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  • OSUN STORY
    Pyn Stockman is a professional storyteller. She draws freely on tales from the oral tradition - folktales, wonder tales, epics and myths and gives them a contemporary twist.
  • African Arts Weekender 2017
    African Weekender from Friday November 24th - Sunday 26th at the Barton Arms- Aston, African Village-Perry Bar and GRS Studio- Handsworth- Birmingham.
  • Osun Story with Pyn Stockman @ AfricanWeekender
    Friday 24th November , Doors 8pm, Start 8.15pm Upstairs @ The Barton Arms, Aston, B6 4UP (part of a triple with Steve Ajao Blues Giants and Lekan Babalola Sacred Funk 4tet)
  • Adebayo Bolaji @ African Weekender 2017
    Adebayo Bolaji Featured artist as part of Osun’s Story Friday 24th November , Doors 8pm, Start 8.15pm Upstairs @ The Barton Arms, Aston, B6 4UP (part of a triple with Steve Ajao Blues Giants and Lekan Babalola Sacred Funk 4tet)
  • Lekan Babalola @ African Weekender 2017
    Lekan Babalola Sacred Funk Fourtet - Friday 24th November, Doors 8pm Start 10pm Upstairs @ The Barton Arms, Aston, B6 4UP (part of a triple with Storyteller Pyn Stockman and Steve Ajao Blues Giants)
  • Kate Luxmoore @ African Weekender 2017
    Friday 24th November, Doors 8pm Start 10pm Upstairs @ The Barton Arms, Aston, B6 4UP (part of a triple with Percussionist Lekan Babalola, Storyteller Pyn Stockman andSteve Ajao Blues Giants
  • Steve Ajao Blues Giants @ African Weekender 2017
    Friday 24th November, Doors 8pm Start 9pm Upstairs @ The Barton Arms, Aston, B6 4UP (part of a triple with Storyteller Pyn Stockman and Lekan Babalola Sacred Funk 4tet )
  • Ray Prince @ African Weekender 2017
    Journey of The Drum With Percussionist Lekan Babalola and Drummer Ray Prince Saturday 25th November Doors 2pm Start 2.30pm @ GRS Studios, 16 Grosevnor Rd, Handsworth, B20 3NP
  • Usifu Jalloh @ African Weekender 2017
    Usifu Jalloh Storyteller - Sunday 26th November Doors 5pm Start 5.30pm @ The African Village, Birchfield Rd, Perry Barr, B20 3JE - (Part of a triple bill with a Kazumba Dance Workshop and African Roots Fusion Band)
  • Kizomba Dance Workshop @ African Weekender 2017
    Sunday 26th November Doors 5pm Start 6.30pm @ The African Village, Birchfield Rd, Perry Barr, B20 3JE
  • African Roots Fusion Band @ African Weekender 2017
    Sunday 26th November Doors 5pm Start 7.45pm @ The African Village, Birchfield Rd, Perry Barr, B20 3JE
  • Lekan Babalola Speaks @ Classic Album Sundays
    FELA KUTI's Afrika 70; A double bill of 'GENTLEMAN' and 'ZOMBIE': Hear This Great Music in an Audiophile Setting; Vinyl Play List of African, Funk, Jazz Sounds - tracing Fea's influences and legacy.
  • Half Term Project | African Arts Week 2017
    The Ifa Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust are offering an opportunity for young people aged between 8-12 years to take part in a series of workshops with professional Artists. Based on an African Story, the workshops will include Storytelling, Music making, Song-Writing, Drama and Mask Making.
  • African Arts Week 2017
    African Arts Week 2017 will be a celebration of the spirit of Africa - and will involve symposiums and talks, film screenings, visual arts, music, young people’s projects, food and fashion. Dates will be announced shortly.
  • YORUBA SONNETS 2017
    A cross arts performance collaboration exploring the Odu Corpus from Yoruba Sacred Divination, through spoken word, dance and live music with Dr. Olu Taiwo. Performing at Summerfest, Taunton June 17th 2017 with future performances at Salisbury Arts Centre.
  • THREE
    Ifa Yoruba Associate Artists Lekan Babalola, Kate Luxmoore and Pritam Singh come together to perform as THREE. These three experienced musicians, from three separate genres and musical traditions, representing different communities of Birmingham understand the power of the Arts as a metaphor for Democracy, dedicated to freedom of ideas and expression.
  • Birmingham Cajon Club
    The Club is led by Percussionist: Lekan Babalola. Come and join in the art of learning CAJON, a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally thin plywood) with the hands, fingers, or sometimes various implements such as brushes, mallets, or sticks. Enquiries: 07529780879
  • Tales of The Diaspora
    An album produced by The KLLB Band with accomplished classical clarinetist Kate Luxmoore as Producer, Musician and Composer.
  • Street Procession
    Since 2013, Eko Brass Band has led the street procession for the Lagos Black Heritage Festival Curated by Prof. Wole Soyinka. Eko Brass Band-The Royal Sound of Lagos carried out a ceremony and street performance for the opening of the festival street procession 2016.
  • KALAKUTANS SALISBURY READINGS
    Over a three week period seasoned actors rehearsed and performed a reading of THE KALAKUTANS -A theatre production by IFYCAT
  • KALAKUTANS SALISBURY READINGS
    Over a three week period seasoned actors rehearsed and performed a reading of THE KALAKUTANS -A theatre production by IFYCAT
  • KALAKUTANS SALISBURY READINGS
    Over a three week period seasoned actors rehearsed and performed a reading of THE KALAKUTANS -A theatre production by IFYCAT
  • KALAKUTANS SALISBURY READING
    Over a three week period seasoned actors rehearsed and performed a reading of THE KALAKUTANS -A theatre production by IFYCAT
  • KALAKUTANS SALISBURY READING
    Over a three week period seasoned actors rehearsed and performed a reading of THE KALAKUTANS -A theatre production by IFYCAT
  • THE KALAKUTANS
    Set in 1977, the Kalakutans is an imaginative retelling of events leading up to the invasion of Fela’s compound by soldiers from a nearby barracks which led to the burning down of Fela’s house and the brutalizing of the residents.
  • AFRO-CUBAN SENSIBILITY WEEKEND
    As part of Black History Month, The Merlin Theatre, Ifa Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust and Rook Lane Chapel present a Weekend Festial Of Afro Cuban Music, Dance, Food And Film
  • LAGOS TO LONDON
    Planning, Talk Panels and Exhibitions of artists from Seven Pan-Yoruba Cities (Lagos, London, New York, Salvador Bahia, Tobago, Havana and Accra)
  • THE AFROBEAT STORY
    Exploration of the Foundations of Afrobeat, a narrative set via interviews, video and music.
  • THE OSUN STORY
    The origins and epistemologies around the Osun River
Upcoming Events

Half Term Project | African Arts Week 2017

The Birchfield Jazz Festival

09/07/2017

SACRED FUNK TOUR 2017

17/06/2017

YORUBA SONNETS 2017

17/06/2017

THE BIRMINGHAM CAJON CLUB

TBA

Latest News

Yoruba Sonnets Tour 2018 | Video

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Ifycatte

Pyn Stockman and Kate Luxmoore | Osun Story | Video

Posted on March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 by Ifycatte

Pyn Stockman is a professional storyteller. She draws freely on tales from the oral tradition – folktales, wonder tales, epics and myths and gives them a contemporary twist. Her latest […]

African Weekender 2017 | Video

Posted on March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 by Ifycatte

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