REGULAR CLASS SCHEDULE

Wednesday and Thursday from 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Cost: $5 per class

Get Your Zumba® Fix Every Week!

Led by a Licensed Instructor

Tuesday  from 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Cost: $5 per class
Location: 2nd Floor – Dance Studio

For More information Contact:
919-683-1709

Prepare to travel the African Diaspora in this energetic and culturally rich dance exploration. Let the rhythms of the drums and movements of the Motherland uplift your soul and jump-start your body.

The 90-minute class incorporates deep breathing, conditioning, and cardio intensive movements from various dance styles. Men and women of all levels are welcome. Childcare not provided. Space is limited. All are welcome to join us at Hayti! $5 per class. Guest instructors and master classes are programmed throughout the year for participants.

REGULAR CLASS SCHEDULE

Monday from 6:30-8pm
Cost: $5 per class

For more information call 919-683-1709 ext 21

Please support our regular poetry slam, the Jambalaya Soul Slam, on the the third Saturday of every month. You can find more information on the slam and the Bull City Slam Team at www.bullcitypoetryslam.com. The team will be traveling to regional competition in Tampa, FL in June and to national competition in Charlotte, NC this summer.

Please support the Hayti Heritage Center in its fundraising efforts. It is a historic landmark and one of Durham’s treasures. Your assistance is needed to keep the center running and in top condition. It has been our home since 2005 and it has offered quality arts programming in Durham for many years. You can make a donation to the f the St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation on the website or by calling 919-683-1709 ext 25.

Spokenword is the art of performance poetry. It is where the poems written on the page are given life on stage. The art form has become a staple in communities across the country. Many venues are opening their doors for spokenword events. Poetry slam in growing in support and reach. In Durham, there is a vibrant spokenword community that reflects the strength of the scene across North Carolina. This festival celebrates the artform and showcases the talent of today’s spokenword artists.

Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Noon – 2pm
Writing and Performance Workshop (youth and adult)
$3 Admission, 18 & under free

2pm – 4pm
Youth Poetry Slam w/ Sacrificial Poets
$7 General Admission, $5 student admission

8pm – 11pm
Group Piece Invitational Poetry Slam
$10 General Admission, $7 student admission

All-access passes (get you into all the events & workshops):
$15 advance day passes (general admission)
$10 advance day passes (student admission)

Hosted by Dasan Ahanu
Workshops facilitated by Ed Mabrey & Sacrificial Poets

For more info and to purchase tickets, visit www.bullcitypoetryslam.com/festival.html
Contact: Dasan Ahanu at 919-295-0176 or dasan67@live.com

Zumba is a fusion of Latin and International music that creates a dynamic, exciting, and effective fitness system.  The routines feature interval training sessions where fast and slow rhythms and resistance training are combined to tone and sculpt your body.

Get Your Zumba Fix Every Week!    

This Town Hall meeting will guide parents in answering three critical questions:

1. What is the optimal level of parental engagement needed to support the academic and social success of African American males?
2. How do we increase the presence and involvement of fathers in PTAs and other parent related activities?
3. What strategies can parents implement at home to increase literacy?

Following COSEBOC’s Town Hall, the discussion notes and suggestions from parents and community
leaders will be available as a reference on www.coseboc.org for anyone interested in best practices for
increasing parental engagement.

David Miller, CVO of the Urban Leadership Institute & Co-Founder of the Raising Him Alone Campaign, will lead the facilitation of the Town Hall Meeting. David is a seasoned group facilitator and has also authored Khalil’s Way, an illustrated children’s novel that focuses on bullying through the eyes of a bright 11 year old African American male.

Come out and participate in the Jambalaya Soul Slam’s Slam Academy!

Workshop is only $With the assistance of the St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation, the Jambalaya Soul Slam has begun a new initiative. In addition to our monthly poetry slams we will be conducting writing and performance workshops at the Hayti Heritage Center. These workshops are part of a program called the Jambalaya Slam Academy. At the Slam Academy, experienced writers and performance artists will help workshop participants bring their words from the page to the stage. In a peer to peer environment, participants will go through writing and performance exercises designed to help them improve both the writing and delivery of their work. Whether someone is new to performing, an experienced performer looking to slam, or someone who wants to feel more comfortable reading at the open mic….this is for them.

The only thing required is an open mind and whatever you prefer to write on, in, or with.

Organized and facilitated by Dasan Ahanu

For more info go to www.bullcitypoetryslam.com/slamacademy or contact Dasan at dasan67@live.com or 919.295.0176

Saturday, April 21
Doors 7:30pm, Show 8:00pm
Only $7 general admission

Jambalaya Soul Slam presents Grand Slam Finals.
Hosted by Dasan Ahanu

Feature: TBA
For more info: Dasan at 919-295-0176 or dasan67@live.com
www.bullcitypoetryslam.com

A Game Apart provides a glimpse of Jackie Robinson’s life during a bygone era of separate and unequal locker rooms, of whites only hotels, and of restaurants with only a back door for colored athletes to enter. Witness the hopeless humiliation of a star player who was showered with adulation on the field and became a second-hand citizen when he walked off the diamond. Meet Jackie’s compatriots fighting the same battles between the end zones, inside the ring and around the track. A Game Apart is a powerful lesson of courage through dedication, perseverance and leadership.

About Mike Wiley

Acclaimed actor and playwright Mike Wiley has spent the last decade fulfilling his mission to bring educational theatre to young audiences and communities across the country. In the early days of his career, Wiley found few theatrical resources to shine a light on key events and figures in African-American history. To bring these stories to life, he started his own production company.

Through his performances, Wiley has introduced countless students and communities to the legacies of Emmett Till, Henry “Box” Brown and more. His most recent works include a one-man play based on Tim Tyson’s memoir Blood Done Sign My Name and The Parchman Hour, an ensemble production celebrating the bravery and determination of the Freedom Riders who risked their lives to desegregate Southern interstate bus travel in 1961.

Mike Wiley has a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the 2010 Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to his numerous school and community performances, he has also appeared on Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel and National Geographic Channel and has been featured in Our State magazine and on PBS’ North Carolina Now and WUNC’s The State of Things.

Opening Reception
Thursday, April 19, at 7 p.m.

Some of these names may ring a bell for you, others may not.  But whether you’re an old-school soul specialist or a rhythm & blues rookie, you are hereby invited to explore a brand-new exhibit in the Bull City, “Soul Souvenirs: Durham’s Musical Memories from the 1960s and 1970s.  

Please join us at the St. Joseph’s Hayti Heritage Center in Durham on Thursday, April 19 at 7PM for the public opening of “Soul Souvenirs.” The evening will also feature a panel discussion with Durham musicians of the era from groups like the Black Experience Band and Tracy and the Jammers.

Curated by historian Joshua Clark Davis and Jason Perlmutter of Carolina Soul and designed by Linc Hancock and Robin Vuchnich, “Soul Souvenirs” is the official gallery exhibit for the Bull City Soul Revival, a locally-based humanities project seeking to recover Durham’s rich heritage of soul, funk and R&B music. Yet “Soul Souvenirs” is not only about music. The exhibit will also touch on radio and television, record stores and night clubs, local high schools and churches, and even the civil rights and black power movements of the era. In short, this exhibit tells the story of Durham’s African American community in the 1960s and 1970s.  

ABOUT BULL CITY SOUL REVIVAL

The Bull City Soul Revival (B.C.S.R.) is a community-based, ad-hoc collaborative initiative comprised of Durham County Library, St. Joseph Historic Foundation, Carolina Soul, North Carolina Central University, Duke University, North Carolina State University and the Durham Jazz Renaissance Foundation, Triangle Virtual Media, whose primary purpose is to host an educational, interactive performance, community colloquium in 2012 highlighting the rich musical legacy of Durham’s rhythm and blues tradition

For more information: bullcitysoulrevival.org/ or www.durhamcountylibrary.org/bcsr.php

This program is sponsored by: Carolina Soul, City of Durham Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Duke University, Durham County Library, Durham Jazz Renaissance Foundation, Durham Library Foundation, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina Humanities Council, Parrish Street Advocacy Group, Show Tranz, Triangle Virtual Media, St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation, Inc.