Argentine Tango Workshop Schedule with Rick and Lynda Wilson of Atlanta

Saturday, June 1
11 am – noon private lessons* (For private lessons and shoe requests, contact rickandlynda@tangosalon.com, or 404-325-1360, before 5/31)
12:30 – 2 pm workshop I Arrepentidas – changes of direction, rhythm, & tracks
2:30 – 4 pm workshop II Ganchos – wrapping this way and that
9 – 11 pm milonga
8 – 9 pm Possibility of beginner workshop if there is enough interest. Contact Rick and Lynda at rickandlynda@tangosalon.com to register. ($15)

Sunday, June 2
12:30 – 2 pm workshop III Paradas – stops for all occasions

About the workshops: for advanced beginners and up – command of tango basics is expected.  Advance registration is required.  RSVP Ellen Gilbert at 615-292-3023, or globaleducationcenter@juno.com.
Workshop fees:  festival pass $75; tango workshops $25/1 or $60/3; milonga $10; privates $60

Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 8:00 pm at World Music in Bellevue

The Mockingbird Sings was created by Sharon Cort and Terry Harkelrod, two talented Nashville musicians and playwrights. They have assembled a stellar cast of local musicians and singers to bring this story to life. They have shared much of the music from the play at a couple of our Global Cabaret coffeehouses at the Center, but this is an opportunity to enjoy the play in its entirety.

The play centers around the origins of country music having been brought to Appalachia in Bristol, TN to record the earliest recordings of “mountain people” through main character & aspiring singer Eddie Snow, (fictional) who finds himself by geographical luck to be at the heart of this event.  Marrying the sounds he grew up on brought to America by his fore fathers in Scotland and Ireland with the delta blues he heard from railway workers along with gospel hymns, he forged his ideas into a new style of music, and joined the ranks of common folks all over the region who did the same.

Ralph Peer, a music historian endeavors to record the rich and soulful sounds of America’s voice of common people, who could never imagine they’d be heard alongside the slick and composed popular music manufactured out of the big cities.  A.P. Carter, who is largely regarded as the “father of country music,” had gathered songs from local folk in the neighboring towns and took bits and pieces and re-worked them into songs, which he molded into a group that became the most popular recording artists of the Great Depression and beyond, comprising the largest and most valuable catalog of songs in music today.

So  in  1927,  long before the well-known and oft credited as “the beginning” of country music in Nashville “Grand Ol Opry,” Eddie  records  his  first  song  at the  Bristol  sessions  in  Bristol, Tennessee alongside Jimmie Rodgers , The Stonemans  and The Carter Family (the “First Family of Country Music,”) becoming what now is commonly held as THE   BIRTH   OF   COUNTRY   MUSIC.

Purchase tickets via PayPal or at www.ticketsnashville.com.

The group will also be offering a percussion workshop that afternoon.
Workshop Fee:  $15 ($10 students, seniors, Center members)

Global Cabaret:  $12 ($10 students, seniors, Center members)

Youth Stage 11 AM – 2 PM:

Global Education Center International Music & Dance featuring:

• 11:00 AM – Little Eagles Chinese Dance Academy
• 11:20 AM – Kala Nivedanam School of South Indian Classical Dance
• 12:00 PM – Nyama Drum and Dance Ensemble (West African)
• 12:20 PM – Grupo Hispano Americas (folkloric dances of Latin America)
• 12:40 PM – Grupo Balanca Capoeira (interactive Capoeira demo)
•   1:00 PM – Trash Art Winners
•   1:10 PM – Island Fusion (Polynesian Dance and Drum)
•   1:25 PM – Na Hula Ua Hilo ‘ia i ke aho a ke Aloha (Hawai’ian)
•   1:40 PM – Zumbatomic with Tirra (interactive world dance party for kids)

So, join us for some fun, both at the performance and by joining one of our  many classes. 

Day 1 (April 11) is in Nashville at Casa Azafran Community Center, 2195 Nolensville Road, with a $10 fee to help cover cost of Moroccan cooking class. This day was moved to Nashville on Thursday because Friday is a religious day for visiting artists.

Day 2 (April 13) is in Cookeville at Tennessee Tech University as part of their annual Window on the World festival and is free.

These workshops are made possible through grant funding from the Tennessee Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Nissan Foundation and the Memorial Foundation. We graciously thank these supporters who make such unique professional development opportunities available to local teachers.

Experience Morocco through the Eyes of a Native Son: Filmmaker Hakim Belabbes

The Global Education Center & Islamic Center of Tennessee partner to present a unique treat with Moroccan filmmaker Hakim Belabbes as part of “Caravanserai: a Place Where Cultures Meet” a program that affords the Nashville area a rare opportunity to celebrate the music and culture of Morocco.   The Global Education Center is only one of four entities awarded this grant from the Doris Duke Foundation in an effort to bridge the cultural divide between the East and the West.  The ICTN is presenting this event free of charge and open to the public.

For Caravanserai, Hakim Belabbes will present two of his celebrated short films. A Nest in the Heat is a personal and challenging look at issues of separation, independence, and return that chronicles Hakim Belabbes’ journey from his home in Chicago to visit his family and hometown of Boujad. The film explores the domestic spaces and religious rituals of intra-family relationships, especially when compounded by one member’s break with traditional values.

Whispers follows a man’s obsessive search for his lost childhood through the dark alleyways and desolate cemeteries of Belabbes’s Moroccan hometown. Both pieces will provide a framework for thought-provoking screenings and discussions led by a respected Moroccan filmmaker.

About Hakim Belabbes:  Hailing from the small town of Boujad in central Morocco, Hakim Belabbes graduated from Mohamed V University in Rabat with a degree in literature. Belabbes obtained a graduate degree in Film and Video from Columbia College in Chicago, where he now teaches film direction and production. An accomplished independent director who divides his time between Morocco and the United States, Hakim Belabbes’ film awards include the Grand Prix at the Moroccan National Film Festival in January 2011, Muhr Best Feature in December 2011 at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, and Honorable Mention at the Bangkok Film Festival. He has served on the documentary jury of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival among others.

FREE EVENT but donations are graciously accepted.