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| Posted On: | 15-Mar-2005 |
| From: | SABAS WHITTAKER [sabaswhittaker.....net] |
| Subject: | Re: [roatan] Today Marks 207 Years Since Garifuna Victory To Remain Free |
Hello, Joseph. Glad to hear that you like my music and find it enjoyable. Got another CD coming out soon... more instrumental and synphonic, but very good stuff. I will definatelly keep you posted on my next lecture and any other events in the area. I live right here in CT, so we're kind of like neighbors. Thanks again. really appreciate the support. Sabas Joseph Spalone wrote: Sabas, What a coincidence that I was listening to your music when this e-mail arrived!. I'm enjoying it very much, as I enjoy my visits to Roatan. Only wish the film festival was closer to my home in Long Island. If presenting here on Long Island please inform me. Thanks for the good sounds Joe On Mar 14, 2005, at 3:29 AM, SABAS WHITTAKER wrote: > > > More From The Post-Standard | Subscribe To The Post-Standard > Films look at African influence in Central America Three-day film > festival will be at the Community Folk Art Center in Syracuse. > By Frank Herron > Staff writer > > Hurricane Mitch mauled Central America in late October 1998. > > At least 9,000 were killed. Thousands more were left homeless. > Advertisement > > > As news of the devastation flashed northward, many organizations in > the United States gathered money and supplies for survivors. Much of > the aid went to Honduras. > > A number of black churches in eastern Connecticut joined in the effort > to help out. > > Sabas Whittaker, a native Honduran living in Middletown, Conn., > decided to visit some of those churches on a Sunday to thank donors > for their help. > > His visit turned some heads, he recalls. > > "Many were really blown away because they hadn't seen a black Honduran > before," he says. > > That really didn't surprise Whittaker. "When you think of Central > America, you don't think of Africans," he says. > > That type of thinking will likely change for people who attend this > week's three-day film festival at the Community Folk Art Center in > Syracuse. > > The festival, which includes a presentation by Whittaker on Saturday, > is called "Voices/Voces: Colonial Experiences From the Diaspora." > > The first of five films runs at 7 p.m. Thursday. The last begins at 5 > p.m. Saturday. > > Whittaker speaks after the showing of the documentary "The Garifuna > Journey." > > Whittaker, a Garifuna author and artist, will sign copies of his book > "Africans in the Americas." > > Garifuna is "one of the largest African-descendant groups in Central > America," Whittaker explains. > > "We were never enslaved," says Whittaker. > > Each film illustrates an often-overlooked aspect of the cultural and > ethnic changes brought about by the slave trade and migration that > brought thousands of Africans to the Americas. > > "It's about African descendants," says Kheli Willetts, academic > director at the center and an assistant professor in Syracuse > University's African-American studies department. "They literally hit > every continent." > > In this film festival, the focus is on the Caribbean islands and > Central and South America. > > "Lots of countries have tiny pockets that have held on to African > culture," Willetts says. The festival illustrates "the diversity that > really exists in all cultures." > > Here is a schedule of the films and showtimes: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.roatanet.com ----------- To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/roatan/ roatan- the Yahoo! Terms of Service. http://www.roatanet.com To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/roatan/ roatan- : | |
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