for those in the Puget Sound area, this promises to be very good

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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:46:15 -0700
From: Sandra Chait <[log in to unmask]>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:@u.washington.edu;>
Subject: poa- african film conference


************* Health Healing and the Arts in Africa ************


                            THE PROGRAM ON AFRICA
                                University of Washington
                                                &

            The Seattle Art Museum's African Art Council

                                             Presents
                                                  an

                        AFRICAN FILM CONFERENCE
(Part of the Health, Healing and the Arts in Africa lecture series)

April 21, 2001
Seattle Art Museum Auditorium, First Avenue and University Street
Admission Free

The day will be divided into two sections:
In the first half, three scholars in the field of African cinema, Sheila
Petty, Mbye Cham and Peter Davis, discuss film representations of healing in
Africa.
In the second half, the screening of three African films: Sangoma:
Traditional Healers in Modern Society (1997), Taafe Fanga (1997) and Xala
(1974).

Morning Session

10.00 Peter Davis - author/filmmaker
 (Sangoma, In Darkest Africa)
"Protecting the body, cleansing the soul: confronting HIV/AIDS, Southern
Africa to North America"
10.35 Sheila Petty - Professor of Film and Video, University of Regina
 (A Call to Action: The Films of Ousmane Sembene)
 "Oral Tradition and Cultural Healing in Taafe Fanga"
11.10 Mbye Cham - Professor of African Studies, Howard University
(African Experiences of Cinema with Imruh Bakari)
"Impotence and the Politics of Transformation: Ousmane Sembene's XALA"
11.45 Discussion
12.15 Break

Afternoon Session

1.00 Sangoma: Traditional Healers in Modern Society (1997) - directed by
Peter Davis. South Africa's practitioners of traditional medicine

2.00 Taafe Fanga (1997) - directed by Adama Drabo. A comical look - with
serious undertones - at issues of gender

3.45 Xala (1974) - directed by Ousmane Sembene. Sembene's classic film
comments on the pretensions underlying Senegalese society.


To reach the Seattle Art Museum from the University of Washington campus,
take the #70 bus from 15th Avenue E. to 3rd and  University.  Or the # 43 to
2nd and Pike. Both stops are two blocks from the museum entrance on first
and University.

For further information, contact Program on Africa at (206) 616-0998   or
Seattle Art Museum at (206) 654-3158:



Seattle Art Museum, at 100 University St., Downtown Seattle, is open Tuesday
through Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Thursday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.  First Thursdays
are generously sponsored by the Boeing Co. and the Janet W. Ketcham
Endowment Fund. Media support is by KCMU 90.3 FM.  For museum information,
call (206) 654-3100 or visit our website at www.seattleartmuseum.org

Sandra Chait
Lecturer(African Literature)/Associate Director (Program on Africa)
Office of Undergraduate Education
274F Mary Gates Hall
University of Washington
Box 352802
Seattle, WA 98195
Tel: (206) 616-0998
email: [log in to unmask]

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