Drum Like A Lady Vol.2 (Sponsored by ILANGA EXCHANGE)
Celebrates THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE AFRCIAN CHILD w/ a LIVE DJ/DRUM cyPHER /Dance Party w/ DJlioness
Friday, June 16 | 10pm -2am
Host: LaTreice V Branson
Ilanga Exchange | MISSION STATEMENT:
To work in partnership with Southern African Artisans, to empower women and promote tourism with a purpose.
Ilanga Exchange supports artists from Southern Africa. Products include fair trade hand made jewelry from San Arts & Crafts in Kalahari, Botswana. Featured pieces are made from ostrich eggshells. For thousands of years the Bushmen have used Ostrich shell beads as ornamentation. Bushman women are fond of ornaments and even newborn babies normally wear strings of beads around their ankles, wrists and necks. Natural objects such as pieces of roots, reeds, porcupine quills, horns, tambotie wood and seeds are used. But the most important Bushman ornaments consist of small flat round beads made of ostrich eggshell. These beads are threaded into softened sinews to make bracelets, girdles and headdress, or they are sewn onto pieces of clothing.
WHY IS JUNE 16th SIGNIFICANT?
The June 16 1976 Uprising that began in Soweto and spread countrywide profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa. Events that triggered the uprising can be traced back to policies of the Apartheid government that resulted in the introduction of the Bantu Education Act in 1953. The rise of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the formation of South African Students Organisation (SASO) raised the political consciousness of many students while others joined the wave of anti-Apartheid sentiment within the student community. When the language of Afrikaans alongside English was made compulsory as a medium of instruction in schools in 1974, black students began mobilizing themselves. On 16 June 1976 between 3000 and 10 000 students mobilized by the South African Students Movement's Action Committee supported by the BCM marched peacefully to demonstrate and protest against the government’s directive. The march was meant to culminate at a rally in Orlando Stadium.
On their pathway they were met by heavily armed police who fired teargas and later live ammunition on demonstrating students. This resulted in a widespread revolt that turned into an uprising against the government. While the uprising began in Soweto, it spread across the country and carried on until the following year.
The aftermath of the events of June 16 1976 had dire consequences for the Apartheid government. Images of the police firing on peacefully demonstrating students led an international revulsion against South Africa as its brutality was exposed. Meanwhile, the weakened and exiled liberation movements received new recruits fleeing political persecution at home giving impetus to the struggle against Apartheid. (...Continued at @ http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/june-16-soweto-youth-uprising)
Join Drum Like a Lady and Ilanga Exchange as we celebrate "The International Day of the African Child" with an all-night, Afro-beat drum/dance party, w DJ Lioness. In true DLAL fasion, we will have the drum kits, congas, djembes, shakers, cow bells, and tambourines in the house!
WARNING!!! THIS JAM IS ABOUT TO GET MAD PERCUSSIVE!
We're goin in this Friday!
INVITE A FRIEND
SPREAD THE WORD
GET YOUR DANCE SHOES READY!
BRING YOUR INSTRUMENTS, AND COME PREPARED TO CELEBRATE!
9:45PM - INSTRUMENT LOAD-IN
10:00PM - THE ILANGA EXCHANGE OPENS
10:30PM - LIVE Drum Like a Lady DJ/DRUM cypHER/Dance Party
The event is $FREE.99 & Open to ALL!
A Drum Like a Lady Event.
Dahlak Paradise
4708 Baltimore Ave
Philadelphia, Pa
The event is $FREE.99 & Open to ALL!
A Drum Like a Lady Event.
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