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Africa Consortium welcomes a new memberLangston Hughes Performing Arts Center in Seattle, WA joins this group dedicated to redefining US engagement with African artists and organizations.
walter carter collaboration continues in yazoo cityRalph Lemon recently returned from a week in Mississippi where he continued working with Walter Carter, his wife Edna, and other family and community members.
Two MAPP artists in UTR 2009Marc Bamuthi Joseph's the break/s and Kassys' LIGA are among the "explosively diverse kaleidoscope of new theater" represented during The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival 2009.
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Rha Goddess is Out of the Ordinary!Goddess' unflinching one woman show, LOW, opens at the VSA Arts/North Fourth Art Center in Albuquerque this weekend as part of its Out of the Ordinary Festival.
Africa Consortium
The Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium is comprised of 12 diverse and dynamic U.S. arts organizations, including festivals, residency centers, performing and visual arts centers, producers and universities. Each Consortium member has made a long-term commitment-on a curatorial, institutional and personal level-to multi-dimensional and multi-directional cultural exchange with Africa. Within the collective, consortium members possess expertise in creative residencies, scholarship, producing, touring, presenting, and collaboration with African partners.
August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Pittsburgh, PA
www.augustwilsoncenter.org
Bates Dance Festival, Lewiston, ME
Center for World Arts at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
www.arts.ufl.edu/cwa/
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
www.kennedy-center.org
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, Seattle, WA
www.seattle.gov/parks/Centers/langston
MAPP International Productions, New York, NY
www.mappinternational.org
National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA
www.nbaf.org
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ
www.njpac.org
The Seattle Theatre Group, Seattle, WA
www.theparamount.com
VSA Arts of New Mexico/North Fourth Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
www.vsaartsnm.org
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
www.walkerart.org
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
www.ybca.org