Flyers posted widely on social media. Services provided by Ms. Afrika Abney
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Ms. Afrika Abney provided an array of services for Doc Powell, founder of the Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers from 2007 - 2020. Some of them include photography, email marketing, website management, social media management, social media marketing and dance performance consultant services. Additionally, Ms. Abney created, prepared and disseminated many press releases that announced the Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers performances in 2007, 2012, 2018 and 2019. She also created and designed many flyers, as well as disseminated the flyers.
The Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers is a masterfully formalized troupe of professionals that grew out of the artistic energies of the Malcolm X Park cultural experience. The Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers are an extremely talented and masterly group of cultural artists in the DC area whose proud tradition of demonstrating African culture through drumming, dancing, and singing has its original in Malcolm X Park. Malcolm X Park, located in the Adams Morgan/Columbia Heights area of the District of Columbia (officially named Meridian Hill Park), is a magical place where, for over 50 years, drummers of all persuasions conjugate with dancers and other artists on Sundays (weather permitting) to create a fantastic display of African music in conjunction with traditional music from many other origins of the world. They have performed at the Martin Luther King Library, Adams Morgan Day Street Festival, The Latino Festival, the Black Family Reunion Celebration on the National Mall, Emergence Community Arts Collective, Soul 57 Cultural Center, Sandy Point State Park, Howard University Blackburn Center, the Anacostia Art Gallery, Washington National Cathedral, Dance Africa DC Festival, American University, George Washington University, the Capitol Hill Eastern Market Art Gallery the Potter’s House in Adams Morgan, Union Temple Baptist Church in SE DC, the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, the Peoples Congregational Church, the National United Methodist Church the H STREET Festival, Fiesta Asia Street Fair, the Southwest (DC) Festival, the Thurgood Marshall Center, People’s Congregational Church, Tree of Life Learning Center in northeast DC, Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Arlington VA, Howard University School of Medicine, Woodacres Elementary School in Bethesda VA, and many other venues in the Washington metropolitan area. Info: 202-459-8157 - Doc Powell, founder of the Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers |
"The event entitled: Cotton Field to Concert Hall held at the Kennedy Center on February 16, 2019 as I recall and heard from audience members was a standing room only event in terms of numbers of attendees." - Lester Green, Artistic Director of Coalition for African American in the Performing Arts
"Afrika Abney has worked as an Arts and Marketing Consultant with the Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers for many years. She is a dedicated, devoted and innovative worker who has gotten results for us, as we offer performances in the community. " - Doc Powell, Founder of the Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers |