FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 3, 2018
Brooklyn Arts Council and Prospect Park Alliance
Announce Brooklyn Roots Festival
Sunday, July 29, 2018 | 1-7 pm
Lefferts Historic House & Children’s Corner
Ocean Avenue at Flatbush Avenue, Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York – Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC)’s Folk Arts program and Prospect Park Alliance announce the inaugural Brooklyn Roots Festival
taking place on Sunday, July 29 in the Prospect Park Children’s Corner.
The folk arts festival celebrates Brooklyn’s traditional artists and
immigrant communities through a daylong schedule of performances,
workshops, interactive family activities, and more. The free event
serves as the highlight of BAC’s Tradition as Resistance
series of public programs, celebrating the work and perseverance of
Brooklyn’s traditional and folk artists in a moment of social and
political ferment.
“Folk and traditional expressions are not relics,” said BAC Folk Arts Director Christopher Mulé.
“These communities have much to teach us about moving forward in our
current climate of social justice and protest. The Brooklyn Roots
Festival provides a platform for multiple generations to celebrate
traditions of resistance with pride.”
“Prospect Park is Brooklyn’s Backyard, and a haven for the diverse communities of this borough,” said Prospect Park Alliance Vice President of Programs Maria Carrasco.
“The Alliance is dedicated to providing free public programs that
celebrate the history and traditions of Brooklyn, and we are thrilled to
partner on this first Brooklyn Roots Festival.”
The festival’s Main Stage will feature Palestinian dance ensemble Freedom Dabkah, Haitian drumming group Fanmi Asòtò, Afro-Puerto Rican drum and dance ensemble Bomba Yo, and other groups representing Yiddish, Serbian, and the African diaspora.
“Afro-Puerto Rican bomba is a music and dance tradition based on resistance,” said Bomba Yo Co-Founder Melinda Gonzalez. Our
enslaved African ancestors were taken to Puerto Rico looking for ways
to remind them of home, despite the oppression they suffered. We carry
this legacy with us today--it is rooted in memory, dignity and justice,
and the survival of our cultural identity depends on it.”
In addition to the performance Main Stage, a workshop station will engage audiences with activities led by groups including the Queer Kitchen Brigade, the food-agro project working in solidarity with Puerto Rico’s sustainable agroecology movement; Gran Bwa and the Congo Square Drummers,
sharing their longtime tradition of sharing tradition and ritual in the
Prospect Park Drummer’s Grove; and dance and music workshops.
A children’s section at the Lefferts Historic House presents acclaimed “King of the Dance Party” Father Goose Music with a journey through Caribbean and multicultural music, East Asian folk children’s group Rabbit Days and Dumplings featuring Elena Moon Park, and puppetry presentations by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre. City Lore is also partnering with BAC to present the multimedia theater piece What We Bring: Stories of Migration.
Food trucks will be on-site with refreshments for purchase.
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