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Dates:	Friday, June 4, 2021 - Friday, June 18, 2021
Hours:	virtual, on-demand
Ages:	Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	Free see below
Category:	Music & Concerts

From the Motherland explores Zimbabwean cultural roots and a personal rite of passage into womanhood.

Featuring a series of twelve songs entitled Mwedzi (moon, menstrual cycle, and month in Chivanhu culture), From the Motherland including original works by Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence Tanyaradzwa A.

Tawengwa for solo voice, mbira, piano, percussion and bass.

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ARTISTS INCLUDE:

Mambano/Tanyaradzwa A. Tawengwa: voice, piano, percussion, mbira, composer, music director, music producer Etienne Charles: percussion, piano, co-music director, co-producer Gerson Lazo-Quiroga: bass

Nontsikelelo Mutiti: set consultant Emily Bearce: lighting designer Bearwalk Cinema: audio/videography*

*filmed at the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatre

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From the Motherland is funded in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

It is co-sponsored by the BCA where Castle of our Skins is a Launchpad Resident at Boston Center for the Arts.

COST

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WEBSITE

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www.castleskins.org/from-the-motherland.html

LOCATION

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Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Studio 206, Boston, MA, 02116 map

virtual, on-demand