TRAVEL and STUDY in SENEGAL, WEST AFRICA
DECEMBER 28th -JANUARY 18th, 2008
Join us on this 21-day adventure. We will be staying at a Senegalese guesthouse near the beach, outside of Dakar. 3 African meals, breakfast francaise: baguette, chocolate, fruit and coffee, lunch and dinner: rice, veggies and fish and meat will be prepared for you. We will have 2 dance/1 drum class, djembe and sabar classes a day during the week. Professional instructors from the ballet will teach classes at our dance floor at the guesthouse. There will also be daily instruction in the Wolof/French language and evening history class where we will be entertained by local Griot historian-singers-musicians-dancers. Weekends will be ours to explore: the traditional village of Bambey; the Grand Mosque Touba; Goree Island, House of Slaves; the Daniel Sorano Theatre, home of the National Ballet; Blaise Senghor Cultural Center. Visits to the marketplaces, trips to the tailor, the beach and local environments and parties! We will also host a Sabar Tannibeer Party near the end of our stay to showoff our new dance/drum moves and African clothes!
COSTS
The price for the trip is seventeen hundred dollars US*.
This includes: accommodations, meals, group dance, drum, language classes, transportation to villages and other locations. *You are responsible for your own airfare. We can help recommend travel arrangements.
ABOUT IBOU NGOM
Ibrahima (Ibou) NGom is a native of Senegal, West Africa and has been a resident of Santa Cruz for the past six years. Born into a Griot family of traditional musicians he has been carrying on his family musical lineage since childhood. Ibou facilitates community drumming and dancing with adults and students of all ages. Ibou has toured and performed internationally with two prominent Senegalese Ballet Companies as Master Drummer with the 2nd National Ballet du Senegal, and Ballet Sinemew.
Ibou invites you to accompany him on a magical tour to the heart of West African Music and Dance!
PAYMENT PLAN
A non-refundable two hundred dollar deposit is due at registration.
Check or money order to Ibrahima NGom. Upon registration you will receive a detailed packet about the journey!
Please call for more information (831) 476.4617 or 831.295.3125.
Total payment of seventeen hundred dollars US*. is due
by November 16th, 2007
Travel agency recommendation:
Council Travel San Francisco for students or teachers
for students or teachers
South African Airways, Air France
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