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60 Ways to Build Community

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Happy Saturday! Here’s a list of simple things you can start doing today to build community. For more ideas and inspiration, check out the whole article here.

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Nina Simone responding to the question, “what does freedom mean to you?”

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Nikkiesha N. McLeod (Nikkie) is a musician and writer.  She began her musical career at the age of twelve playing the tenor-pan for the steel-band (drum) orchestra Panasonic Connection in Trinidad and Tobago. As her home in Trinidad was seconds away from the pan-yard, Nikkie stayed up late at night listening to Panasonic rehearse for Carnival’s music festival Panorama. Her older brother played the tenor pan for the orchestra, and when he was asleep, Nikkie stole his pan sticks, and tried to compose her own melodies. Nikkie’s parents were concerned about her pre-occupation with the pan-yard, since at the time her parents believed that the pan-yard was no place for a young lady. Nikkie however dreamed of becoming a great musician, so much so that her passion for the instrument never died after the age of seven. At nineteen, Nikkie moved to the US for school, receiving a B.A. in English Literature and Caribbean Studies from Howard University, and a Master of Fine Arts for Creative Writing from City College of New York.  After acquiring a make-shift hand me down drum-kit, she developed a new love for drumming. Nikkie incorporates the tones, melodies and rhythm from her experience playing the steel-pan into her beats. Currently, she plays the drum-kit for the New York based indie rock bands, Maquina and The Meaning Of Life.  Nikkie also played the drum-kit for Telenovela Star (TSTAR) whose hit song off of TSTAR’s self-titled EP The Car Song is the theme music for the teen surf drama Beyond The Break on The-N channel.  One of Nikkie’s poems was turned into the song A Plum on the band’s EP. She was a co-founder for the grassroots feminist magazine OutLaw Sister Riff which focused on issues affecting women and young girls. Her influences are the “father of the modern steel pan instrument” Dr. Ellie Mannette, Trinidad & Tobago’s “foremost steel pan arrangers and composers” Ray Holman, the steel-pan jazz musician and composer Andy Narell, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Cindy Blackman, and Quest Love.

Broadway Lafayette B/D/F/M line on 8/11/2011