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Art As A Weapon
A day-long festival of music, song, words and dance celebrating Black History and examining how the Arts can continue to work as a force for good today.
11am - 12.40pm
AMANDLA! A REVOLUTION IN 4-PART HARMONY (FREE DVD SCREENING)
Interviews, archival footage, and filmed performances highlight the role of music in the South African
struggle against apartheid.
1.00 - 1.15pm
HALF MOON. A 15-minute play by Tayo Aluko. Characters: A white aristocratic man, his bi-racial (Brit-ish/African) wife and a Nubian Princess from 3,000 years ago. Performed by students from a London College.
1.30 - 2.15pm. Lunch
2.30pm - 4.00pm
WILL KAUFMAN
ALL YOU JIM CROW FASCISTS! Woody Guthrie's anti-racist songs and activism. Conventionally known for his championing of the poor white Dust Bowl migrants, he also became a committed civil rights activist working and singing with the likes of Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and Paul Robeson in the 40s and 50s.
4.15 - 4.45pm.
ANTONIA FRANCIS
Piano, Voice. Arrangements of Spirituals and original Songs inspired by Africa and African Liberation.
5.00 - 5.45pm
OSUN ARTS FOUNDATION.
IGBEKUN. Extracts from a traditional Yoruba dance drama describing how a community fight to
regain their freedom after being vanquished by visitors who turned on them.
6.00 - 6.45pm. Dinner
7.00 - 7.45
DR. HAKIM ADI
A talk on the theme of the written and spoken word as a means of Affirmation, Resistance and
Liberation, by people of African descent.
8.00 - 9.00pm
PAUL RICKETTS
Cutter's Choice A comic personal and political black hair-story. The search for a black identity as represented through his choices of hairstyle from bald head to dreads, kinky to straight, flat-top to Afro.
Introduced and compered by TAYO ALUKO, Baritone, who will sing a song by a Black composer to introduce each section.
FOOD PROVIDED!!: * 1 meal per person; ** 2 meals per person
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LocationTheatro Technis
26 Crowndale Road
London NW1 1TT
United Kingdom
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