{"id":6214,"date":"2024-09-23T08:38:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T08:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2024-09-23T08:55:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T08:55:55","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/en\/about-batuki\/who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6214\" class=\"elementor elementor-6214\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5bac4cf animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"5bac4cf\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;slideInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cf58b01\" data-id=\"cf58b01\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec6dcbc elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ec6dcbc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Nurturing the Community through Music &amp; the Arts<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31fe39c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"31fe39c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/team-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3719\" alt=\"batuki music society toronto ontario canada africa african art culture artists nadine mcnulty otimoi oyemu habari concert team\" srcset=\"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/team-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/team-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/team-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/team-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/team-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/team.jpg 1720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-597fb36\" data-id=\"597fb36\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0abe035 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0abe035\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-size: 19.200001px;\">Batuki Music Society is an incorporated non-profit community-based organization that promotes African music and art through performances at music venues throughout the year and culminating into a weekend festival at the end of the programming season. The organization actively seeks out local artists and works with them by helping find performance venues, advice on career development, music recording, touring and management. Batuki Music Society also provides visibility and necessary publicity to artists who hail from minority groups by placing them in concerts and festivals in mainstream venues to help them integrate.<\/p><p style=\"font-size: 19.200001px;\">Batuki Music Society\u2019s artistic vision is to encourage local African musicians to participate in enriching the diverse arts and cultural scene that is found in this beautiful city through live music shows, visual arts displays, and festivals. Batuki Music Society\u2019s programming will also include some component of African music such as; Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Cuban (Afro-Latino), and Afro-Brazilian. Black History Month will also be a feature of Batuki Music Society\u2019s annual programming, and this will include music and dance performances, spoken word\/poetry, and film screenings.<\/p><p style=\"font-size: 19.200001px;\">Batuki Music Society also partners with other non-profit music presenters to launch concerts or shows.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nurturing the Community through Music &#038; the Arts Batuki Music Society is an incorporated non-profit community-based organization that promotes African music and art through performances at music venues throughout the year and culminating into a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406],"tags":[222,221,324,30,49,48],"class_list":["post-6214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-batuki","tag-africa","tag-african","tag-african-music","tag-batuki-music","tag-batuki-music-society","tag-nadine-mcnulty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6240,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions\/6240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}