Jumbies Oaxaca 2010
Laura Anderson Barbata in collaboration with the Brooklyn Jumbies and Los Zancudos de Zaachila
June 26 – July 2, 2010
Oaxaca, Mexico
Photo by Laura Anderson Barbata
Laura Anderson Barbata and the Brooklyn Jumbies return to the town of Zaachila in Oaxaca, Mexico in June of 2010 to dance with Los Zancudos de Zaachila in the annual festivities celebrating their patron saints, San Pedro and San Pablo. Barbata and Najja Codrington, leader of the Brooklyn Jumbies, first met and collaborated with Los Zancudos de Zaachila in 2009 through a weeklong residency facilitated by Prisma Forum. The residency resulted in a productive sharing of ideas, cultures, and styles and culminated in a performance in the Plaza Santo Domingo in Oaxaca. This year Barbata and Codrington are invited by the city government of Zaachila to return with more members of the Brooklyn Jumbies to participate in the community’s festival, share their West African and West Indian style of dancing, and learn from the town’s native stilt dancers.
Laura Anderson Barbata y los Brooklyn Jumbies regresarán a Zaachila, Oaxaca, en Junio de 2010 para danzar con los Zancudos de Zaachila en su celebración anual para festejar a los Santos San Pedro y San Pablo. Barbata y Najja Codrington, líder del proyecto Brooklyn Jumbies, conocieron y trabajaron con los Zancudos de Zaachila en 2009 durante una residencia organizada por Prisma Forum. Esta residencia resultó en una experiencia enriquecedora donde se compartieron ideas, culturas y tradiciones y culminó con una presentación en la Plaza Santo Domingo en Oaxaca, Oaxaca. Este año, 2010, Barbata y Codrington han sido invitados por el comité organizador de los festejos de San Pedro de Zaachila a regresar junto con mas miembros de los Brooklyn Jumbies a participar en las celebraciones así como para compartir con la comunidad sus experiencias, y conocimientos de la tradición zanquera del Oeste de Africa y el Caribe.
AiO: Art in the Open Philadelphia
Laura Anderson Barbata will be working and exhibiting outdoors in Philadelphia as part of the Art in the Open festival.
“Please Touch the Art”
June 9-12, 2010
Art in the Open (AiO) is a citywide festival that celebrates artists, their inspirations for creating art, and their relationships with the urban environment. Inspired by the tradition of plein air painting, AiO welcomes artists working in any medium or style to create art outside, on-site over a four-day period along the banks of the tidal Schuylkill River – from the historic Fairmont Park Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, south to landmark Bartram’s Garden.
For more information visit www.artintheopenphila.org
Junior Carnival 2010
Laura Anderson Barbata in collaboration with the Brooklyn Jumbies
September 4, 2010
The children of the Brooklyn Jumbies school will perform in the West Indian American Day Junior Carnival Parade on September 4, 2010 with portrayal and costumes designed by Laura Anderson Barbata. The parade route begins on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn and ends at the performing stage behind the Brooklyn Library.
To volunteer, contact us at info@lauraandersonbarbata.com!