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Louisa 2025

Liberation Arts Community

Sunday August 31st

Twin Oaks Conference Site
134 West Old Mountain Rd. Louisa VA 23093

  • 6:00pm Capoeira Circle and Graduations
  • 7:15 Samba de Roda & Afro Brazilian Dance
  • 7:50 DJ Sebastian
  • 8:30 Fire Circle

Our Sunday evening offering is part of the Twin Oaks Community Conference

Earlier in the afternoon Neuzy Cirino will offer a Samba Dance workshop. It will be at 2:30pm.
Text Macaco (862)234-0014 if you are interested in attending.

Would you like to camp out with us Saturday and/or Sunday night? Let Macaco know by text and register here. My invited guest can select the Add-on Payment option.

Announcing Sunday Evening’s Black Culture Celebration
Aiming to include BIPOC peoples and honor diversity in heritage implies that our community homes will be multicultural. Getting there is a journey best infused with joy every step of the way. As such, Sunday night’s main activity is an immersion into Black Culture. We start with an Afro-Brazilian Peaceful Warrior Ceremony, followed by participatory dances of the African diaspora with drums, DJs, and more! We will continue with a bonfire around which we will ritual into the night. Welcome! For more about the hosting team,

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Mother Earth Modules

The liberation arts circle is many things

June 27th Friday 7pm – 9pm in the Rustling Roots classroom at Cambia Community Louisa VA

A gatherings of rhythm, song, and dance. Below are the various themes and topics that will form the content of our choreographies and our improvisational collaborations.

  • Join by Zoom! Email info@liberationarts.com ask for the link
  • The Evenings Playlist
  • The Blueprint aka the script
  • When you come in, add your answer to the art wall. The question is “What should we be talking about?”

Stick Dance For Justice

We will flow on the edge of the tension between the driving energy of the warrior and the sway swing of the new beat. Sister come rein in that warrior energy and give us a brand new beat. Dr. Virgil Wood explains how Justice is the tension between power and love –> Strength In Unity

  • Call and response beat patterns 2:2 3:3
  • Hip hop style chorus “the Streets are…”
  • Mish-mosh ‘ed into Dancing in the Streets
  • Song from Martha & The Vandellas
  • The double step dance of Oppression and Privilege

I should have taken more photos – Honoring our recently transitioned community members

  • Group Lament in Spanish language songs.
  • Afro Latin Dance and Drum Night
  • featuring Bad Bunny’s Music. What has this Puerto Rican touched in 2025, that make us feel like holding on to our own?
  • Samba de Roda – Row Row Row – work song

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TomTom 2025

BoomPaTum performed at the TomTom Festival Block Party

On Friday, April 18th, 8-9p.m. We’ll opened a circle on the Charlottesville downtown mall on the corner of Rapture Restaurant.

This performance explored the Afro-Latin roots of genres like tumba, bullerengue, and salsa, creating a space to experience our inner warrior side with Maculelê and recovering the passion of Samba de Roda, originating from Bahia, Brazil.

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Songs of Civil Rights

Ernie Barnes Street Song Lithograph for Liberation Arts Songs of Civil Rights

Ceremony & Circle @ Yas’Ville Theme Camp @ Intentional Communities Conference

Say you want a revolution and that change is gonna come but that we don’t need no more trouble. Our artistic circles are embodied play with the gifts of empowerment from previous generations. Tonight we vibrate with the Civil Rights years of the 1960’s.

Yashapi’s conference work is to spotlight strong pathways of participation (options) people of the global majority have into North American’s contemporary intentional communities movement. Exodus is a civil right.

Louisa VA. End of Summer 2025
Dancing in the Streets

Featured Image is Ernie Barnes’s Street Song 

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Celebrate Mother Earth with Rhythm & Love

Ceremony & Circle in the Yashapi Village (Yas’Ville) Theme Camp at the Intentional Communities Conference

In an artistic maneuver of guided inclusion our circles begin with, and periodically return to, manifestations of the ancestral feminine energy. From Black Women centered we will (figuratively) venture out to encompass all human souls.

Yashapi’s work for the conference is to support increasing the strength of pathways of participation in intentional community living for people of the global majority

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Appreciating Cultures – Samba de Roda

Sandwiched between two DJ sets, a live Afro-Brazilian Samba drum set experience awaits your pleasure at Holly’s Diner, led by Macaco Nova Yolk and local group BoomPaTum. These experiences have a high level or interactivity, spontaneity, and ceremony – we highly encourage you to come and See! This will take place starting at 9pm on Saturday, January 25

Admission is free.

Liberation Arts Digital Song Book

Boompatum at Holly’s Google Doc Song Sheets

Macaco Nova Yolk Youtube Playlist

Magalena

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Onire’s visit

Samba workshop in Charlottesville

Liberation Arts Collective is sponsoring an artist a visit with Onire Angoleiro do Sertao He is from Bahia, Brazil, the homeplace of these arts, where they are most embedded in community context.

The weekend of August 31st , we have two opportunities for you to participate. In Charlottesville
On the 31st and in Louisa County Virginia on the 1 st in the midst of the East Coast Intentional
Communities Conference at Twin Oaks Community.

These are unique opportunities featuring a special guest and we would love to see you
participate!

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Food Not Bombs Charlottesville

Wednesdays at Ix Art Park at 6PM

Salvaged and rescued food, as well as fresh produce from local growers is distributed by Charlottesville Food Not Bombs every Wednesday in IX art Park.

This is a chance for artists to gather and speak on issues such as community endeavor,
equitable distributions of resources, or the potential we have to revitalize our national food
systems, for example.

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Bob Marley Movie

We celebrated Bob Marley

On Saturday February 17, 2024 a dozen souls participated in making music and singing. The drum beat was mostly Samba Reggae however we ended with a West African rhythm. We played Afro-Brazilian samba percussion to while singing reggae songs.

We circled in the lobby area of the Violet Crown Cinema in Downtown Charlottesville. Then we all attended the 4:45pm showing of Bob Marley One Love. Thank you Violet Crown for the free popcorn and drinks.