Celebrating the Power and Possiblity of Exchange!
Wisdom for America from the Warm Heart of Malawi
Masankho Banda and
Diane Saliba Ault
Nashville, TN
Thurs thru Sun 4 days May 3-6, 2007
Masankho Banda will be in Nashville--MAY 3-6
Making a Bridge to Malawi, the Warm Heart of Africa-
Four days of play and connecting our community here with his home community in Malawi, Africa! We''ll have a workshops, a VISIONING feast, and a community performance at St. Luke''s Community House.
We''ll be sending a delegation to Malawi along with 30+ InterPlayers from all over, and are exploring ways to support them in this important exchange so they can bring back the life-changing stories to share our communities here.
This exchange is an opportunity to anchor the intentions on both continents of connecting with Masankho's home village and country.
The tentative schedule has various opportunities to get involved in this exciting learning/exchange project:
THURS- Afternoon- ABINTRA SCHOOL, Available to go into schools and organizations in morning
THURS Late aft & evening- a trip to THE FARM at Summertown, dinner and BRIDGES of Play - details TBA
FRI- Morning - Inner City Elementary School & Afternoon- Available to go into schools and organization
SAT- Community Whizbang- Masanko plays with Ed Haggard and The Love Drums, Greater UU- Bellvue 8-11pm
SUNDAY- All day at St. Luke's Community House, 5601 New York Ave. Come to all or any part of the day! Two workshops, a continous marketplace, silent auction, and community potluck dinner and performance- your generous love offerings will go toward the Malawi Scholarship Fund.
SUN Morning- 9-12- Workshop- The Ancient Wisdom of Play- Drum, Dance, Story, Song
SUN Afternoon- 1:30-4:30pm The Power of Collective Joy- Creating Cultures of Peace
SUN Evening- 6pm- Community Potluck Feast with multi-media performance play following-- Wisdom for America from The Warm Heart of Africa
Masankho Banda, a native of Malawi, is a very gifted leader who weaves together story, dance, drumming, song and work with the ancestors in his way of performing and facilitating. Many of you have had contact with this extraordinary human being on one of his 8+ trips to TN. We'll be exploring the subject of this upcoming, transforming cultural exchange to Malawi with the foundational principles of an embracing ethic of play. Come and be part of creating the bridge! You won't want to miss this rare opportunity to experience his creative wisdom and your own!
See more about him at his http://www.ucandanc.org website. ALSO PLEASE CONTACT US about him coming to YOUR group!
May 3rd-6th
Contact Diane, Montanez, Michele, Marquetta or Jori for details
diane@interplaytn.org, techee_2000@yahoo.com, quetta@gmail.com, jorispirit@bellsouth.net, tnced@aol.com
615-884-8074,
http://www.interplaytn.org
Cost: GENEROUS LOVE OFFERINGS for scholarship fund- Malawi trip
Registration/Information: Jori Martinez, 615-500-1437, jorispirit@bellsouth.net, or diane@interplaytn.org, 615-594-4410c
Venue
St. Luke's Community Center
5601 New York Ave
Nashville, TN
call 615-594-4410c for details
Leaders
Masankho Banda
Masankho is a multi - disciplinary Performing Artist, Certified InterPlay Leader, Educator and PeaceBuilder. He brings many unique perspectives to his work around the world. He learned the fine arts of storytelling and dance from his Malawian culture spending many long days and nights listening to stories and dancing to music that captivated his mind, shaped his being, nourished his soul and strengthened his spirit. Using performing arts Masankho motivates and inspires people of all ages to work together to bring about peace, social justice and cultural understanding. In 1997, he started UCanDanc—African Healing Arts to bring his passion for dance and storytelling to communities around the world. Masankho has been a Certified InterPlay Leader since 1999.
Masankho can also be reached at these phone numbers: +265 99 255 5338 or 88 113 8655 (available on Whatsapp / FaceTime)
Also: Skype : kamsisi
Facebook / Twitter: storytelling4u
Diane Saliba Ault
Diane is a longtime community organizer, activist and artist who wears lots of hats! Her roles are many but her vision is one: wholeness for all.
She has served on the boards & staff of many church and community non-profit organizations, locally, regionally and nationally and has a passion for community-building across lines of race, class and culture.
She loves the simplicity and elegance of the InterPlay forms and shares them with other adventurous souls in Nashville and other parts of TN! She has organized over 350 InterPlay gatherings in the last 6 years and is building a strong mutual support network of community artists. She is in the fifthyear of teaching the InterPlay Leadership Program.
She has recently become the grandmother of twin boys and then another baby girl and enjoys the multicultural nature of her family. Her Moroccan son-in-law and daughter Sara live next door and between them they speak 5 languages.
She is interested in supporting the development of InterPlay in more areas, especially in the South. She is available for travel and exchange (body barters!) with other InterPlayers in other communities.
Cell phone is 615-594-4410