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		<title>Go see Okwui!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friend and colleague, performer extraordinaire, Okwui Okpokwasili, has created a show and it&#8217;s now onstage at Performance Space 122! You may have seen versions of this work presented by 651 ARTS in various stages at 651&#8217;s Salon Series in 2006, or at PS&#8217;s B.O.B. Festival in 2007. This is a great opportunity to witness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.651arts.org/2009/02/10/go-see-okwui/</link>
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		<title>Year in Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends,

2008 was a pretty special year for 651 ARTS.  As we move into 2009 (and our 20th anniversary season!), I thought I would take this time to share with you some of my favorite highlights from the past year where we turned our attention to the rich cultural heritage of the Mississippi Delta; hosted eleven theater artists from East Africa (Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda) for a three and a half week residency in collaboration with Dartmouth College, Theater Without Borders and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center/CUNY; and in October, I traveled to Kenya and Tanzania with Brooklyn-based choreographers Nora Chipaumire, Reggie Wilson and Christalyn Wright. 
Click through to read more about what 651 ARTS was up to in 2008.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.651arts.org/2009/01/09/year-in-review/</link>
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		<title>Anna Glass on Africa Exchange and her recent trip to Kenya and Tanzania&#8230;</title>
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Ever since I returned from East Africa, the first question people tend to ask me is &#8216;what kind of work is 651 ARTS doing there?&#8217; and the second question is &#8216;how did all of this happen?&#8217; 
Here’s a little background&#8230;

Last October 2007, Executive Director Georgiana Pickett and I traveled to East Africa to meet and engage with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.651arts.org/2008/11/13/anna-glass-on-africa-exchange-and-her-recent-trip-to-kenya-and-tanzania/</link>
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		<title>651 ARTS takes East Africa by storm!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past October, at the invitation of the US State Department, 651 ARTS brought three of Brooklyn&#8217;s most talented choreographers, Reggie Wilson, Nora Chipaumire and Christalyn Wright, to Kenya and Tanzania as part of 651 ARTS ongoing Africa Exchange program.  Wilson, Chipaumire and Wright led workshops and performed at Nairobi, Kenya&#8217;s GoDown Performing Arts Center, as well as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.651arts.org/2008/11/11/651-arts-takes-east-africa-by-storm/</link>
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		<title>651 ARTS travels to East Africa!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Embassy Brings 651 ARTS from Brooklyn, New York, to Participate in VISA 2 DANCE Contemporary Dance Festival
(October 21, 2008)
The U.S. Embassy will collaborate with the VISA 2 DANCE Festival and 651 ARTS (Brooklyn, NYC) to present three nights of modern dance on October 22-24 at Diamond Jubilee VIP Hall. Three visiting American dancers will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.651arts.org/2008/10/23/651-arts-travels-to-east-africa/</link>
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		<title>The Longest Road I Know</title>
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Highway 61 by Pat Thomas 
This recording of Highway 61 was made in a plantation graveyard with the Delta blues musician and part-time grave digger, Pat Thomas.   Pat is the son of Son Thomas, the famous bluesman first recorded by Bill Ferris in the 1960s.   The song Pat is singing is called Highway 61.  It&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.651arts.org/2008/06/04/the-longest-road-i-know/</link>
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		<title>Check out Jimmy &#8220;Duck&#8221; Holmes on WNYC!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this great piece by Siddhartha Mitter on the Mississippi Delta and Jimmy &#8220;Duck&#8221; Holmes that aired on Saturday on WNYC. You can catch Jimmy &#8220;Duck&#8221; live, on a double-bill with gospel great, Marie Knight, this Thursday, June 5 at the Kumble Theater at LIU.  Click here to listen!
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		<link>http://blog.651arts.org/2008/06/01/check-out-jimmy-duck-holmes-on-wnyc/</link>
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		<title>Highway 651 ARTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rambling, running, roving &#8212; travel is at the heart of the Mississippi Delta blues.   Spiritual escape is made possible through the playing of music, but sometimes, it&#8217;s the player that needs an outlet.   This was the case when McKinley Morganfield left the Stovall Plantation in 1943.  He made his break for Chicago, where he would rise to prominence with a new name, Muddy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.651arts.org/2008/05/30/highway-651-arts/</link>
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		<title>NY Times features Diane McIntyre and 651 ARTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diane McIntyre and Olu Dara appear on June 3rd &#38; 4th at BRICstudio as part of the 651 ARTS Mississippi Delta Heritage Project

Last Sunday, the New York Times wrote a full spread on Diane McIntyre and the Mississppi Delta Heritage Project.   Read it HERE.
 
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		<link>http://blog.651arts.org/2008/05/27/ny-times-features-diane-mcintyre-and-651-arts/</link>
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		<title>Senatobia to Contonou</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sharde Thomas will travel from her hometown of Senatobia, Mississppi to play with The Rising Star Fife and Drum Band at the Masonic Temple in Ft. Greene on June 1st, 2008

The fife is a handmade instrument cut from natural cane – it&#8217;s roots music, literally.  Fife blowing is an African-American tradition that goes back to the Deep South during the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.651arts.org/2008/05/26/senatobia-to-cotonou/</link>
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