One Week Before Chautauqua - Art Featured
Only one week to go before the Florida Chautauqua begins. If you haven't been to
www.florida-chautauqua-center.org and checked out the fabulous agenda, do it. Look at just some of the art sessions featured.
Art Sessions
African Woodcarving: Master Carver Dominick N. Kioko, now living in Orlando, Florida, will demonstrate how his family and African ancestors have been carving wood sculptures for centuries in his native country of Kenya. He uses only 3 carving tools and carves from memory. You?ll learn about the woods and stones from which he carves, like ebony and Kisii stone, and how they grow or form. You may want to bring a little souvenir money, because his artwork made at The Florida Chautauqua Assembly is for sale! You won?t believe what he?s carving today, and he?ll even teach you the art of bartering ? a common practice of buying and selling in Kenya.
African Dance: Mohamed DaCosta, a native of Guinea (west Africa) will teach you 5 different movements of traditional African dance. Then he will play the drums and see what you have learned. You will first have to learn when the break is played in the music, because that will tell you when the dance starts and when the next movement comes. Beware! You may be on stage at Friday?s evening performance following this session to show off what you really learned during the Agbedidi African evening performance!
African Drums: Learn how to play! Mohamed DaCosta, a native of Guinea (west Africa) will teach you a simple rhythm on the djembe. Once you pick up the rhythm, you will pick up the pace. See how fast and accurate you can play! Then, let's see how well you can really do by playing at Friday's evening performance,
Agbedidi Africa, which Mohamed will lead. Get on stage and ?show off what you have learned!
...DL, will someone videotape this? I would love to see your performance!
