Experience the excitement of carnival in the streets of Port-of-Spain, Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans with professional dancer and ethnologist Tracie Yorke at the Peters Township Public Library on Sunday, April 10 from 1:00-2:30 p.m. This program will kick-off the library’s National Library Week celebration, April 10 through 16. Register for this program online or call 724.941.9430. Light refreshments will be served.
Each year, pulsating drum rhythms, flamboyant costumes and a coterie of colorful dancers transform the streets of Trinidad, Brazil and New Orleans to create non-stop street parties and elaborate displays of political, social, cultural and national solidarity. In this library event, dressed in stunning carnival pageantry, Tracie Yorke will use carnival props, video projections and music to take participants on an interactive journey through the fascinating histories of each one of these carnivals. The presentation will close, as all carnival celebrations do, with a parade of champions, drawn from the audience.
Yorke is a Commonwealth Speaker for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and Artistic Director of Tracie Yorke Dance. She has a ten-year national/international performance history, having performed in countries such as Cuba, Brazil, Taiwan, Guinea and Italy. She currently conducts world dance residencies as a teaching artist in schools and communities throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Consistent with Library Director Pier Lee’s objective to explore other cultures through library programs, “The Spirit of Carnival” will initiate several activities for patrons of all ages, including props for Carnival made by children and masks created by teens. The library lobby will be decorated to capture the excitement of Carnival.
This Commonwealth Speakers presentation is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and its We the People initiative. The Pennsylvania Humanities Council, a nonprofit organization, inspires individuals to enjoy and share a life of learning.
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