cmast film and literary festival
FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE: Thursday, October 01, 2009
CMAST PAN-AFRICAN LITERARY & FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, October 30, 2009 – Sunday, November 01, 2009.
For Immediate Press Release
Toronto, ON | Thursday, October 01, 2009 –
The committee to Commemorate and Memorialize the Abolition of the Slave Trades proudly presents the CMAST Pan-African Film & Literary Festival. This event takes place from 30 Oct. to 1 Nov. 2009 at the William Doo Auditorium, University of Toronto, 45 Willcocks Street at Spadina. This anticipated 3-day event will feature literary readings, book presentations, and performances by new, emerging, and established authors from Canada, the Caribbean, Continental Africa, and their respective Diasporas, plus exclusive film screenings.
Some confirmed writers and artists: Beverley Anderson Manley, David Austin, Afua Cooper, Carol Duncan (This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto), Melanie Newton(The Children of Africa in The Colonies), Award-winning artists such as Kamau Preito Mctair, Waleed Abdulhamid, Keisha-Monique, Heyab Muleneh, Nouvel Exposé, Um’Khondé, Peculiar-I, and L.E.V.I.A.T.H.A.N.
Special features of the Festival include the launch of two historical novels by by Dr. Afua Cooper. These books, My Name is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom and My Name is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom, are published by Kids Can Press, 2009. The launch takes place at 8p.m. on Friday, 30 Oct. 12, 09 Award-winning poet Ian Kamau and Um’Khondé and Keisha Monique will open the event with exciting poetry performances.
The Festival will culminate on Sunday, 1 Nov. at 6p.m. with a reading and presentation by Dr. Beverley Anderson Manley, author, gender specialist, international social activist, and former First Lady of Jamaica, from her book The Manley Memoirs.
Films
Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work; Breakin’ In; ThomasSankara: On Burkina Faso and The Revolution; Generation Sacriifiée...Memoire Oubliée; Brother Future; and Traces of The Trade.
CMAST is a community-based coalition formed with the specific objective of raising public awareness about and promote education on the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the British and United States Trans-Atlantic Slave Trades. Headed by Dr. Afua Cooper (historian, author, and poet), to date, the CMAST team has planned and organized commemorative events and educational outreach activities including lectures, conferences, cultural events, exhibits, symposia, panel discussions, publications (text-based and on-line) outreach to schools, and teach-ins.
Sponsors for the CMAST Pan-African Literary & Film Festival include the City of Toronto: Access, Equity & Human Rights | Toronto Arts Council | Jamaica National Building Society (Toronto), APUS | Kids Can Press | Big It Up International | New College (Office of Residence and Student Life), University of Toronto, | Alfie Roberts Institute |
For further update and more specific schedules, see below.
Contact: Festival Co-ordinator Eve Labi at special.events.by.eve@gmail.com
Or 647- 444-3353
www.cmast.info
www.afuacooper.com/updates
(blog)
CMAST PAN-AFRICAN LITERARY & FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, October 30, 2009 – Sunday, November 01, 2009.
For Immediate Press Release
Toronto, ON | Thursday, October 01, 2009 –
The committee to Commemorate and Memorialize the Abolition of the Slave Trades proudly presents the CMAST Pan-African Film & Literary Festival. This event takes place from 30 Oct. to 1 Nov. 2009 at the William Doo Auditorium, University of Toronto, 45 Willcocks Street at Spadina. This anticipated 3-day event will feature literary readings, book presentations, and performances by new, emerging, and established authors from Canada, the Caribbean, Continental Africa, and their respective Diasporas, plus exclusive film screenings.
Some confirmed writers and artists: Beverley Anderson Manley, David Austin, Afua Cooper, Carol Duncan (This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto), Melanie Newton(The Children of Africa in The Colonies), Award-winning artists such as Kamau Preito Mctair, Waleed Abdulhamid, Keisha-Monique, Heyab Muleneh, Nouvel Exposé, Um’Khondé, Peculiar-I, and L.E.V.I.A.T.H.A.N.
Special features of the Festival include the launch of two historical novels by by Dr. Afua Cooper. These books, My Name is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom and My Name is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom, are published by Kids Can Press, 2009. The launch takes place at 8p.m. on Friday, 30 Oct. 12, 09 Award-winning poet Ian Kamau and Um’Khondé and Keisha Monique will open the event with exciting poetry performances.
The Festival will culminate on Sunday, 1 Nov. at 6p.m. with a reading and presentation by Dr. Beverley Anderson Manley, author, gender specialist, international social activist, and former First Lady of Jamaica, from her book The Manley Memoirs.
Films
Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work; Breakin’ In; ThomasSankara: On Burkina Faso and The Revolution; Generation Sacriifiée...Memoire Oubliée; Brother Future; and Traces of The Trade.
CMAST is a community-based coalition formed with the specific objective of raising public awareness about and promote education on the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the British and United States Trans-Atlantic Slave Trades. Headed by Dr. Afua Cooper (historian, author, and poet), to date, the CMAST team has planned and organized commemorative events and educational outreach activities including lectures, conferences, cultural events, exhibits, symposia, panel discussions, publications (text-based and on-line) outreach to schools, and teach-ins.
Sponsors for the CMAST Pan-African Literary & Film Festival include the City of Toronto: Access, Equity & Human Rights | Toronto Arts Council | Jamaica National Building Society (Toronto), APUS | Kids Can Press | Big It Up International | New College (Office of Residence and Student Life), University of Toronto, | Alfie Roberts Institute |
For further update and more specific schedules, see below.
Contact: Festival Co-ordinator Eve Labi at special.events.by.eve@gmail.com
Or 647- 444-3353
www.cmast.info
www.afuacooper.com/updates
(blog)
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