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The Films of William E. Jones @ Anthology Film Archives

February 26-March 4 @ Anthology Film Archives

Beginning with his haunting 1991 feature debut, MASSILLON, an autobiographical account of growing up as a gay man in the American Midwest, William E. Jones has built a remarkable body of work that balances formal experimentation with astute cultural inquiry. Though his films are extremely varied – encompassing the [...]

2010 New York Fornés Festival: Maria Irene Fornés

March 25th to April 5th, 2010

Presented by INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc)  in association with NYU’s Department of English

INTAR (Eduardo Machado, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) will join New York University’s Department of English and its Program in Dramatic Literature to celebrate the 80th birthday of playwright, director and teacher Maria Irene Fornés. To [...]

They Won’t Budge: African Diaspora in Europe

Panel Discussion & Film Screenings Exploring African Migration in Europe

The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts & The Africana Studies Program at New York University proudly present:

Sunday, November 15, 2009

PANEL DISCUSSION 10am—1pm

PART I: “Multivocal Identities of Africans in Europe”

PART II: “Metropolis: Africans and Mass Urbanization”

MEMBERS OF THE PANEL INCLUDE:

Awam Amkpa
Associate Professor, Drama/Social and Cultural Analysis [...]

Our Family film screening

Directed by K. P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro

October 20, Tuesday
7 to 9 PM

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9204-05
between 34th and 35th Streets

2007, 56 min., India
Tamil with English Subtitles

Set in Tamilnadu, India, Our Family weaves together excerpts from Nirvanam, a solo theatrical performance by Pritham K. Chakravarthy, and the lives of three generations of transgendered [...]