Rara Tou Limen is thrilled to offer the community programmed activities featuring dance, music and cultural enrichment.
Here's to a dance season filled with CREATIVE ABUNDANCE * PROSPERITY * STRENGTH and SOLIDARITY within our dance community. We look forward to collectively celebrating the richness and vibrancy of Haitian culture with you!
Rara Tou Limen (RTL)
cordially invites the community to join us as we celebrate the Gede Spirits + our Ancestors through
DANCE, MUSIC, FOOD and SONG!
Fet Gede: Celebrating RTL's 10th year!
A time to reflect, to honor the cycle of rebirth,
and fortify Ancestral
Spirits; a time to simply give THANKS!
Learn traditional songs for Papa Gede, and sway your hips to the infectious rhythms of Maskawon, Zareyen, and Banda!
Song Workshop with Daniel "Brav" Brevil
Musical Director, RTL (2pm-3pm)
Dance Workshop with Portsha Jefferson
Artistic Director, RTL (3pm-5pm)
Community Potluck/Dance (5pm-7pm)
When: Sunday November 3, 2013
Where: The Humanist Hall
390 27th St. (between Telegraph & Broadway)
Oakland, California
Time: 2pm-7pm
Offering: $20
A time to reflect, to honor the cycle of rebirth,
and fortify Ancestral
Spirits; a time to simply give THANKS!
Learn traditional songs for Papa Gede, and sway your hips to the infectious rhythms of Maskawon, Zareyen, and Banda!
Song Workshop with Daniel "Brav" Brevil
Musical Director, RTL (2pm-3pm)
Dance Workshop with Portsha Jefferson
Artistic Director, RTL (3pm-5pm)
Community Potluck/Dance (5pm-7pm)
When: Sunday November 3, 2013
Where: The Humanist Hall
390 27th St. (between Telegraph & Broadway)
Oakland, California
Time: 2pm-7pm
Offering: $20
*** Community Potluck to immediately follow Dance Workshop***
Please bring a dish, drink, snack or dessert offering to share with the community.
FET WEAR: Show us your "BEST" Gede/Day of the Dead Costume
Let your creativity run wild....Please wear Purple, Black and White, the traditional colors for Gede.
Suggestions: Black Top Hat, Cane, Sunglasses, Face Paint, etc.
An altar will be present. If you would like to make an offering
(photos of loved ones, flowers, candles, alcohol, fruit, etc.) please feel free to do so.
*Marketplace* Fet Gede Gallery* Community Potluck* Haitian Cuisine*
BRAZIL + HAITI UNITE!
Rara Tou Limen presented our latest artistic offering, Serpent BLESSINGS, to a warm, inviting, and responsive audience, at CONTINUITY: a collaborative dance workshop + performance with celebrated Brazilian dancer, and choreographer, Rosangela Silvestre, and Portsha Jefferson, artistic director of
Rara Tou Limen.
Rara Tou Limen Performance Company
We were honored to share the stage with Rosangela Silvestre, bringing Brazil + Haiti together, while intertwining the powerful Serpent energy of Oxumare and Danbala Wedo. What a magical evening!
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Haitian Folkloric + Orixa Movement with Portsha & Rosangela
Community Dance Class at Dance Mission Theater
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RTL Kanaval NEWS!
There was a winding, curving, hissing, moving entity that slithered it's way into San Francisco's Carnaval. The Serpent!
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Photo Credit: Chaplin Street Studio
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Oakland | San Francisco | Haiti email: raratoulimen@gmail.com
DANCE * SONG * DRUM Workshops
Master Classes | Performances
School Residencies | Cultural Exchange Projects | Kanaval Group
 Click on Portsha's image for 'Oakland North Article' PORTSHA JEFFERSON
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 Click on image to hear Haitian rhythms with Daniel DANIEL "BRAV" BREVIL
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Rara Tou Limen embodies a deep and cherished legacy, developing strength
and solidarity within its Haitian communities...
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Rara Tou Limen continues to uplift a country whose culture has increasingly sustained the Bay Area’s artistic community and beyond!
Our objective is to help nurture and cultivate Haitian dance and music traditions in the Bay Area through building & enhancing working relationships between artists promoting Haitian culture across the U.S. and in Haiti.
In keeping with this tradition of exchange, Rara Tou Limen conducted its first cultural exchange tour to Haiti with 10 members in April '09, to further investigate & research Haitian cultural traditions. [click pic 4 video] 
Daniel Brevil teaching a song workshop in Leogane, Haiti.
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