FUNDRAISER: Chicago-Guantánamo Blues Exchange
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Saturday 10.6.18 5:30 PM
Special events
School of Art and Art History
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6
5:30 until 7:30pm
FUNDRAISER
for the Chicago-Guantánamo Blues Exchange
with Shanta Nurullah, Jaime Garza, Ben La Mar, Fred Jackson & guests
This event will raise money to subsidize artists traveling with the Chicago-Guantánamo Blues Exchange in 2019 as well as collect instruments for a music school in Santiago de Cuba.
ANY amount contributed will be appreciated - no one turned away.
The Chicago-Guantánamo Blues Exchange is an ad-hoc cohort of musicians/scholars and educators that travel to
Guantánamo Baracoa and Santiago, Cuba to perform and participate in educational workshops. The main purpose of the project is to facilitate cross-cultural awareness for genres of traditional music and related cultural practices that have migrated throughout the African diaspora. As a consequence of the social and economic inequities held over from the slave trade and the US embargo of Cuba, many of these cultural practices and their practitioners remain virtually isolated and unknown to one another.
A second goal Exchange Project is to re-contextualize Guantánamo (for people in the US) who only know "Gitmo" as a military base and detention center. Our project seeks to re-locate the Province as primarily a place for rich Afro-Cuban cultural traditions that have been preserved and nurtured over centuries.