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Please join us for an exciting evening with the Slyboots Circus, featuring interactive drumming and juggling workshops, circus arts performances, and a featured performance by the Saakumu Dance Troupe from Ghana, West Africa, on Tuesday, April 11, in the Campbell Student Union Social Hall. This is a free event open to students, alumni, faculty, staff, and affiliates of Buffalo State University.

The Slyboots Circus is the premier performing ensemble at the Slyboots School, which features music and dance from around the world, storytelling, puppetry, and circus arts to captivate and excite audiences. The Slyboots School is an internationally touring enterprise, created in Buffalo, New York, dedicated to promoting positive social change through cultural arts education and performance. Its mission is to educate, entertain, and inspire: to bring the world together, on the sly.

Watch a YouTube video about Slyboots Circus.

The award-winning Saakumu Dance Troupe is one of the leading traditional-contemporary dance and music groups in Ghana, West Africa. Created by master musician Bernard Woma, the group is noted for its eclectic repertoire that includes a range of spiritual, ceremonial, and recreational genres as well as contemporary African dance forms. Its music and dance are joyful, expressive, and highly participatory.

Schedule
3:30 p.m. Drumming and Juggling Workshop
5:30 p.m. Featured Performance by Saakumu Dance Troupe
6:30 p.m. Interactive Drum Circle and Circus Arts

Please consider offering students extra credit for attending this event. Students should use the Bengal Connect event page to RSVP and document their attendance for extra credit.

RSVP for the event.

This event was organized by the School of the Professions and the Equity and Campus Diversity Office and made possible with support from the Buffalo State University Grant Allocation Committee and the Equity and Campus Diversity Office.

Please contact Amanda Marzolf, executive assistant to the dean of the School of the Professions, with questions.