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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

NIA Fest 2015 (The Virginia Beach, Virginia KWANZAA Celebration)

NIA Fest Schedule:
5:30 PM - Room 1 - 7:00 Am (movie)
                     premiered by Positive Vibes Afrikan Litterature
5:30 PM - Room 2 - College for FREE (Learn How)
                     A workshop provided by Scholarship Sharing
5:30 PM - Room 3 - How to become a Foster Parent !
                     A workshop provided by UMFS
5:30 PM - Gymnasium - The kNOw MORE Talent Show
6:00 PM - All Rooms - NIA Fest (Vendors, Games, Activities)

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Boys and Girls Club of Va. Beach

1505 Competitor Court
Virginia Beach, VA 23453
757-368-4445

Corner of Rosement Rd. and Buckner Farms Rd. Two blocks from Lynnhaven Parkway & Rosemeont Road.

#NIA #NIAFEST #WeAreNia #NiaFest2015

Song, Dance, Poetry, Culture & Crafts !

#kNOwMORE Stop The Violence Talent Show !

Enjoy the This Is Me Cultural Dance Troupe !

Fam' & Friends photos by R2Z Entertainment !

Divas In Action Step Team Performance !

Karate Demonstration by Va. Beach Goju !

Party like it's 1976 with the Zulu Nation !

Play Kwanzaa-Bingo with DIVAGirl !

Gospel Mime Performance by Silent Praise !

Battle the KujiCHESSgulia Chess Club !

Enroll in the Affordable Health Care Insurance Plan !

Get College Scholarships !

Learn how to become a Foster Parent !

Soul-Line Dancing / Gospel Line Dancing !

Enjoy Face Painting !

Giving Thanks !

Vendors & Exhibitors

Family Bonding !

Battle our Chess team !

Party with DJ Seko Varner

Virginia Beach Goju Karate

KujiCHESSgulia Chess Team

Photo Booth Photos !

The Kuumba (Creativity) Wall

Cultural Dancers

Vendors & Exhibitors

The Golden Fold Movement

Your $2 donation benefits the Boys & Girls Club !

Vendors & Exhibitors wanted ($17 - $40 donation)

Contact 757-932-0177 or email info@positivevibes.net

The Nia Fest event is an extension of the Kwanzaa celebrations held by Rev. Dr. Samuel and Ruth Suggs Varner since 1970. These church held events placed worshiping Father God first, and celebrating Kwanzaa as secondary. These celebrations began in their church Nazarene Congregational Church (United Church of Christ) in Brooklyn, New York. These celebrations continued in Columbus Ohio at the church developed by the couple named Advent Community Church (United Church of Christ). Advent was the first church in Columbus Ohio to embrace and host an annual Kwanzaa celebration and even hosted events that involved Dr. Ron Karenga (One of Kwanzaa's original founders from the US Organization) and his Wife. Upon Dr. Varner's move to Chesapeake Virginia to lead Providence (United Church of Christ). Providence became the first church in Hampton Roads' Virginia to host a Kwanzaa celebration in 1987. From this event members of the community led by Mr. & Mrs. Clarence and Dianne Vincent developed the Uhuruu African American Cultural Society which led the area in hosting annual Kwanzaa events which continued until 2010 by The Imani Foundation. The Varner's held a private Kwanzaa event in their home from 1990 until the passing of Rev. Dr. Samuel Varner in September 2009. In 2010 the family continued the annual celebration by making it a public event called the Father's First Fruits Kwanzaa. The event later became the Kuumba Fest and is now named and themed "Nia Fest" with a focus on Building and Developing the community. All are welcome ! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year !

Afro-Lisbon and The Lusophone Atlantic: Dancing Towards The Future

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Hello Imani,

A year-end message from our fearless leader Sean Barlow:

2015 proved a singular year for Afropop Worldwide. We won the highly prestigious Institutional Peabody Award for 27 years of excellence in storytelling. The Peabody organization said, "Afropop Worldwide is part dance party, part cultural anthropology seminar...For its pioneering role in the world music movement, for illuminating the richness and diversity of African and African diaspora cultures, for archiving and fortifying its work on afropop.org and simply for being a treat for the ears."

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Please make your contribution now while you're thinking about it. Thank you!
—Sean Barlow, Executive Producer

On air this week is our brand-new Hip Deep program "Afro-Lisbon and the Lusophone Atlantic: Dancing Towards the Future," produced by Sam Backer. In the last few years, a small network of DJs in the suburbs of Lisbon, Portugal has been consistently producing some of the world's best dance music. The children of African immigrants, these young musicians have combined a hemisphere of musical influences and distilled them down into a single astonishing style. But how did Lisbon start to make such great African music? And what does that say about the identity of the city, or the country, or the continent? On this special Hip Deep edition, we take you on a journey to Lisbon, a city facing both the sea and 600 years of its own history. We'll go to African club nights, hang out with obsessive record collectors, learn how to dance kizomba, and visit the projects that have produced a musical revolution. And through it all, we will try to answer a seemingly simple question: Just where did this music come from?

Be sure to check out Sam's crucial cuts from the Lusophone world feature.

2015 has been a great year for Ghanaian reggae musician Rocky Dawuni. His album Branches of the Same Tree received a Grammy nomination for Best Reggae Album. Banning Eyre recently met up with Rocky in Harlem for a chat. Check it out.

Ben Richmond interviewed filmmaker John Bosch on his latest film Malian Pieces: Stories From A Rich Country that he is currently crowdfunding for.

Morgan Greenstreet wrote about Burkinabe rapper Art Melody's new video "Wagare Hip-Hop." It's a sharp and aggressive track from his new album Moogho.

Our latest "Best of The Beat on Afropop" feature is the first installment in a mini-series of the magazine's coverage of the development of reggae in Africa. This edition includes George Zawonu's early report from 1984 on the establishment and growth of reggae in Ghana, in addition to Tom Cheyney's "The African Reggae Phenomenon" from 1991. Stay tuned for features to come that will focus on African reggae stars like Lucky Dube, Alpha Blondy and Majek Fashek.

Afropop honors and remembers South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who was born on this date, Dec. 18, 1946. We decided to run a special "Best of The Beat on Afropop" feature commemorating his life.

For New Yorkers, M'Bolo led by Senegalese singer Cheikh Ngom appears at the Shrine on Dec. 19. The Pedrito Martinez Group performs at Subrosa on Dec. 21. Malian musician Makane Kouyate is at the Shrine on Dec. 26. Cameroonian bassist Richard Bona plays Club Bonafide on Dec. 31, New Year's Eve. Malian songbird Awa Sangho takes the stage at SOB's on Jan. 14. Congolese singer Pierre Kwenders entertains at Lincoln Center on Jan. 14, and Drom on Jan. 15. Sudanese band Alsarah and the Nubatones, along with Ethiopian groove collective Debo Band, perform at Drom on Jan. 16.

Have a lovely weekend!

Cheers,

Atane and the Afropop Crew

Afro-Lisbon and the Lusophone Atlantic

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BOTBOA: Reggae in Africa

In Conversation with Rocky Dawuni

Art Melody - Wagare Hip-Hop

Q&A with John Bosch

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Monday, December 21, 2015

Father's 1st Fruits Kwanzaa Event - NIA Fest 2015

Contact 757-932-0177 or email positivevibesdjs@gmail for

Performance / exhibitor / vendor / sponsor information !

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

2015 Kwanzaa Events in Hampton Roads Virginia (757)

2015 Kwanzaa events in the 757

Portsmouth 12/26 - Children's Museum of VA. 12-4pm Atumpan The Talking Drum

Norfolk 12/26 Slover Public Library 6-8pm. Atumpan The Talking Drum

Norfolk 12/28 Pretlow Public Library 4:30pm

Va. Beach - 12/30 - NIA Fest - Va Beach Boys & Girls Club. 6-9pm Positive Vibes (http://www.positivevibes.net/)
    5:30 pm - Learn how to become a Foster Parent
    5:30 pm - Learn how to go to college for FREE !!
    5:30 pm - Watch the 7:00 movie
    6:00 pm - Vendors and other NIA Fest Activities
    VENDORS WANTED ! (Call 757-932-0177)

Newport News 1/1 - YWCA 2702 Orcutt Ave. 2-4pm The Sophisticated Ladies

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