online Series
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.
OCTOBER SouSou! - Let’s “Take the A-Train”
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!
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.
July SouSou! - Diaspora Moves & Rhythms!
Celebrate with the Bombazo Dance Company and learn about the African connections of Black dance from the continent, to the Caribbean, to the Americas!
June SouSou! - Mami Wata with MS. HAMEEn
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.
MAY SouSou! - It’s a Pinkster Fest! with Baba neil clarke
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.
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April SouSou! - African Storytime with Baba Atiba Kwabena
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!
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.
