Events

In the Tone of Truth Concert Series: Fierce, Funky, Afro-Future, featuring Sha’Condria “iCon” Sibley, Tarriona “Tank” Ball and Norman Spence, explores the aesthetic and philosophy of our collective future through the eyes of artistic and creative change-makers. In collaboration with the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the In the… Read more…

The WorldBeat Cultural Center will be celebrating 4 of the 7 days of Kwanzaa. Each day will feature Ceremonial candle lighting and libation with live drumming, Poetry reading and Karamu (the traditional feast), vegetarian African American soul food. Kwanzaa is based on the agricultural celebrations of Africa called, “the first-fruits”…

Join Forgotten Images at the Aquarium of the Pacific as they host their Sixteenth Annual African American Festival, celebrating the rich diversity of African American and African cultures. The weekend will feature live entertainment and arts and crafts. Festival performers include Mardi Gras second line dancers, hip hop and break… Read more…

Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant has unmatched range that soars to the rafters and dives to earthy depths. She carries on the legacies of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday, and tackles racial stereotypes by performing forgotten numbers from the vaudeville and minstrel eras stretching back more than… Read more…

TRANCE is a poetry/music suite for Peter J. Harris’ Inspiration House PoetryChoir, a capella singers and a horn section blending virtuoso soloing, ecstatic human speech and dynamic silence into seamless VoiceMusic that explores and plays with time and its pulsations, revels in the shifts and slippages between emotional states, and… Read more…