The 2nd annual Drumvoices of Ahaji festival of the arts will take place on Saturday, July 13, in Sacramento.
The event will help to recall a sea of changing periods of intense artistic, cultural, educational and political fervor both locally and across the US. The festival will include panelists, actors, authors, poets, scholars, musicians, visual artists, theoreticians, vendors, publishers, booksellers and community organizers to honor and fundraise in the name of the late George Austin “Ahaji” Jones and Robzene Jones — Sacramento educators whose combined teaching experiences totaled 60-plus years.
Featured author Dr. Eugene B. Redmond will celebrate the release of his book, “Arkansippi Memwars: Poetry, Prose & Chants, 1962-2012.” Dr. Redmond is the Poet Laureate of East Saint Louis, Illinois, founding editor of “Drumvoices Revue” and taught at California State University, Sacramento as a professor of English and poet-in-residence in pan African studies for 15 years.
Drumvoices of Ahaji will take place on Saturday, July 13, from 2-5pm at the Women’s Civic Improvement Club of Sacramento, Inc., 3555 3rd Ave., in Sacramento. The cost ranges from $5-$15.
For more information, contact Faye Kennedy at faye@bluenilepress.com.
