Our Mission
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Let’s build a Cultural Awareness Institute in Chicago, Illinois and broaden the horizons for social development using the fine arts of communication. Cultivate a global mind from within El-Amin Life Productions Cultural Institute.
AFRICAN DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA CULTURAL AWARENESS CENTER
This aspect of the Cultural Awareness Program will be specialized to target community development and offer projects that will encourage young minds to appreciate the finer qualities in life. From this base a Performing Arts Theater can be established. There will be neighborhood interaction to present alternative activities for youth interested in entertainment: Theater, Dance, Poetry, Creative Writing, Music, Painting, Arts and Crafts.
TRANSCULTURAL AWARENESS INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
This can be a center of higher learning for the performing arts student and people interested in the Fine Arts. There will be courses in Ethnomusicology, Music Appreciation, and Historical African American Contributions to Modern Music. Contemporary Music, Music Theory, Traditional African Music, and African Influences in World Music will also be offered. The life-styles of various influential people; Ethnic Foods, Clothing as fashion, Art, Crafts, Housing Architecture, and religion are all parts of the culture of a people. Here the student will study how culture is translated, transported, transferred to become aware of how a cultural synthesis can be significant from a Global Perspective in understanding the need for diversity.
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Jean Baptiste Pointe De Sable Founder Of Chicago.
The first permanent settlement was founded in 1781 by Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, an African American from Santo Domingo. The location at the mouth of the Chicago river was chosen for its strategic value for a trading post as the river connected the Lake with the Mississippi river.
After going ashore in New Orleans following an injury at sea, Haitian sailor Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable made his way north to avoid being captured as a slave. He established himself as an accomplished trader, and then built the first permanent home in an area around Lake Michigan called Eschikagou. This trading post was later renamed Chicago. In 1968 Du Sable was officially declared the Founder of Chicago and a stamp with his image was issued for the 150th birthday of the city.