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Shabba-Doo, aka Adolfo Quinones, “The King of Crenshaw” Exclusive Northwest lecture & hip hop demo

November 1, 2016 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

Shabba-Doo, aka Adolfo Quinones, “The King of Crenshaw”
Exclusive Northwest lecture & hip hop demo

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Monday, November 7, 7:30 p.m.

Wheelock Rotunda

University of Puget Sound

Tickets: $8, at tickets.pugetsound.edu, from Thursday, Nov. 2

Contact: Serni Solidarios;   ssolidarios@pugetsound.edu

Hailed as the “Bob Fosse of the Streets,” and “Hip Hop’s First Matinee Idol,” famed choreographer Shaba-Doo, aka Adolfo Quinones, “The King of Crenshaw”, presents an exclusive northwest lecture and demonstration at University of Puget Sound’s Wheelock Rotunda, Monday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m.

Shabba-Doo emerged as a screen star from his starring role in the 80’s dance film “Breakin’.” To many, the film means “boom box-toting, shiny-clothes-and-Kangol-hat-wearing dudes who do the robot and spin on their heads.” Okay, during the 1980’s , one might’ve stumbled over a couple of boom box blasters making your way to public transportation or have seen a shimmery track jacket or two at your local neighborhood dance-off, but Breakin’ has gone on to become far more than its iconic trappings. It’s about athleticism, and grace, and the streets, and street smarts, and retro-chic, and unspoken communication, and dirty funk, and beats, and rhymes, and life. It’s about how Shabba-Doo became the King of Crenshaw, hip-hop’s spiritual father and modern dance’s bad-boy cousin.

Shabba-Doo’s ‘The King of Crenshaw’ is an oftentimes harrowing, oftentimes inspirational, and oftentimes poignant life journey that will take those in attendance from the mean streets of Chicago’s infamous project homes to the back lots of Hollywood, from L.A.’s gang-laden Crenshaw Boulevard to the Soul Train dance line, to a founding member of The Lockers, and to his eventual directing-fellow tenure at the prestigious, American Film Institute.  Street-dance and hip-hop’s life story will be woven into Shabba-Doo’s gripping personal life journey told over the course of 90 riveting minutes, which is the only way it can be done, as one wouldn’t have flourished without the other. Says Madonna, who he has served as a choreographer, “Shaba-Doo is the best —king Dancer.” He also choreographed for Three Six Mafia’s “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” performance for the Academy Awards.

Hip-hop is a vital, albeit far too often unrecognized force in contemporary entertainment; it’s no exaggeration to say that the movement Shabba-Doo helped to create and has lead for the past 45-plus years, has a resonant, singular imprint on today’s music, fashion, film, and television. He is a recent inductee into the Hip Hop Hall of Fame. This event is presented by ASUPS Performing Arts.

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Filed Under: African American, Artist Spotlight, Music, New Releases, Northwest, Reviews

Celebrate Indian Arts and Culture at Diwali: Lights of India

October 26, 2016 by Dennis Beaver 1 Comment

Diwali-1024x654Join us for Seattle Center Festál: Diwali: Lights of India, 12 p.m.-6 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 6, in Seattle Center Armory. The final Festál event of 2016 is also the newest – in its first official year at Seattle Center – sharing the story of Diwali as it presents Indian music and dance, crafts, children’s activities and flavorful Indian food.

Non-stop performances on the Armory Stage allow festival-goers to travel across India, exploring the diversity of Indian classical and folk dance traditions. Nrityalaya Dance and Preetha Babu & Students present Bharatanatyam classical dance from Tamil Nadu, Urvasi Dance Company offers Odissi classical dance from Odisha, Telugu Bharati shares dances from Andhra Pradesh and a performance by STAR Kalai Kuzhu features the parai, a symbol of Tamil culture and one of the oldest percussion instruments in India. Other dance highlights include showcases by Srishti Dance Company, Dance Tantra, Shwetha Nirmal Group and Naosheen & Group. The festival closes with a danced drama by Abhinaya School of Performing Arts based on Geeta Govinda, a work composed by the 12th century poet Jayadeva, 4:05 p.m.-6 p.m.

Interactive activities and workshops provide engaging learning opportunities for visitors of all ages. Artist Annie Penta offers instruction on making flower mandalas, circular designs filled with intricate patterns to represent wholeness. Join artist Sudha Rajasekaran in the creation of rangoli, floor patterns created using dry flour, colored sand and flowers, or mold a playdough statue of Ganesha. Festival-goers may also decorate cupcakes, sample free vegetarian Indian cuisine, mix their own Indian spices, cook roti (Indian flatbread), try a class fusing yoga and dance and explore saris through a lively fashion show.

As Seattle Center Festál prepares for a milestone in 2017, the 20th anniversary of this illuminating series of ethnic cultural events at Seattle Center, we celebrate the diverse arts, crafts, foods and family activities presented on weekends throughout the year. The 24 Festál events, organized by ethnic/cultural organizations in partnership with Seattle Center, form the bedrock of our free, public offerings, captivating and enlightening festival-goers as they experience the distinct cultures that influence the character and course of our broader community.

Seattle Center Festál is a program of Seattle Center Productions. Admission is free-of-charge. For more information on this collection of ethnic cultural events and other Seattle Center public programming, visit www.seattlecenter.com or call 206 684-7200.

 Seattle Center Festál

Seattle Center Festál 2016, a collection of 23 cultural events presented on weekends throughout the year, highlights the diverse cultures and common threads of ethnic communities in our region with traditional and contemporary art, music, foods, youth activities, workshops, marketplaces and more. Seattle Center Festál is produced with the generous support of KUOW 94.9 Public Radio, Coca-Cola, Alaska Airlines, T-Mobile, RealNetworks, 4Culture and ArtsWA. Additional support is provided by the City of Seattle and Seattle Center Foundation.

Filed Under: Artist Spotlight, Arts, Community, Community News, Entertainment, Events, Music, People

12th Annual Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Celebration

October 26, 2016 by Dennis Beaver Leave a Comment

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El Centro de la Raza will be hosting its 12th Annual Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Celebration featuring a free Altar/Ofrenda exhibit, community dinner, and children’s activities.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2016
5:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Ofrenda Exhibit opens through November 18th
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10:00 am-6:00pm
Thursday 12:00pm-6:00pm

El Centro de la Raza
2524 16th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144

Día de los Muertos is a time for remembering and honoring the lives of those who have passed. This year’s Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) theme draws attention to systematic racial inequities and calls on people to exercise their right to vote in honor of those who have lost their lives.

This is the fourth year in which renowned Latino local artists Fulgencio Lazo, will build an altar/ofrenda for the exhibit incorporating beautiful artistic expression into our Día de los Muertos Exhibit.

Opening night is expected to draw between 1200-1500 individuals and families for the festivities. The event incorporates the organization’s cultural traditions through ofrendas conceptualized and created by a diverse representation of local community groups. Opening day presentations include Banda Gozona, Danza Azteca, Duo Finelli, Grupo Folklorico Violeta Parra, Salsa n’ Seattle. Presentations will take place at the Centilia Cultural Center, El Centro’s new event space.
Admission to the event is free and includes children’s activities and a variety of cultural entertainment. A free dinner will be served.

El Centro de la Raza’s 2016 Día de los Muertos Celebration is supported by the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4 Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts and Seattle Public Utilities, with media sponsorship by KUOW 94.9.

For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/elcentro72 or www.elcentrodelaraza.org.

El Centro de la Raza
2524 16th Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144
Tel 206.957.4602
Fax 206.329.0786
socialmedia@elcentrodelaraza.org
www.elcentrodelaraza.org

Join us for our 12th annual Día de los Muertos celebration on November 1, 2016 at El Centro de la Raza. Performances will be at our brand new Cultural Events Center, Centilia! This year’s Dia de los Muertos theme draws attention to systematic racial inequities and calls on people to exercise their right to vote in honor of those who have lost their lives.

Filed Under: Artist Spotlight, Arts, Community, Community News, Entertainment, Events, Featured Stories, Front Page Slider, Music, New Releases, News, Northwest, People

Largest Community-Powered Arts and Culture Festival in the U.S., Northwest Folklife Festival, Announces Region-Wide Call for Performers

October 26, 2016 by Dennis Beaver Leave a Comment

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Submit to Perform at the 2017 Northwest Folklife Festival

Seattle, WA (October 26, 2016) – Northwest Folklife today announced its open invitation to musicians, dancers, community groups, artists, storytellers, and instructors to participate in its 46th annual Northwest Folklife Festival over Memorial Day weekend, May 26-29, 2017 at Seattle Center. Northwest Folklife is an independent nonprofit whose mission is to create opportunities for all to celebrate, share, and participate in the evolving cultural traditions of the Pacific Northwest. From yodeling to beatboxing, square dancing to a complete immersion into the dance and music of Bollywood, the Northwest Folklife Festival celebrates the global traditions of independent and emerging artists throughout the Northwest.

Northwest Folklife’s signature Festival event attracts roughly a quarter million attendees from all over the world to Seattle Center grounds every year, rain or shine. The Festival prides itself on showcasing over 5,000 performers from over 65 cultural groups of the Northwest on over 25 stages in the course of just four days.

“Northwest Folklife is deeply committed to celebrating the diversity of our communities and de-mystifying our differences through immersion into new cultures and bringing people together physically, in shared spaces, such as the Folklife Festival. We encourage artists and cultural bearers of all ages to apply”, Kelli Faryar, Programs Director.

Interested parties must be based in the Northwest region including Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, Washington state, and Western Montana.

WHEN:
Submission deadline is December 15, 2016.

HOW TO SUBMIT:
Visit us online for more information: NWFolklife.org

For more information, please contact:
Kelli Faryar, Programs Director
206-684-7014
Kelli@NWFolklife.org

Filed Under: Artist Spotlight, Arts, Entertainment, Events, Music, New Releases, News, Northwest, People

From the Streets to the Skies: Shyan Selah’s Café Noir Project Travels Across American Airlines​​​​​​​

July 19, 2016 by Dennis Beaver Leave a Comment

For the last few months Shyan Selah’s voice has been featured as part of the MasterCard Selections Channel on
American Airlines. He was chosen as part of an elite group of wide ranging music artists from Jordin Sparks to Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top to talk about his current project and tour, Café Noir, as well as give a little musical taste from the Café Noir Live album out now.

Before singing the “Pink Butterfly (Urban Remix)” – the funk/soul/R&B track that’s been permeating throughout select Starbucks stores around the country, Selah talked about the project and how his unique approach to music and communnamed-3unity outreach has allowed him to venture where few entertainers can go.

“[Café Noir] is a community experience project,” said Selah. “It’s all centered around sitting down, having conversations – community and conversation….because it’s a community project we wanted to make sure we could fuse music with the people right in the neighborhood and Starbucks became a really cool partner of ours.”

That community experience project which has been developed and featured throughout high schools, colleges, and live music venues in addition to select Starbucks stores throughout the country, has already resulted in a live album, Café Noir Live, recorded at the 23rd & Jackson Street Starbucks in Seattle; and a second LP album is forthcoming this fall. Selah’s recent interview and live performance for the MasterCard Selections Channel is just one example of how the project is expanding beyond the communities on the ground he set out to reach.

“I was raised in an airline family,” he says. “I grew up in airports and doing a lot of flying as a kid and, of course, as an Artist and Entrepreneur it’s a must. The whole experience of being on a plane is very sentimental to me because my very first memories in life are centered around flying. I can say without a doubt this experience with American Airlines and Master Card is truly a blessing. To do what I love the most and have it played on one of the world’s biggest airlines is a cool highlight indeed. It was a lot of fun doing the production for this and I am truly thankful to everyone that made it possible.”

Those who missed the interview and performance on American Airlines can listen now via the YouTube link below.

For more information, visit www.shyanselah.com.

Filed Under: Artist Spotlight, Arts, Entertainment, Music, Northwest, People

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