Events

Mestre Jorge Alabe will be teaching a workshop presenting dances of the orishas, in the Brazilian Candomble tradition on Saturday, November 10, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.

The workshop will be held at Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco (2868 Mission St., between 24th and 25th Streets). The price for the workshop is $15. All levels welcome.

Please be sure to take advantage of this opportunity to study authentic orisha dance steps if you are interested in this tradition. This is likely to be the only orisha workshop Jorge will be presenting before next year.

In the past, similar classes have focused on dance, but there was also some limited instruction in drumming and songs for the orixas. The workshop will certainly be accompanied by live musicians.

The new home for our regular Thursday workshops, the Buena Vida Dance Club, is having it's grand opening party on Saturday, November 10th. We've been invited to play music, encourage people to come, dance, check out the different instructors there, etc. The idea is that we'd perform some of our own thing -- mostly maracatu, and maybe some afoxe and something in 12/8. We'd also play a set of samba and samba reggae for Serena and some of Maisa's dancers who are doing a performance, as well. They're aiming to have all the official performances between 7pm and 9pm, but the exact schedule is still up in the air.

Obviously, no one would be expected to stay for the entire party, but if folks could signup and in the note indicate if you're at least free from 7-9pm. If you can only make part of those 2 hours, indicate which part so I can try to request that we either play earlier or later in that window of time, if neccessary. Thanks!