Community Engagement
In alignment with our mission to build bridges across diverse communities and create global cultural awareness, World Music/CRASHarts looks to deepen the experience between artist and audience.
As part of the “Final Journey Tour” with Johnny Clegg in October, we hosted an artist’s talk with Johnny Clegg facilitated by Marco Werman from NPR’s The World. Johnny shared stories of his cross-cultural experimentation with Zulu music and dance during the repressive climate of apartheid in South Africa, played a little acoustic guitar, and spoke of meeting Nelson Mandela.
The winter/spring season offers an array of workshops, salon talks, and special events with our visiting international artists. Most events are free and open to the public, so we hope you will join us! Watch for specific details of these engagement activities in January, or visit the World Music/CRASHarts’ event page.
January
- Hip hop dance class and lecture with French-Algerian Compagnie Hervé Koubi
- Demonstration with Umalali & The Garifuna Collective from Central America
March
- Master class with Cuban dance company DanzAbierta
- Delve deeper into the creative process of the Alonzo King LINES Ballet commission through attending facilitated salon parties to view and discuss the new choreography as a work-in-process
April
- Celebrating the musical legacy of Zakir Hussain artist’s talk
- Cuban jazz vocalist Dayme Arocena presents “Vocal Music of Cuba and Brazil”
CRASHers, our community for culturally adventurous 21-40 year olds, offers paint-nights, dance lessons, preconcert happy hours, after parties, and international food and drink workshops.
World Music/CRASHarts provides preconcert talks and postconcert talk-backs for dance audiences with Debra Cash, Executive Director of the Boston Dance Alliance. Bob Blumenthal, Grammy award-winning author and journalist, shares his knowledge of jazz artists before selected jazz concerts. All preconcert talks are free and open to the public.
