Dominican University presents Black World Music Festival

Dominican University will
host a Black World Music Festival, featuring cultural performances from
African-American, African, and Caribbean musicians and dancers, on Saturday,
October 5 from 6-11 p.m. in the Lund Auditorium on Dominican's Main Campus,
7900 West Division Street, River Forest.

Cultural performances
reflecting various black world nationalities include the Caribbean Gizzae
Reggae Band, the Ghanaian Sankofa Dance Ensemble, the Cameroonian Mankon
Cultural Group, the Nigerian Wawa Children’s Ojionu Dance Group and Ngwa
Masquerade, Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago, and L.Y.R.I.C. (Let Your Rhymes
Inspire Creativity) Group.

Tickets for this program are
$15 for adults, $7 for students, and free for children. All proceeds from the tickets
will support a scholarship fund for Dominican students studying Black World
Studies.

Dominican hosted its first
Black World Music Festival in 2011. From those ticket sales and contributions
from the Black World Studies Elders Council and the Dominican community,
$25,000 was raised to support the scholarship. The University then matched the
contribution for a total of $50,000. The Elder’s Council’s goal this year is to
raise another $50,000.

To purchase tickets for
the Festival, contact the Dominican University Performing Arts Center Box
Office at (708) 488-5000 or visit dom.edu/pac.

For additional
information, contact Nkuzi Nnam, professor of philosophy and director of the
Black World Studies program, at (312) 927-4725 or (708) 524-6952.