Afro Urban Society x BAMBDFEST x  Fua Dia Congo

AFRO DANCE MEGA 2023!!!!! Dance Workshop & Jam
The Messengers That Move & Belong

Sat, Aug 19, 2023
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts
1428 Alice Street, Oakland | 2nd flr Studio A
For accessibility info: info@afrourbansociety.com

Instructors

Tango Leadaz (Dancehall), Special Guest from L.A.
Toba (Afrobeats)
Jamie Carter (Hip Hop)
Kanukai Chigamba (Afro Dance)

ABOUT

BAMBDFEST BIENNIAL 2023 INTERNATIONAL is a multi-day, multi-venue festival in celebration of the Black Arts Movement Business District, Black Arts & Culture, and economics in Oakland, CA. Founded in February 2019, produced by the Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc. in collaboration with BAMBD, CDC, funded by a Creative California Communities grant from the California Arts Council the festival was an annual event through August of 2021.

AFRO URBAN SOCIETY is an incubator and presenter of Afro-Urban performing and visual arts, culture, media, and social discourse. Through original and curated arts & event production, popular arts education, and cultural engagement, we ignite our communities to make meaningful connections, be inspired, and live vibrantly.

FUA DIA CONGO, founded in 1977, is guided by a Kikongo proverb, Wa Dia Fua Yika Dio, meaning “What you inherit, you must add value to.” For forty years the organization has been resolute in its dedication to preserving and presenting the music, dance, cultural arts of the Kongo Kingdom (the peoples of the Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and parts of Gabon) as well as the Central African Republic. Its founder, Malonga Casquelourd, left a pioneering legacy of artistic excellence for the African and African Diaspora arts community in the Bay Area.