Posts from — January 2008

The Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility began in 1989 as a six-week series of free modern dance classes for 50 students living in the Flatbush community of Brooklyn. Sister Kwayera Archer-Cunningham founded Ifetayo out of her love for children and a desire to enrich their lives with the arts and knowledge of their African cultural heritage. At the end of the six-week period, auditions were held and ten scholarship students were selected to become the founding members of the Ifetayo Youth Ensemble. [Read more →]