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SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, October/November [4] Wells Street Art Festival, Old Town, ... African Festival of the Arts; American Spanish Dance and Music Festival [10]
Chicago Afrobeat Project (CAbP) is a seven- to 14-piece world music ensemble [1] with influences including afrobeat, hip hop, funk, jazz, jùjú music, and rock.The members are well versed in afrobeat, the musical style of Fela Kuti and Tony Allen, and use it as a jumping off point to explore other styles.
The World Festival of Black Arts (French: Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres), also known as FESMAN or FMAN, has been a series of month-long culture and arts festivals taking place in various parts of Africa. The festival features participants of cultural expression – arts, literature, music, cinema - from around the African Diaspora. [1]
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The Afro-Arts Theater was a regional theater on Chicago's South Side established in 1967 by Kelan Philip Cohran.The theater was also a meeting place for black power activists [1] and considered central to the growth of African American consciousness in Chicago. [2]
[8] [12] In September 2018, Rapper and Chicago native Kanye West committed to help restore the theater, pledging to donate $1 million dollars. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The Chicago Regal Foundation was created to raise funds to reopen and operate the Avalon Regal Theater, and offers tours of the building during the Chicago Architecture Foundation 's annual ...
Third African American Arts Festival is July 21-22 at Centennial Plaza in downtown Canton
The exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a profound effect on American architecture, the arts, American industrial optimism, and Chicago's image. The layout of the Chicago Columbian Exposition was predominantly designed by John Wellborn Root, Daniel Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Charles B. Atwood.