Elegba Folklore Society

Black History Book Expo
2017-02-26 14:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Visit Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 East Broad Street in the downtown Richmond Arts District for the Black History Book Expo, Sunday, February 26, 2p – 7p. Admission is free.

Elegba Folklore Society is collaborating with United Brothers and United Sisters Communications Systems to present the Black History Book Expo. Come, browse and buy from a vast display of literature featuring topics including black history, politics, science, African Diasporic culture, novels and children’s books.
Celebrity Guest Authors will make presentations at the Black History Book Expo.Jabari Osaze is co-founder of the Center for the Restoration of Ma’at in New York City, Epyptologist, leader of international study groups and author of Seven Little White Lies: The Conspiracy to Destroy the Black Self-Image. Herb Powell is a musician who resides in Los Angeles, a music lover, interviewer for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and author of Maurice White: My Life with Earth, Wind and Fire.Ronnie Nelson Sidney II, MSW, is a therapist, entrepreneur, speaker, author, app developer and workshop presenter. He is the owner of Creative Medicine: Healing Through Words, LLC and the author of Nelson Beats the Odds and Tameka’s New Dress, among others, to upfront children overcoming challenges they face such as bullying, abuse at home and learning disabilities.
Independent writers of books for adults and children will also speak, and others will be represented in the books available at the Expo. And, of course, you can expect to find the classics that belong in every home library!
Stop in for live music and refreshments, too!
Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center
Downtown in the RVA Arts District
101 East Broad Street (corner of 1st & Broad)
804.644.3900

Notable Richmond-based jazz musicians, together as Sketches, add “flava” during day 1 of Malcolm X Day Black Book Expo at Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center in the downtown RVA Arts District. 5/18/13

Writer’s Den Poetry Slam
2017-02-22 07:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Join the Writer’s Den for the popular monthly Poetry Slam held at Elegba Folklore Society’s
Cultural Center, 101 East Broad Street. Doors open at 7p. Masterful spoken word artists will share their thoughts poetically for those gathered. Any attendee may sign up to present.
Refreshments will be served.

Elegba Folklore Society Presents Performing Arts Workshops
2017-02-12 14:00 - 17:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Join Elegba Folklore Society’s African dancers and drummers in two special workshops,
Feel the Beat, on Sunday, February 12, in the Dominion Arts Center, 600 E. Grace Street, downtown in Richmond, Virginia. Tickets are $5 for each session.
Feel the Beat – West African Drum begins at 2p. Participants will put their hands on the skin and immerse themselves in the body-mind-spirit of the experience. Enjoy drumming, learn percussion technique and cultural traditions, feel good inside and out! The focus is the djembe orchestra of the Manding.
Feel the Beat – West African Dance begins at 3:15p. Participants will throw off their shoes and socks and immerse themselves inside the rhythm of the drum. Enjoy dancing, while learning dance technique and cultural traditions. The workshop will be led by a dancer/folklorist and drummers. Students should wear loose-filng clothing, and be prepared to dance in bare feet.

Elegba Folklore Society Presents: "African Dance, Music & the Oral Tradition" at Henrico Theatre
2017-02-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Henrico Theatre, 305 E 9 Mile Rd, Highland Springs, VA, 23075, United States
Elegba Folklore Society’s African dancers, musicians, singers and masquerade will present a concert, African Dance, Music & the Oral Tradi7on on Saturday, February 11, 7p in the Henrico Theatre, 305 E. Nine Mile Road, Highland Springs, Virginia. Admission is free.
This performance celebrates the rich culture and arts of the West African Manding cosmology
as showcased through the djembe orchestra with melodic balafon and kora instrumentation all integrated into choreographed stories about life that influence and relate universally. The masquerade highlights the concert and invokes its spirit. Interaction with the audience, as if in the village, will define the presentation that is open to all ages.

New Art Exhibit: Obscura at Elegba Folklore Society
2017-02-03 17:00 - 2017-04-30 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Growth 18 by 24 on Water Color Paper Pen, pencil and color pencil
Nicole Wandera’s paintings, a collection called Obscura, will open on Friday, February 3 in Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 East Broad Street, in a reception from 5p – 9p. Obscura runs through April 30, 2017.
From the Latin word for darkness, this exhibition lifts the veil oﬀ the superficial to reveal inner expressions of self. The portrayals, collectively, answer Wandera’s question, “Who are we and what part of ourselves do we allow others to see?” What the artist shows, through the subtle densities of pen, pencil and color pencil, is the interplay of internal energy fields, the environment of the “true self.”
Nicole Wandara, born in Nairobi, is a student in Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts, after some study at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute. She has exhibited at the World Bank and at Raw Artists, Brooklyn.
She says, “I believe creativity is like breathing, it is a constantly evolving dialogue with the universe. I channel its energy to help create my own visual stories. These stories tell of my experiences, what I have learned, and how the people I have met have influenced my life. I use art as a platform to discuss the controversial issues that plague our society, such as gender, race, human rights and our disintegrating environment. My goal is to reach into your mind , change your perspective and hopefully inspire you.”

New Art Exhibit: Obscura to Open at Elegba Folklore Society
2017-02-03 17:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States

2016 Capital City Kwanzaa Festival
2016-12-30 17:00 - 23:00 | Altria Theater, 6 N Laurel St, Richmond, 23220, United States
2016 CAPITAL CITY KWANZAA FESTIVAL DECEMBER 30
AT THE ALTRIA THEATER
CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVESARY OF KWANZAA
Richmond, VA • Elegba Folklore Society, Richmond’s Cultural Ambassador, presents the 2016 Capital City Kwanzaa Festival on Friday, December 30, 5:00 p.m. – 11:00pm, returning this year to The Altria Theater, 6 N. Laurel Street, Richmond, Virginia. Newly renovated and named, this venue was formerly known as the Landmark Theater.
The 2016 Capital City Kwanzaa Festival presents a carefully planned series of events that please the palette of attendees and capture the spirit and the significance of the Kwanzaa holiday, created by Dr. Maulana Karenga, now in its 50th year.
The festival’s main stage is alive with music, dance and message presented to strengthen families and galvanize the community. The African Market will be open with food and shopping. There will be children’s events, workshops and more in this nationally recognized, regionally attended observance of the Kwanzaa (quahn-zah) holiday. The
Capital City Kwanzaa Festival is one of the largest Kwanzaa celebrations on the east coast. The festival pays homage to the 50th Anniversary of the holiday and Dr. Karenga’s message, “…Repairing, Renewing and Remaking our World.”
The Ancestral Libation and Candle Lighting Ceremony set the tone for the day. Attendees are invited to come and experience the Kwanzaa holiday right from the start. To observe this Pan-African holiday of unity, strength, clarity and solidarity based on reconnection with our essential African value systems, the 2016 Capital City Kwanzaa
Festival’s thematic focus is based on philosophy foundational to the Kwanzaa holiday, recommitting to our highest cultural ideals in thought and practice.
African Americans are the descendants of the creators of every aspect of the world’s development. African Americans have influenced every aspect of America’s development. Though we survived America’s enslavement of the generations of our fore parents and their prowess, we are navigating its legacy as it shows up in daily occurrences of racism. This affects our world-view, our self-view and our sense of self-worth. When our cultural memory and our spiritual truth can affirm and uphold the realities of our identity, then and now, in the 50th Anniversary of this holiday observance, we are, in theme,
Celebrating Our Magnificence.
The Nia Sessions are ongoing workshops that will also offer perspectives toward personal and community triumph. Watoto Kwanzaa presents, of course, Heritage Crafts For Children, a cornerstone of the Capital City Kwanzaa Festival. (Watoto means children in Kiswahili.) The event’s keynote speaker is the widely respected Dr. Patricia A. Newton aka Nana Dr. Akosua Akyaa, an international specialist in behavioral medicine and a proponent of the psycho-social-spiritual wellbeing of African people.
Festival events will occur as follows:
5:00pm The African Market Opens, filled with delicious foods plus books, unique handcrafted and imported items, art, home décor, natural body care, clothing, jewelry and more. Remains open throughout the event.
6:00pm The Pouring of Ancestral Libation and Kwanzaa Candle Lighting Ceremony, Affirmation of the Nguzo Saba, the Seven Principles and the ancestors upon whose shoulders we stand. The lighting of candles and the ceremony will feature a call-and- response affirmation. The Elegba Folklore Society’s performing company will lead the ceremony.
6:30pm Breeze The Poet. A professional spoken word artist, Breeze is known for his to-the-point, transparent writing and speaking style that exposes current events, relationships, history and his personal experience to gift audiences with a Serenity Song: Whole Hymns for Broken Peace, also the title of his book. Having performed at the Apollo Theater and elsewhere nationally, this Richmond native is a Grand Slam Champion many times over. He expresses himself in a way that has been called, “preacher-like,” and he says he was just sent to show the people their beauty inside his words.
7:00pm Opening Processional. Led by Elegba Folklore Society, the leaders of
The Nia Sessions join to greet the audience and present an overview of each session. The Society’s performers will also offer African Dance, Music and the Oral Tradition. These dancers, drummers, and singers focus primarily on West Africa to spur an evolving understanding of the cultural and historical underpinnings of the dance and its music while showing its relationship to the United States. Further, audiences develop an appreciation for the dynamic nature and contemporary influence of this timeless art form.
7:30pm The Nia Sessions and Watoto Kwanzaa Begin. Included are Reiki Master, Richard C. Yates, and other spiritual workers of The Joyce M. Branch Healing Place – alternative approaches to health maintenance, Stand for Justice with Lynetta Thompson who will discuss social issues for 2017, Do For Self in the 21st Century – encourages maximum productivity, with Azibo Turner, Healing Racial Trauma with peace education advocate, Ram Bhagat — and more. S. Ross Browne, visual artist and educator will facilitate Watoto Kwanzaa activities. The Nia Sessions will be ongoing from 7:30p.m. until 10:00 p.m.
8:00pm Dr. Patricia A. Newton Speaks. The festival’s keynote speaker will unpack the event theme from the place of the psycho-social-spiritual wellbeing of African people. The CEO and Medical Director of the Black Psychiatrists of America and Medical Director of Newton & Associates, PA, specialists in Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Patricia Newton, M.D., MPH, M.A., aka Nana Dr. Akosua Akyaa, also lectures in Ghana, South Africa, England, Spain, Senegal, Egypt, Ethiopia and Brazil. Her practice concentration is in the areas of anxiety disorders — post traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and social phobia. She has served as a consultant to the Congressional Black Caucus’ Brain Trust for health care policy development. She is currently in the process of a book launch entitled Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder, which will publish in three languages — English, Spanish and Portuguese — later this year. Dr. Newton has worked with traditional and indigenous healers of South America, Ghana, Senegal and South Arica, and she is an enstooled female king and queen mother in the Asante region of Ghana. A divisional chief, a Dompiahene, of the Agogo Traditional area, she is one of the first females to serve in this capacity and has the full rights afforded Asante royalty.

Her topic for the 2016 Capital City Kwanzaa Festival follows the event’s theme,
Celebrating Our Magnificence. She will entertain questions from the audience and also facilitate a small group consultation.
9:00pm Kenya Safari Acrobats. For more than 20 years, Kenyan acrobat, husband and father Jacob Kalama with his wife Karen and their company have dazzled audiences with the command of their bodies, timing and balance. The shows, which tour around the world, combine athleticism and education so that audiences can learn about aspects of Kenyan folklore and the Kiswahili language, also the language used to context the Kwanzaa holiday. The company trains daily, and the Kalamas have a school in Mombassa for developing new talent. Designed for families and fun, the Kenya Safari Acrobats will cause audiences to hold their breaths and cheer at once.

10:00pm Wildfire. Rooted in Senegal from the blood of the Mandinka to the shores of North America, Wildfire is a reggae artist, songwriter and producer. He sings about peace, love and African awareness through the inspiration of reggae music. Just returning to Virginia from a seven- city tour with Ghana’s Papa Wastik, Wildfire is making his third appearance at the Capital City Kwanzaa Festival.

11:00 p.m. Festival Closes.
Advance tickets for the 2016 Capital City Kwanzaa Festival are $6, general admission, $5 for students, 12 – 18 and $5 for seniors, 65 +. At the door tickets are $7, general admission, $6 for students, 12 – 18 and $6 for seniors, 65 +. Tickets for groups (at least 10 persons) are $5. Group tickets must be purchased in advance only. Single advance tickets can be purchased online at http://efsinc.org or at the Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 East Broad Street in Richmond, VA, 804.644.3900, where group tickets are also available. Admission is free for children under 12.

The Writer's Den Poetry Slam - 12/21/2016
2016-12-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States

Nora
2016-10-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Nora is a documentary based on the life of dancer Nora Chipaumire, who was born in Zimbabwe in 1965. In the film, Nora returns to the landscape of her childhood and travels through the vivid memories of her youth. Using performance and dance, she brings her story to life in a swift poem of sounds and images. Shot entirely on location in South Africa, Noraportrays a multitude of local performers and dancers of all ages, from schoolchildren to grandmothers. Much of the film’s music was specially composed by the legend of Zimbabwean music, Thomas Mapfumo. Elegba Folklore Society is happy to collaborate with the VCU Department of Dance and Choreography that will present Nora Chipaumire in concert and in the village in lecture demonstration on October 28 and 29 respectively. Contact VCU Dance for more information.

Harvest Festival - A Fire for Freedom
2016-10-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Meadow Farm, 3400 Mountain Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060, United States
A Fire for Freedom

A one-act about Gabriel’s 1800 Revolt in Richmond to end slavery in Virginia,
and perhaps everywhere. Two shows at 1p and 2:30p.

The Culture & Magic of the Maasai People of Kenya
2016-10-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Experience and collect amazing beadwork, enjoy food and music, learn traditions and contemporary cause. Meet Chief Joseph ole Tipanko, pictured, Cicilia Seleyian, pictured, and John Kilenyi Parsitau.

New art exhibit opens: Foot Soldiers — Voting Rights. Civil Rights. Human Rights.
2016-10-07 17:00 - 2017-01-31 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
New art opens at Elegba Folklore Society on Friday, October 7 with a reception from 5p – 9p. A photography show entitled, Foot Soldiers — Voting Rights. Civil Rights. Human Rights. and features more than 200 images from a documentation of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. The photographer, Theodore Holmes, calls the series “a reminder to people to do something; to organize. This is my visual statement of inspiration and concern about an apparent ‘open season’ on young black people. Do something. That’s more than a vote. My photos are my activism.”

The Society’s Cultural Center is located in the RVA Arts District at 101 East Broad Street. The exhibit will run through January 31.

The Writer's Den Poetry Slam
2016-09-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Richmond, VA’S premier poetry slam experience! We are now certified and preparing our team for both Regional and National competitions! Come and see the best poets #RVA has to offer! 7 p.m. at 101 East Broad Street

African Traditions in Virginia
2016-09-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Henrico Theatre, 305 E. Nine Mile Rd., Highland Springs, 23075

A Cultural History Tour With Coming To The Table
2016-09-20 18:00 - 20:30 | The Trail Of Enslaved Africans, Manchester Dock, Richmond, United States
Coming To The Table has invited Elegba Folklore Society to guide a special experience along the Trail of Enslaved Africans. Interested? Tuesday September 20, 6:00-8:30. Wear appropriate shoes and bring a light…we are walking on wooded trail along the river. How has history shaped the ways we see ourselves and others today?
Details: martha@livingintheand.com

Afrikana Shorts RVA Premiere @ Elegba Folklore Society
2016-09-17 13:00 - 15:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Sept. 17, 2016 Saturday- Short Films: Two Cities – by Darius Clark Monroe
*Elegba Society: 1:00pm – 1:30pm* Locked inside the mind and memory of Dr. Mtangulizi Sanyika, he reflects what it means to be part of the displaced New Orleans population in Houston…

Sept. 17, 2016 Saturday- Short Films: Summer of the Gods byEliciana Nascimento & Maestrina da Favela w/Falani Spivey
*Elegba Society: 2:00pm – 2:45pm* SUMMER OF THE GODS premiered at Cannes film Festival, and has won five awards so far, including three of best picture. With this film, she reveals the beauty, culture and mythology of her people. Her hope is that it will encourage the preservation of Orishas traditions by inspiring viewers to honor them and learn more. Exclusive sneak peak: MAESTRINA da FAVELA, A coming-of-age documentary, following the life of Afro-Brazilian, female percussionist Elem Silva between the ages of 13-22.

Sept. 17, 2016 Saturday- Short Films: Parallel Shift w/Dawn Hall
*Elegba Society: 2:00pm – 2:45pm* A glimpse into an ethereal reality without special effects; divine inspiration and a dark paradoxical dream. The experience requires the audience to pause and be mindful of the layers of meaning and explore an individual interpretation.

The Writer's Den Poetry Slam
2016-08-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Come let your word be heard… Cultural merch, food and drinks available.

The Flag Series: Fingers Tracing Places of Aspiration (NEW ART AT ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY)
2016-08-05 17:00 - 2016-09-30 17:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
New Art Opening at Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center

Sukenya Best’s monotypes will be on view in an exhibition called The Flag Series: Fingers Tracing Places of Aspiration. The show will open on Friday, August 5, 5:00p – 9:00p, at Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center during the First Fridays Artwalk. The Cultural Center is located in the RVA Arts District, 101 East Broad Street, downtown at 1st and Broad. Music will also be featured and refreshments will be served.

The art exudes color and movement via printmaking where the ink is rolled onto a flat surface, manipulating the surface, laying paper on it, and then hand pulling the whole thing through a press, according to the artist. Ms. Best says, “Dragging my fingers and stamping my palms in ink created the various textures within each print. Much of the geometric compositions within the pieces were inspired by international flag designs. The process began to push past the flag, so the very last print became a personal design that is symbolic of time.” In the printmaking process, Ms. Best enhances original flags in essence and symbolism with rhythm and texture.

Ms. Best has exhibited at Museum of Science & Industry (Chicago), Pen & Brush Inc. (New York), Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (Pennsylvania), Kansas City Art Institute (Missouri), Corcoran School of Arts (Washington DC) and the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen (Virginia), among other locations. Her art is found in collections in both New DeIhi and Gujarat in India. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has studied abroad in Zimbabwe and London.

Elegba Folklore Society is a year-round, lively celebration of African and African American culture. In addition to engagement in the visual arts and material culture, programming includes dance theatre and music, cultural history tours and cultural arts festivals. Elegba is an Orisa, or intercessor, who opens the roads to bring clarity our of confusion.

The Flag Series: Fingers Tracing Places of Aspiration runs through September 30.

BE IN OUR AUDIENCE AT DOGWOOD DELL FRIDAY, JULY 1
2016-07-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Dogwood Dell, 6000 N. Boulevard, Richmond, 23220, United States
BE IN OUR AUDIENCE AT DOGWOOD DELL FRIDAY, JULY 1

Celebrate Heritage! Celebrte Life! with the Society’s African dancers, drummers and singers in a concert entitled African Dance, Music and the Oral Tradition. No matter your age or background, you will be enchanted by the spiirit and the opennessof the Ęlęgba Folklore Society.

Show starts at 8p.

Bring your chair or blanket, dinner and candles.

Let’s light up the night!

6000 S. Boulevard, RVA 23220

The Cowtail Switch Workshop
2016-06-25 12:00 - 20:00 | Dominion Arts Center, 600 E Grace St #400, Richmond, 23219, United States
On June 25, the Genworth Lights Up! Youth Open House returns to Dominion Arts Center, 600 East Grace St. (Same location as Juneteenth 2016 with Dick Gregory) This free event offers more than 30 participatory workshops, lecture-demonstrations and performances in the visual and performing arts for children and youth ages 3 to 18. Registration begins at 10:30a and the sessions run from Noon – 5.
At 2p Elegba Folklore Society will facilitate a heritage crafts workshop called, The Cowtail Switch. The Horsetail or Cowtail or Cowtail Switch is a symbol of power, order, status and influence in several African societies. It can also perform functional tasks as a fly whisk or a story whisk. Make your own and discover the magic of your own story!

All ages are welcome.

Juneteenth 2016, A Freedom Celebration - In Reflection
2016-06-18 17:00 - 21:00 | Manchester Dock, 139 Virginia Street, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Elegba Folklore Society presents Juneteenth 2016, A Freedom Celebration in Richmond, Virginia, June 17 – 18. The theme, Here I Stand, invites a consideration of the legacy of history in the present and its influence on shaping the future.
This two-part event features The Symposium on Friday, June 17 in Rhythm Hall at Dominion Arts Center (formerly Richmond CenterStage), 600 E. Grace Street. Doors open at 6:30p. Tickets are $15 for one and $25 for two, general admission. Tickets for students, 12 -18, are $10 and children under 12 are admitted free of charge.
On Saturday, June 18, In Reflection happens beginning at 5:00p at the Manchester Dock and along the Trail of Enslaved Africans. Admission is free.
Dick Gregory, legendary comedian, civil rights activist and natural health enthusiast whose social satire influences America’s thinking, will
keynote The Symposium. Elegba Folklore Society’s performers will also appear. There will be art making, and the Freedom Market will be open all night.
Mr. Gregory will appear in Richmond just a few weeks after the Off-Broadway opening of the biographical, Turn Me Loose. This new comedic drama is about the 60’s comic genius Dick Gregory, the first Black stand-up to make white audiences laugh at the absurdity of bigotry. Gretchen Law wrote and John Legend with Mike Jackson produce, in association with Get Lifted Film Company. According to Gregory’s website, the play reveals how the overwhelming power of activism enticed Gregory from one of the most successful show business careers of the postwar era into a life of sacrifice and danger alongside Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers and other Civil Rights leaders. Wielding razor-sharp wit Gregory hacked away at myths about race, poverty, war and politics. In a recent interview President Obama called Dick Gregory one of his two favorite comics ever. The other was Richard Pryor who himself said, “Dick Gregory was the greatest and he was the first.” Gregory is still championing the same messages today, at age 83. He is a last living champion from a remarkable period of struggle for dignity and freedom. Joe Morton, Emmy winning Scandal star, portrays Mr. Gregory.
A theatre-goer reflected, “We need Dick Gregory more than ever!”
Elegba Folklore Society invites all those who appreciate Dick Gregory’s commentary along with a new generation who will discover, says the site, “one of the most prophetic, committed, authentic, confrontational — and hysterically funny — public figures of our time.”

Juneteenth 2016, A Freedom Celebration - The Symposium
2016-06-17 18:30 - 21:00 | RHYTHM HALL AT DOMINION ARTS CENTER, 600 E Grace St., Richmond, VA, 23219, United States

ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY TO PERFORM DURING CELEBRATE JACKSON WARD
2016-05-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 North Blvd, Richmond, VA, 23220, United States
Be in our audience as our African dancers, singers and musicians collaborate with the Richmond Symphony to tell a significant story in the community gathering, Celebrate Jackson Ward. We start at 7p, Saturday, May 21.

Also join our performers at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in a Family Day organized around the opening of Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic. Our concert, Identity, is an interactive performance that expresses an African American journey through the soul of stories told in music and dance. We begin at 1p, Saturday, June 11.

MASTER CLASS WITH MALANG BAYO MAY 14!
2016-05-14 15:00 - 18:00 | Dominion Arts Center, 600 E Grace St #400, Richmond, 23219, United States
MALANG BAYO
SENEGAL, WEST AFRICA

Dance! Music! Culture!
Food & Merchandise
Ages 6 – 86!
Saturday, May 14

Dominion Arts Center
(Formerly Richmond CenterStage)
Drum Class @ 3p • Dance Class @ 4:30p
Culture Class @ 6:00p

The Original Classics: Friday Film Festival (May 13th)
2016-05-13 16:00 - 19:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Friday May 13th is MOVIE NIGHT with “The Original Classics Friday Film Festival” hosted by the Nation of Gods & Earths with EFS! Check the flyer for more info.

VISUALIZING AND ENERGIZING YOUR DIVINITY THRU THE IMAGINATIVE POWER OF HET HERU
2016-04-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Ausar Auset Society Richmond, Va. invites you to a Meditation/Healing workshop on Friday, April 8, 2016, 7:30pm – 9:30pm, $7 donation, Elegba Folklore Society, 101 East Broad Street, Richmond, Va. 23219

The Original Classics: Friday Film Festival (April 8th)
2016-04-08 16:00 - 19:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Friday April 8th is MOVIE NIGHT with “The Original Classics Friday Film Festival” hosted by the Nation of Gods & Earths with EFS! Check the flyer for more info.

The Original Classics: Friday Film Festival (March 25)
2016-03-25 16:00 - 19:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Friday March 25th is MOVIE NIGHT with “The Original Classics Friday Film Festival” hosted by the Nation of Gods & Earths with EFS! Check the flyer for more info.

The Ausar Auset Society Presents: Ausarian Initiation Workshop
2016-03-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
You are invited to the “Ausarian Initiation Workshop” on Friday, March 11, 2016 at the Elegba Folklore Society, 101 East Broad Street, Richmond, Va., 7:30 pm till 9:30 pm, $6 donation.

The Original Classics: Friday Film Festival (March 11)
2016-03-11 16:00 - 19:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Friday March 11th is MOVIE NIGHT with “The Original Classics Friday Film Festival” hosted by the Nation of Gods & Earths with EFS! Check the flyer for more info. Also on Friday, the Elegba Folklore Society hosts the Ausar Auset Society of Washington DC at 7:30! Use your weekend to enjoy cultural fun for all!
