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Stage: hot ticket
By JOHN FLEMING, Times Performing Arts Critic
© St. Petersburg Times
published September 19, 2002
The art and culture of West Africa
Dundu Dole, a Pinellas dance and drumming company, appears this weekend as part of a monthlong celebration of West African history and culture in Tarpon Springs. Company founder Jai Hinson leads a free dance workshop at 1 p.m. Saturday at the performing arts center, 324 E Pine St.. The troupe performs in the same venue at 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: $14 and $12. Pictured are Denise Harris and other Dundu Dole dancers in a February performance.
West Africa: History and Culture also includes an exhibition by visual artists Sangoyemi Ogunsanya and Joseph Weinzettle at the Tarpon Springs Cultural Center, 101 S Pinellas Ave. Ibrahima Seck, a historian from Senegal, gives a free lecture on West African folk tales as they relate to the American South at 3 p.m. Sept. 28 at the cultural center. A free panel discussion exploring the impact of Senegambian, Bagatae, Akan and Yoruba cultures on Florida will be held at 2 p.m. Sept. 29, also at the cultural center. For information, call (727) 942-5605.
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