FandangObon Performance and Nobuko Miyamoto Keynote Speech

Great Leap’s FandangObon (FO) convenes into one circle to include participatory music and dance traditions of Fandango of Vera Cruz, Mexico, rooted in African, Mexican and indigenous music; Japanese Buddhist Obon circle dances in remembrance of ancestors; and West African dance and drums of Nigeria and New Guinea. This event will feature Nobuko Miyamoto, well known civil rights activist, as both performer and keynote speaker.