Week 4 Week 3 Elevate: “The Beat”: A Ring Shout and Community Freestyle Cypher

From the venue:

Saturday, October 14, 2023
4:00 p.m.
“The Beat”: A Ring Shout and Community Freestyle Cypher with Toni Blackman
Emory University Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Theater Lab, 1700 N. Decatur Road

Join the cypher at Emory University with internationally renowned hip-hop artist Toni Blackman who will demonstrate how the cypher is a contemporary iteration of the ring shout. Audiences should come ready to participate in this call-and-response! For more info: PraiseHouseProject.org All Ages.

Presented by the Praise House Project through funds provided by the Atlanta Global Research and Education Collaborative (AGREC), the City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs and Villa Albertine in Atlanta with the French Consulate.