Africamix Music and Arts Festival
A new volunteer organization promoting a spectacular Music and Arts Festival of the black people that will benefit needy children, has been launched. The touring festival, which will travel to various places annually, benefits nonprofit and non-governmental organizations active in providing residential services and therapeutic foster care for abandoned, abused and neglected children in black communities.
The touring festival promotes and strengthens the humanitarian mission of the Africamix and encourages volunteer worker participation in the many communities the festival will visit. The festival's website will provide continuing updates of event schedules, exhibit and performing artist information, sponsorship news, and related topics of interest.
The largest volunteer African touring arts and music festival promoting global awareness and prevention on child abuse and neglect will open in a variety of venues around USA in June next year, Canada in July, England and France in August. Other hosting countries in 2002 are Uganda in September, Kenya and Ethiopia in October, Zambia , Botswana in November, and the DR Congo in December. Host countries during 2003 are Mali and Madagascar in April, Senegal and Nigeria in May, and South Africa in June
Benefiting local nonprofit organizations will collect festival net proceeds at the gate during each of the fifteen-country, two-day celebrations. The arts and music festivals, appropriate for all ages, will provide a forum for guest speakers to promote public awareness of the ongoing impact of child abuse and neglect in black communities. And it will provide an opportunity to express gratitude to the many nonprofit groups who have dedicated their energies and efforts to helping Africa's needy children.
According to Kyumbwa, the touring festival will bring peoples together to celebrate their incredible diversity while providing an opportunity to see the world from the perspective of the abused and neglected children. "And as artists and music lovers, we all have a role to play." Artists or sponsors interested in participating in the Africamix Festivals are encouraged to contact the festival coordinating committee through the Web site.
Contact:
Amede Kyumbwa
8236 Garry Oak Dr
Citrus Heights, CA 95610 USA
(916) 729-9342