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2013 CARIBBEAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH TRIBUTE TO HOLLYWOOD & THE ARTS set for FRIDAY, JUNE 21st in Los Angeles, California.
Honorees include Reno Wilson of Antiguan heritage, and Paula Madison, of Jamaican heritage. For more information, click here
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ACCLAIMED ACTOR LORRAINETOUSSAINT IS SPOKESPERSON FOR 2013 ...
Noted Character Actress Ms. Lorraine Toussaint, currently seen as Chief Angela Martin on BODY OF PROOF has been named National Spokesperson for National Caribbean American Heritage Month celebrations in 2013. The Trinidadian born actor has signed on to be spokesperson for CAHM 2013. She follows in tradition of Jimmy Jean Louis, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Rick Fox who have served as Spokespersons since founding of NCAHM 2006. |
WHO WILL BE CAHM 2013 MUSICAL AMBASSADOR AND CARRY THE MESSAGE...
Which Hot Young Artiste will be named 2013 Musical Ambassador. Entertainment News Maven Shelly of Red Carpet Shelly is partnering with ICS and the National Caribbean American Heritage Foundation to explore the likes of Andrew Tosh, Stephen Marley, Sean Kingston, Nikki Minaj, and Shontelle to see who has the necssary musical genius and native intellect to be named our Musical Ambassador. Stay Tunes |
ANANSI! ANANCY! FESTIVAL.... scheduled for Saturday, June 15th.. now in four locales.
ANANSI! ANANCY! FESTIVAL will once more bring children of all ages delight this June as National Caribbean American Heritage Month. Anancy the Spider Trickster Hero is a fundamental part of Caribbean mythmaking. Xavier Murphy of Jamaicans.com, Director of the Festival hopes to bring the Anancy! Anansi! Festival to cities across America, thus ensuring the retention of a key icon of Caribbean culture; and a truly natioanl celebration. For more on the 2013 Festival visit http://www.anancyfestival.com/
Check out Nick Cannon reading HOW ANANSI BROUGHT WISDOM TO THE WORLD |
AFI Silver Theater to host DC Caribbean FilmFest 2013...MAY 31-JUNE 2
This year marks the 12th Anniversary of the DC Caribbean FilmFest and AFI Silver Theater will serve as the Host and main venue for this year's eventl. Nominations for the Annual FilmFest are now closed. For Schedule of Film Showings, Click Here 
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SEASONING THE POT!
Welcome to the eighth annual celebration of Caribbean arts and culture in America's capital. In 2010, we took a leap of faith and expanded our Literary Festival to include music and dance as we reimagined a much grander Festival of the Arts and Humanities. Because the Festival contains so many elements of our culture we call it ALLSPICE -- All Spectacular, Positive, Irie, Caribean Edutainment... or AllSPICE for short.
This year, we will produce a banquet of activities from literature to music to art, all signifying the crossings of Caribbean identity in America.
From dance, to literature, to music to orature, the canon has demonstrated that there are many voices who signify our experiences --- from Paule Marshall, through Michael Thelwell, through Aime Cesaire, Derek Walcott, Lorna Goodison, Rosa Guy to Malcolm Gladwell and Colin Channer. These travellers are among the many who cultiavte the ingreadients of the American melting pot. They cook up life with creativity. Lorna Goodison says "from root to leaf tip my every part has been employed to meet human need." C.K. Gardiner and Beverley East will be among the voices featured.
This year we serve up a potpourri from Orature to Literature to Roots Rock Reggae, we will bring together artists and activists to reason on the Routes and Roots that we bring to this space.
In bringing the Caribbean Arts and Humanities to Washington DC, we aim to create a stew -- a callalloo of sound and sight -- that will awaken the sense of the heart and serve up the SPICE of life. Through literature of the written word, the spoken word, of story and of song and dance, we will observe our impact on the weft and warp of the American fabric and indeed we shall be enlivened by the SPICE of Life!
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
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June 9 @ 2pm
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'In the Spirit' - An Exhibition of 12 Caribbean Artists
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June 10 @ 6:00pm
Fee
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Folklore & Frolic, A Celebration of 10th Anniversary of Caribbean Professional Network
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Nectar Lounge, Silver Spring
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June 11 @ 6:30pm
Free
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'Bookish' - 'A Time to Eat' featuring... Curdella Forbes, Donna Heslop, Gace Virtue
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Portico Books at IDB
1330 New York Avenue NW
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June 12 @ 6:30 pm
Free
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'Reggae Rebelution'
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Busboys and Poets
14th & T Street NW
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June 13 @ 12:30 pm
Free
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Ole Story iTime
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To Be Determined
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June 14 @ 6:30 pm
Free
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'THE PLAY'S THE THING' - Staged Reading of New Play by C.G. Gardiner
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To Be Determined
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June 15 @ 5:30 pm
Free
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'ANANSI! ANANCY!' sponsores in part by SocaMOM |
DC Public Library |
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June 16 @ @ 7:30 pm
Free
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'RHUMS & RHYDDIMS ROLLICK
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To Be Determined
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June 17 @ 6:30 pm
Free
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'GROUNDATIONS' - Art in the Main
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To be Determined
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