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Learn about Asase Yaa's Arts Outreach Program's exciting partnership with 19 schools for the Hip Hop Kingdom program in the 2023-2024 school year. Discover how students will explore the historical and cultural influences of Hip Hop while participating in a tailored theater curriculum. Plus, find out about the appointment of the new Managing Director, Kwesi Nkroma.

The Brooklyn-based Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater, founded by Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation in 2002, will be premiering their new original musical It Was All a Dream, in celebration of the Foundation's 20th Anniversary on August 20, 2022 at 7pm at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

The Brooklyn-based Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation has announced the launch of its 20th anniversary celebration, It Was All a Dream: A Musical, will be held August 20, 2022 at 7pm at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., NYC, following several COVID-related postponements.

Asase Yaa School of the Arts today announced a fundraising campaign to renovate their new home, a stand-alone 3,500-foot space in Brooklyn.

Asase Yaa School of the Arts presents Dreams Do Come True, their 10th Annual Concert to celebrate the end of their academic year on Sunday, June 19, 2022, 4pm at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center, 153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432.

The Brooklyn-based Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation's kickoff for its 20th Anniversary celebration event, It Was All a Dream: A Musical, scheduled at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

The Brooklyn-based Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation announces Kwanzaa celebrations and djembe drum classes for the third consecutive year at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, December 26-30, 2021.

The Brooklyn-based Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation announces It Was All a Dream: A Musical, the launch of their 20th anniversary celebration, commemorating twenty years of dance, education, and services to local youth and Brooklyn community members.

The Brooklyn-based Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation has announced It Was All a Dream: A Musical, the launch of their 20th anniversary celebration, commemorating twenty years of dance, education, and services to local youth and Brooklyn community members.

Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation has announced its 'It Was All A Dream,' 20th Anniversary. They are kicking off their year-long celebration with a 'It's All A Dream' Virtual Special on Friday, March 5, 2021 from 7-7:30pm ET.

The venerable Brooklyn-based non-profit, Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation, whose core tenets are to Enrich, Educate, Entertain African history art forms and history through its programs for children to adults, has announced its 'It Was All A Dream,' 20th Anniversary. They are kicking off their year-long celebration with a 'It's All A Dream'

Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation in collaboration with the Milton G. Bassin Performing Arts Center at York College have announced the co-production of and world premiere of a new musical, DREAMING OF 1975, and benefit featuring the Bessie Award-winning Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater on Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 7pm.

ASASE YAA African American Dance Theater presents DRUM LOVE. The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space. February 2, 2019 at 7:30pm

ASASE YAA African American Dance Theater presents DRUM LOVE today, February 2, 2019 at 7:30pm at The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, NYC 10025. Tickets are $35-50 can be purchased at https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-drum-love, with special VIP packages available at www.asaseyaaent.org.

ASASE YAA African American Dance Theater presents DRUM LOVE. The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space. February 2, 2019 at 7:30pm

ASASE YAA African American Dance Theater presents DRUM LOVE on Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 7:30pm at The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, NYC 10025. Tickets are $35-50 can be purchased at https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-drum-love, with special VIP packages available at www.asaseyaaent.org.

The beloved Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation, a noted cultural arts institution in Brooklyn, is moving to a new home, also in Brooklyn: Public School 21. The organization begins 2019 classes in its new home on January 4.

In commitment to honoring the differences and commonalities of Brooklyn's global community through arts and sciences, Purelements, an Evolution in Dance founders, Lakai Worrell and Kevin Joseph, issue Dance Brooklyn! A World Celebration as an expression of cultural enlightenment and unification in the borough.Dance Brooklyn!, formerly titled 'East New York in Motion,' is set to return for it's fourth annual year as a platform to create respect, understanding, and appreciation among people of various backgrounds in Brooklyn. Participating dance companies include Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Dance Theater, Something Positive, Ninja Ballet, Allure Latin Dance Company, Purelements, an Evolution in Dance, Darrah Carr Dance company member and TONY award winner, Trent Kowalik, plus a spoken word performance by poet Jaime Lee Lewis. The 2-hour event will feature modern, West African, Afro-Caribbean, salsa, contemporary and ballet x martial arts fusion dance performances.

The Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation celebrated its 17th anniversary of its signature branch, the Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater (AYAADT), with an innovative, revitalized dance production at the Peter Norton Symphony Space on Saturday, February 3, 2018 in Manhattan, New York. The full-length performance was preceded by a private VIP reception and pre-show event by Egun Omode. Patrons cheered the non-stop energetic production of the ensemble's 90 minute performance rich with African culture.

The Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation will celebrate the 17th anniversary of its signature branch, the Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater (AYAADT), with an innovative, revitalized dance production to premiere at Peter Norton Symphony Space on Saturday, February 3, 2017 (located at 2537 Broadway at 95th Street in Manhattan, New York). The full length performance, entitled An Ananse Tale, will be the highlight of the evening and will follow a closed reception for VIP guests and a special pre-show event billed as #AsaseYaaJourney, a festival-like experience for all ticketed guests that will take place in the foyer of the venue. General admission for the evening ranges from $30 to $50. Tickets are on sale now at the Peter Norton box office, at the Asase Yaa Center for the Arts, and online at www.symphonyspace.org.