Andrew Colwell

Summer 2023 in Review: the Buryat Community’s Ayalga Cultural Festival

By Andrew Colwell / October 10, 2023 October 11, 2023

For the third year in a row, greater New York’s Buryat community congregated (and in-person!) at the My Way Education Center in Midwood, Brooklyn, on June 10 for the Ayalga Cultural Festival. Not only a celebratory concert of the endangered Buryat language and traditional art forms, the festival also gave participating community youth the rare …

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The Tahlila West African Drumming and Song Workshop Series Comes to a Close

By Andrew Colwell / June 15, 2023 June 15, 2023

A very special thank you to the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation for making this special program possible! The Tahlila West African Drumming and Song Workshop Series focused on West African drumming and song with public school students, who are predominantly of Afro-Caribbean descent, at the Julius E. Sprauve public school, with technical assistance from the …

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