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Executive Director Darice Jones had the honor of connecting with the legendary Lucy & Gail on the night of NIA's Gala. The dynamic duo support Griot Soul Films' efforts and invite everyone to join them for next year's Dinah shore weekend! |
| Griot Soul Films Promotions Director Jianda (left) and Executive Director Darice (right) were just plain giddy as they joined the historic 20th Anniversary NIA Gathering Friday November 16th, 2007 night for an evening of drumming, fashion, DJ spun mixes, and dancing! |
| Griot Soul Films Healing Vision |
| We started Griot Soul Films envisioning a time when Black folks throughout the African Diaspora and from all walks of life carry the African Griot Storytelling tradition forward as a tool of healing as well as personal and collective growth. Every soul has a need and a right to know where he comes from and to share her story with others. Through the preservation and proliferation of healing stories, Griot Soul Films seeks to support long-term sustainable creativity for and by community members. We work toward providing people access to marketable skills and tools that allow us to support ourselves and our communities in every way. Griot Soul Films enjoys a powerful location in Oakland, California which has a rich history of creative activism and community success. From the long solid legacy of our current Mayor Ron Dellums and our congressional representative Barbara Lee, to the work of the Black Dot Collective and Black Panther Party, Oakland, California remains a hub of thought and action for those who seek to enhance the beloved Black community and all the communities with whom we connect. We intend to move beyond inaccurate and stale representations of African descendants by putting film-making tools in the hands of the people who live the stories. We are building critical partnerships within the community to support us in making these healing representations widely available to as many people as possible. We seek to remain an inter-dependent effort where everyone who engages this work benefits from it and ideas spring forward from a broad collective. African descendants around the world need and deserve organizations that address our collective traumas and provide real platforms for discussion, critical analysis, creative forward movement, and healing. Griot Soul Films is one link in a long diverse chain of action motivated by love for the community. You can support our work today through: *Make a Financial Contribution of Any Size *Donate Film Equipment *Donate Computer Equipment *Write a Letter of Support to a Friend *Host a Fund Raising Party *Approach a Friend or Business you are connected with for a Donation *Volunteer at Our Events *Offer us Free Office Space/Performance Space We hope you'll join us. Send Us An E-Mail ~~~ |
| REGISTER FOR THIS YEAR'S 2008 NIA GATHERING CLICK HERE!!! Check out pictures from Last Year's Event Below! 20th Anniversary NIA Gathering Shines Healing Light for African Descended Women |
| Pictured above, Spirit drummers and dancers opened up the energy bringing everyone in the room together, rapt by the sound and movement! |
| Pictured left, Griot Soul Films Promotions Director Jianda made a direct connection with Nobel Prize winning author Alice Walker at the gathering, opening a dialogue about the unity of all life. |
| Dance maven Richelle took the room by storm with her unique brand of spirit dance! |
| Pictured Above, An intergenerational group danced the night away on the final night of the NIA celebrations. |