Northwest Folklife Festival
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About this event
Ubuntu -- Solidarity. Joy. Liberation. No admission charge, $20 donation accepted.
“I am because we are” is the basic translation of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is about belonging. That we belong to each other because our personhood is connected to the personhood of someone else.
A loved one. A friend. A neighbor. A stranger.
Our humanity is rooted in the relationships that we hold with people. People that we have both met and not met–consciously, subconsciously, and unconsciously. It is a testament to the undeniable fact that we are tethered to each other, whether we know them or not. That an action or an encounter can have a ripple effect on our immediate time and place, as well as somewhere halfway across the world.
While this year’s Cultural Focus explores how we co-exist in this world, as the last part of our series, it also underscores the journey that people take to reach that co-existence.
Local performers kick off the Festival with Songs for Tomorrow, a Filk community singalong, at noon Friday May 22nd at the Choral Courtyard of the Cornish Playhouse off Mercer Street. Callie Hills, Jeffrey Cornish, Paul Kwinn, and Cecelia Eng will be leading the singing. Come join us and represent!
Then Cecelia has a solo performance Saturday May 23rd from 12:40 pm - 1:10 pm at the Folklife Rotunda Cafe.