THE THIRD EYE & Our Community Based Organizations Invite you to The Citywide Kwanzaa Celebrations 2011-2012
THE THIRD EYE
& Our Community Based Organizations
Invite you to
The Citywide Kwanzaa Celebrations 2011-2012
A Celebration of Family, Community & Culture
7:00 pm The Act of Change, 3200 S Lancaster, Suite 623, Dallas, TX . Contact Bro Esudele 214-500-7747.
In celebration of Umoja the group will present a series of theatrical performances
featuring people in the community.
7:00 pm Pan African Connection Bookstore – 828 Fourth Avenue, (Across From Fair Park Music Hall) Dallas, TX. 214-943-8262.
Candle Lighting ceremony, African drumming, Songs and a gathering to discuss the organization and transformation of our community. Inviting all progressive organizations, youth organizations, churches, conscious and unconscious folk are invited to bring their ideas, energy and labor to this program. Cultural entertainment and refreshments will be provided.
7:00 pm The Forever Forward Youth Group and the residents of Park Manor Apartments celebrate Umoja with the theme, “Give Me My Flowers Now” a reminder to honor the people we love and respect while they are still with us. The youth and the elders will work together to illuminate this principle of Unity. The program takes place at Park Manor Apartments, 3333 Edgewood, near Pennsylvania. Contact Yasmin Thomas, 214-942-0117 for more information.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 (Kujichagulia)
12noon-2pm The Griot Storyteller, Afi Bell, sponsors a Family Theatre Festival with the youth, at the Highland Hills Branch Library, 3624 Simpson Stuart Road, Dallas, TX. Call 214-374-1192 or 214-670-0987 for more information.
7:00 pm Pan African Connection Bookstore – 828 Fourth Avenue, (Across From Fair Park Music Hall) Dallas, TX. 214-943-8262
Candle Lighting ceremony and viewing of documentary film, “A Place Out of Time – The Bordentown School”Actress Ruby Dee narrates this story of the remarkable institution which was an educational utopia in Bordentown, New Jersey. From
1866-1955 this school was an incubator for Black pride and intellect, values, discipline and life skills taught to generations of Black children. The Bordentown School was truly an historical icon for over 70 years. The film is hosted by Alkebulan Productions.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 (Ujima)
12noon-2pm The Griot Storyteller, Afi Bell, sponsors a Family Theatre Festival with the youth, at the Highland Hills Branch Library, 3624 Simpson Stuart Road, Dallas, TX. Call 214-374-1192 or
214-670-0987 for more information.
7:00 pm Pan African Connection Bookstore – 828 Fourth Avenue, (Across From Fair Park Music Hall) Dallas, 214-943-8262.
Candle Lighting ceremony and Tribute to the great Paul Robeson. Screening the film “The Tallest Tree in our Forest” chronicles Paul Robeson as a genius, athlete, actor, labor activist, fighter for civil rights and world peace. Dramatizations, and special guest Jazz Pianist, Jamal Frank Mathis.
7:00pm. The Concerned Citizens of DeSoto
sponsor a cultural celebration of cooperative work & responsibility at the DeSoto Civic Center, located at Hampton & Pleasant Run, DeSoto , Texas . Food will be served so please RSVP to Joyce Williams, 972-230-1107
Thursday, December 29, 2011 (Ujamaa)
12noon-2pm The Griot Storyteller, Afi Bell, sponsors a Family Theatre Festival with the
youth, at the Highland Hills Branch Library, 3624 Simpson Stuart Road, Dallas, TX. Call 214-374-1192 or 214-670-0987 for more information.
6:30pm-8:00 pm The Pan African Connection Bookstore, 828 Fourth Avenue, (Across From Fair Park Music Hall) Dallas, TX 214-943-8262.
Candle Lighting ceremony Ujamaa Business and Services Networking Session – Inviting all small non-profit and
for-profit businesses to come together to see how we can collectively build and sustain businesses in our community in these hard times.
Thursday, December 30, Continued
8:00 pm - Pan African Connection Bookstore, “Why Are African Descendants Entitled to Reparations?” Millions of Africans were brutalized, kidnapped and murdered in the African Holocaust (Maafa). This collective
discussion will be hosted by the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations (NCOBRA) Contact Bandele, 214-943-8262.
Friday, December 30, 2011 (Nia)
7:00 pm – Pan African Connection Bookstore, 828 Fourth Avenue, (Across From Fair Park Music Hall) Dallas, TX. 214-943-8262.
Candle Lighting ceremony and “Passing the Baton to the Youth” College students, sororities, fraternities, progressive youth organizations and the hip hop community will present an evening of rhythm, rhyme and collective discussion on organizing our communities. Performances by Dezyne Ojunga -Hip Hop, Nebula- Singer, Iv Amenti-Interdisciplinary artist, Maurice Curtis-Saxophonist, Zane and The Band, Kiera "Snaps" Williams-Spoken Word, Ava Wilson-spoken Word, LaRome Armstrong-Tap Dance and others. Contact Bandele, 214-943-8262.
Saturday, December 31, 2011 (Kuumba)
3:00 pm – Pan African Connection Bookstore, 828 Fourth Avenue, (Across From Fair Park Music Hall)Dallas, TX. 214-943-8262.
Candle Lighting ceremony Jacques Garvey, two Pan-African women who were organizers in the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). They were the wives of the Back to Africa Movement Leader, Marcus Mosiah Garvey. We will also salute the women in our personal families and histories. Please bring pictures and stories of strong women (big mama’s, play mamas, aunties, Sunday school teachers, educators, neighbors, etc) to honor their example and sacrifice they made for family and community.
7:00 pm –South Dallas Cultural Center, 3400 S. Fitzhugh St. Dallas, TX 214-939-2787 Soul Children’s Theater will present the play Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story. In an African village live seven
brothers who made family life miserable with their constant fighting. When their father dies, he leaves an unusual will: by sundown, the brothers must make gold out of seven spools of thread. If they fail, they will be turned out as beggars. Using the nguzo saba, or "seven principles" of Kwanza , this inspiring play shows how family members can pull together, for their own good, the good of the entire community.as well as explaining the creation of Kente cloth.
Sunday, January 1, 2012 (Imani)
2:00 pm – St. Luke “Community” United Methodist Church, 5710 E. R. L. Thornton Freeway Dallas, TX. 214-821-2970.
Join us in celebrating with candle lighting ritual, drumming and other cultural activities.
All Kwanzaa Celebrations are FREE and opened to the general public.
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