Join PFP for a special
27th year celebration on June 7, 2014:
* WELCOME SELINA MORALES as PFP's next Director
* Say FAREWELL to DEBORA KODISH after 27 years!
* HONOR Folk Arts and Social Change Awardees
* SING with the Liberian Women's Chorus for Change
* DANCE with Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble
* Enjoy great food and drink!
Expect food, fun, engaging activities, a wonderful crowd of people, and an all-around joyful evening! This year marks big changes, includes great performances (with your participation) and it honors amazing women who are inspiring models in folk arts and change. This is your chance to:
* Bid farewell to PFP founder and longtime Director, Debora Kodish, and welcome incoming Director Selina Morales. The Birthday Bash marks a changing of the guard at PFP. Kodish is stepping down after 27 years at the helm.
Honor the 2014 Folk Arts and Social Change Awards recipients: Groundbreaking percussionists Nana Korantema Ayeboafo and Elaine Watts. Both artistic and social change innovators, Nana and Elaine are dynamic and inspiring women. Each was told that "women can't play drums" and discouraged from playing their chosen instrument. Lucky for us (and for so many others) each persevered. We honor Nana and Elaine for their courage, artistry and knowledge, for the ways in which they have made African and klezmer drumming (respectively) accessible to new generations, and for the inspiration they continue to provide as women and role models,
* Sing with the Liberian Women's Chorus for Change, and dance with Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble. The Chorus is a new PFP Folk Arts and Social Change project: an ensemble that is using Liberian song traditions to address gender violence. They'll perform (and Bash attendees will get to sing along). And Kulu Mele will close the evening out with a participatory bantaba dance (including lessons!)
Where: The Painted Bride Art Center
230 Vine St.
Philadelphia Pa
Tickets start at $30.
