Other Events
bfm presents: Thursday Night Live …bringing
the unseen to light
Launch Event: 15th May at Rich
Mix
Thursday Night Live will kick
off with an exclusive film premier of Chris
Rock’s hilarious comedy, ‘I Think I Love My Wife’,
followed by a Q&A with a guest panel and discussion on
the issues raised. This month we are talking about relationships!
Thursday Night Live is
a fusion of film, music and networking under one roof.
bfm and
the Rich Mix
have come together to makeover our experience of going to
the movies. London’s diverse cultural energy will move
into Shoreditch for an exclusive monthly event in the newly
refurbished eclectic Rich Mix arts centre for Thursday Night
Live!
Date:
Thursday 15th May, 2008
Times: 6pm
– midnight (music & performance from 6pm, film
starts at 8pm, Q&A then afterparty from 9:30pm)
Where: Rich
Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road - London E1 6LA
(5 minutes from Liverpool Street Station)
Price: £10
full night (film, Q&A and performance) / £5
(Q&A, performance only) / Free before 7pm (Q&A
and performance only)
Book: 020
7613 7498, info@richmix.org.uk, www.richmix.org.uk
Info:
020 7540 0550, info@bfmmedia.com, www.bfmmedia.com |
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“Celebrating Unity Through Culture”
The 9TH INTERNATIONAL ROOTS FESTIVAL
30TH MAY – 7TH JUNE 2008
The Gambia
This is a great Pan-African Festival
which takes place in The Gambia,
the smiling coast of West Africa, in June every two years.
It is an International, cultural, historical and educational
event dedicated to the promotion of the ideals of Pan-Africanism.
This unique global event of the African Diaspora serves to
strengthen the Pan-African spirit, and the bonds of kinship
and unity that binds continental Africans and those abroad.
The week long festival provides a platform for discussion
and the sharing of experiences between homecomers and Gambians,
with the aim of establishing the truth about the history of
Africa and the experience of its people using the vehicle
of African arts, culture, music and dance.
PROGRAMME FEATURES
• Music (traditional and modern
music of The Gambia and West Africa)
• Theatre
• Dance, Masquerades
• Street Carnival
• Initiation (Rites of Passage)
• Investment Fora
• Symposia
• Excursions to historic sites and monuments including
Forts James Island and Juffureh (the late Alex Haley’s
ancestral home village)
• Gospel Music and Songs/Islamic conference.
• Regatta (Traditional Boat Race)
• And much more!
Independence Days
Sunday 27th April – Sunday 16th November 2008
Independence Days is a reflection on African
independence and freedom in producing films.
African cinema came into being in the 1960s
as a child of African independence. Many countries freed themselves
from European colonial rule in the 1960s and it was only then
that some Africans began to participate in film production.
Next screenings
Sunday 18 May
Le Silence de la Foret
Dir: Didier Ouenangare and Bassek ba Kobhio
Cameroon | 2003 | 93mins
Sunday 25 May
Africa Day Shorts Programme
Portrait of a Youngman Drowning
Dir: Teboho Mahlatsi | South Africa | 1999 | 11mins
Area Boys
Dir: Omelihu Nwanguma | UK/Nigeria | 2007 | 20mins
Elalini
Dir: Tristan Holmes | South Africa | 2005 | 29mins
Waiting for Valdez
Dir: Dumisani Pakhati | South Africa | 2002 | 27mins
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