Juneteenth
at Cumbe
Come celebrate the theme of liberation with Cumbe on Juneteenth! Classes from across the African diaspora will be represented! Free your mind, claim your joy, commit to your health and wellbeing in fitness classes with a Caribbean foundation... Learn dances connected to the fight for freedom in Brazil and the hope for freedom in the Congo! You won't want to miss this!
Wednesday, June 19 | $12 General/$10 Youth & Seniors
4:30-5:30pm: ASA! Fitness w/Dianne
This is fitness from a cultural perspective. The aim of ASA! Fitness is to inspire and be a symbol of health, wellness, happiness and cultural expression as a way of life. ASA! allows participants to increase cardiorespiratory capacity, improve functional and dynamic strength, increase overall range of motion, burn calories, raise fitness threshold, tone, release, connect, liberate, free up and HAVE FUN!!! ASA!'s goal is for participants to find the inspiration to make health and physical activity defining aspects of their lives.
In Person | $12 General $10 Youth & Seniors
5:45-6:45pm: RobòdayFit w/Robenson Mathurin
This class will focus on the freedom of the body through movement and expression. Moving your body is healthy, it is the joy of life. We are going to use music from Haiti, home of the first successful black-led liberation movement in the Americas against slavery, and movement as a form of freedom.
7-8:30pm: Congolese Dance and Drum w/Andoche Loubaki
Many kidnapped Africans from the Congo ended up in the Caribbean during slavery. We will honor this part of our history by learning this dance: KIMINU (hope)
Meaning: It is the hope of our ancestors. who always hoped for the return of their children. kidnapped. and brought by force to distant waters. where he practiced the dance of the hope at the edge of the ocean. for hope for a possible return… “kiminu, kimini, kiminu.” That was the cry of hope.
7:30-9pm: Afro-Brazilian and Samba w/Quenia Riberio
Brazil, home of the largest African descendant population in the America's due to slavery, has communities of escaped Africans that freed themselves called ‘quilombos.’ In the spirit of fighting for freedom, we will learn makulele, a stick-fighting dance created by enslaved Africans in Brazil.