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Culture for Kids
A Multicultural Community Program for Children 8-12 Years

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Spring/Summer 2008




May

May 21, 2008
3:30 PM

Native American flute with Evren Ozan
hosted by Benjamin Banneker Charter School

Evren Ozan is a fifteen year old native american flutist who has won many awards in the native american community. After the performance, children will have the opportunity to make dream catchers and sample corn bread.


June
June 21, 2008
1 - 6 PM

Make Music Harvard Square!
Kids area on Palmer Street

You can make music too! Bring your family to Harvard Square for an afternoon of kid friendly performances and activities. Longy School of Music in conjunction with Passim Culture for Kids presents the Instrument Petting Zoo (1 - 5pm). Craft activities include painting maracas and making tambourines. Finish off the day (5:45pm) by proudly playing your instrument in a fun filled musical extravaganza parading around Harvard Square!




Friends of Fort Point Channel Summer Music Series

June 27, 2008 through August 29, 2008
12:00 - 1:00 PM unless otherwise noted

June 27, 2008
Pan Loco Steel Drummers

July 4, 2008
Mailian music with Moussa Traore

July 11, 2008
Folk Harmonies with The Nields

July 18, 2008
Arabic drumming with Karim Nagi Mohammed

July 25, 2008 - evening - 6pm
Silver Leaf Gospel Singers

August 1, 2008
Cool jazz with the Jeff Robinson Jazz Trio

August 8, 2008
Celtic music and stepdance with Laura Cortese

August 15, 2008 - evening - 6pm
Greek music with Damien Stefanides & Anthony Pentikis

August 22, 2008
Singer-songwriter Mark Erelli

August 29, 2008
Children's performer Sarah Hickman



For advance tickets, please contact Lisa at lisa@passimcenter.org or call 617-491-2382
All events are FREE for youth and school groups with a $5 suggested donation for adults unless otherwise specified

Photos from Mali, Dr. Seuss, Jazz/Blues/Folk, Tibet, Bolivia and Ireland Culture for kids days!
  • Arianna, age 7, wrote about our Brazil event, "It was 'supper' nice."
  • Marko, age 10, at our Native American event, said, "I really liked the necklaces we made."
  • Juan Carlos Ferrufino, a member of the Bolivian musical group, Sumaj Chasquis, wrote, "as a musician I believe that there is no better way to bring children together than through music."

Culture for Kids, created by Club Passim in 1999, is a free, monthly, multicultural program whose goals are to provide children with exposure to other cultures and peoples. An emphasis is placed on children who may not have the benefit of cultural and artistic opportunities in their schools or communities. Our goal is, in part, to help build an openness and tolerance for others among our participants, skills they can take forward from this program into the rest of their life experiences. Many of our artists and performers are found in the local area, thus reinforcing the concept that the rest of the world is not so far away.

Culture for Kids was created in part, through collaborations with the International House of Blues Foundation, The Cambridge Performance Project and other community organizations. The afternoon program celebrates a rich variety of communities including: the cultures of Bolivia, Ireland, China, Cape Verde, West Africa, Russia, Newfoundland, India, Brazil, Cuba, Iraq, Native American and American folk cultures. Each program fuses music, history and performance and usually includes a visual art workshops. Many programs feature traditional cooking representative of a specific culture or ethnicity. Liza Connolly, a local educator and chef, provides expertise in menu planning emphasizing a rich variety of traditional foods. Collaborations with the Children's Museum and the Cambridge Arts Council ensure that our community outreach programs bring a broad variety of musical styles to the greater Boston community.

For information, reservations, or to make a tax-deductible contribution, please call Lisa @ 617-491-2382 or email lisa@passimcenter.org.

CLICK HERE to sign up on the Culture For Kids Email List!

sponsored in part by:
•Cambridge Arts Council
•Cambridge Community Foundation
•Fuller Foundation
•The Rooney Challenge
•Fox Run House Concerts
•Draper Laboratories
•Francis R. Dewing Foundation
•Ellen & Allan Schmidt
•The Caswell Foundation
•The Stranahan Foundation

 

 

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