The Legacy Circle

Welcome to our community--a place where artists, educators, activists, youth and communities of African descent meet to create, learn, and grow. Our legacy is to uphold and pass on our traditional and contemporary cultural arts of the African Diaspora. We are cultivating the next generation of leaders--maroon warriors with the skills and cultural know-how to resist enslavement, oppression, and dehumanization.

  WHAT WE DO

We provide cultural arts education and development opportunities to youth and adults.We do this through classes for youth and adults, lectures, performances, exhibitions, community dialogues, artist and educator trainings, and research.

UPCOMING CLASSES 

by Alma Moyo in Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba & Genaro Ozuna in Afro-Dominican Palos/Gaga/Congos on our Services Page.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Caribe Negro for Haiti!

Saturday Feb. 6, 2010 from 7pm-3am.$20 with dance classes, $15 without.

@ The Bruckner Bar & Grill

1 Bruckner Blvd. Bronx, NY

Featuring Performances by: 

Alma Moyo

Bryan Vargas & Ya Esta

VAYA

Zon del Barrio

Welfare Poets

Kalunga Neg Mawon

Paleros Dominicanos de Nueva York

Dance classes from 7-9pm by Genaro Ozuna & Julia Gutierrez-Rivera

Visual Artists/Vendors: Alta Berri, Raw Cotton Rags & More!

 100% of proceeds benefit NYC based Haitian artists who lost families in the recent earthquake, and Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees/MUDHA.

For information: manuela@thelegacycircle.org, vivian.sostre@gmail.com, mamatingo@hotmail.com, 646-924-7187

See our listing in the daily news Viva Update! 

http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2010/02/03/2010-02-03_latin_event_feb_39.html

Supplies will be donated via Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees/MUDHA

A people's culture is their tool to defend themselves, build community, help each other, heal each other, and plant seeds for their children. Without  a strong sense of who we are, we have no idea where we are headed.

photo by Dennis Flores