Guided Search: Dance, Africa

On August 19, we’re bringing the islands to you! Join us for the 32nd Annual Philadelphia Caribbean Festival for a day full of island culture.

Our Youth Arts Workshop students spent this summer exploring the theme of portraiture and creating artwork using various media, such as drawing, sculpture, photography, and public engagement, and learn to talk about identity, stereotypes, and visibility. Spend the afternoon with us and come see all the great things our young artists have been working on!

A multi-generational ensemble of women performs movement, song, and text influenced by dystopian folklore, speculative fiction, Igbo cosmology, and the futures and commodities markets. Bessie Award-winning artist Okwui Okpokwasili created Poor People’s TV Room with director/visual designer Peter Born, inspired by two historical events in Nigeria: The Women’s War of 1929, a resistance movement against British colonial power, and the Boko Haram kidnappings of more than 300 girls that launched the Bring Back Our Girls movement. Contains nudity.

Looking for food, fun, and fantastic music? Well look no further! Award-winning African musical and dance artists will take center stage this year when the PECO Multicultural Festival Series Presents the 9th annual African Festival hosted by The African Cultural Alliance of North America’s (ACANA). The ACANA African Festival is a day of nonstop music, food, games and activities for the whole family. Headlining this year will be Senegalese sensation Pape Diouf. DON'T YOU DARE MISS IT!!

With The Philadelphia Orchestra, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Janni Younge of South Africa's Renowned Handspring Puppet Company.

Looking for food, fun, and fantastic music? Well look no further! Award-winning African musical and dance artists will take center stage this year when the PECO Multicultural Festival Series Presents the 9th annual African Festival hosted by The African Cultural Alliance of North America’s (ACANA). The ACANA African Festival is a day of nonstop music, food, games and activities for the whole family. Headlining this year will be Senegalese sensation Pape Diouf. DON'T YOU DARE MISS IT!!

Modern African dance and traditional African music, an African marketplace, a mancala game station, craft making for families and more converge at the Penn Museum’s annual Celebration of African Cultures.

​From neighborhood pop-up concerts to the formal stage, the Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change has been inspiring dialogue and action regarding domestic violence and other Liberian immigrant community concerns for the past two years.