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ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY
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101 East Broad St. Richmond, VA 23219 · (804) 644 · 3900 Monday - Friday: 10am – 6pm · Saturday 12pm - 4pm and by appointment · First Fridays hours: 7pm – 11pm |
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| Join Elegba Folklore Society in a year-round, lively celebration of African and African-American culture. Bring yoru family to festivals. Ejoy art an dimports in our cultural center. Sway with our performance company in the warmth of an African village. Or, let us guide your group in a Heritage Tour of Richmond's enslaved past. |
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CELEBRATING FELA KUTI |
Celebrating Fela Kuti in the Capital of the Confederacy Rebel. Artist. Musician. Afrikan. Black. Few words encapsulate the dynamic that is Fela Anikulapo Kuti. World renown as the originator of Afrobeat; Fela’s work inspired and touche millions. His political views and cultural ideology would set precedent, engaging listeners through melody and harmony; while riding rhythms of revolution between drum beats of black consciousness. He is Anikulapo; meaning to have death in one’s pouch…. His ideas, music, persona, and spirit transcends time and the physical; to know of him in totality is to know a true revolutionary – one who embodies change not in words alone but through action; action that inspires one’s now; action that inspires our tomorrow. The reason for Afrika: Center of the World; a Tribute to Fela Kuti is to invoke the spirit of Anikulapo – to resurrect the spirit of Fela in the Capital of the Confederacy – and to shed the ideas that disconnect Africans in America from Africans throughout the globe. Africa is the center – from which all Afrikans are derived. Via these images; with imitation as a vehicle of veneration; we call for the spirit of Fela during Black August; in tribute to all Africans at home and abroad.
EXHIBITION: AUGUST 6 - SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
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