12th ANNUAL SUMMER OUTDOOR SERIES
Mid-Manhattan Public Library, Annex
40th Street and 5th Avenue, 6th Floor – New York, NY
2:00 p.m.
July 7th – August 28th, 2011

Fashion designer/Entrepreneur Wunmi of WOW WOW
Retail Entrepreneur: Atim Annette Oton of Calabar Imports
Time: Sunday, July 31 · 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Tin City Drug & General Store
366 Lewis Avenue
Brooklyn, New York

 
CALL FOR PAPERS

Women and Film in Africa Conference: Overcoming Social Barriers
Conference organised by the Africa Media Centre, University of Westminster
Date: Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 November 2011
Venue: University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus
35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS
This is a 1st Call for Papers for a conference on the contemporary and historical role played by women in the film, television and video industries in Africa. From the Arab North Africa, West Africa, Central and East Africa, through to Southern Africa, women have emerged from the double oppression of patriarchy and colonialism to become the unsung heroines …

Sohia Urista & Keziah Jones
Saturday July 16, 2011
From 6:00 PM
(Free Admission) Suggested Donation $5

Weeksville Heritage Center
1698 Bergen, Brooklyn, NY 11213
(between Buffalo Ave. & Rochester Ave)

Bantu-speaking peoples, predominantly Fang, establish the majority of population of the Equatorial Guinea. Bantu have a proverb that deals with the common sense: “There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.” Based on how the Equatorial Guinea is currently governed it’s clear that the common sense stopped applying there long time ago violating the great historical and cultural of the Bantu speakers who introduced Iron Age and an agriculture civilization into a surrounding Neolithic hunting and gathering societies very early and probably around the sixth century BC.

A new film exploring the roots of one of the greatest social, economic and environmental disasters in Central Africa.
Date: Thursday June 30, 2011

Time: Doors open at 6:30 for a 7 p.m. program.
(see below for other locations out of New York)

Where: Global Information Network
146 West 29th Street Suite 7E, New York, NY

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
Part of the BAMcinématek series FilmAfrica and DanceAfrica 2011
May 26th – 31st, 2011

May 26th – July 2nd, 2011
Skoto Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 5thFL
New York, NY 10011

Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Saturday 11 AM – 6 PM

Skoto Gallery is pleased to present ‘From Time to Time’, a solo exhibition of drawings by the Sudanese-born artist Ibrahim El Salahi.
April 14th – May 21st, 2011 6-8pm.
529 West 20th Street, 5thFL
New York, NY 10011
www.SkotoGallery.com

NYAFF founder and director, Mahen Bonetti, discusses the 2011 New York African Film Festival which honors United Nations’ designation of 2011 as the ‘International Year for the People of African Descent’. The festival explores the historical and contemporary roles in the arts, played by people representing the African Diaspora.
From April 2nd through May 31, 2011