Please take a time to read about this group and also like and share this page such an amazing organization doing a wonderful job for our community. PANLARA is an organization that provides an arts and cultural forum for youths from diverse communities in the D.C. metropolitan area. It creates performance opportunities to market and enhance talents of artistic youths. The main emphasis is to facilitate partnerships among community youth groups and encourage them to build businesses through their youth entrepreneurship program. PANLARA hosted the 2nd Annual International Youth Arts and Culture Festival in downtown Silver Spring. The festival was a musical tribute to the 50th Anniversary for the March on Washington, 150th Anniversary for the Emancipation Proclamation, and International Youth Day. There were 15 international countries represented in the festival. The Lara Family & Friends Steel Ensemble, an integral component of PANLARA, aim is to share their African Caribbean culture through steel pan music. On its initial international tour, the original members traveled to South Africa to perform for school children in Soweto, South Africa, a trip that has changed their lives completely. In addition to visiting historical sites such as Robbens Island to experience Nelson Mandela’s prison cell, Pretoria and Johannesburg, there were up close tours to the natural habitats of lions, giraffes and elephants. The Lara Family & Friends members are all excellent students in the D.C. Metropolitan Area and range in age from 9 to 18 years old. They also arrange various genres of music for their performances and conduct regular seminars in local schools, churches and nursing homes to teach the steel drum instrument. For more information or learn to play the steel drums contact, Debbie Lara at (301) 237-3531 or panlara1@gmail.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 01:35:54 +0000
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