Upcoming
Doris Spring Party on Friday 23rd March 2012 @ The Plantation.
Samba dance workshop on Sat 24th March 2012 @ The Plantation.
Fri 18th May 2012 - Olympic Flame Party @ the College. 6pm to 10pm. Drum and dance circle, food, tasters and a fire ceremony
Sat 19th May 2012 - Olympic Flame street party @ Picton Street & DMAC. Day & evening, times to be confirmed
Mon 9th July to Sunday 15th July 2012 - The BIG DANCE 2012 @ Bristol! Various events at different locations indoor & outdoor throughout the week. Starting lunch time/ after school until late at weekends. To include: flash mobs, performances, tasters, parties, dance-a-thons, carnival of world dance that goes round the main streets ending at a location surrounded by 300 samba drummers!!! (On Sat 14th July)
Past
17/12/11 Picton Street Christmas Market. Procession at 11am from Hamilton House to Montpelier. Performances at 12pm and 4pm.
3/12/11 GO GHANA! ~ Ghana Music Fund Benefit Night @ The Full Moon (Attic Bar)
18/11/11 Reclaim the Night March
13/11/11 Sponsored Shimmy - in aid of Macmillian Cancer Research, Weston Super-Mare
22/10/11 Gloucestershire – Apple Day
04/10/11 Workshop with Brimsham Green School, Yate. Three African Samba dance sessions with live drumming.
1/10/11 African Sambistas 3rd birthday and NEW dance home-warming party, 6pm – midnight. Full details on the African Sambistas Facebook page.
10/9/11 African Dance workshop as part of the 10 Parishes Festival, Milverton school hall
3/9/11 “Celebrating Age Festival”, Colston Hall. 10.45am to 11.30am – Performance and workshop
25 – 28/8/11 Shambala Carnival – appearing… Shambala official website
9 – 14/8/11 Intercultural Summer School…enjoying and performing, Tribe of Doris official website
02/08/11 - African Samba dance workshop for KIDS scheme in Keynsham with live drumming.
31/7/11 Bristol Harbourside Festival, participation stage workshop with short performance.
16/7/11 “Global Charity Dance Festival”, The Brewery, Cheltenham, performance and workshop, 6:30 start
9/7/11 Midsummer Fiesta - Montpelier Gardens, part of Cheltenham Music Festival - 11.30am – procession, workshop & performance.
02/7/11 1pm St Paul’s Carnival, Bristol. Procession and stage performance. St Paul’s Carnival offical website
27/07/11 to 30/07/11 Milton Abbey School in Dorset - Arts Week residential teaching African dance and drumming, leading to a performance.
25/07/11 Dance workshop with live drumming for DanceXpress Youth Dance group in Tidworth, Wiltshire.
15/6/11 3pm African Samba Dance Workshop, The Wellington Academy, Tidworth, SP11 9RR
11/6/11 12pm African Sambistas at Stroud Festival, Stroud Valley Community Primary School, Castle Street, Stroud, GL5 2HP
2-5/6/11 “Sunrise Celebrations”, Bruton, Somerset – procession, performances and workshops
28 & 29/5/11 Felipe de Algeciras’s workshops in Exeter
20/05/11 Elmlea Junior School, Westbury on Trym, Bristol - ’Uganda Day’ 4 African Dance sessions across the year groups, one resulted in a performance to start a special assembly to celebrate the school’s twinning with a school in Uganda.
15/5/11 Keynsham Youth Festival Keynsham Memorial Park - parade and performance
30/04/11 ADAD Bloom Festival Bristol, Circomedia, St Paul’s, Church Bristol, performance and playing for interval
24/04/11 African Dance workshop - Grange Camphill, Forest of Dean
25/03/11 Meadow Brook Primary School, Bradley Stoke, Bristol. African Dance and Percussion sessions across the year groups.
26/03/11 – “Sunseekers” on their annual weekend away in Bristol (private party of 200) – performance and workshop
16/02/11 – Longlevens Infant School, Gloucester. 4 African Dance sessions across the year groups.
4/12/10 Performance @ Plantation Restaurant & Bar, Gloucester Road21/10/10 Benefit Gig @ Bethesda Church St. George
?/11/10 Bridge Learning Campus, Hartcliffe, Bristol. 6 African Dance sessions across the year groups over a period of 2 days – accompanied by live drumming.
16/10/10 Procession & Performance at the Bristol Rovers Football ground for ‘Kick racism out of football’
9/10/10 Birthday Bash at the Plough, Easton
05/10/10 – Brimsham Green School, Yate, Bristol. Over the last few years, African Sambistas have run African Dance workshops for the ‘transition groups’ as well as regular themed school activity days
2/10/10 African Sambistas Birthday Bash at Plantation Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Bristol. Food, drinks, drumming and dancing late into the night. All welcome from 7pm.
25/9/10 Brisfest, Harbourside Bristol @ 3pm
12/9/10 African Sambistas Fundraiser at St George Community Centre: Dance workshops, performances, delicious food, SambaSnacks, cocktails and clothes auction! Between 2 – 7pm.
11/9/10 Lena Street Party, Easton
23/8/10 Mini Carnival in Queens Square, Bristol. 1 – 2pm
10th – 15th August, Tribe of Doris: music and dance festival near Taunton.
25/7/10 Busking in Quakers Friars, Cabot Circus, Bristol between 3 – 5pm.
10/7/10 Soccer Jam event in Queen’s Square Bristol. Dance performances and workshops from 11:30pm
10/7/10 St Augustine’s School, Downend. Procession & performance @ 1:30pm
3/7/10 St Paul’s Carnival, Bristol. Procession and Performance in collaboration with Samba Sulis
3/7/10 Mainly Men dance class at Hamilton House, Stokes Croft 11.45 – 13:15
20/6/10 Bristol’s Biggest Bike-Ride, the Harbourside, Bristol. Sessions at 1.30 & 3.30pm
19/6/10 Pucklechurch Revel procession, performance and dance workshops between 12 and 3pm
13/6/10 Refugee Week, Queen’s Square, Bristol. A series of dance workshops with African and Samba drumming. Performance on the main stage @ 5pm
13/6/10 Easton Arts Trail – Drumming with dance workshop in the garden of St Anne’s Church, Greenbank Road, Easton @ 4pm
12/6/10 St Patrick’s Summer Fair, African drumming and dance workshop
12/6/10 St Werbergs Summer Fair, Performance and dance workshop at Boiling Wells
22/5/10 Eastside Roots Charity Gig, Easton
24/4/10 Men’s dance class taster session at DMAC dance studio, Hamilton House
24/4/10 Montpelier Arts Trail
6/3/10 International Women’s Day, performance at The Council House, College Green, Bristol
26/2/10 ‘Reclaim the Night’ march through Bristol, campaign for safer streets.
23/1/10 DMAC Dance studio launch at Hamilton House, Bristol.
9/1/10 – 7 hour Dance ‘a’ Thon” and Closing Party for Imayla Dance Diologues
28/11/09 Youth and adult workshop in contemporary African dance with Louis Roger, at the Dance Dialogues Exhibition space in the Galleries, Broadmead. (photos will soon be available in our Gallery).
21/11/09 Benefit for Ugandan charity ‘Soft power’- workshop and performance at The Polish Club, Clifton. This event raised £625 plus £1,000 pledged! So thank you and well done all those that took part and attended! An African Sambistas flag will be taken to the school being built in Uganda…spread the love!!
15/10/09 Dance Dialogues Fundraiser @ Lakota, Bristol
09/10/09 Grand opening of Imayla’s Dance Dialogues and the exhibition of black dance in Britain 1930′s to 1990′s (For photos please go to our Gallery).
1st Sep – 3rd Oct Senior Sambistas took part in Celebrating Age Week (African Sambistas celebrate ALL ages with a series of performances and workshops in care homes across Bristol. This work continues 27/09/09 Filming of carnival scene for ‘Skins’ television show in St Nicholas’ Market
13/09/09 Organic Food Festival, Harbourside, Bristol
05/09/09 Stroud Fringe Festival
13/08/09 Healing Fields Festival, Somerset
02/08/09 Harbourside Festival
24/07/09 Performance and workshop @ Plantation Restaurant
11/07/09 Dursley Carnival, workshop and performance
04/07/09 African Sambistas ‘Samba Showcase’ @ The Star & Garter, Bristol
04/07/09 St Paul’s Carnival, Bristol
27/06/09 St Paul’s Carnival ‘Warm up procession’, Broadmead, Bristol
25/06/09 Dance workshops at Glastonbury Festival
14/06/09 Dance workshop for Refugee Week, Queen Sq. Bristol
13/06/09 St Patrick’s Church Summer Fayre
22/05/09 African Sambistas @ Plantation Restaurant, Bristol
17/05/09 World Jungle Festival @ Cabot Circus, Bristol
01/05/09 – May Day Gras, Truro
25/04/09 Fundraiser for World Jungle Festival, The Croft, Bristol
18/04/09 Dursley Parade