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Fall 2007

 Fall 2007
 Visit by Mwatabu Okantah,
 The Muntu Kuntu Energy Poet 		      Mwabatu Okantah
        Wed. Sept. 5th
        Learning Lunch on Black Men
        "The Hazards of Being Male" 
        Noon, Glatfelter Lodge
       
        Thurs. Sept. 6th
        Performance: "Word Sounds and Power"
        7:00 p.m. College Union Building, Junction
        

 

                             Bambu Station                            

 Thurs. Sept. 27
 Bambu Station: an Evening of Reggae Music
 7:00 p.m. College Union Building, Junction
 Wed.-Fri. Sept. 26-28
 Martin Obeng Artist-in-Residence
 Details TBA		      Martin Obeng
 Sat. Sept. 30
 Brazilian Filmmaker Joel Zito Araujo
 7:00 p.m. Joseph Theater, Breidenbaugh 201
 Denying Brazil (2000, Brazil) Dir: Joel Zito Araujo
An important documentary about Brazilian black actors, and their role in the history of soap-opera, the product with more audience in Brazilian TV. To be supplemented with a visit by the filmmaker.
          Joel Zito Araujo

 

Azucar 

 Thurs. Oct. 4
 Salsa lessons - free
 6:30 p.m. College Union Ballroom

 "La Fiesta"
 Tito's Mexican food provided by:
       Latin American Studies
       the Department of Spanish
       and concerned students
 Music and dancing with Azucar 
 7:00 p.m. College Union Building, Junction

 Fri. Oct. 5 (First Friday)
 8:00 p.m. Block Party with dancing in the Square
                downtown Gettysburg

      Indira with Azucar Band 
 Wednesday, Oct. 10
 Speaker: Irene Monroe
 7:00 p.m. Pennsylvania Hall Lyceum
 African American feminist theologian, Irene Monroe, is a Ford Fellow and doctoral candidate at Harvard Divinity School. As a self-proclaimed 'public theologian' Monroe tries to inform the public of the role religion plays in discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. She has received numerous honors and awards for her achievements such as the Cambridge Peace and Justice Award and the Boston Cerificate of Recognition.		   Irene Monroe
 Wednesday, Oct. 24
 Derrick K. Gondwe Memorial Lecture
 Speaker: The Honorable Goodall E. Gondwe
               Minister of Finance, Republic of Malawi
 7:00 p.m., Pennsylvania Hall, 3rd Floor Lyceum

   Goodall Gondwe
 African Heritage Week
October 21-27
(where not listed, details TBA)
 October 22
 Speaker on Africa and Foreign Policy/Globalization
        (Brownbag lunch)
 4:00 Story Telling for staff and local children
 Stine Lake lawn area; rain location CUB Junction
 October 23
 5:00 Speaker/discussion on Slavery and Colonialism
 October 24
 5:00 Discussion on Politics and Economics of Africa
 October 25
 Common Hour: Dr. Augustine Mahiga
                               Tanzanian Ambassador to the UN  		          Ambassador Augustine Mahiga
 October 26
 Drumming with Martin "Kwaku Kwaakye" Obeng		  Obeng practicing drum with students
 October 27
 Big Night in Africa
      Dinner
      Drumming with Martin Obeng
      World Music Ensemble
 African Party at the Attic 		  African party at the Attic
 
 
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