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Sunday, January 18
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Renewing America's Promise: Celebrate African Music & Film
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, the museum offers the following programs:
• Treasure Hunt: Visitors can take part in a treasure hunt through the museum's exhibitions to find an array of leadership arts from across the African continent. Pick up self-guided activity at the information desk.
• 12 Noon-2 PM: Screening of the film Hip Hop Colony, a documentary that takes an intimate look at hip hop while establishing its ties to Kenya (Lecture Hall).
• 2-4 PM: DJ Adrian Loving performs a mix of African percussion and hip hop (Mezzanine).
• 4-5 PM: Dr. Mark Auslander (Brandeis University) discusses African kingship ceremonies in a lecture entitled "Leadership is People: African Celebrations of a New Leader" (Lecture Hall).
Free
Continues Jan. 19
Related Exhibition: African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Throughout the museum
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Monday, January 19
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| 12 Noon-5:30 PM
Renewing America's Promise: Celebrate African Music & Film
Inaugural Activities |
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, the museum offers the following programs:
• Treasure Hunt: Visitors can take part in a treasure hunt through the museum's exhibitions to find an array of leadership arts from across the African continent. Pick up self-guided activity at the information desk.
• 12 Noon-2 PM: Screening of the film Africa Underground: Democracy in Dakar (Lecture Hall).
• 2-3:15 PM: Hip hop artist Anna Mwalahgo and Afro-Floetry will perform in the pavilion and debut her new Obama song.
Free
Last day
Related Exhibition: African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Throughout the museum
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Saturday, January 24
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African in Motion: Lesole Dance Company
Performance ***Cancelled*** |
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The company highlights the unique qualities of modern and Afro-fusion style dance and educates audiences about the history and movement of popular South African dances.
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Lecture Hall, sublevel 2
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Friday, January 30
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A Scattering of Pearls: Architecture of the Gold Road and the
Mali-Spain Diaspora: Lecture |
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In 1324 King Mansa Musa of Mali invited Al-Saheli, a son of the Granada Spice and Perfume Guild head, to become his court architect. Distinguished historian Suzanne Preston Blier examines this remarkable patron-architect relationship, the subsequent buildings, and the larger history of the north-south exchange during the centuries of the trans-Saharan gold trade.
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2
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Thursday, February 5
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Special Sneak Preview
African Diaspora Film Festival |
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Note: Films are recommended for mature audiences. A moderated discussion follows.
See this special sneak preview with director Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and musical performance from the diaspora with the Ricky Patton Ensemble.
Free; registration required, call 633-4633 or espositof@si.edu
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2
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Friday, February 6
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Meet the Artists: Aime Mpane and Antonio Ole
Gallery Tour and Talk |
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Visiting artists Aime Mpane and Antonio Ole discuss their work and site-specific installations in the related exhibition.
Free
Related Exhibition: Artists in Dialogue
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Sublevel 1
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Saturday, February 7
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The Orphan Boy
Let's Read About Africa |
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(for ages 5-10) This program introduces young audiences to Africa through children's literature by award-winning authors. The Orphan Boy by Tololwa M. Mollel is a Maasai tale of a missing star. Art activity follows.
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Continues next month
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2
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| 2 PM
Sharon Katz & The Peace Train
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Nelson Mandela's "cultural ambassadors" present uplifting messages of unity through South African music and dance.
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Sublevel 1
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Thursday, February 12
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A Dios Momo (Goodbye Momo)
African Diaspora Film Festival |
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Note: Film is recommended for mature audiences. A moderated discussion follows.
(2005, 100 min., Spanish with English subtitles, directed by Leonardo Ricagni, Uruguay) Obdulio is an 11-year-old Afro-Uruguayan street boy who lives with his grandmother and sells newspapers for a living. He's not interested in going to school until he finds out that the night watchman of the newspaper's office is a charismatic magical "Maestro" who not only introduces him to the world of literacy but also teaches him the real meaning of life through the lyrics of the "Murgas" (Carnival Pierrots) during the mythical nights of the irreverent and provocative Uruguayan carnival.
Free; registration required, call 633-4633 or espositof@si.edu
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2
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Saturday, February 14
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Africa in Motion: Gesel Mason Performance Projects
Performance ***Cancelled*** |
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Gesel Mason performs excerpts of her award-winning solo project No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers, a collaboration with leading contemporary African American choreographers that celebrates the diversity of work by, for, and about African Americans.
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Lecture Hall, sublevel 2
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Thursday, February 19
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Cousines
African Diaspora Film Festival |
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Note: Film is recommended for mature audiences. A moderated discussion follows with special guest.
(2006, 97 min., Creole/French with English subtitles, directed by Richard Senecal, Haiti) In this drama, Jessica (Jessica Geneus) lives a quiet life in Port-au-Prince but becomes homeless when her father, who lives in the U.S., dies. Without resources, will she be able to resist the temptation of several suitors, one of whom is played by Jimmy Jean-Louis -- featured among the cast of the television phenomenon Heroes?
Free; registration required, call 633-4633 or espositof@si.edu
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2
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Friday, February 27
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Reconstructing the History of Ethiopia's Famed Site of
Lalibela: Lecture |
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Leading Ethiopian art historian Marilyn Heldman discusses Lalibela, the world-famed pilgrimage site composed of churches carved from the living rock in the mountains of Lasta.
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2
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Saturday, February 28
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Kirikou and the Sorceress
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(for ages 7+) (1998, 71 min., directed by Michel Ocelot, France) This award-winning animated film recounts a West African folktale about a newborn boy who saves his village from the curse of the evil sorceress Karaba.
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2
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