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Odunde Inc.
Philadelphia, PA Jun 06, 2012
The organizers of a ODUNDE African and African-American Festival, an annual informative eventuality whose programs strech audiences of some-more than 500,000 persons, currently announced a remaining report of events, in jubilee of a 37th Anniversary.
Major highlights in a scheduled programs will be a World Cup 2014 FIFA Brazil Business Symposium, that will underline presentations from ambassadors and member from Bahia and a Brazilian World Cup classification deliberating how to do business with a 2014 World Cup and a mercantile and informative impact on a tellurian economy; a VIP African Diplomatic and Ambassador Reception, hosting member from Guinea, Ivory Coast and Cameron; and a giveaway Zumba gymnastics class, on Jun 9th during 8:00am, that will try to mangle a Guinness universe record of 3,105 people participating in a class, simultaneously, set by Cairns Regional Council (Australia) progressing this year. Pre-registration for a Zumba eventuality will be posted on //www.odundefestival.org”>http://www.odundefestival.org, or participants might call 215-732-8510, for some-more information.
The activities will cap on Sunday, Jun 10, with a annual centerpiece, a ODUNDE Festival, itself, that will take place, as it always has, along South Street, here, from 20th to 24th Streets, and from 23rd and Lombard, to Grays Ferry Avenue and Christian Street.
The free, outside festival, whose executive thesis is secure in a traditions of a Yoruba people of Nigeria, will underline a far-reaching accumulation of vendors, craftspeople, artists and performers.
The ODUNDE activities are as follows:
Date: Jun 8, 2012
Event: World Cup 2014 FIFA Brazil Business Symposium – Business leaders will learn how to do business 1-on-1 with a 2014 World Cup. This conference will give we an inside demeanour on a mercantile and informative impact a World Cup will have on a world.
COST: Must Register on website – //www.odundefestival.org”>http://www.odundefestival.org
Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: Drexel University – LeBow College of Business Bossone Research Enterprise Center – Mitchell Auditorium – 3142 Market Street Philadelphia, PA
Date: Jun 8, 2012
Event: VIP African Diplomatic and Ambassador Reception – Ambassadors from Guinea, Ivory Coast and Cameron
By Invitation Only
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Drexel University – LeBow College of Business Bossone Research Enterprise Center – First Floor Lobby– 3142 Market Street Philadelphia, PA
Date: Jun 9, 2012
Event: Guinness World Record Attempt – Largest Zumba Class
Come and make story by fasten us, as we try to mangle a Guinness World Record for a largest Zumba class. You can get a good examination and make story during a same time.
COST: Free
Time: 8:00am Registration
9:00 am Class Begins
Location: The Philadelphia Art Museum – 26TH The Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA
Date: Jun 9, 2012
Event: African Business Roundtable
Many U.S. businesses have small bargain of a illusory business opportunities that exist on a continent of Africa. This module will concede businesses to accumulate information from a Ambassadors on a first-hand basis.
COST: Must Register on website – //www.odundefestival.org”>http://www.odundefestival.org
Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 NOON
Location: Drexel University – LeBow College of Business Bossone Behrakis Grand Hall – Creese Center – 3210 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA
Date: Jun 9, 2012
Event: ODUNDE365 Fundraiser
The children from a Universal Institute Charter School have been participating in a ODUNDE365 African Dance and Drumming classes given Oct 2011 will be behaving African dances from Ghana, Senegal and a Ivory Coast.
COST: $20 (FOOD AND DRINK ARE INCLUDED)
All deduction advantage a ODUNDE365 Children’s Program
Time: 12:00 NOON- 4:00pm
Location: Warmdaddy’s Restaurant – Delaware Avenue and Reed Streets Philadelphia, PA
Date: Jun 10, 2012
Event: Odunde Festival
Time: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Location: 23rd and South Streets Philadelphia, PA
Date: Jun 10, 2012
Event: Odunde Festival After Party
Time: 7:00pm – 2:00am
Location: Arts Garage – 1533 Ridge Avenue Philadelphia, PA
As has been finished via a 37-year story of a ODUNDE festival, Sunday’s eventuality will start with a approach from ODUNDE’s Grays Ferry domicile to a Schuylkill River, during 25th and Locust Street during noon. There, ODUNDE owner and president, Lois Fernandez, will lead participants in profitable loyalty to a Yoruba enchantress of a river, Oshun. Once offerings of fruits, money, flowers and other equipment have been expel into a river, a approach will make a approach behind down South Street for a central start of a festival.
Grammy nominated and BMI Songwriter of a year, Marsha Amrosius, is scheduled to perform during this years event.
Initiated by Fernandez and Ruth Arthur in 1975, a ODUNDE Festival has spawned a critical classification with a year-round report of programs and events.
Further information on ODUNDE’s programs publications and calendar of events might be performed by job a ODUNDE bureau during (215) 732-8510 or by visiting: //www.odundefestival.org”>http://www.odundefestival.org.
Sponsors of this year’s activities include, Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation, Keystone Mercy Health Plan, Pennsylvania Lottery, Philadelphia Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, Philly360.com, Universal Companies, University of Pennsylvania Medicine, Drexel University LeBow College of Business, The Philadelphia YMCA and Vicinity, Exelon and Wells Fargo.
ODUNDE Origin
ODUNDE has gained a inhabitant repute as one of Philadelphia‘s brightest informative jewels. The word ODUNDE originates with a Yoruba people of Nigeria, West Africa, and means “Happy New Year.”
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