Archive for April, 2008

 

Compassionate Mandala Tour 2007

April 28th, 2008

Check out the first video I shot and edited.
Last year monks from the Dalai Lama monastery in India came to NYC as part of their Compassionate Mandala Tour to raise awareness of Tibetan culture. While in New York they created a mandala at St. John the Divine :

The monks also performed in a concert […]

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Dominican Americans embrace their African roots

April 11th, 2008

Here’s a package Annie Shreffler and I worked on for our International Reporting class about how Dominican-Americans learn about their African heritage through music and dance.
We talked to a dance troop in Washington Heights, a singer who recently moved to Brooklyn from the Dominican Republic, a palos drummer from the Bronx, and a professor and […]

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