Portage Center for the Arts, Inc. Brown Bag Series

Programs will be on literary, musical, motivational, historical, entertaining, enlightening subjects and can be listened to in the auditorium while eating your lunch - whatever you want to bring to eat during the presentation.  No coffee or soda.  You may bring water.

They will be held on the second Thursday of the month during the noon hour.  The program/presentation lasting about 45 minutes.  This should allow people to get from their places of employment and back again on their lunch hour.

Tani Diakite, Malian musician from Madison.  Master craftsman and player of several Malian instruments, he both makes and plays the kamelon ngoni, a traditional stringed instrument from his homeland of Mali.

He will present and explain the instruments and then play and sing, using them.  He loves demonstrating to children, so home schoolers and all school children are encouraged to attend if possible.  He dresses in his native costume.

No one has to eat their sandwich alone at noon - come and join the crowd at the Portage Center for the Arts and learn, eat and enjoy all at the same time.