WorldBeat Cultural Center’s Update on COVID-19

WorldBeat Cultural Center’s Update on COVID-19

March 21, 2021 San Diego County is now in Tier 2, or Red Tier, of the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. The Cafe will remain open for take-out and delivery and is now also open for outdoor dining. Some classes will return outdoors (please refer to our class...
A Winter Solstice Greeting from Makeda Cheatom

A Winter Solstice Greeting from Makeda Cheatom

Habari Gani? What a blessing with all the trials and tribulations, to be the Executive Director of the WorldBeat Cultural Center through all these years, 30 to be exact. It took many years for this vision to manifest. A cultural center that one day would heal the...
Reggae’s Modern Day Prophet, Vaughn Benjamin

Reggae’s Modern Day Prophet, Vaughn Benjamin

Beloveds, this photo came up on my Facebook memory. He is so mystic. Here I and I were in New York receiving our award from the DARC Foundation for our contributions to the RastafarI Reggae community. He was so funny when he was hugging me, he said, “Don’t...
Teaching Chinese at Summer Camp

Teaching Chinese at Summer Camp

  In July 2019, I came to San Diego as a cultural visitor and volunteer, and was very honored to study and communicate here. I have to say that I saw many Amercian children who were very interested in Chinese culture at the WorldBeat Center, so I gave the children a...