by the The Reporterós staff
Bobi Céspedes
Bobi Céspedes it returns to La Peña with a selection of songs of its most recent recording CD Patakin. With danzones, rumbas, boleros and sons, the night will be an encounter with the African-Cuban folkloric music, to listen and dance to.
Bobi she is a recognized singer of folkloric Cuban music. Percussionist, dancer, and teacher, Bobi is a priestess of the spiritual tradition yoruba-lucumi of its people. For more than 30 years Bobi has occupied an important place in the conservation and education of the African-Cuban culture.
Bobi sings in three languages: English, Spanish and lucumi, the mother tongue of progeny yorubas of Western Africa in Cuba. Also it makes the percussion instruments such as the chekere, which is made of dry pumpkins and tell stories on the orishas – deities in the pantheon yoruba. For more information visit: http://www.bobicespedes.com/.
Saturday, July 18, at 8 p.m. $18 advance. $20 at the door. Centro Cultural La Peña, 3105 Shattuck Ave. en Berkeley. 510-849-2568 http://www.lapena.org/event/1144.
Museum of Women presents Dolores Huerta with María Echaveste
The International Museum of Women is hosting their latest Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change Speaker Series Event at the Omni San Francisco Hotel. This event features speaker Dolores Huerta in conversation with Maria Echaveste.
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of United Farm Workers with César Chávez and founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, is one of the country’s most influential Latinas and is an outspoken advocate for workers’ rights. Huerta was named one of Ms. Magazine’s three most important women of 1997 and Ladies Home Journal’s 100 most important women of the 20th Century.
Dolores Huerta will appear in conversation with Berkeley School of Law Lecturer and Senior Fellow Maria Echaveste. Echaveste, who served as Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton, is one of the highest-ranking Latinas to have served in a presidential administration. On July 22,2009, 6 p.m. – 7:30pm. For more information, please call 415-543-4669.
Dancing with disabilities
In honor of Disability Pride Month, DisabledCommunity.Org is co-sponsoring a dance with other disability and aging focused organizations. This pride dance is open to people with and without disabilities and is planned as a social action to increase self love and social movement and to decrease alienation and isolation within our community.
AXIS Dance Company will kick off the dance from 5:30 to 6:30 teaching dance participants new ways of thinking about movement.
From 6:30 on everyone can dance to the musical mixings of Leroy Franklin Moore Jr. of Krip Hop Na1tion who will be mixing a group of diverse dance music, including music created by artists with disabilities. On Saturday, July 25 from 5-9 p.m. at the UU Center at 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco. Tickets $5-25 based on ability to pay. To volunteer or co-sponsor the dance and raffle contact Lori Guidos at admin@disabledcommunity.org or leave a message at 415-508-6130.
For Richer or poorer: Surviving and thriving in the Great Recession Since the seriousness of the worldwide economic crisis became obvious last summer, people have been searching for answers. What happened? How did we get here? What can we do to fix things? Why didn’t we prevent this? How do we cope with newfound stress? And, perhaps most important, what will our economy and world look like after the recovery?
The Commonwealth Club will attempt to provide some answers to the myriad of economic questions in a series of talks with experts.
At The Club offices located at 595 Market Street, 2nd Floor in San Francisco. Free for member, with prices varying for non-members. For more info please call 415-597-6712.
