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Dear Friend of NOAFEST, On Friday September 11 at 7:30 pm, we will hold a special event at the Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp Street, NOLA 70130. We are extremely pleased to present an award winning short film by NOAFEST Co-President Joseph Gaï Ramaka and a solo sax performance by Khris Royal. This will be an occasion to tell you about our new project, The Mississippi River 9th Ward Film Festival, which we will launch in October near the banks of the Mississippi in the 9th Ward. We hope you will be as excited as we are about this Festival. We need your support! Please join us for a Special Screening Contemporary Arts Center
So Be It (1997) 33 minutes Joseph Gaï Ramaka Director Silver Lion, Short Film, Venice International Film Festival 1997 In dialogue with a play by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, So Be It is the story of a doctor struggling in a rural Senegalese village against practices he abhors, including that of the sacrificial lamb. Boasting a brilliant jazz score to match its visual beauty, So Be It is the work of a director, "drawn to challenging subjects and willing to take risks." -- Akin Adesokan The screening will be preceded by Nurtured at NOCCA, Berklee School of Music in Boston, and by long-time mentor Alvin Batiste, Khris has played and recorded with Batiste, Erykah Badu, Goapele, Bobby Brown, Ashanti, Nelly, Ellis Marsalis, Clyde Kerr Jr., Maurice Brown, Herlin Riley, Delfeayo Marsalis, D.J. Quick, Tony Clifton, The Sam Kininger Band, and Mary J. Blige. A reception will follow NOAFEST invites you to help us launch the Mississippi River 9th Ward Film Festival. Friends who contribute $30 will be invited to the inaugural event on October 17.
New Orléans Afrikan Film and Arts Festival 2670 Havana Street, New Orleans, LA 70119 |
Join us for the Mississippi River 9th Ward Film and Arts Festival, October 6-9, 2011!
On Friday September 16 at the New Orleans African American Museum, we will offer a Festival Sneak Preview, featuring Mississippi Damned (2009) with Director Tina Mabry. Admission is free, seating is limited. Reserve a place at: noafest@neworleansafrikanfilmfest.org or 504-942-8542.
October 6, the Festival opens at the Galvez Restaurant & Atrium with a Gala honoring Harold Battiste, Jr, recipient of the second Toni Cade Bambara Award for Cultural Leadership. Come hear Jesse McBride Presents the Next Generation and a Battiste composition arranged by Dr. Jean Montes for Molto, a funky chamber orchestra! And for a little lagniappe: "Prelude by the River" at 6pm.
October 7-9, we will screen films on youth, women, the violence they endure and often overcome: Draw Yourself! (France, 2010); Shirley Adams: Portrait of a Mother (South Africa, 2009); Africa United (UK, 2010); Murder on a Sunday Morning (France/U.S., 2001); Central Station (Brazil, 1999); Black Venus (France/Tunisia, 2010), with live music by Charmaine Neville, Fredy Omar con su banda, and the Caesar Brothers Funk Box preceding evening screenings. And we will host two roundtables: “Black Men and the Justice System” and “Race and Power in New Orleans in Global Perspective.”
Gala Tickets are $75 each or $135 for two. Tickets available online or by check.
Festival screenings are $5 each. A Festival Pass for all screenings may be purchased for $20, online or by check.
Make checks payable to NOAFEST, 2670 George Nick Connor Dr., NOLA 70119.
