Dancing Poetry

Summer 2013

Artists Embassy International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting intercultural understanding and peace through the universal language of the arts.  Founded by Althya Youngman in 1951, AEI has continuously promoted individual and group artists working in many media, offered venues, publication opportunities, poetry  contest, prizes, festivals, conferences, classes, exhibitions and many other opportunities for the promotion of artists and their work throughout the United States and the world.   Membership dues, $30 per year, include quarterly newsletters, advertisements of events, opportunities and contacts for international events and reports on your personal artistic work.  Send dues, newsletter articles and information to AEI for inclusion in the next publication.     

For more information about AEI, please visit www.dancingpoetry.com

Photos by Judy Hardin Cheung unless otherwise stated

Dancing Poetry Festival

September 14, 2013, Noon to 4:00 p.m.

Florence Gould Theater in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum

Lincoln Park, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

Advanced Tickets Available

Don’t miss out on the poetic dance event of the year. No where else will you see such an extravaganza totally dedicated to poetry and dance as a unified art form. Tickets will be sold at the door:

General admission $15

Seniors over 60 and young people 12-18  $10

kids under 12 $4.

For special prices for group advanced ticket sales, please contact Natica at naticaaei@aol.com.

DANCE CLASSES

Each Monday and Thursday, at Sportsman Hall,  Pinole, CA, dance classes are offered by AEI members Natica Angilly and Shukriya (Shirley Devine.)  Mondays focus on poetic dance led by Natica, with the Natica Angilly Poetic Dance Theater Company which has danced on nearly all continents and will be performing in Japan in March, 2014.  Part of Monday and most of Thursdays  focus on Middle Eastern and American/Middle Eastern fusion led by Shukriya with the Dancers of the Pharoahs.  Shukriya is the artistic director of Rakkasah Middle Eastern Dance Festival and Bazaar held each spring in Richmond, CA and each autumn in Somerset, New Jersey. Classes overlap with opportunities to perform with both groups once the appropriate skill levels have been achieved. Co-teaching classes is Loywanner Haddadu who leads the dance troupe, Banat el Hogar.

            For information on any or all of these classes, please contact Natica at naticaaei@aol.com

Ongoing opportunities are always presenting themselves. Recently, Natica has been contracted to teach new classes for West Contra Costa School District, Adult Education, Serra Campus, Richmond, CA. These short but valuable classes teach techniques and concepts for dancers of all skill levels.

            Celebrate With Tambourine Dancing: Tuesday, Sept 10, 2013,  5:30-6:45, $25.

            Dancing the World’s Immortal Arts: Tuesdays, Sept 17 and 24, 5:45-6:45, $30

            Expressive Dance/Poetry in Motion: Tuesdays, Oct. 1, 8, & 16, 5:45-6:45, $35

For more info, please visit our website, www.dancingpoetry.com or contact Natica at naticaaei@aol.com.

For online registration for the above 3 classes, please visit www.WCCAE.info

Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company dancing to the prize winning poem, Dancing Tambourines, by Claire J. Baker, at the 2012 Dancing Poetry Festivals at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.

Natica Angilly’s troupe in performance with the prize winning poem, Dance of the Goddess, by Suparna Ghosh of Montreal, Canada, at the 2011 Dancing Poetry Festival.

Shukriya’s Dancers of the Pharoahs in performance at Rakkasah, Middle Eastern Dance Festival and Bazaar.

Come and learn how to express yourself joyfully with motion in dance at Natica’s classes in October, or in Shukriya and Loywanner’s classes on Monday or Thursday evenings.

13^th ANNUAL MULTI-CULTURAL POETRY READING

AND POT LUCK LUNCH

              Each August for the past 13 years, Artists Embassy International, Poets of the Vineyard and Redwood Empire Chinese Association all join together to put on the Multi-Cultural Poetry Reading and Pot Luck Lunch in Santa Rosa, CA.

People from all over the San Francisco Bay Area came together to meet, greet, eat and read poetry.  This year was no exception. About 25 people came this year. Poetry was read in German, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, Ojibwa, Greek, Middle English and Modern English. Participants came from Santa Rosa, Fremont, Windsor, Sonoma, Oakland, Emeryville, Richmond, Alameda, San Francisco, Concord, and Oklahoma. National origins included China, Korea, Greece, Canada, Viet Nam, The Netherlands, and America.

Upcoming Events and Dates to Remember

Sponsored by AEI, or endorsed by AEI with AEI members in leadership roles

For further information and additional activities, please contact Natica at naticaaei@aol.com and visit www.dancingpoetry.com.

Ongoing: Natica Angilly has an ongoing display of her artistic masks, tambourines and abstract panels on display for sale at Café Arrivederci, 11 G Street, San Rafael, CA.

Ongoing: Monday Night Art Salon for Your Imagination, WOW! each Monday, 5:30-9, at Café Arrivederci, 11 G Street, San Frafael, CA. Artists of all genre—visual, auditory, and—all motion come together to dine, socialize, share and listen to two featured artists each Monday night.  Call Angar Mora for reservations, 415-492-8870.

September 14: Noon to 4 pm, Dancing Poetry Festival at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. For more information, please visit our website. To purchase tickets, please contact Natica at naticaaei@aol.com.

September 25-19: Rakkasah Middle Eastern Dance Festival and Bazaar, Ukrankan Hall, Somerset New Jersey.  Five days of dance workshops, three days of Festival and Bazaar. For more info, www.rakkasah.com

December: date, location TBA, AEI board meeting and Christmas Party. For info, contact Natica, naticaaei@aol.com

March 25-29, 2014: Osaka, Japan, World Congress of Poets. For more information, please visit www.upli-wcp.org.