Saturday, May 29, 2010

[Wadabo_updates] "Ti Jean and His Brothers" Audition Notice

Audition Notice that may be of interest to folks on this list. . .


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Megan Sandberg-Zakian <megansz@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:09 AM
Subject: "Ti Jean and His Brothers" Audition Notice
To: Megan Sandberg-Zakian <megansz@gmail.com>


Hi friends,

I'm forwarding the official audition call for "Ti Jean and His Brothers"
at Central Square Theatre. Please reply to this email if you plan to
attend the audition (even if you have already expressed an interest),
and include any time constraints so I can schedule you between 2:30 and
6:30 p.m. on June 9th. Copies of the script are available; I'll email
one to you if you ask.

Also, I want to cast the net wide for this production -- so please, pass
this notice on to those who you think might be interested in taking
part. We are especially looking for musicians and dancers with
experience in Afro-Carribean forms (they should also be comfortable
with, or at least interested in, doing some acting as well). I'm still
in the process of finding a musical director, choreographer, and visual
artists to collaborate with, so if you know anyone (again, with
expertise in Afro-Caribbean, especially Haitian, dance, music, or visual
art), send them my way.

Thanks friends!
Megan

AUDITION NOTICE

Underground Railway Theater and Boston Playwrights' Theatre announce an
additional audition date for their February 10 – March 12, 2011
co-production of "Ti-Jean and His Brothers" by Nobel Prize-winning
Caribbean playwright Derek Walcott. The play will be performed by an
ensemble portraying multiple characters including humans, animals, and
devils. We seek versatile performers comfortable with poetic language
and, ideally, familiar with Afro-Caribbean music and dance. Roles are
available for both AEA and non-Equity performers.

The script is available for perusal during office hours at StageSource
(88 Tremont St., Boston) and at Central Square Theater (450 Mass. Ave.,
Cambridge – call in advance to Alison Klejna, Manager of Artistic
Operations, at 617-576-9278 x209).

Call-back auditions are BY INVITATION and BY APPOINTMENT at Central
Square Theater (450 Mass Ave., Cambridge) on Wednesday, June 9th, from
2:30-6:30 p.m. Interested performers should email a headshot/resume and
preferred audition times to director Megan Sandberg-Zakian at
megansz@gmail.com. You will be contacted within 48 hours.

Please prepare one monologue of up to 2 minutes (not from "Ti-Jean";
best if it is from another poetic or epic text, such as Shakespeare,
Walcott, Fornes, Lorca, Soyinka, etc.). You will also be asked to read
from the "Ti-Jean" script. An electronic copy of the script will be
available in advance. If you play an instrument, sing, or have dance
experience, please come prepared to demonstrate (and/or provide us with
a link to video/audio of a performance prior to the audition).

Underground Railway Theater Artistic Director Debra Wise, Boston
Playwrights' Theatre Artistic Director Kate Snodgrass, and director
Megan Sandberg-Zakian will attend the auditions. Underground Railway
Theater and Boston Playwrights' Theatre operate under the NEAT Agreement
with Actors' Equity Association. No housing is available.

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

[Wadabo_updates] Uhuru Afrika's JUMP! featuring Debo Band - May 27 (Thursday)

Greetings!
Last month's initial JUMP! was an amazing evening. Beautiful music, great energy, wonderful crowd, and a great venue. I'm happy to say we're back next week for our second JUMP! featuring Boston's own ethio-groove collective - Debo Band. All the details below, and I look forward to seeing you on the dance floor.

Uhuru Afrika's Monthly Live Music sister party 'JUMP' returns!
Thursday May 27th 2010

JUMP Presents special guests:
DEBO BAND - Ethio-Groove Collective

Alongside Resident Urban Griots : ADAM GIBBONS & MAX PELA
Selekting the hottest dance tracks from Africa and across the Diaspora.
With Malian Master Percussionist SIDY MAIGA.

Debo Band, Boston’s own 11 piece Ethio-groove collective explores the unique sounds that filled the dance clubs of “Swinging Addis.” Immersed in the unlikely confluence of traditional East African polyrhythms, pentatonic scales, classic American soul & funk music, and the instrumentation of Eastern European brass bands, Debo Band produces a unique form of dance music.

If you could not join us for our launch party with Lamine Toure & Group Saloum, you missed an amazing evening of Music and dance in a new venue with so much space for dancing and lounging. However, that was just the beginning. Now every month you can dance, party, lounge, listen with us. We hope to see you on this special occasion!

18+
$10 pre-sale & door
9pm-1am

Uhuru Afrika's JUMP at Oberon. 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge.
The Corner of Arrow and Mass Avenue just outside of Harvard Square.

PreSale Tickets @ https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/28325
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124590634222651
Pictures from last months JUMP! with Lamine Toure & Group Saloum: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=427078&id=613430028

More Info on Debo Band @ http://deboband.com/

!! Check out DEBO BAND performing live at the Sauti Za Busara Festival in Zanzibar !! - http://vimeo.com/9649087

If you want to put the JUMP flyer as wallpaper on your phone, go to http://mobopic.com/ and put this url (http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object2/200/110/n124590634222651_944.jpg) into the "somewhere on the internet" field and you're on your way!

See you at the show.

Peace & Blessings.
- erich

Friday, May 07, 2010

[Wadabo_updates] Fw: Dancing For Water Benefit Class

 

DANCING for WATER

 

Friday May 14, 2010   

                                                6-7:30 PM

Fatou-Carol's African Dance Class

                            Dance Complex

536 Mass Avenue, Central Sq, Cambridge

 

The lack of clean water in many parts of the world is threatening the extinction of many indigenous cultures. This is especially true for the Dagara people of Burkina Faso, who live in the Sahel, a desert like corridor, in West Africa.

 

In 2004, when a Kristen Karinshak, a high school sophomore in Leesburg, VA, learned from Sobofu Some, of Burkina Faso. that mothers and children had to walk up to 6 hours a day with heavy jugs on their heads in order to provide water for their families, she decided to take action. She led her first fund raising event, called Walking For Water.  The seventh annual walk will be held May 8, 2010.   Thousands of dollars have been raised from these seven walks and ten wells have already been dug.  This as a great start, but much work still needs to be done.

 

Here in Boston, let's support this important effort and dance for water!!!   Come to this benefit class and dance, watch, sponsor a friend to dance or send in a donation on your own.  No offering is too small.   

 

Consider this:   The average shower uses over 50 gallons of water.  Children in Burkina Faso begin carrying water at age.  UNICEF reports that 2% of children in the US die before the age of 5. In Burkina Faso 45% die before their 5th birthday.

 

For info email Fatou-Carol Sylla underthesundandd@hotmail.com 

or call  her at 617-868-6193

To contribute to the walk directly contact walking4water@gmail.com

[Wadabo_updates] Fw: Dancing For Water Benefit Class

 

DANCING for WATER

 

Friday May 14, 2010   

                                                6-7:30 PM

Fatou-Carol's African Dance Class

                            Dance Complex

536 Mass Avenue, Central Sq, Cambridge

 

The lack of clean water in many parts of the world is threatening the extinction of many indigenous cultures. This is especially true for the Dagara people of Burkina Faso, who live in the Sahel, a desert like corridor, in West Africa.

 

In 2004, when a Kristen Karinshak, a high school sophomore in Leesburg, VA, learned from Sobofu Some, of Burkina Faso. that mothers and children had to walk up to 6 hours a day with heavy jugs on their heads in order to provide water for their families, she decided to take action. She led her first fund raising event, called Walking For Water.  The seventh annual walk will be held May 8, 2010.   Thousands of dollars have been raised from these seven walks and ten wells have already been dug.  This as a great start, but much work still needs to be done.

 

Here in Boston, let's support this important effort and dance for water!!!   Come to this benefit class and dance, watch, sponsor a friend to dance or send in a donation on your own.  No offering is too small.   

 

Consider this:   The average shower uses over 50 gallons of water.  Children in Burkina Faso begin carrying water at age.  UNICEF reports that 2% of children in the US die before the age of 5. In Burkina Faso 45% die before their 5th birthday.

 

For info email Fatou-Carol Sylla underthesundandd@hotmail.com 

or call  her at 617-868-6193

To contribute to the walk directly contact walking4water@gmail.com