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Media Contact: Sonya White Hope, Executive Director
August 5, 2024
For immediate release
Sonya White Hope, Executive Director August 5, 2024
617.721.0866
Sankofa Songs! Inc. Presents:
Africentric Arts Educators Professional Development Fellowships
Boston, Massachusetts: The Sankofa Songs! Inc. Board of Directors announces Mariana Green Hill, string pedagogue and violinist, as the first recipient of our Africentric Arts Educators Fellowship. A demonstrated Africentric music educator and distinguished performer, Ms. Green Hill will conduct primary source field research that examines relationships between Caribbean traditional musics and the compositions of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges. Ms. Green Hill will visit the plantation in Guadeloupe where the Chevalier was raised as well as learn traditional songs and culturally grounded instrument performance techniques. She will present her research in an upcoming Sankofa Songs forum.
Sankofa Songs’ Africentric Arts Educators Fellowships are awarded annually. Arts educators interested in applying for our Fellowships must demonstrate effective experience engaging the Africentric Arts Education Framework. Applicants must be practicing arts educators who outline a professional development project that provides them resources and/or experiences that will deepen their Africentric arts teaching.
Africentric arts education is for everyone; teachers and students of all races, ethnicities, and cultures can learn and benefit from these unique Africa-descended peoples’ practices. Engaging the Africentric arts education perspective expands contemporary notions of multiculturalism, diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI), and socio-emotional learning (SEL). It motivates students and inspires teachers. Africentric arts educators demonstrate ‘pedagogy in the key of humanity.’
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About Sankofa Songs
Sankofa Songs! Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization. Our mission is to cultivate exceptional Africentric arts education practice. We accomplish our mandate by nurturing community among aspiring and experienced Africentric arts educators, providing professional development, producing events, spearheading research, and developing teaching tools that support K-12 arts educators and their instruction. To learn more about us and our work, visit https://www.sankofasongs.org.
Media Contact
Sonya White Hope, Executive Director
617.721.0866
Media Contact: Sonya White Hope, Executive Director
February 6, 2024
For immediate release
Sankofa Songs Presents
SANKOFA STORIES:
Lessons from Boston’s Iconic Africentric Music Educators
What
Sankofa Songs winter panel discussion, free & open to the public
Where
Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library, 149 Dudley St., Boston, MA
When
Tuesday February 20, 2024, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Who
Music and arts teachers & administrators, teaching artists, after school & out-of-school music teachers, college music education students & faculty, parents, and other interested persons.
Boston, Massachusetts: Join esteemed guests and community members for Sankofa Songs winter panel Sankofa Stories: Lessons from Boston’s Iconic Africentric Music Educators. Learn about the Africentric music education paradigm, a uniquely American approach to teaching and learning in the arts. Expert practitioners will introduce participants to the mindsets, intentions, relationship building strategies, and methods of notable Africentric music educators from Boston and beyond. Panelists will unpack the four pillars of the Africentric Music Education Framework in historical and contemporary contexts. Participants will have the opportunity to join the discussion.
Africentric arts education is for everyone; teachers and students of all races, ethnicities, and cultures can learn and benefit from these unique Africa-descended peoples’ practices. Engaging the Africentric arts education paradigm expands contemporary notions of multiculturalism, diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI), and socio-emotional learning (SEL). It motivates students and inspires teachers. Participants attending Sankofa Stories will gain insight into tried-and-true approaches that lead to ‘pedagogy in the key of humanity.’
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About Sankofa Songs
Sankofa Songs! Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization. Our mission is to cultivate exceptional Africentric arts education practice. We accomplish our mandate by nurturing community among aspiring and experienced Africentric arts educators, providing professional development, producing events, spearheading research, and developing pedagogical tools that support K-12 arts educators and their instruction. To learn more about us and our work, visit https://www.sankofasongs.org.
Media Contact
Sonya White Hope, Executive Director
617.721.0866
For press inquiries, please email swhitehope@sankofasongs.org
