Raw Flavour Festival 10-13 November 2022

ABOUT RAW FLAVOUR FESTIVAL 

RAW Flavour Festival is a 4-day international festival promoting African dance practice, culture and philosophy of community. The focus of the Raw Flavour Festival is to educate and raise awareness of African dances and respective culture by providing deep immersion and shared experiences. The festival aspires to create an intercultural dialogue between Australia, Melbourne and International African artists, performers, and dancers.

Date: Thursday 10th - Sunday 13th November 2022

Place: Various Venues around Melbourne - Please check tickets and follow up emails for more details. 

Artists: 8 international artists of the African diaspora will teach dance intensives in different styles of African traditional and modern dances, and afro influences dance styles such as house and Dancehall

Conference - Afro Dancers: This conference will be held on Thursday 10th of November and will include 6 artists on a discussion panel, opening up conversations about the origins of Afro dances and how Afro dancing came to be global. Hosts are Kwabo Grace and Lydia Tesema. 

Raw Flavour Friday Night Event: Raw are hosting a Friday night party, headline act from our very own backyard, Ausecuma Beats.This nine-strong ensemble, demonstrate artists coming together based on an idea - the idea of place, of transplanting cultural heritage into a contemporary city. Supporting acts are DJs: Chris Ng (Aus) and Karlos Lekameleon (Fr) and more...

Mabina Dance Battles: Collaboration between Kwabo Events, Raw Flavour Festival and Melbourne Afro Dance. A dance battle will be held on the Saturday night, hosted by the collective 'Melbourne Afro Dance' (M.A.D), MC of the night, the one and only Octaves.

ONLY Full Festival Pass includes acces to the battle  Registration link TBA

Expected attendees: People are booking flights from all over Australia so get on those early birds as fast as you can !! Limited capacity

EVENT PROGRAMME

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Raw Flavour Festival is brought to you by Kwabo Events in collaboration with Raw Corp.

Kwabo Events is a social enterprise promoting social cohesion, intercultural dialogue, and collaboration using the arts as a medium. Led by the award-winning Gracieuse Amah, Kwabo Events drives to empower individual and community wellbeing through African dance, culture and history.. Gracieuse is a recipient of the award for Best Cabaret Show at the 2021 Green Room Awards for her dance piece in the collective TAKEBACK!

Raw Korp is an organisation located in the Paris region and was created by Karlos Lekameleon. This organisation brings together different entities such as dance, media (photos/videos), production/editing and event organisation.

 

 

Thursday 10th November  6PM - 9PM	Afro Dancers Conference	Library at the Dock	107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands VIC 3008
Friday 11th November 2PM - 8PM	Raw Intensive Dance Workshops	Dancehouse	150 Princes St, Carlton North VIC 3054
Friday 11th November 8PM - 3AM	The Tony Allen & Raw Flavour Experience	The Nightcat Fitzroy	137-141 Johnston st, Fitzroy VIC 3065
Saturday 12 November 10AM - 5PM	Raw Intensive Dance Workshops	Dancehouse	150 Princes St, Carlton North VIC 3054
Saturday 12 November 5PM - 9PM	Mabina Dance Batlles	O2 Dance Studios	LEVEL1/200 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Sunday 13 November 10AM - 8PM	Raw Intensive Dance Workshops	Library at the Dock	107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands VIC 3008