Launching April 25th!
Monthly Series April-August
Join us for our new calendar series of SouSou! Saturdays Virtual programming. With each SouSou experience, families will enjoy fun storytelling, dance and music workshops, and art making you can easily make while at home! Mark your calendars for all upcoming monthly SouSou! Saturdays Virtual programming from April through August 2020.
Our SouSou! Saturdays program is inspired by the cooperative economic practice known throughout the African Diaspora by such names as "Colecta", "Box Hand", "San", "Partna", or "Sou-Sou". We've borrowed from, and transformed this long-standing practice of collective trust, and contribution into a "cultural SouSou" for the community.
WHEN: SouSou! Saturdays Virtual videos release each date at 12 noon.
HOW TO WATCH: CCCADI’s new digital programs will be featured on our different social media platforms. Visit www.cccadi.org and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel and follow us on FB and IG for regular updates!
SouSou! Saturdays Virtual Program:
(Presentations appropriate for children ages 4 -11)
April SouSou! - African Storytime! | April 25th
For your viewing pleasure, enjoy a wonderful story time with Baba Atiba Kwabena. Hear his colorful story, poetry, and music treasured on the continent and across the Atlantic!
May SouSou! - Mami Wata | May 23rd
Join Ms. Hanan Hameen's Dance and Beyond. Learn a dance that celebrates the power of woman and mother spirit. Mami Wata is a water spirit venerated in West, Central, and Southern Africa, and in the African Diaspora in the Americas.
June SouSou!- It’s a Pinkster Fest! | June 27th
Join Baba Neil Clarke and learn about this unique and little known 380-year-old spring festival rooted in New York City and the Hudson River Valley.
July SouSou! - Diaspora Moves & Rhythms! | July 25th
Celebrate with the Bombazo Dance Company and learn about the African connections of Black dance from the continent, to the Caribbean, to the Americas!
August SouSou! - Let’s “Take the A-Train” | August 22nd
Explore with Baba Atiba Kwabena one of the many journeys of Black music in North America! You'll hear examples of music from the great Jazz era, created by legendary musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Chano Pozo, Mario Bauza, and Dizzy Gillespie!