SCHEDULE:

NOON TO 1 P.M.—INTRODUCTION TO OUR COMMUNITY.  Come hear what is happening in Rockwood, meet the police chief, elected officials, and find out about opportunities to revitalize.

 1:00:  SHOUT-OUT!  is a non-profit, educational and musical organization dedicated to presenting a message of diversity, teamwork and mutual respect through public performance and community service.  Shout Out! is an energetic group who delivers the message with song, dance and through audience particpation.  Shout-Out!s website: www.shoutoutinc.org

 2:00: CHILDREN FROM THE COMMUNITY—”FREE TO BE,  YOU & ME”:  Children from the Pine Apartments with performance organized by Katherine Kneupper, AmeriCorps Volunteer.

 2:15:  SLAVIC BAPTIST CHOIR:  Learn from our Russian neighbors through discussion and a choir performance from the Slavic Baptist Church

 3:00: ALDER ELEMENTARY PERCUSSION & DANCE TROUPE:  African-American flair through dance and drumming performed by local children. Richie Goldstein, percussion leader, is known for working with children and building community through music.

4:00: HISPANIC TRADITION:  Learn traditions of our Hispanic community through a presentation and performance by  Tiahui Mexica.  Translated, “Forward Mexico!” a group of guitarists from Reynold’s High School. 

The origination of Mexica Tiahui goes back to legends of the Spanish conquest when the Aztecs were forbidden to play their instruments.  At that time, those who continued to play had their hands cut off.  “Concheros” or musicians, began to play drums with mallets out of respect for those who had lost their hands for their devotion to Mexican music.  Concheros originates from the word “concha,” the term for the armadillo shells used for the base of the guitars.