Creative Alliance's On the Avenue Presents Afro Beat Dance Party 6/19

Creative Alliance's On the Avenue/Por la Avenida & the Baltimore Resettlement Center present
Afro Beat Dance Party w/ Elikeh & Traditional African Dinner! Sat June 19

7pm Dinner. 8pm Show.
$5 Advance tix recommended.
410-276-1651
Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue Baltimore 21224
www.creativealliance.org

Rhythms from Togo! 70's Afro-funk with Fela Kuti Afrobeat drive! It's D.C.'s African Roots band Elikeh commemorating World Refugee Day at The Patterson! Drummer Tosin played with Femi Kuti, Fela's son, and is SURE to get you on the dance floor! Baltimore African refugee musicians and dancers from Eritrea open. Come early for a traditional Eritrean coffee roasting ceremony and dinner of African stews Mesir Wot, Alicha Wot, Doro Wot, and Ethiopian flat bread Enjera made by local refugees and BRC staff on sale. Dinner proceeds buy school supplies for newly arriving refugee children. 8pm show, $5. Dinner at 7pm, sold separately for $5. Advance reservations for dinner recommended.

On the Avenue/Por la Avenida is Creative Alliance's ongoing series of cultural collaborations with our neighbors from around the world.

The Baltimore Resettlement Center (BRC) in Highlandtown has become a leading, unique national model for refugee resettlement, resettling approximately 500 refugees and asylees each year in central Maryland. The BRC is the result of an initiative of MORA (the Maryland Office for Refugees and Asylees) and serves as a partnership of agencies providing comprehensive services to refugees and asylees including integrated case management, employment services, English language and training courses, food stamps, temporary cash assistance, and quality healthcare services. Currently, the BRC is resettling refugees from Iraq, Burma, Bhutan and Eritrea.

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