FREE Afro-Haitian Dance & Drum Workshops (Austin, TX)

1999- Free Afro-Haitian Dance Class. March 27. Offered in conjunction with our production of White Darkness, which played the Santa Cruz Center for Culture.

2000- First Annual Free Haitian Dance Workshop. January 25 - February 6.

2001- Second Annual Free Haitian Dance Workshop. January 3-14.

2002- Third Annual Free Haitian Dance Workshop. December15-16.

2003- Fourth Annual Free Haitian Dance & Drum Workshop. January 18.

2003- Free Haitian Dance & Drum Workshop at Huston-Tillotson College. April 10. Funded by HTC Division of Liberal Studies.

2003- Children's Dance Classes at Heart House. June 19.

2003- Free Haitian Dance & Drum Workshop at Huston-Tillotson College. October 19. Funded by HTC Division of Liberal Studies.

2003- Dance & Drum Workshop. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. November 3. Funded by private donations.

2004- Fifth Annual Free Haitian Dance & Drum Workshop. January 17.

2004- Children's Dance Classes at UT Elementary. February 9. Funded by University of Texas.

2004- Lecture & Workshop in Mexico City, Mexico. July 12. Funded by La Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia y El Centro de Estudios de Religiones Contemporaneas.

2005- Children's Dance Classes at UT Elementary. February 25. Funded by University of Texas.

2005- Sixth Annual Free Haitian Dance & Drum Workshop. October 6. Funded by private donations only.

2006- Children's Dance Classes at UT Elementary. February 24. Funded by Austin Police Association.

2006- Dance & Drum Workshops at Pan American University, Edinburg, Texas. April 2. Funded by Pan American.

Unless noted otherwise, each of these events was funded in part by the City of Austin under the auspices of the Austin Arts Commission, and by the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Private contributors: Dawn Surratt, Wendy Bixby, Maria Montenegro, Stacey Swann, Karen Green, Harriet Neiman-Mersky, Luis Mojica, Holly Svec, Frank Dannenbaum, Sheila & Mark Armitage, Helene Christopher, Winner Augustine, Eduardo Pérez, Lia Austin, Jacqueline May, Michelle Turin, Rosemarie Jeudy, Rita Ricardo, Randee Fox, Scott Yong & Nisa Lintakoon, Chia Guillory, Ben & Andrea Napier, Josef Medeus, Alan McGill, Elaine Dove, Bala Wong, Christine Galida, Lesli Sparkman, Max Beauvoir, Cathy Rivera, Katherine Oldmixon, Ava & Justine Brooks, Mack Henson, Evangelina Mangino, Sherry Scott, and Pamela Romero.

Business contributors: Digital Gap, Austin Recreation Center, Women & Their Work, Management Connection, Academic Information Management, DBA Music Mind Studio, Christine Galida Photography, Chia Hats Clothing and Costume Design, Thai Village Restaurant, Sparkle Technologies, and Studio Libre Photography.