[Michlib-l] performance recommendation

[Jean Fellows]

Thank you for the positive review-- I'd heard some negative in the past,
glad to know your experience was good. Love to book them again!

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 6:40 PM Stair Library via Michlib-l <
michlib-l at mcls.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> We hosted the highly energetic Bichini Bia Congo Dance Theater today in
> our tiny library. I highly recommend them! They are very engaging and
> relate very easily to the audience...including lots of audience
> participation with call and response and dancing.
> We've hosted them before in a couple other locations in town, but this
> time we had them in the library and it was a much more intimate affair (We
> moved bookshelves and tables/chairs, creating an approximately 19 by
> 33-foot performance and seating area with overflow seating in our
> children's and teen areas to fit 85 patrons).
>
> There were four main drummers and five dancers (one of whom also drummed).
> Additional instruments were incorporated into the performance.
>
> They are still booking for this season and they'd be great for next
> summer's adventure theme (the main speaker tells the kids they're going on
> a trip to the Congo and teaches them some words to use).
>
> Contact:
> bichinibiacongo at gmail.com
> Serita Ibarra-Leonard
> Booking Manager/Member
> Bichini Bia Congo Dance Theater Company
> (734) 829-7930
>
> Thanks,
> Colleen
>
> Colleen Leddy, Director
> Stair District Library
> 228 W. Main St.
> Morenci, MI 49256
> 517.458.6510
> stairlib.org
> M&W: 10-7
> T&Th: 1-5
> F&S: 10-2
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-- 
Jean Fellows
(she/hers)
Programming Coordinator
Grand Ledge Area District Library
131 E. Jefferson St.,
Grand Ledge, MI 48837
517-627-7014

*The Grand Ledge Area District Library is situated on ancestral,
traditional and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires
Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples-- land ceded in the
1819 Treaty of Saginaw. For more information, see the article from Central
Michigan University
Library:https://blogs.cmich.edu/library/2019/11/26/the-1819-treaty-of-saginaw/#:~:text=In%20the%201819%20treaty%2C%20the,living%20on%20the%20ceded%20territory.
<https://blogs.cmich.edu/library/2019/11/26/the-1819-treaty-of-saginaw/#:~:text=In%20the%201819%20treaty%2C%20the,living%20on%20the%20ceded%20territory.>*
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