Elegba Folklore Society

3rd Saturday Documentaries at Elegba Folklore Society: I Am Not Your Negro
2018-10-20 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Join us in our Cultural Center every 3rd Saturday in the month as we present cinematic works created by black filmmakers across the diaspora.
Documentaries can open windows to our past. Through the lens of talented filmmakers, we can re-live iconic moments in history like the 1963 March on Washington or climb aboard a Greyhound bus to join the Freedom Riders on their journey through the Jim Crow South. Documentaries offer rich insight into our society and culture, connect us to our past, present, and future.
Featured Film: I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin on the History of Racism in America
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

The Talking Drum, A Spoken Word & Music Concert
2018-10-20, 2017-10-21 12:00 - 17:00 | Meadow Farm Park, 3400 Mountain Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060, United States
You are invited! Elegba Folklore Society’s performers will present The Talking Drum.
The drum is a legendary communications tool — a punctuating teller of life as it happens. This lively delivery of African and African American folktales and narratives combine with vocal and instrumental music to engage audiences along a rhythmic journey over continents and through time.
Audience Comments:
“Absolutely fantastic!”
“Kept everyone’s attention.”
“The delivery brought out stories audience members had to tell. Everybody felt good.”

What Is Africa To Me? | Community Study Group
2018-10-17 19:00 - 21:00 | VA
What Is Africa To Me? Community Study Group, 7p
Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad Street Free.
Explore and discuss history, culture and contemporary affairs throughout the African Diaspora with former Virginia State University professor, Neil Holmes, political scientist and historian.

unVeiled EsSence Opens at Elegba Folklore Society
2018-10-05 17:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
NEW ART AT ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY
“unVeiled EsSence“
featuring the paintings of Orisegun Olomidun
October 5 – November 30

Painter, arts educator and percussionist, Orisegun Olomidun opens a new exhibition in Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center on October 5, 2018 entitled, unVeiled EsSence. The show, which features one and two dimensional acrylic gridding on canvases, will run will run through November 30. Attend the opening reception on October 5, 5p – 9p, and enjoy live music and refreshments as a part of the 1st Fridays ArtWalk. The Society’s Cultural Center is located in the downtown Richmond Arts District at 101 E. Broad Street at the corner of 1st and Broad.

Olomidun says, “My intent is to create art that exhibits energy, intensity and integrity which transforms the environment in which it is placed, performed and experienced –- connecting to an expanding consciousness. My belief is that art should always be alive; constantly inspiring its audience to re-examine the reality around them and experience the visual arts, not merely as tangible objects, but also as ideas manifested in a physical form.” Some of the works incorporate reclaimed materials while others show a superimposition of the same. In so doing, the artist says that the work “speaks back, beckoning the dormancy within each of us to be awakened, revealed, exposed.”

A graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture and Art, Olomidun holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts from the Columbia College of Chicago’s Center for Book and Paper Arts. He has exhibited widely in multiple states in both solo and group shows, and he had been an artist-in-residence in a long list of schools, educational institutes and museums over three decades.

For more, contact Elegba Folklore Society at 804.644.3900 or story1@efsinc.org.

In the Beginning… Virginia, Along the Trail of Enslaved Africans (Cultural History Tour)
2018-09-30 14:00 - 18:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Journey into Richmond’s history to visit the sites where few monuments exist. These newly marked sites tell the other half of the story; the story that lives between the pages of history books — in red, white and black. An interactive experience along the Trail of Enslaved Africans, attendees have the chance to ponder the impact of enslavement on the enslaved as shared in their own words and from their own view. Embarking by bus after a contextual visit to the Society’s cultural center, participants will walk in our ancestors’ footsteps from their arrival point at river’s edge into Shockoe Bottom, the area of Richmond that housed the holding pens, jails, blocks and burial ground. The interpreters will interweave the narratives of enslaved Africans with the historical record, characterizations of the day and music. Disembarking from your bus and along the walk, participants will have the chance to immerse themselves in past occurrences that impact our perspectives today.
$15/Adults, $7.50/Children under 12.
Reserve by Thursday, September 27
804.644.3900 or story1@efsinc.org.

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What Is Afrika To Me: Study Group
2018-09-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
In this Community Study Group, we explore and discuss history, culture and contemporary affairs throughout the African Diaspora with former Virginia State University professor, Neal Holmes, political scientist and historian.
What Is Africa To Me?
Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center
Monthly. Free.

3rd Saturday Documentaries: Special Edition | In collaboration with Afrikana Film Festival
2018-09-15 13:00 - 19:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Screenings hosted by: Elegba Folklore Society

Join us on Saturday, September 15th in our Cultural Center as we present several screenings of masterful cinematic works created by black filmmakers across the diaspora in conjunction with this year’s Afrikana Film Festival.
1:00PM
– Don’t Expel the Blacks (Directed by: Princess Hairston)
– Link Fine Silk (Directed by: Sandra Manzanares)
– Hair Wolf – (Directed by: Mariama Diallo)

3:00PM
– Living (Directed by: Marcellous Cox)
– Other (Cville) (Directed by: Xavier Burgin)
4:00PM
– Bridge/Refrain (Directed by: Roni Nicole)
– The Healer (Directed by: Shamika)
– F*cked Like a Star (Directed by: Stefani Saintonge)
5:00PM
– Under Bone (Directed by: Dana Washington)
– Blood Runs Down (Directed by: Zandashé Brown)
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE
https://www.afrikanafilmfestival.org/buy-tickets

unVeiled EsSence Opens at Elegba Folklore Society
2018-09-07 17:00 - 2018-11-30 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
NEW ART AT ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY
“unVeiled EsSence“
featuring the paintings of Orisegun Olomidun
September 7 – November 30

Painter, arts educator and percussionist, Orisegun Olomidun opens a new exhibition in Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center on September 7, 2018 entitled, unVeiled EsSence. The show, which features one and two dimensional acrylic gridding on canvases, will run will run through November 30. Attend the opening reception on September 7, 5p – 9p, and enjoy live music and refreshments as a part of the 1st Fridays ArtWalk. The Society’s Cultural Center is located in the downtown Richmond Arts District at 101 E. Broad Street at the corner of 1st and Broad.

Olomidun says, “My intent is to create art that exhibits energy, intensity and integrity which transforms the environment in which it is placed, performed and experienced –- connecting to an expanding consciousness. My belief is that art should always be alive; constantly inspiring its audience to re-examine the reality around them and experience the visual arts, not merely as tangible objects, but also as ideas manifested in a physical form.” Some of the works incorporate reclaimed materials while others show a superimposition of the same. In so doing, the artist says that the work “speaks back, beckoning the dormancy within each of us to be awakened, revealed, exposed.”

A graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture and Art, Olomidun holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts from the Columbia College of Chicago’s Center for Book and Paper Arts. He has exhibited widely in multiple states in both solo and group shows, and he had been an artist-in-residence in a long list of schools, educational institutes and museums over three decades.

For more, contact Elegba Folklore Society at 804.644.3900 or story1@efsinc.org.

28th Annual Down Home Family Reunion
2018-08-18 16:00 - 23:00 | VA
ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY PRESENTS
28th ANNUAL DOWN HOME FAMILY REUNION,
A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLK LIFE
RICHMOND, VA • The 28th Annual Down Home Family Reunion explores a full spectrum of music, dance, stories, food, shopping and enrichment in this weekend Celebration of African American Folklife. Elegba Folklore Society, Richmond’s Cultural Ambassador, presents this cultural arts festival that takes attendees on a journey of heritage and folklore from West Africa into the Americas.
On Saturday, August 18, the 28th Annual Down Home Family Reunion‘s
Family Festival will happen, 4:00 – 11:00 p.m., at Abner Clay Park, Belvidere and West Leigh Streets, downtown in Historic Jackson Ward. Elegba Folklore Society invites Virginians and visitors to this event designed to link West African and African American cultural traditions and to demonstrate ways these practices have influenced the American South.
The 28th Annual Down Home Family Reunion is presented by the Elegba Folklore Society, Inc., Richmond’s Cultural Ambassador and sponsored by the City of Richmond, Dominion, Wells Fargo, Upscale Magazine, The AfroAtlantic Theologies & Treaties Institute, Richmond Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities,

Historic Jackson Ward Association and partial support from CultureWorks’ Arts & Cultural Funding Consortium – Richmond, Henrico.

2018 Juneteenth, A Freedom Celebration – Symposium
2018-06-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Pine Camp Arts Center, 4901 Old Brook Rd, Richmond, VA, 23227, United States
2018 Juneteenth, A Freedom Celebration – June 15th – 17th

Kaba Hawatha Kamene will be this year’s keynote speaker!!!
Professor Kaba Hiawatha Kamene aka Booker T. Coleman, a staple Hidden Colors’ scholar and documentarian, cultural education consultant and curriculum writer, will keynote The Symposium. Elegba Folklore Society’s performers will also appear, and the Freedom Market will be open all night.
A consultant to academics and academic institutions, Professor Kamene is an international studies and world history specialist. He is firmly dedicated to the belief that culture plays a vitally important role in education and proudly credits many of his academic views to his master teacher, Dr. John Henrik Clarke. He developed and directs the African-centered science academy, Per Ankh, or Temple of Life.
Elegba Folklore Society ’s performers will appear, and attendees can shop for unusual finds in The Freedom Market.

The Black Book Expo
2018-03-03 15:00 - 2018-03-04 18:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
The Black Book Expo, Sat • 3p – 7p, Sun • 3p – 6p
Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad Street Free. Refreshments Available.
The public is invited to meet authors and browse and buy books to complement personal collections. A variety of titles will be available for adults and children. Senior statesman, Senator Henry Marsh will talk about and sign his newly published memoir.

New Art Exhibit: For the Culture -The Paintings of Julian Greene
2018-03-02 17:00 - 2018-05-25 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Elegba Folklore Society, Richmond’s Cultural Ambassador, will feature new work in its cultural center March 2 through May 25. Painter, Julian Greene will exhibit his art in an exhibition entitled For the Culture. Says Greene, “I paint and draw depictions of the African American experience. My work consists mainly of elongated, exaggerated figures reminiscent of celebrated artist, Ernie Barnes, along with the cubism and abstract features heavily influenced by master painter, Pablo Picasso.” The show’s intention is to inspire viewers, especially youth, with strong visual representations of their heritage and cultural expressions. Julian Greene lives in Richmond.
Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center is located at 101 E Broad St in the downtown RVA Arts District. The opening reception begins at 5p in association with the 1st Fridays Artwalk. Regular hours are Noon – 6p, Tuesday through Friday, Noon – 5p, Saturdays, and by appointment.

What Is Africa To Me? | Community Study Group
2018-02-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States

3rd Saturday Documentaries | 1804: The Hidden History of Haiti
2018-02-17 17:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
3rd Saturday Documentaries
1804: The Hidden History of Haiti, 5p
Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad Street Donations Accepted. Refreshments Available.
Another work by filmmaker Tariq Nasheed, producer of the African history documentary series Hidden Colors. 1804 reveals untold history of Haiti and the Haitian Revolution. Called the most successful rebellion of enslaved Africans in history, the film details the history of Haiti and explores reasons for its current state. Be inspired by the perseverance of the Haitian people.

Rejuvenate!
2018-02-10 11:30 - 15:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Rejuvenate!
Dominion Arts Center, 600 E Grace Street Classes are $5 each.
Three classes will be offered in this program designed to unite mind, body and spirit. A yoga class with yoga master Jonathon Miles begins at 11:30a.
Senegalese master artist Malang Bayo and Elegba Folklore Society’s artists will teach African dance and drumming classes. The drum classes begins at 12:30p and the dance classes at 1:30p. Open to all, ages 6 to 86! Company auditions will be held following the dance class. Those interested should contact the Society’s artistic director, Janine Bell at 804.644.3900 or jaybee@efsinc.org.

African Dance, Music & the Oral Tradition - A Celebratory Concert
2018-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Henrico Theatre, 305 E 9 Mile Rd, Highland Springs, VA, 23075, United States
African Dance, Music & the Oral Tradition A Celebratory Concert, 7p
Henrico Theatre, 305 E Nine Mile Road Free.
Elegba Folklore Society’s performers will present African dance and music from the Manding cosmology of West Africa in an interactive concert spiced with folktales and historical reflection. Families are invited to attend.

Women’s Resilience Circle, Noon - 2p
2018-02-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Women’s Resilience Circle, Noon – 2p
Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad Street Free.
Women ages 50+ and women resetting their lives are invited to find support while exploring relationships, reflecting on life experiences and along the path toward personal fulfillment.

Open House & Artist Talk, 5p - 9p
2018-02-02 17:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Open House & Artist Talk, 5p – 9p
Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad Street Free, refreshments.
Cheryl Clayton’s paintings are featured in an exhibition entitled Revision, on view through February 23, 2018. Ms.Clayton will discuss her painterly technique and the socio-cultural messages embedded in her work.

2017 Capital City Kwanzaa Festival
2017-12-30 14:00 - 21:00 | Dewey Gottwald Center, 2301 West Leigh St., Richmond, VA, 23220, United States
Capital City Kwanzaa Festival December 30, 2017

Capital City Kwanzaa Festival presents performances, workshops, children’s activities, The African Market, food and more observe the year’s-end Kwanzaa holiday, a cultural affirmation of values, thanksgiving and growth. This event is the largest of its kind in Virginia, and therefore, one of the largest on the East Coast. Elegba Folklore Society’s Artistic Director first produced a Kwanzaa program in Richmond in 1986 and the Society first presented its festival in 1990. (Annually during the December Kwanzaa Holiday)
2017 Capital City Kwanzaa Festival Details
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Maasai! Indulge in Culture and Crafts
2017-10-12 19:00 - 21:00 | VA
Visit Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center to interact with people from the Maasai ethnic group in Kenya. The Village Chief and premier beadworkers will be here to share cultural traditions and the most amazing beaded jewelry and decor. Make something. Collect something for yourself and consider your holiday gift list.

2nd Street Festival -- Adjacent -- Open House
2017-10-07 12:00 - 20:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
What does music+food+framed art prints & more = ? Ultimate indulgence! And it’s waiting for you in the downtown Arts District at Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center. Stop in to browse, buy and enjoy.

First Fridays ArtWalk @ Elegba Folklore Society
2017-10-06 17:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Join Elegba Folklore Society for for The Black Art Market, an exhibition of beautifully matted and framed prints by a variety of contemporary artists that express culture, now through November 24. You may find just the piece that resonates with you. It may even also match the sofa. Plus, of course, you can enjoy paintings, memorabilia, artifacts, imports, collectibles, home decor, wearables, books, jewelry, shea and cocoa butters, black soap, oils, incense, more, and good vibrations.

The Black Art Market
2017-09-01 08:00 - 2017-11-24 17:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
NEW ART AT ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY
“The Black Art Market”
Framed Prints Express Culture
Various Contemporary Artists
September 1 – November 24

Have you been looking for art to accent your home and office? Art that is reflective of who you are and your heritage? It may even also match the sofa. It will certainly match your spirit. Stop in at Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad Street in Richmond’s downtown Arts District, to take in a selection of beautifully matted and framed prints that express culture.

Browse and buy expressions of diverse thematics that are priced especially for The Black Art Market. Some are limited editions. All hold keys to our story and your delight. One — or more — can be yours. If you are planning ahead for the holidays, think about art as an endearing gift. This collection also features traditional and contemporary African art for your consideration.

Plus, of course, you can enjoy paintings, memorabilia, artifacts, imports, collectibles, home decor, wearables, books, jewelry, shea and cocoa butters, black soap, oils, incense, more, and good vibrations.

27th Annual Down Home Family Reunion, A Celebration of African American Folklife
2017-08-19 04:00 - 23:00 | Abner Clay Park, Brook Road and West Clay Street, Richmond, 23219, United States
27th Annual Down Home Family Reunion, A Celebration of African American Folklife August 19, 2017

Choose to sit in the Gold Circle

Down Home Family Reunion, A Celebration of African American Folklife is a downtown weekend festival that celebrates African American folklife with world music and dance, the Heritage Market, special children’s events, interactive site demonstrations and delicious down home food. It is designed to show aspects of West African cultural traditions that are African American and that have been absorbed by the American South. This is one of the Society’s original programs created in 1990.
27th Annual Down Home Family Reunion Details
2017 Merchandise Vendor Application
2017 Food Vendor Application
2017 Talented Youth Inquiry
27TH ANNUAL DOWN HOME FAMILY REUNION SEEKS TO PRESENT TALENTED YOUTH The festival’s Annie Tyler New School Pavilion is a popular haven for our children. Rev. Tyler loved children and worked lovingly with Elegba Folklore Society to create quality cultural experiences for them until her death. May the good she did last forever. Cultural craft making teaches lessons, games ensure fun and the stage showcases talented youth. Please contact us if you are interested in arranging a performance!
2017 Share Your Community Service
SHARE YOUR COMMUNITY SERVICE AT 27TH ANNUAL DOWN HOME FAMILY REUNION If your community-based organization provides a community service you want people to know about, you may want to tell them from a table in the festival’s Waverly Crawley Community Row. Waverly Crawley was a fixture in Richmond’s Historic Jackson Ward, the festival’s location. He constantly encouraged people to get involved in the community to make it better. He wanted people to know that they could make a difference. Please contact us if you are interested in a table. May the good he did last forever.
2017 Small Business Exhibitors
Small Business Owners! You are invited to the 27th Annual Down Home Family Reunion! This Celebration of African American Folklife will happen on Saturday, August 19, 2017, 4p – 11p in Richmond, Virginia!
Join Us in the SmartMart
• Display and tell your story
• Interact with and distribute materials to festival attendees
• Be highlighted in one prize drawing from the Main Stage!
How You Benefit Fast-track the promotions of your products/services to Richmonders and visitors by distributing product samples and prize drawings. Reinforce your marketing and public relations campaigns by distributing your flyers, discount coupons, business cards, surveys and other promotional materials.
Enhance your product or service image in the Richmond business picture. Be highlighted among your peers and in the community in our covered SmartMart business tent. One table, two chairs and signage will be provided. Demonstrate your commitment to civic/social vitality. Be highlighted in one prize drawing from the Main Stage. This festival connects aspects of West African traditions with those of African Americans through the ambience of a family gathering. The festival’s location is Abner Clay Park, located downtown in Historic Jackson Ward.
World music and dance headline the Down Home Family Reunion along with site demonstrations and children’s programs. This event couples history with its contemporary significance. With an expected attendance of 13,000 the festival includes a SmartMart with you in mind.
Parking
The 27th Annual Down Home Family Reunion is grateful to offer parking for the festival in the lots at Belvidere and Leigh Streets, Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church and the lots across from the church. Signage will help direct patrons to these locations.

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2017 Juneteenth, A Freedom Celebration
2017-06-16 19:00 - 22:00 | Martin Luther King, Jr Middle School, 1000 Mosby St, Richmond, VA, 23223
Juneteenth 2017, A Freedom Celebration
Independence Day Our Way
The Symposium
Friday, June 16 • 7p – 10p
Martin Luther King, Jr Middle School *
1000 Mosby St, Richmond, VA 23223
Adv. 1 @ $13, 2 @ $24
Door. 1 @ $15, 2 @ $28

Internationally respected cultural historian and Egyptologist, Anthony T. Browder will keynote The Symposium. His topic, Africans in America and the Paradox of Liberty, will ponder the self-determination of Africans in America (African Americans), historically, the influences of Thomas Jefferson plus archeological discoveries in Kemet that help reconnect a cultural circle of life. Accordingly, he will demonstrate an historical and genetic connection between Africans along the Nile, Niger, Mississippi, Potomac and James Rivers.
*Martin Luther King, Jr Middle School
This brand new school’s location is adjacent to Mosby Court, a public housing complex that has been plagued with violence that is deeply rooted in the self-hate that stems from the cultural disarray of historical trauma. Let’s make this location an asset via cultural references, King quotes, historical contexts and the like. Let’s discuss.
Juneteenth Backyard Party
Saturday, June 17 • 1p – 6p
Manchester Dock
1308 Brander St, Richmond, VA 23224
Free
Come with your family to an independence day celebration like no other. Enjoy music spiced with history and good food, the Get Woke Youth Summit on cultural education*, heritage crafts for the children, good food, jump rope and hoola hoop contests, African dance and drum workshops, good food, experiences on the Trail of Enslaved Africans, shopping in the Freedom Market, good food and Elegba Folklore Society’s performing company. Juneteenth Freedom Day. Independence Day Our Way.
*Get Woke Youth Summit on cultural education Let’s recruit attendees
Theme/Purpose: Youth must develop a respect for their cultural history. Cultural veneration or reverence for ones culture is important to the development of self-edification and self-love.
“The ultimate function of education is to secure the survival of a people…” — Amos Wilson
Gratitude
Sunday, June 18 • 4p – 6p
African Burial Ground
16th & Broad Streets, Richmond, VA 23219
Free
Let the rituals of the Motherland refresh you and open spirit as we say “thank you” to our ancestors. We pay homage in ceremony, drumming and song.
Bring an offering for the altar. Wear white or African attire as you have it.

Join Elegba Folklore Society's performers at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2017-06-10 11:15 | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts – Cheek Theater, 200 North Blvd, Richmond, VA, 23220, United States
Elegba Folklore Society’s performers will appear at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on Saturday, June 10 in a concert called African Accents. The performance will interweave the day’s theme to celebrate African and African American Art through Adornment. Showtimes: 11:15a and 12:15p.

New Art Exhibit: Memories Of The Motherland at Elegba Folklore Society
2017-05-05 17:00 - 21:00 | Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center, 101 E Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States

Black History Book Expo
2017-02-26 14:00 - 19:00 | 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.
