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Who will challenge the juggernaut
of the Ghetto Nation? Loco Bloco
will go for its 4th consecutive championship title in 2005
carnaval.com/locobloco |
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Carlos Aceituno
leader and founder of
Fogo na Roupa
for 27 years has
lived the big dream of Carnaval San Francisco Bay Area. His
wisdom, energy and ability to maintain a fogalistic upbeat
vibe for countless presentations by his many performing groups
throughout the year is truly remarkable. As both shaman and master teacher,
he encourages children, youth and adults to partake in Brazilian
cultural arts with passion and joy. Mr. Aceituno currently teaches at
the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, and
Malonga
Casquelourd Center in Oakland. |
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Carnaval San Francisco
Royalty |
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1990
Michael Jenkins & Sweetwine
1991
Neuza Brown & Ivan Pandolfi,
1992
Rosana Brito & Ian Del Silva
1993
Jacque Barnes and Jaime Martinez
1994
Denise Joseph and Mario Chacon
1995
Jean Luc Stora and Maria Souza
1996
Mercedes Stubbs
& Silvana Souza
1997
Milanda Moore & Roger Dilahunti
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Blanche Brown will
dance in the 2005 Carnaval SF parade. |
Blanche's students have long
represented the Haitian dance contribution to Carnaval. Blanche
is is a dancer and teacher of 25 years in the fields of jazz and
traditional Haitian dance. She has taught workshops in diverse
places throughout the country. Ms. Brown currently teaches at Rhythm
and Motion studio in
San Francisco, Motion Pacific Studio
in Santa Cruz and Santa Clara University.
She was reappointed as City arts commissioner by
Mayor Gavin Newsome
giving the board continuity since she began her term as a
appointee of her husband the former Mayor (da mayor)
Willie Brown.
The California Dance Educators Association
selected her as the Artist-Educator of the year in 1996 for
artistic contributions and leadership in dance at the local and
state levels.
Including her years as a member of Wajumbe
Cultural Dance Ensemble,
she has been studying and teaching Haitian dance since the
1970s. Her teachers include Serge St. Juste,
Jean Leon-Destine and Mona Amira.
Her company, Group Petit Le Croix
(formerly Roots of Haiti) has appeared in several
San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festivals. the Ethnic Dance
Festival |
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Reggaeton is a new genre of music in SF combining the dance
grooves of reggae with hiphop, spanish lyrics and a mix of Latin
rhythms.
ReggaetonSF.com will
host the official after party at Club NV, 525 Howard on Sunday
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Promoters who bring in
international talent for large concerts or even who hire lots of
local Carnaval San Francisco talent to take advantage of the
largest multi-cultural party on the Left coast are encouraged to
contact the producers of Carnaval SF.
carnavalsf.com
Byron Lee:
Carnival Amabassador
Byron Lee founded Jamaica Carnival [JamaicaCarnival.com]
in 1991 and has watched it grow to become Jamaica's top visitor
promotion tool. This year their happening web site has a message
we could all benefit from, about taking the Carnival to the next
level,
2005 Come
Alive.
Since his debut
single "Dumplins" in 1960, Byron Lee has grown a successful,
enduring career and has become an entertainment legend.
His studio offerings include an annual "must buy" release of
remakes of Trinidad's top Carnival songs featuring a
scantily-clad beauty on the cover. Some say he has appropriated
the music from "other people's cultures" in Jamaica and Trinidad
for his own gain while others believe that Byron Lee is
the most successful musical ambassador for bringing Caribbean
music to the rest of the world.
Bryon Lee in San Francisco in 2001 At this same event, the
SF Caribbean community recognized several individuals for
extraordinary achievement.
These were
Newton C. Gordon ||
Ann Marie McClure
|| Percy C. Hintzen ||
Suzanne Ludlum ||
Luis E. Medina ||
Celisse Johnson ||
Andrew Monero ||
Roberto Y. Hernandez |
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Oakland Carnival 2005
CANCELLED |
City fathers, still unsettled with police issues,
and concerned for another repeat of the pattern of outside youth
looking for
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"This is more than a mere academic argument. Upon its
resolution rests the future of Oakland’s economy and,
more importantly, its soul."
J. DOUGLAS ALLEN ... |
action after the event's conclusion
elected to just say no. This is the same story that led to much
lamented demise of Fesitval at the Lake
more. Fruitvale's
kiddie Carnival will also not be happening |
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PARADE GRANDSTAND SEATING |
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PARADE SEATING
$20 ($25 if available
at the gate) On Mission between 21st & 22nd Street facing the
New Mission Theatre (East Side) |
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 Music
for the 2004
and 2005
Carnival Flash Movies created by local musician and artist,
Cubik.
He is one half of electronic duo
Cubik and Origami, which is releasing its debut on
Wide Hive
Records in late June 2005. |
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CARNAVAL SUNDAY
May 29th, 2005 |
The Official Carnaval SF After Party!!!
Featuring: LDA (NYC), Jowell & Randy (Puerto Rico) and Platano
(Miami)
Hosted by Boy Wonder (Chosen Few)
Club NV, 525 Howard Street, SF
Doors Open 9PM-2AM. 21&Over. |
Dandara & Ginga
Brasil The Bay Area's most talented and enticing entertainer
at
Rincon
(formerly Ganesh)
Fridays at 16th & Harriosn weekly
lineup (415)437-9240 Including
CARNAVAL FRIDAY
May 27th |
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The Ethnic Dance Festival
began in the Mission at the Victoria Theatre (16th & Mission) which will
be celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2006. Originally founded and
produced by Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, the
1978 Festival was the first multicultural, city-sponsored ethnic dance
festival in America.
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The Ethnic Dance
Festival can have the Presidio, while the new SF International
Arts Festival and artSFest will bring these arts to the Mission District and
smaller venues in better located for tourist and transit venues |
WorldArtsWest.org
took over production in 1982 and for many years has produced 3 June
weekends of Ethnic dance performances at the Palace of Fine Arts
on the edge of the Presidio. The competition to appear every year is
stiff and heated. Occasionally they support dance companies which also
appear in the Carnaval parade at the birthplace of the Bay Area. , In
2005, again no Carnaval groups are performing. but there is more
hope than ever as the future beckons new producers onto the inimitable
stage know worldwide as:
"San Francisco"
sfintlartsfest.org
In
2005 the festival has focused on Asian arts while for 2006 and 2007 the emphasis
will be African Diaspora and Latin-American art presentations. According to executive
director Andrew Wood, a former Carnaval Sf Board member, he would like
to expand the number of venues in the artist, transit served Mission
neighborhood as well as the downtown arts neighborhood surrounding the
Yerba Buena Gardens. Participating Mission organizations are:
dancemission.comDance Mission Theatre
3316 24th Street (@ Mission St);
lolabrown.com
Lola Gallery
2517 Mission Street (@ 21st Street);
newcollege.edu
New College of California 766 Valencia Street (@ 19th Street);
odctheater.orgODC Theater
3153 17th Street (@ Shotwell);
artaud.org/theater
Project Artaud Theatre 450 Florida St (@ 17th Street)
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