The public is invited to ‘Africanist Performance Weekend’ at Brown University with events on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Artists from Africa, Haiti, and the diaspora, as well as refugees from the Providence-Boston community and local social entrepreneurs come together to celebrate and investigate performance’s ability to enact social change. This Rhythm of Change Festival has […]
Brown’s Focus On Africa series is packing it in this week with a lunchtime screening at The Watson Institute for International Relations. South African documentarist and filmmaker Khalo Matabane, who’s mini series When We Were Black, screens at 12pm (pt.1) and 6pm (pt.2), will conduct a discussion of his work at 7pm following the second
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We’re still not at the point where we can say, unequivocally, that our potential vps know that Africa is a continent and not a country, but at least we have a local university president who is interested in bringing scholars and artists from all over said continent to our fair city. Brown’s Department of Africana Studies, along
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