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Subject: They Won't Budge: Africans In Europe Exhibition Member Preview
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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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*Exhibition Member's Preview*
*They Won't Budge: Africans In Europe *
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*Wednesday, April 22, 6p.m. to 8 p.m.*
*EXHIBITION MEMBER'S PREVIEW *
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*They Won't Budge: Africans In Europe*
Join the Schomburg Center for the opening of *They Won't Budge: Africans In
Europe*
a photographic exhibition reveals the determination, resilience, and
struggle of Africans living in Europe with more than 100 photographs by
award-winning photographers. Curated by the Program in Africana Studies at
New York University.
Through July 26, 2009 Latimer/Edison Gallery
*FILM SERIES*
*They Won't Budge: Africans In Europe* *Film Series*
April 25, May 9, 16, 30
The Schomburg Center presents a film series as a companion to the exhibition
*They Won't Budge: Africans In Europe. *The series will cover the African
Diaspora in Europe. Screenings will be held on Saturdays starting at 4 p.m.
Free Admission. First come, first served. Limited seats.
April 25, 4p.m.
*Borders* - Six men and a woman set out on the hazardous journey from
Senegal to Morocco in a bid to slip illegally into Europe. All are lured by
the promise of a better life, but the challenges are numerous. Passing
through the hands of various smugglers, they cross the desert of Mauritania
and Algeria, first in a pick up, then in the back of refrigerated fish
trucks, and are finally dumped and forced to walk to the Moroccan border.
102 mins
May 9, 4p.m.
*Black Dju* - From the sea and sun of the Cape Verde Island, it's a very big
step to rainy, gloomy, land-locked Luxembourg, but that's the journey
20-year-old Dju Dele Dibonga must take to track down his dad, whose yearly
visits and monthly guest worker checks have stopped. But it's not just the
weather that's not welcoming, Dju also has to face overzealous immigration
cops intent on filling deportation quotas. 80 mins
*Otomo *- A powerful film portraying institutionalized racism and police
brutality, Otomo provides a convincing look at the everyday world of
refugees, who are continuously surrounded by tension and insecurity. In the
summer of 1989, a Stuttgart newspaper reported the true story of a West
African asylum seeker who physically assaulted an intolerant subway
ticket-taker; fled, and became the target of a city-wide manhunt. 84 mins
May 16, 4p.m.
*Waalo Fendo *- Where the Earth Freezes Milan, like Paris or Stuttgart, and
like many other European cities, is the theater of the drama of immigration.
Demba reconstructs his story and that of his brother Yaro, both Senegalese
immigrants in Italy, in a long and fragmentary flashback that begins with
Yaro’s murder and recounts their departure from the village, arrival in
Europe, the work they find selling lighters and picking tomatoes in the
south of Italy: the stages every “non-EEC citizen” goes through in Italy. 63
mins
*Names live Nowhere *- In this film, whose title is a Senegalese proverb, a
griot traveling from Dakar to Brussels weaves a tale about African
expatriates and offers a candid look at the life of African immigrants in
Belgium. With Sotigui Kouyate - a real life griot - as the story teller. 76
mins
May 30, 4p.m.
*The Glass Ceiling *- Europe's racial make-up is quickly changing.
French-Algerian filmmaker Yamina Benguigui is hoping to start a conversation
about affirmative action - a policy that does not exist in France today.
Benguigui's Le Plafond de Verre (Glass Ceiling) presents a series of
sometimes very emotional first-hand accounts of discrimination against
mostly black and North African Arab who are trying to find jobs. 90 mins
*Boma-Tervuren, The Voyage* - The extraordinary and tragic saga of 267
Congolese, brought to Brussels for the 1897 World's Fair. After some four
months of travel towards Belgium, they are exhibited before a million
visitors. Subjected to the crushing gaze of the "Whites" and the cold
climate, many fell prey to disease and even some lost their lives. One
hundred years later, Congolese compatriots return to the scene of these
events and question the "Whites" of today on the incredible story of that
"human zoo". 54 mins
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*EXHIBITIONS*
*James R. Dumpson Centennial Exhibition: Creating a Caring Society*
*Through May 1*
A centennial exhibition honoring Dr. James R. Dumpson, African-American
social worker, educator, humanitarian, and social activist whose career has
spanned the modern history of social welfare in the United States.
Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
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*St. Phillip's Episcopal Church Bicentennial Exhibition*
*May 2, 2009 through August 30, 2009*
*St. Philip’s Episcopal Church Bicentennial Exhibition* presents the 200
year history of St. Philip’s, from 1809 to 2009. Notable church members
include Rev. Peter Williams Jr., James McCune Smith, Elizabeth Jennings, and
Thurgood Marshall.
Main Exhibition Hall
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