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SUMMARY:BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, February 22 at 3:00pm\, Elegba Folklore Society will show the documentary February One in its cultural center\, 101 E Broad St\, in the downtown RVA Arts District. This program is free and open to the public. It accompanies the current exhibition\, African Root\, American Fruit: Paintings and Collages by Ronald Jackson\, which opened on February 7 and will run through April 30. The exhibition and accompanying programs are a part of the Richmond visual arts collaboration Race\, Place & Identity. \nThis story of the Greensboro Four chronicles the four A&T College freshmen (now North Carolina A&T State University) in their decision to integrate the lunch counter at the downtown F. W. Woolworth store on February 1\, 1960 in Greensboro\, North Carolina. This act launched the sit-in movement which blazed like a fire through the parched\, segregated south and was led by students. Students at Richmond’s Virginia Union University\, for example\, followed soon after on February 11\, 1960 to sit-in at Thalhimer’s Department Store. These individual and collective acts changed the nation. \nGreensboro’s Woolworth’s is now the International Civil Rights Center & Museum.
URL:https://efsinc.org/event/black-history-month-event-at-elegba-folklore-society/
LOCATION:Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center\, 101 E Broad St\, Richmond\, VA\, 23219\, United States
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SUMMARY:African Root\, American Fruit: Paintings & Collages by Ronald Jackson
DESCRIPTION: \nRace\, Place & Identity
URL:https://efsinc.org/event/african-root-american-fruit-paintings-by-ronald-jackson/
LOCATION:Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center\, 101 E Broad St\, Richmond\, VA\, 23219\, United States
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SUMMARY:At the Crossroads: Black Males + Race\, Place & Identity
DESCRIPTION:  \nElegba Folklore Society is pleased to be among the eight Richmond\, Virginia-based arts and cultural organizations partnering to facilitate community-wide conversations inspired by their respective exhibitions and programs that focus on civil rights and social justice beginning in January\, 2014. \nElegba Folklore Society is hosting two exhibitions in its Cultural Center that are a part of the collaboration.  The first is Body As Art that runs now through January 31.  In this series of black-and-white photographs\, Thierry Laurence manipulates light\, shadow\, and water to express an artistic essence of the black male body.  An interpretive conversation will accompany this exhibition on King Day\, January 20 at 6p.\n\nAt the Crossroads: Black Males + Race\, Place & Identity\nVCU African American Studies Professor Derrick Lanois\nKing Day\, January 20\, 6p\n\nAttendees can join a conversation surrounding body + place politics of African American men in the 21st century. Using Thierry Laurence’s photography in Body as Art\, the complexities that are facing African American men in today’s society whether social\, cultural\, artistic\, and/or political will be explored. The journey to understand the dynamic and ever changing conditions has to be rooted in history and begin with a discussion of place and identity in Africa prior to enslavement\, and currently\, then spanning the timeline through and forward to a look at place and identity as expressed in hip hop. Do African American men have a place and identity that is honored\, as our cultural DNA and protocols mandate\, valued\, nurtured and understood or do they serve as the poster child of what is wrong today—criminal\, uneducated\, shiftless and to be feared/ignored? Professor Derrick Lanois will facilitate this King Day discussion to help us see what has happened historically to “place” African American men in the current dialogue and how to shift the conversation.\n\nOn February 7\, the Society’s second exhibition in the collaboration\, African Root\, American Fruit: Paintings by Ronald Jackson\, will open with a reception from 5p – 9p during the First Fridays Artwalk.  Ronald Jackson paints portraits and figurative works to comment on the identity of African American people and their influence on the landscape of American society.  He will give a gallery talk.\n \nCulture\, Art and Social Messaging \nArtist\, Ronald Jackson\nFebruary 7\, 6p\n\n\n\n\n\nJackson will give a talk on the significance of art in African American culture and expound on the implication of his artwork and experience.  The evening will also feature a remembrance of the Greensboro\, North Carolina Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins which began on February 1\, 1960. \nDetails: 804.644.3900 or story1@efsinc.org.  Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center is open Tuesday – Friday\, Noon – 6p\, Saturday\, Noon – 4p and by appointment.  Gallery tours are available by reservation.\n\n\n\n\n\nAmong the Yoruba\, Elegba is the Orisa or intercessor who guards the crossroads and who opens the roads\, bringing clarity out of confusion.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe hope our programs and services are\, indeed\, road-opening experiences.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmbrace the Spirit!
URL:https://efsinc.org/event/at-the-crossroads-black-males-race-place-identity/
LOCATION:Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center\, 101 E Broad St\, Richmond\, VA\, 23219\, United States
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SUMMARY:BODY AS ART - PHOTOGRAPHY BY THIERRY LAURENCE
DESCRIPTION:Body As Art opens at Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center on Friday\, November 1 as a part of the 1st Fridays ArtWalk\, 5 – 9p. \nThis series of black and white photographs manipulates light\, dark and water to express an artistic essence of the male body as seen through the eye of Thierry Laurence. In his edgy portraitures\, Laurence shows photography as “extension of my artistic expressions as a actor\, dancer\, singer and writer. When I have a camera in hand\, I want to capture the moments where shadows give way to light and allow us to see.” Through January 31.
URL:https://efsinc.org/event/body-as-art-photography-by-thierry-laurence/
LOCATION:Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center\, 101 E Broad St\, Richmond\, VA\, 23219\, United States
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SUMMARY:ARTisan Cafe
DESCRIPTION:Come see Elegba Folklore Society at the ARTisan Café on Saturday\, June 8.  Be the first to browse and buy our summer collection of art and imports.  Get your unique piece of Mali mudcloth or Maasai jewelry.  Wear your culture!  Select Kuba Cloth from the Congo to adorn your home or choose the hottest summer fashions from Ghana.  Pamper yourself with our Black Love Shea Butter\, Whipped Cocoa Butter\, Black Soap and Essential Body Oils.  Hmmm…  Enlighten your mind with books!  Buy your tickets for Juneteenth 2013\, A Freedom Celebration‘s Friday night event featuring our beloved scholar Anthony T. Browder presented Django Deconstructed\, relevant spoken word with the iconic The Last Poets and\, of course\, Elegba Folklore Society’s soul-stirring African dancers and drummers!  Tickets discounted for ARTisan Café patrons.
URL:https://efsinc.org/event/artisan-cafe/
LOCATION:The Observation Deck of City Hall\, 900 E Broad Street\, Richmond\, VA\, 23219\, United States
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SUMMARY:MALCOLM X DAY BLACK BOOK EXPOSITION
DESCRIPTION:ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY & UBUS BOOKS & THINGS \nPresent\nMALCOLM X DAY BLACK BOOK EXPOSITION\nSaturday\, May 18 – Sunday\, May 19 ◉ Richmond\, Virginia\n\n\nUBUS and Elegba Folklore Society are combining forces to present the largest Black Literature Expo of the century.  After years of breakdowns in plans\, by others\, to put the Capital City of Richmond\, Virginia on the Black Books Map\, arguably the largest\, most effective cultural organization is connecting to\, perhaps\, the largest Black publisher in the history of Black people to get the job done.\n\nThe Exposition will feature a vast\, awesome display of Black literature. It will feature must-haves\, Carter G. Woodson’s MisEducation of the Negro and Elijah Muhammad’s Message to the Blackman to Ivan Van Sertima’s Before the Mayflower and The Souls of Black Folk. This classic by W. E. B. DeBois may well sound of the theme\, as Black writers\, publisher and distributors come to Richmond for the Malcolm X Day Expo.  Attendees can also choose from a variety of novels and children’s books.\n\nThis book event happens from 10a – 8p on Saturday and 2p – 6p on Sunday at Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center\, downtown in the RVA Arts District at 101 East Broad Street (corner of 1st & Broad).  Live jazz and refreshments will spice the Malcolm X Day Black Book Exposition on Saturday evening.\n\nCelebrity Guest Authors will make presentations at the Exposition\, and there will be Independent Black Writers.  These writers will come\, for the most part\, from the publishing house of UBUS.\n \nAll Black writers are respectfully invited to send books to be sold at the Expo\, or attend and participate.\n\nElegba Folklore Society\, Richmond’s Cultural Ambassador\, was founded by Sister Omilade Janine Bell\, whose signature spectacular career as a cultural artist\, folklorist and producer was the springboard used to form the Society in 1990.  Elegba Folklore Society is known worldwide for its three annual cultural festivals\, dance theatre and music performing and teaching programs\, cultural history tours along the Trail of Enslaved Africans and other notable sites and exhibits of African Diasporic art in its cultural center. www.efsinc.org\n\nUnited Brothers and United Sisters Communications Systems was founded by H. Khalif Khalifah in Harlem\, New York in 1975. A Master Printer\, Khalifah has plied his trade into the publication of more than 600 different titles.  Fundamentally\, he is the catalyst that reconstructed the book buying habits of Black people.  Without a marketplace to receive his and his colleagues’ publications\, he built and grew a comprehensive Black Book Industry.\n\nUBUS has promoted and sponsored dozens of national book events\, published Your Black Books Guide and has presented the Black Book Achievement Awards for Excellence in Black Literature in 19 installments on the first weekend of June.  This event has happened in recent years at The Nat Turner Library in Southampton County. www.black-e-books.com\n\nAmong the Yoruba\, Elegba is the Orisa who opens the roads\, bringing clarity our of confusion.  We hope our programs and services are\, indeed\, road-opening experiences.  Embrace the Spirit!
URL:https://efsinc.org/event/malcolm-x-day-black-book-exposition/
LOCATION:Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center\, 101 E Broad St\, Richmond\, VA\, 23219\, United States
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SUMMARY:THE ELEVATION OF THE QUEEN MOTHERS - April 5th through April 30th
DESCRIPTION:Come behold a new gallery exhibit at Elegba Folklore Society giving honor to the Ancestral Queen Mothers of RVA.  \nTHE ELEVATION OF THE QUEEN MOTHERS is presented by Ms. Maat Free and The Guardians of African Ancestral Remembrance in RVA. Photo Credits: Patience Salgado. \nThis exhibit is interactive. You will be able to sit down and craft an altar card to establish a sacred space within your own home. Bring your family and your friends. \nThe Guardians for African Ancestral Remembrance in RVA were inspired to perform the elevation ceremony in March 2013 because that is International Womens History Month.  \nThe exhibit features a collection of photographs depicting a celebration to honor the mighty women of RVA from our earliest known African Ancestral Mother\, Queen Mother Betsy all the way up to the last to make her transition\, our Beloved Queen Mother Joyce Branch. \nLearn these women’s stories\, seek guidance from their collective wisdom. Gain insight about the age-old practice of Ancestor Veneration and lifting up the names of those with impeccable character and strength\, upon whose shoulders we stand. \nGroup Ancestral Remembrance workshops can be arranged. \nFor more information please call 804 564 6163 or send your email inquiries to oracle@myclearpeople.com \nVIsit us on the web at www.MYCLEARPEOPLE.com
URL:https://efsinc.org/event/the-elevation-of-the-queen-mothers-april-5th-through-april-30th/
LOCATION:Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center\, 101 E Broad St\, Richmond\, VA\, 23219\, United States
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SUMMARY:[Exhibition] Africa in Portraits - On exhibit through June 30th
DESCRIPTION:Africa in Portraits \nAfrica in Portraits is the exhibit in Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center\, 101 E Broad St\, corner of 1st & Broad in the downtown Arts District. The exhibition runs through June 30. \nAfrica in Portraits features the paintings and print of Joseph Harris’. He has been an artist since he learned how to hold a pencil in his hand. He evolved from drawing to painting throughout his primary school years\, and he developed his craft to become a competitive award winner. Joseph Harris is certified in Commercial Art from The Art Instruction School in Minneapolis\, Minnesota and in Fine Art from The Brookline Institute in Anaheim\, California. He currently resides in Richmond.
URL:https://efsinc.org/event/africa-in-portraits-on-exhibit-through-june-30th/
LOCATION:Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center\, 101 E Broad St\, Richmond\, VA\, 23219\, United States
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