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April 11, 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Free

Mint Museum Uptown

Feel the rhythm and reverberations of the drumming and learn more about African and Brazilian dance and culture with guest instructors from Brazil, along with Portuguese translators, at the opening and closing finale of the Lavagem African Brazilian Festival.

Lavagem African Brazilian Festival is presented by the UNC-Charlotte Department of Dance in partnership with the Mint. Associate Professor of Dance and Director of Undergraduate Studies Tamara Williams annually invites guest instructors from Brazil to instruct over 100 students and Charlotte cultural dance leaders and participants.

Registration is required. Register here.

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April 11 | 6–9 PM

6 PM: Welcome and historical reverence presentation
6:15–7 PM: The Spirit of the Drum: African Brazilian drumming class with Jose Ricardo and Luciano Xavier 
7–9 PM: Caboclos

April 14

1–3 PM: Silvestre Technique with Rosangela Silvestre

 

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The Mint Museum sits on colonized land traditionally home to Catawba, Cheraw, Sugaree, Waxhaw, and other Indigenous peoples who resided, met, and traded here. The Mint also acknowledges the unpaid and hidden labor of enslaved peoples of African ancestry who helped build the Mint Museum at Randolph Rd at various stages in the building's history.

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