14094: Wilcken: VODOU DRUM AND DANCE GROUP PRESENTS A NIGHT OF FIRE in Brooklyn, NY

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Lois E Wilcken <makandal-ny@juno.com>

For immediate release

Contact:  Lois Wilcken, 718-053-6638, makandal-ny@juno.com

VODOU DRUM AND DANCE GROUP PRESENTS A NIGHT OF FIRE ON DECEMBER 21 IN
BROOKLYN

La Troupe Makandal presents Part Two (Night of Fire) of Rising Sun: a
Vodou Drama of Death and Rebirth.  Having experienced the day of the dead
in Part One, audience will participate in traditional Haitian rites of
late December in Part Two.  Greet the Marasa (the Child-Twins of
Afro-Haitian belief); participate in a ben de chans (herbal luck bath)
for the New Year; and celebrate Haiti's Independence Day.  Drumming and
song under the direction of award-winning Master Drummer Frisner
Augustin, whom the New York Times called "a spectacular drummer."  Dance
and drama under the direction of dancer-singer Erol Josue, who appeared
in the films Des Hommes et des Dieux and Royal Bonbon.   Admission at the
door: $12 general, $8 students/seniors/members; $5 children.

Date and place:
Saturday, 21 December, 8 pm
South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street between Atlantic Avenue and
Hanson Place

Transportation:
Take the Brooklyn-bound local C to Lafayette Avenue.  Exit at the South
Oxford Street/Hanson Place stair.  Walk about 7 doors up from Hanson
Place to 138 South Oxford Street
or
Take the 2, 3, 4, 5, W, N, R, to the Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street stop;
or the LIRR to Flatbush Avenue.  Exit at Hanson Place.  Walk along Hanson
Place toward the shopping mall 5 blocks to the traffic light, then make a
right onto South Oxford Street.  South Oxford Space is on your right.
or
Take the G train to Fulton Street.  Walk 2 blocks up Fulton Street to
South Oxford Street, then make a right onto South Oxford.  Cross Hanson
Place.  South Oxford Space is on the right about 7 doors up from Hanson
Place.

Take the B25, B26, B38, B44, or B52 buses.  Call 718-330-1234 for further
information about bus routes.

Call 718-953-6638 or email makandal-ny@juno.com for information about
road travel.


Support from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National
Endowment for the Arts has made this program possible.