Embolden and Nourish Your Spirit!

 

after 12 years, still badass…still promoting literary words and visual arts on aaduna’s terms…still multicultural, gender diverse, intergenerational; embracing all creatives regardless of “isms” with no apologies to anyone or group…still exploring the outer regions where unexplored words and visuals twirl uninterrupted for those who dare seek to harness that creative power within the realm where music still defines the contours and nuances of life’s activities…simply, aaduna dares!

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aaduna is finally back at The Carriage House Theater, Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Auburn, NY for its “gala” fundraiser scheduled for Thursday, October 27 with festivities kicking-off at 6 PM when the doors open.

After a three-year unplanned hiatus due to the pandemic, in 2022, poets, writers and musicians will once again fill the Carriage House with words that spit passion, evoke emotions, and put back in play forgotten memories as literary phrases bounce off the walls and skip from table to table while settling comfortably on your mind’s eye and captivating your brain. The music will defy you from sitting still…so get ready for toe tapping, boogey shaking, head bouncing notes that will cascade along the walls and drip from the ceiling down to the lower level as live music compels you to let your reserved manners and feelings evaporate into a free-form expression of smiles and heart-warming merriment as you sashay around the room laughing if not grinning from ear to ear.

aaduna is still, and will always be, nothing but a party of words and music! Fortunately, somethings will never change.

With poets and writers Howard Nelson, Lu Highsmith, Karen Faris, Cyd Charisse Fulton, Doug Curry, Luisa Aparisi-França, Vanessa Johnson, Chantel Frazier and music pumped by Bernie Williford’s band, October 27^th will celebrate the legacy and ongoing spirit of Harriet Tubman while continuing aaduna’s embrace of the emboldening power of words fueled by live music. This event will also signify another historic period, called The Harlem Renaissance…whether celebrated in sleek uptown brownstone parlor rooms, walk-up tenement rent-parties or even the after-hours joints where whatever goes, went. And these festivities usually happened on Thursdays when Black domestics had the evening off to socialize and party, relax and be who they were. This year’s event will also honor the untimely passing of two pivotal African American poets/writers/artists/community activists, Jackie Warren-Moore, and Charles “Seabee” Banks.

Tickets will be $20/person, cash only at the door. And an advance discount ticket price will be announced in a few days. And if you cannot attend, donations are always welcome and encouraged since aaduna Inc. is an IRS 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. With that said, The Carriage House Theater will offer wine, beer, soft drinks, bottled water, and snacks for sale with that revenue going directly to the museum to support its programmatic initiatives.

So, there cannot be an excuse.

Mark your calendar. Thursday, October 27^th starting at 6 PM, aaduna will rock the Carriage House Theater. Be there or be….

 More promo info will be released soon.

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