto itself, a little bit of both?), and a VIP room. Consequently, party goers ranged in age from 23 to 60. Big spread huh? Most of the older guests spent their time in the steppers room. The youngest patrons spent their time in the rap/hip-hop room. The VIP room seemed to be a haven for 30 somethings and 40 somethings who were somehow affiliated with the Onxy Society. Oddly enough, the Old School room remained empty for most of the evening.
Despite its attempt at providing something for everyone, the event was not well attended. I was there for roughly three hours and at its pinnacle, perhaps there were 200 people scattered throughout three of the four rooms. I still don’t understand why the old school room was so unpopular. Perhaps it was the location. You had to search for it a little. The two rooms that were most popular (steppers and rap/hip-hop) were on the third and fourth floors respectively and the floors were connected by a convenient set of stairs making it easy to move back and forth between the two. Speaking of the steppers room…if I knew how to step (some of you may know it as swing dancing), I am sure I would have had a BALL. There was no shortage of dance partners and it looked like so much fun. Note to self, call your uncle and get him to teach you to step ASAP.
In the final analysis – First Friday was a disappointment. It had its good points – great music, lots of free parking, a convenient location, and plenty of sitting areas in case you met someone you wanted to get to know better. But none of those things matter when you’ve got no one to dance with and no one to talk to. Still, I would be willing to give it a second chance. It may be at the bottom of my list of fun ways to spend a Friday night, but at least it’s on the list.
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