22669: Wilcken: DRUM AND DANCE CELEBRATION OF HAITI IN BROOKLYN'S PROSPECT PARK (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

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

For immediate release

Contact:  Lois Wilcken, 718-953-6638, makandal-ny@juno.com

LA TROUPE MAKANDAL CELEBRATES HAITI'S 200TH BIRTHDAY WITH MUSIC AND DANCE
IN BROOKLYN'S PROSPECT PARK

La Troupe Makandal presents its sixth annual Bwa Kayiman.  Celebrate the
historic gathering that launched Haiti's Revolution in 1791.  Participate
in a drum-and-dance drama inspired by Haiti's steadfast struggle for
social and economic justice.  National Heritage Fellow Frisner Augustin
provides music and artistic direction.  Song by Rozna Zila, formerly of
Groupe Ram.  Dance numbers in consultation with Master Dancer Pierre
Desrameaux.  Produced by Executive Director and musicologist Dr. Lois
Wilcken.

A unique blend of narrative and music and dance pieces will take the
audience from the decades leading up to the revolution—with a special
hommage to the group's namesake, Makandal—to the dramatic rites that
triggered a massive insurrection to the birth of a free black republic in
the Americas.  A final dance number that includes the audience pays
tribute to the Haitian peoples' enduring struggle for liberty.

Admission is FREE.  Date and place: Saturday, 14 August, 4 pm, Prospect
Park Imagination Playground, Brooklyn, New York.  Q or B subway to
Prospect Park (Lincoln Road exit); or the 16 bus to Ocean and Lincoln.
Enter the Park at the intersection of Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue; make
an immediate left and continue south about 200 yards to Imagination
Playground.  Bring blankets or lawn chairs.

This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts
Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,
administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc.  The Prospect Park
Alliance provided further assistance.

For more information: 718-953-6638; makandal-ny@juno.com;
www.makandal.org