Focus In! Film Series presents African Diaspora Event w/ Dr. Shelia Walker
Date and Time
Jan 3, 2019 6:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Jan 3, 2019 6:00 pm
450K
You're invited to the Annual Virtual Mentoring Program Winter Workshop! Filmmaker and cultural anthropologist, Dr. Sheila Walker will lead a discussion following the screening of her film Scattered Africa: Faces and Voices of the African Diaspora.
A documentary examining the African Diaspora, from the violent scattering of African people away from their continent of origin to their contemporary participation in a global community. The film focuses on the enormous -- though largely unknown and unacknowledged -- contributions of Africans and their descendants to the wealth and power of the Americans, and portrays elements of African culture that characterize everyday life throughout the Americas today. Dr. Sheila Walker and other scholars and community leaders from such diverse countries as Argentina, Uruguay, Surinam and Brazil discuss their own discovers of their heritage and the scattered transnational community that is the contemporary African Diaspora.
About Dr. Walker:
Cultural anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, Dr. Walker, Executive Director of Afrodiaspora, Inc., has done fieldwork, lectured, consulted, and organized and participated in cultural events in most of Africa and the Global African Diaspora. She has numerous documentaries and scholarly and popular publications. Her most recent documentary, Familiar Faces/Unexpected Places: A Global African Diaspora, was shown at the Organization of American States and the United Nations in the context of the Decade for People of African Descent. Her edited book, Conocimiento desde adentro: Los afrosudamericanos hablan de sus pueblos y sus historias, features articles by Afro-descendants from all the Spanish-speaking countries in South America. She also edited the volume, African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas and produced the companion documentary, Scattered Africa: Faces and Voices of the African Diaspora, based on the international conference she organized, with the support of UNESCO, on “The African Diaspora and the Modern World.” Dr. Walker was Director of the Center for African and African American Studies, Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor in the College of Liberal Arts, and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, then Distinguished Visiting Professor, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the African Diaspora and the World Program at Spelman College.
Focus-In! Film Series: Cinema for a Conscious Community is a Busboys and Poets-produced monthly film series that screens films with a focus dedicated to social justice, peace, art, music, and/or community value.
Free and open to all!
Seating is first come first serve for this event. Full service provided.
