2 Nites of African Venezuelan Culture

In just one week, Afro Venezuelan group ELEGUA will be here in the Bay. Here are the updates for their first (2)two performances on Tuesday July 17th and Wednesday July 18th.

Tuesday's performance will be @ the Oakland Museum's James Moore Theatre / 8PM . Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums has declared Tuesday July 17th, 2007 African Diaspora Arts and Culture Day. There will be a reception in honor of the several master living locally, who make up the African Diaspora artistic community, just prior to the performance @ the Oakland Museum, if you are interested in attending RSVP to..... rsvp [at] CaribelinQ.com

Also, Modesto Cepeda & Familia Cepede will be Elegua's special guest on that nite. They are in town from Santurce, Puerto Rico conducting Bomba workshops with the Bay Area Boricuas. check out....http://www.musicbeat.org for more info or 510.652.1627 or bombayplena [at] sbcglobal.net

Wednesday nite, we're in the Mission @ Mission Cultural Center. They were gracious to donate the space for the performance. In commemoration of their 30th anniversary all monies raised that nite will be donated to MCC. For the MCC performance, Elegua's special guest will be Destiny the Harpist accompanied by Sista Tereka on Violin and Mestre Timba & Capoeira Ngola Preto Belh which translates to Old Black Spirits.

So what ever side of the Bay you live on you can see and meet these dynamic women and experience these (2) two unprecedented nites of African Latino cultural expressions!