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2011 CARIBBEAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH TRIBUTE TO HOLLYWOOD & THE ARTS held on SATURDAY, JUNE 25th.
Honorees included Tatyana Ali of Trinidadian heritage and Roger Bobb, Former Executive Vice President of Tyler Perry Studios, who is of Guyanese heritage. For more information, click here
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ACCLAIMED ACTOR JIMMY JEAN LOUIS...
has been named National Spokesperson for National Caribbean American Heritage Month celebrations in 2011. The Haitian born actor star of HBO Heroes has once again signed on to be spokesperson for CAHM 2011. He joins Sheryl Lee Ralph who served as Spokesperson since 2006. |
CAHM MUSICAL AMBASSADOR CEN ' C LOVE TO CARRY THE MESSAGE...
Hot newcomer Cen 'C Love is named 2011 Musical Ambassador. Cen C' Love the daughter of reggae legend Buuny Wailer is one of the next-generation artistes from the Caribbean such as Andrew Tosh, Stephen Marley, Sean Kingston, Nikki Minaj, and Shontelle that have been making waves with their musical genius and native intellect. ICS West Coast representative Marva Herman, President of the Caribbean Heritage Organization, stakes out new ground with with the record industry heavyweight. To Book CenC in June... give us a call. Find out more about Cen' C Love in her interview here PepTalk!!!
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ANANCY FESTIVAL, South FLorida June 11th to become official partner of Caribbean American Heritage Month
ANANCY FESTIVAL is endorsed as ICS partner National Caribbean American Heritage Month. Anancy the Spider Trickester Hero is a fundamental part of Caribbean mythmaking. Xavier Murphy of Jamaicans.com has once more proved his wisdom in launching the Anancy or Anansi Festival and thus ensuring the retention of a key icon of Caribbean culture. For more on the festival visit http://www.anancyfestival.com/
AFI Silver Theater to host DC Caribbean FilmFest 2011...JUNE 3 - 6
This year marks the 11th 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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ICS Launches Faith-based Leaders Dialogue
CALL TO ACTION: Building the Kingdom, Empowering the Community
ICS organized a One Day Roundtable Leadership Dialogue, on Tuesday, June 21st in Washington DC, to explore the themes of 'Community Development At Home and Abroad'. This Special Event targeted to leaders of all faiths in the Caribbean American community, drew 35 leaders in the faith community from across the country. Speakers from the Department of Education, USAID and SBA shared how faith based organizations can tap into federal funding. For more information on how you or your Pastor/Bishop/Imam/Pandit can become involved, send email to cabfln@yahoo.com or REGISTER HERE  to join the network.
ICS also calls on faith-based leaders to become active in commemorating Caribbean American Heritage Month. Citing the critical role of the faith community in nationbuilding, ICS calls on the faith community to participate through hosting Days-of -Praise Special Services, the first weekend in June; and hosting Saturday School on Caribbean Heritage and Culture, for the children and youth in their congregation.
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SEASONING THE POT...
Welcome to the sixth annual celebration of Caribbean arts and culture in America's capital. Last year we took a leap of faith and expanded it to include music and dance and we reimagined our Literature Event as 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, the UN International Year of Peoples of African Descent, we will produce a banquet of activities from literature to music to art, all signifying the crossings of Caribbean identity in America. Art from G. Gardiner, Marielle Barrow and others will in the art show IN THE SPIRIT' at the Inter-American Development Bank Staff Association Gallery.
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." Merle Collins, J. Edsel Edmunds and Kweisi Oginga will be among the voices featured.
In Groundations we bring together community artists and activists to reason on African Roots and Caribbean American Routes and make offerings to our ancestors who died on the ocean of tears and in the plantations that were their prisons.
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 6 - 9 @ 11-6 pm |
'In the Spirit' - An Exhibition of 12 Caribbean Artists |
IDB Staff Association Gallery,
1300 New York Avenue NW |
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June 8 @ 10:00 am
Free |
Webinar, US State Department featuring
Dr. Claire Nelson, Chair, National Caribbean American Heritage Month Commemoration &
Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center in Harlem, NY |
On-Line |
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June 11 @ 1:00pm
Free |
'Bookish' - featuring...
Merle Collins, Author of "The Ladies are Upstairs" &
Derrice Deane, CaribNATION TV |
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue NW
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June 13 @ 5:30 pm
Free |
'Curating Our Lives' - A Dialogue on the Potential of Digital Media in Preserving Caribbean American History --- featuring...
Professor Andrew Millington, Dr. Anestine Theophile - LaFond and
Roger Caruth |
World Bank Auditorium
J Building
18th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW |
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June 14 @ 6:30 pm
Reservations Required |
'Caribbean Food & Folklore'
Celebrating our Culinary Delight featuring...
Jamaican Chef Oji Jaja,
Food Expert Doreen Thompson, President of the National Caribbean Food Alliance &
Cousin Claira, Caribbean folklorist |
Eatonville Restaurant
14th & V Street NW |
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June 15 @ 6:30 pm
Free |
'SIGNIFYING' - Poetry and Performance Prose featuring...
J. Edsel Edmunds, Kweisi Oginga & Cousin Claira |
OAS Hall of the Americas Terrace
17th & Constitution Avenue NW |
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June 16 @ @ 6:30 pm
Free |
'THE PLAY'S THE THING' - A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE - Staged Reading of New Play by C.G. Gardiner |
Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street NE |
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June 17 @ 6:30 pm |
'GROUNDATIONS' - AFRICAN ROOTS, CARIBBEAN AMERICAN ROUTES
Offerings to our African ancestors in commemoration of the UN Year for Peoples of African Descent featuring...
Wisdom Circle Members
Paula Coleman, ADACI
Gilberto Amayah, Garifuna Activist, ODECO
Donnette Cooper, Quilt Artist |
Bolivarian Hall, Embassy of Venezuela
2443 Massachusetts Avenue NW |
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