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Description:
The Montgomery College Arts Institute World Arts Festival is an annual year-long celebration of music, dance, literature, storytelling, film, and visual art from around the world. The festival features artist residencies, workshops, lectures, and performance events by internationally recognized musicians, artists, dancers, scholars, and writers. We are fortunate to promote and feature “local” award-winning artists, such as Amadou Kouyate, Mande drumming; Mitra Kusuma, Balinese gamelan; Ron Warren, Native American flute; and Origem, Brazilian jazz, while bringing people from as far away as Australia, such as Ash Dargan, Australian didjeridu, and Albert Cata, Pueblo storyteller. A primary purpose of the festival is to bring different cultures and communities together.
In striving for authenticity and quality in multi-cultural education, the MC World Arts Festival has offered a variety of programs reflecting our community of more than 167 different nationalities.
Mission:
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to reflect cultural diversity by offering accessible educational workshops, lectures, performances, community discussion by renowned scholars, and arts on world arts including those of music, film, visual art, dance, and literature
- to foster cross-cultural understanding through a variety of free public educational events on the contemporary world arts and the traditions from which they derived
- to strive for authenticity and quality in multi-cultural education
Collaborations:
On All Three Campuses:
- Dance Department, Dr. Gail Minor-Smith
- Counseling and Student Life, Hilda Smith, Linda Robinson, Deb Higbie-Holmes
- Women’s Studies, Genevieve Carminati and
- Office of Equity and Diversity, Michelle Scott
- Dean’s Office, Miriam Carter
- Art Departments, Francine Farr, Kay McCrohan, Zdenko, Kim
- English Department, Dr. Swift Dickison, Raechel Wilson
- Montgomery Scholars
- History and Political Science, Aram Hessami
- Academic Awards Assembly
- Convocations and 40th Anniversary Celebration
- Arts Stars and Executive Ball
- Learning College Retreat
- African American Chamber of Commerce
- Executive Offices of Rockville
In The Greater Community:
- Smithsonian Institution
- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Strathmore Music Center
- Montgomery County Public Schools
- Takoma Park Folk Festival
- House of Musical Traditions
- University of Maryland
- Bethesda Artists Market
- NPR Radio, Washington, D.C.
- Montgomery County TV
- Montgomery College TV
- Gazette
- The Washington Post
Films:
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Award Winning Montgomery College TV documentary, Okenti
- Montgomery County Film at Strathmore with InterPLAY Band, Atesh Sonnenborn – Smithsonian Folklife Center and Eliot Pfanstiehl – Strathmore Music Center
- A variety of Montgomery College and Montgomery County TV programs
Support:
- Montgomery College Arts Institute is our primary support
- Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County
- Canadian Council on the Arts
- Executive Ball, AHCMC
- First Nation Composer Initiative
- American Association for Community Colleges
- Montgomery College Office of Equity and Diversity
- Montgomery College Student Life
- MC Copies
Past Offerings:
from Africa:
- West African, Mande, Drumming with Amadou Kouyate (resident artist)
- West African Drumming and Dance with Farafina Kan
- Ethiopian Festival
- Folktales in African Literature with Christiana Okechukwu, PhD
- African Art History: Harp & the Hunter’s Bow with Francine Farr
- Naïve Art of Senegal with Michel Delgado
- Ancestral Music of Cameroon with Joseph Ngwa
from the Americas, Central and South:
- Colombian Vallenato Ensemble
- Brazilian Jazz with Origem
- Peruvian Folklorica with Kimsa Runas
- Latin and Caribbean Music with Mama Mundi
- Brazilian Capoeira Dance with Mestre Cobra Mansa
- Mexican Film with The Theatre Café
- Argentinian Tango with Daniel Diaz, Tango Camerata
- Tango Dance with Neo Tango
- Venezuelan Drumming and Dance with Los Tambores de San Juan
- Applied Ethnomusicology and HIV Aids in Nigeria with Rachel Muehrer
- DC Caribbean Carnival with Dr. Swift Dickison
- Classical Music of Peru with Dr. Hazel von Maack
from the Americas, North:
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Hip-Hop with Aja Wood, ethnomusicologist
- Sioux and Crow Culture with members of the Old Elk Family
- Creative Writing with Janet-Marie Rogers, Mohawk/Tuscarora
- Storytelling with Albert Cata (Pueblo) and Joseph Stands with Many (Cherokee)
- Music and Politics of Iroquois Confederacy with Grammy Winner Joanne Shenandoah and Doug Kanentiio
- Native American Flute Festival – Ron Warren, Jeff Ball, Peter Phippen, Old Man Coyote, Mark Holland, Joe Firecrow – weekend festival of workshops and concerts
- Okenti, Contemporary Native American Music (Mohawk)
- EngleWinds Contemporary Native American Classical Music
- Pow-Wow Music and Dance with Louie Paul (Blackfoot) and Erin Washington (Cree)
from Asia:
- Japanese Music and Dance with Washington Koto Society
- Japanese Shakuhachi with Dan Gutwein
- Korean Drums and Gongs, Samul Nori with Lee Yongtae, Seoul National University
- Korean Drumming with Dr. Robert Provine, University of Maryland
- Korean Kayagum with Melanie Pinkert
- Indian Dance Theatre with Temple Dance Ballet of India
- Indian Tabla with Karsh Kale
- Indonesian Music and Dance with Mitra Kusuma
- Cambodian Traditional Music, Dance, and Culture
from Australia:
- Australian Didjeriu and Larrika Culture with Ash Dargan
from Europe:
- Spanish Flamenco Music and Dance with Dr. Gerard Poole, Sara Jerez, and guests
- Irish Harp with Lily Neill
- Serbian Dance and Song with Sonja Vlajnic
- Music of Greece and World Cultures with Nana Simopoulos
from the Middle East:
- Persian Master Musician Reza Derakshani
- Persian Music with Haft Ahang Ensemble
- Student Concert for Persian New Year with Persian Music Society
- Monthly jam session on campus with Shariar Saleh and the Persian Music Society
- Raqs Sharqi (Belly Dancing) with Aleta Ensemble
- Egyptian Music with Seifed-Din Abdoun
- Zar Ritual Dance and Music
Cross-Cultural:
- East & West World Percussion with Tom McGrath
- Indigenous Frame Drum with Grammy Winner Glen Velez
- Cross-Cultural Percussion and Dance with Beverly Botsford
- Modern Dance and World Music with Liquid Body
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