Level I Ages 6 - 11 $10/class 11:30 am - 12 pm (Teaching Jimbay Drums)
Level II Ages 12 - 17 $15/class 12 pm - 1 pm (Teaching Jimbay Drums)
Level III Ages 18 & up $25/class 1 pm - 2:30 pm (Teaching Conga and Technique)

The classes will be on Saturdays and will total 8 weeks each.

We need commitments of at least 10 people per class to make this happen.
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African Dance comes back to the Advocate. Dance classes taught by Angela Watson of Camara Arts, Zumbi Soweto, and Anssumane Silla of Guinea Bissau. Come in and learn African Dance, be a part of a program that we hope will grow into a movement. Ms. Watson wants to start a rights of passage program, she has visions of taking her students to Africa. Ms. Watson mentors her students, has a extensive resume and a B.A. from Howard University. We also congratulate Ms. Watson as she follows Ann Guise as the leader of The Bright Lights.

Dance Classes will be held every Saturday 10 am - 11:30 am. $5 per student per class.

Please reply back or call call 484-466-6151 if interested in either of the classes.

Kemah.

Be with us as we honor our Brother David and our Sister Falaka Fattah
for their continuing work with The House of Umoja
Saturday July 23, 2011 1pm – 4pm
Church of the Advocate 18th & Father Paul Washington Avenue (AKA Diamond Street)
Performances honoring our Brother and Sister by:
The Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz Youth Ensemble
The UCC Royal Brass Band
Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble
Ticket Price: $10.00 At door: $15.00
For more info call, 484-466-6151 or go to fatherpaulwashington.com

Ads available in the Souvenir Booklet
Full Page $100.
1/2 Page $ 50.
1/4 Page $ 25.
Business Card $ 15.
Signature $ 10.
Send check or money order to: P.O. Box 443 Glenolden, Pa 19036
Send art work to: frpmwave@gmail.com
Cut off date: July 12, 3PM

Presented by the Father Paul Washington Community Committee, the Washington Center Outreach Foundation and the Weekend of Peace

Join Us May 21, 2011 1pm – 4pm
18th & Father Paul Washington Avenue (AKA Diamond Street)
As The Drums Call Us to Celebrate Fr. Paul Washington, Church of the Advocate
And Honor Our African Drummers

Honorees include
Baba Robert Crowder, Baba Robert Kenyatta, Baba Robert Artis, Baba John Wilkie, Baba Leonard “Doc” Gibbs

Presenters and Speakers Include
Dr. Ed Robinson, Dr. Charles Blockson, David & Falaka Fattah, Karen Warrington, Loraine Ballard Morrill, Pam Africa, Ramona Africa, The Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters, Sarah Glover, Vernon Clarke, Dr. Lorraine Poole Naranjo, The Original Black Panthers, The Bright Lights, Fr. Issac Miller, State Rep. W. Curtis Thomas, Richard Watson, The Arthur Hall Alumni and more…
Performers Include
Tony Cosby Little Africa and the Rumba Brothers, Skip Burton and The Heritage Drummers, Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble, The Arthur Hall Alumni, Reynald “Mrs. Betty’s Son” Williams, La Tumba, Percussion Discussion, Jan Jeffries Female Ensemble and more…

$10 General admission $5 for seniors, children under 13 years of age and student groups
For More Information call 484-466-6151     www.fatherpaulwashington.com

This event also serves as our signature event that will lead into some much needed fund raising. The Advocate needs $2.5 million for repairs, past due monetary obligations and upcoming budget. We are asking all those who have been blessed by Fr. Paul Washington or by the Advocate in any way to give the blessing back. If anyone is moved by the spirit to lend your talents, time, passion and/or prayers please feel free to contact the church office @215-236-0568 or email me @ kemahcw@gmail.com.

8/31/10

Tune Into WURD To The Thera Martin Connelly Show Sunday September 5, 2010,  At 12:30 To Hear More About THE FREE HEALTH AND WELLNESS FAIR and To Hear About And Remember Father Paul Washington. Christine Washington, The Wife Of Father Paul Will Give Us All An Inside Look At The Miraculous Life Of Father Paul.

* NEWEST PARTNER - DENTEX DENTAL MOBIL ( We accept - Government insurances: Access, Health Partners, Americhoice, Bravo Silver, Keystone Mercy, Aetna Better Health, and all Medicare and Medicaid
insurances. We do not accept cash or private insurances. We also do not perform any treatments for free.)

8/30/10

* LIVE BROADCAST FROM WURD

* FREE FOOD * LINE DANCING (11am - 12 noon)

* MARTIAL ARTS SELF DEFENSE (1 pm - 2pm)

AWARDS AND COMMENTS
Ann Guise and The Bright Lights
State Senator Shirley Kitchen
Sarah Glover - Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists
Pam Africa
Weekend of Peace
Father Paul Washington Community Committee

SONIA’S BIO
Poet, Mother, Professor, National and International Lecturer on Black Culture and Literature, Women’s Liberation, Peace and Racial Justice, Sponsor of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Board Member of MADRE. Sonia Sanchez is the author of over 16 books including, Homecoming, We BaddDDD People, Love Poems, I’ve Been a Woman, A Sound Investment and Other Stories, Homegirls and Handgranades, Under A Soprano Sky, Wounded In The House of a Friend (Beacon Press, 1998), and the most recent Shake Loose My Skin (Beacon Press, 1999). In addition to being a contributing editor to The Black Scholar and the Journal of African Studies, she has edited an anthology We Be Bad Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans, BMa: The Sonia Sanchez Library Review, is the first African American Journal that discusses the work of Sonia Sanchez and the Black Arts Movement. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts the Lucretia Mott Award for 1984, the Outstanding Arts Award from the Pennsylvania Coalition of Black Women, the Community Service Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, she is a winner of the 1985 American Book Award for Homegirls and Handgrenades, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Humanities for 1988, The Peace and Freedom Award from Women International League for Peace and Freedom (W.I.L.P.F.) for 1989, a PEW Fellowship in the arts for 1992 - 1993 and the recipient of the Langston Hughes Poetry Award for 1999. Does Your House Have Lions? was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the Poetry Society of America’s 2001 Robert Frost Medalist and a Ford Freedom Scholar from Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Her poetry also appeared in the movie Love Jones. Sonia Sanchez has lectured at over 500 universities and colleges in the United States and has traveled extensively, reading her poetry in Africa, Cuba, England, the Caribbean, Australia, Europe, Nicaragua, the People’s Republic of China, Norway, and Canada. She was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University and she held the Laura Carnell Chair in English at Temple University. She is the recipient of the Harper Lee Award, 2004, Alabama Distinguished Writer, and the National Visionary Leadership Award for 2006. She is the recipient of the 2005 Leeway Foundation Transformational Award. Currently Sonia Sanchez in one of 20 African American women featured in “Freedom Sisters,” an interactive exhibition created by the Cincinnati Museum Center and Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition and was the Robert Creely Award for 2009.

The event turned out to be a “spiritual moment” in our lives.
Odean Pope with his orchestra/band did a special tribute, thirteen year old Autum Ashanté was beyond her years with her prophetic words of wisdom, the awards bestowed upon our sister were from the heart. When the event was over we all were different and changed spiritually. it was a once in a lifetime and I feel sorry for those who didn’t make it.