Showcase
Dominican Mampoteo performed at the Folk Feet Dance Showcase, photo by Etienne Frossard
Ofrenda Altar and Chinese Buddhist Ancestral Altar Dedication
Workshop 2: Mexican Days of the Dead (Días de Los Muertos)
Workshop 1: Mexican Days of the Dead (Días de Los Muertos)
All Souls’ Day “Symbols, Stories and Trumpets” at Green-Wood Cemetery
Waking the Dead
04/23/09
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Dominican Mampoteo performed at the Folk Feet Dance Showcase, photo by Etienne Frossard
Waking the Dead: Afro-Caribbean Funerary Expressions features traditional artists, scholars, and funeral directors exploring pan-Caribbean mourning traditions.
WHEN:Thursday, April 23, 2009
WHERE: Brooklyn Public Library, Flatbush Branch (CLCC), 22 Linden Blvd. (near Flatbush Ave.)
Across the Caribbean, funeral and wake traditions demonstrate similarities such as the preponderance of Nine Nights, and differences such as those between the Trinidadian limbo and the Grenadian bongo dances. To celebrate the Mayor’s Office Immigrant Heritage Week, BAC Folk Arts presents a lively program about death ritual, song, and story in the Caribbean.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
WHEN:Thursday, April 23, 2009
WHERE: Brooklyn Public Library, Flatbush Branch (CLCC), 22 Linden Blvd. (near Flatbush Ave.)
Across the Caribbean, funeral and wake traditions demonstrate similarities such as the preponderance of Nine Nights, and differences such as those between the Trinidadian limbo and the Grenadian bongo dances. To celebrate the Mayor’s Office Immigrant Heritage Week, BAC Folk Arts presents a lively program about death ritual, song, and story in the Caribbean.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
- Los Bomberos de Brookyn, Puerto Rican funeral Bombazo
- La Troupe Makandal, Haitian vèy (wake) songs extolling the deceased
- E. Wayne McDonald and members of Caribbean Cultural Theatre, duppy (ghost) stories
- Ralph Hill, Director of House of Hills, a funeral home serving the Caribbean community among others
- Funmilayo, Guyanese wake traditions
- Irka Mateo, Dominican congos, songs, and drumming for the dead
- Les Slater, Moderator
Watch excerpts from the dance and music performances below:
This program is presented as part of the city-wide Immigrant Heritage Week, featuring Brooklyn-based traditional dancers from culturally-specific immigrant groups alongside contemporary dancers. 
Days of the Dead in Brooklyn is made possible with major support from National Endowment for the Arts, Con Edison, and NYS Tribute Foundation. BAC Folk Feet traditional dance programs are supported by Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and The New York Community Trust.
Additional support is provided by New York State Council on the Arts, the Brooklyn Delegations of the New York State Senate and New York State Assembly, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and New York City Council and its Brooklyn Delegation.Related Categories
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