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...really want to see happening is that everyone understands that family doesn’t end after we go home.” With the establishment of an alumni board, this preservation of history and culture will be possible for the Kuumba Singers. Created in the year of Kuumba??s 40th anniversary, the alumni board, known to members as “Rafiki Wa Kuumba,” (“Friends of Kuumba?? in Swahili) is a move to form a community of black students and alumni that will preserve the institutional memory...
Kuumba intends to expand this focus by developing annual town hall meetings, the first of which took place last weekend as part of Kuumba??s 40th anniversary celebrations. After the current undergraduate executive board discussed their accomplishments for the year as well as problems they had encountered, the forum gave alumni an opportunity to communicate their visions and goals for the organization...
...which included silk shirts as well as embroidered shawls emblazoned with sequins. Next came the Kuumba Choir, one of the largest and most dynamic multicultural organizations on campus. With over 100 members, the singers entered Sanders from side stage doors, filing inside one by one in a grand procession. Kuumba??s three pieces filled Sanders Theatre with soulful melodies and left a lasting impression. The Harvard Spoken Word Society’s performance voiced what the other pieces of the show could only convey indirectly through dance or music. Lucerito L. Ortiz ’10 and Jos?...
Adams let down their dining hall restrictions for once and let anyone in to GET IT. Despite unconventional advertising (read: posters that made little sense), Kuumba??s dance was fairly standard dining hall dance fare with DJ Shiftee presiding...
...What makes this concert so special is that we have so many pieces wrapped in this ethereal, haunting sound. I think the title speaks for itself, so beautiful, so moving,” says Michael L. Vinson ’07, Kuumba??s president...