La Causa presents one of the the largest annual ALANA (African, Latino, Asian, Native American) spoken-word poetry events in the Northeast.
THE 10TH ANNUAL VOICES FOR THE VOICELESS:
DIASPORA POETRY CONCERT
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2007
5:30 PM – 10 PM
KEEFE CAMPUS CENTER- FRIEDMANN ROOM
AMHERST COLLEGE
Dinner from La Veracruzana will be served at 5:45 p.m. and the [...]
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Five-College Dialogue Between National Community Poets and Academics
Opening Ceremony to the 10th Annual Voices for the Voiceless: Poetry and Spoken Word as Acts of Freedom
Date: Friday, December 7, 2007
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: Fayerweather Hall Room 113
Amherst College
The idea behind this project is to expose the five college area to the diversity, complexity, and [...]
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Cameroonian filmmaker and visiting Copeland Fellow, Jean Marie Teno, will be talking about his work . The presentation will take the form of an informal retrospective of his films with clips and an opportunity to interact with the audience. The presentation will be followed by a reception at the Mead Art Museum among the paintings, [...]
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The Black Studies Department at Amherst College presents
Robert Farris Thompson
(Colonel John Trumbell Professor of the History of Art at Yale University)
Topic: “Eshu-Elegba in the Atlantic Context”
Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 4:30 PM
Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather 115)
Amherst College
Robert Farris Thompson, starting with an article on Afro-Cuban dance and music published in 1958, has devoted his [...]
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