Roxbury Film Festival | Boston, MA
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The Roxbury Film Festival, produced by ACT Roxbury and The Color of Film Collaborative, is the largest festival in New England dedicated to screening films by, for, and about people of color. Screening more than 50 features and shorts, the Roxbury Film Festival covers a wide array of themes, including aspects of everyday black life [...]
Robert Moses Kin Dance Company | San Francisco, CA
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A phenomenon since its inception in 1995, the San Francisco-based Robert Moses Kin (also known as RMK Dance Company) boasts a mix of sheer athleticism and visceral lyricism. The company’s mission is to produce work which speaks to what is specific and unique in human nature. The company performances are combination of athletic techniques, rhythmic complexity [...]
Katherine Dunham Museum | East St. Louis, IL
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Housed in the two-story English Regency Townhouse, the Katherine Dunham Museum was first established in Alton, Illinois in 1967 by Miss Dunham and her late husband, John Pratt. Part of the Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities, the museum houses Miss Dunham’s outstanding collection of symbolic and functional art, including more than 250 [...]
Ellington School for the Arts | Washington, D.C.
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Named for the American jazz bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (1899–1974), the prestigious Duke Ellington School of the Arts, located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C, was founded in 1974 and is the only DC public high school that provides professional arts training and college preparation to talented DC public school students. [...]
Stax Museum of American Soul Music | Memphis, TN
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If you are a soul music lover, make sure you get to Soulsville, USA, aka Stax Museum of American Soul Music when you visit Memphis. Built almost to the exact specifications of the original Stax recording studio, housed in the former Capitol Theatre, the Stax Museum features hundreds if not thousands of videos, films, photographs, original instruments [...]
