Hello Proud Africans (and friends of Africa),
It’s getting colder! So wrap yourself up in your
Proud to be African sweatshirt or snuggle up to someone. Or both!!
But it is not all rain and ice as we have an overload of
awesome African events which should warm the coldest reaches of your reachable!
From African movies at the Africa Centre, excellent careers and networking
events, more African movies at Film Africa the London Jazz Festival and even
more African movies at Nollywood Premieres.
In fact if you are bored this week it means you are either
not subscribed to this blog or are not interested in good stuff!!
In addition to the fun, cultural stuff we have quite a few
serious and topical events such as the US election, and talks on African
affairs.
Monday 5th November
Film Africa
At
6.00pm we have
Family
Portrait in Black And White (Ukraine) at
Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, E1 6LA, about Olga
Nenya who fosters 17 children of whom 16 are mixed race, a difficult task in
one of the most racist countries in the world, this film follows several of the
children as they try and define their identities outside of Olga’s strict but
loving home. This is followed by a poetic response to the film. Tickets are
£9.00 (£6.50 concs) from
here
At
6.30pm at the
Ritzy
Picturehouse, Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, SW2 1JG we have 4
short films. The award winning
Fishing
without nets (Somalia/ Kenya) is a fictional short film about pirates in
Somalia through the eyes of suffering Somali fishermen.
The Tunnel (South Africa/ Zimbabwe) is set in 1980’s Zimbabwe
during the 5
th Brigade massacres and follows young Elizabeth as she
uses her skills as a storyteller to save her village and solve the mystery of
her father’s disappearance.
The Last
Passenger (Algeria) is the dreamlike story of about the soul of a young man
about to commit suicide who decides to pay a visit to his two impossible loves
a woman and a mysterious theatre. Theses screenings are followed by a Q&A
with Fyzal Boulifa and Gavin Humphrey. Tickets are
£6.50 (£5.00 concs and £4.50 members) from
here.
Dear Mandela (South Africa/ USA) comes at
6.30pm at the
Hackney
Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 1HE this documentary tells the
story of 3 young South African activists determined to stop forced slum
evictions, the screening will be followed by a panel discussion with members of
Abahlalibase Mjondolo and War on Want. Tickets are
£6.00 (£5.00 concs, £4.00 members and children) from
here.
At
8.30pm we have
Zulu Love Letters (South Africa) at the
Ritzy Picturehouse about Thandeka a cynical former political
activist and journalist whose life is forced to change when she is approached
by an old woman Me’Tau who asks her to help find her daughter’s remains.
Tickets are
£6.50 (£5.00 concs, £4.50
members) from
here.
At
8.50pm at the
Hackney
Picturehouse we have an exclusive preview screening of
The Runner (UK/ Ireland/ France) a documentary about Salah Ameidan,
a Sahrawi athlete and freedom fighter about the struggle of the Sahrawi people
against Morocco, followed by a Q&A with director Saeed T. Farouky. Tickets
are
£6.00 (£4.00 members and
children) from
here.
Tuesday 6th November
From
6.00pm to
9.00pm Thomson Reuters Black Employees
Network and BNY Mellon presents
A
Conversation with Courtenay Griffiths QC on Ethics and Leadership where the
Jamaican born Barrister who has represented many high profile defendants such
as the trial of the Damilola Taylor killers, the PC Keith Blakelock murder
trial, the Brighton bombing trial and Harrods bombing trial former Liberian
leader Charles Taylor will share his perspectives on the effectiveness of
ethics and leadership. The event will take place on the
1st Floor, Auditorium, The Thomson, Reuters Building, 30
South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, E14 5EP and is
FREE, RSVP
here
What with this being US election day with the first US
President of African descent seeking re-election , I thought it fitting to
include
American US Election Night Party from
9.00pm to
6.00am at the
Famous Three Kings, 171 North End Road,
Fulham, London, W14 9LA. Hosted by the Obama London Organizing For America
group you can celebrate (or commiserate) with Americans, fans of President
Obama or people who just want to hang out and chant ‘USA, USA, USA!!’ all night
(it’s an infectious chant!), results will be coming in on the venues 9 screens
from a variety of broadcasters so it should be fun to compare and contrast.
Price for this all night party with Buffet and champagne toast is
£32.00 in advance (
£39.00 on the door) from
here.
Film Africa
At 6.00pm we have Filming
Tomorrow a screen seminar on grassroots filmmaking in Africa at Rich Mix in 3 sections. Section One
presented by Joshua McNamara is on Urban
Film and Space, Section Two is on Mosireen
and collective filmmaking by Omar Robert Hamilton and the 3rd section is an
Open debate. This event is FREE
At
6.30pm we have
Our Africa: Thousands of kilometres of Soviet film at
the Ritzy Picturehouse, a screen talk
by filmmaker Alexander Markov about the abundance of newsreel and film footage
from the Soviet archives he is using to make the documentary ‘Our Africa’.
Tickets are
£6.50 (£5.00 cons and £4.50
members)
from
here.
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At
6.45pm we have 5 short films at the
Hackney Picturehouse. A
stunning film
Kengere (Uganda) that
uses puppets to tell the story of a tragic incident in Eastern Uganda in 1989,
in which government soldiers accused local villagers of being rebels.
Fluorescent Sin (Kenya) sees a drag
queen at Nairobi’s central station descending into breakdown in a poetic
soliloquy.
Hasaki Ya Suda (The Three
Black Samurai) (Burkina Faso/ France) is set in 2100 in which people of the
south are forced to migrate north, in this stunningly shot Afro-samurai film in
the vein of Akira Kurosawa.
Umkhungo
(South Africa) is a fantasy thriller about an orphaned child with supernatural
powers who is adopted by a violent but empathetic Johannesburg tsotsi
(gangster).
The Godfather (Le Parrain) is
an animated tale of a father’s journey to find the best godfather for his baby
son. Tickets are
£10.00 (£9.00 concs and
£8.00 members) from
here.
At 8.00pm at the Ritzy
Picturehouse we have a musical interlude with Karama, a virtuosic quartet led by oud player Soufian Saihi playing
songs from as diverse a landscape as Tinariwen to Alice Coltrane. This event is
FREE
Also at
8.00pm but at the
Rich Mix
we have
The Education Auma Obama
(Germany/Kenya) a documentary about US President Obama’s fascinating,
sophisticated Kenyan half sister Auma Obama, set against the backdrop of the
2008 US election race with a rousing soundtrack, this is a fascinating portrait
of a brilliant woman who introduced President Obama to his Kenyan roots. This
screening is followed by a Q&A with director Branwen Okpako, tickets are
£9.00 (£6.00 concs) from
here.
At
9.00pm is
Sex, Okra and
Salted Butter at the
Hackney
Picturehouse (Chad/ France) a hilarious comedy set in France in which
endearing patriarch Malik has to cope with his wife Hortense leaving him for a
younger man and discovering his son is gay. Tickets are
£10.00 (£9.00 concs and £8.00 for members) from
here
At 9.10pm we have
Beauty (Skoonheid)(South Africa) at Screen on the Green, Everyman Cinemas, 83
Upper Street, Islington, N1 0NP, in which a conservative middle aged father
in small town South Africa descends into a dangerous obsession with a handsome
son of one of his friends. Tickets are £11.00
Wednesday 7th November
From
6.00pm to 7.00pm
we have the
RSA/ Aeon Debate: Does Africa
Need our Outrage at
8 John Adam
Street, London, WC2N 6EZ. The Royal Society for the Arts and Aeon Magazine
are bringing together an expert panel of commentators to debate whether
international outrage over human rights and inequalities in Africa is more of a
hindrance than a help and whether there are better ways to further the
discourse without hostility. The event is chaired by Brigid Hains (editor Aeon
Magazine) and speakers include Graeme Wood (The Atlantic). RSVP
here for this
FREE event.
From
6.00pm to 8.30pm we have
Getting
to the Top at
Birckbeck College,
University of London, Torrington Square, WC1E 7HX, where there will be
leading professionals from law, enterprise, utilities, PR, media and
engineering backgrounds will discuss their current careers and how they
achieved their positions, the panel will
be hosted by Sheryl Nwosu (Barrister) and consist of Patrick Clarke MBD
(Director of Network Operations, UK Power Networks), Denise Rawls (PR
Specialist at Ofsted and CEO Strange Fruit Greeting Cards), Angela Arnold
(Partner, BH Solicitors) Book your tickets for
£5.00 (FREE for University students)
here .
From 12.00-7.00pm we have ACS in
the City Public Sector Forum at 8
Northumberland Avenue, WC2N 5BY. This is a careers and networking event for
African and Caribbean students interested in working for the leading employers
in the UK’s public sector, the event will bring together ACS students with
public sector organisations to network, discuss career opportunities and
applications processes. Participating organisations include Bank of England,
Civil Service Fast Stream, Financial Services Authority, National Audit Office,
National Health Service and Transport for London. This event is FREE and open to graduates or
undergraduates of any discipline.
I would highly recommend
this event for anyone or anyone you might know; even if you are not interested
in a public sector career just getting face to face with recruiters is a huge
bonus. Travel reimbursement is also available for students coming in from
outside London, so there is no excuse really!! There will be a Banking, Law and
Top Talent Forum to follow, RSVP
here.
At
7.30pm we have another Proud to be African favourite the
London Afrobeat Collective (for those
of you who don’t know, they are a musical collective that plays Afrobeat and
are based in London- he hint was in the name!!!) at
Camden Barfly, 49 Chalk Farm Road, Camden, NW1 8AN playing some of
the hits from their debut album as well as some new material, they fully intend
to be bringing Afrobeat heat to the chilly London nights, Tickets are
£8.00 from
here and as an added bonus you get a
free album if you buy in advance from here. Oya what are you waiting for?
Everybody say Yeah, Yeah!!!
At
8.00pm we have the
Lionel
Loueke Trio at the
Vortex Jazz Club,
11 Gillett Square, Dalston, N16 8AZ, consisting of guitarist and vocalist
Lionel Loueke, Michael Olatuja on bass and Mark Giuliana on drums, this ‘gentle
virtuoso’ will be playing tracks steeped in his African roots. Tickets are
£16.50 from
here.
Film Africa
At
6.30pm we have a series of sports related shorts at the
Ritzy Picturehouse.
An African Race (UK) is a documentary
following the Tour of Rwanda a bicycle race that twists and turns out of Kigali
to the hills of Rwanda. Followed by a Q&A with director Ben Ingham, Jerry
Rothwell and Dan Demissie. A
Town of
Runners (UK/ Ethiopia) focuses on the small Ethiopian town of Bekoji home
of Marathon winner Tiki Gelana, and 2 young girls’ struggles to follow in her
footsteps. Tickets are
£10.50 (
£9.50 conc and £8.50 for members) from
here.
At 6.45pm we have another screening of The Beautiful Game at the Hackney
Picturehouse. Followed by a Q&A with director Victor Buhler and some
well known footballers, tickets are £10.00
(£9.00 concs, £8.00 member and £6.00 children)
At 7.30pm we have Twende Berlin
(Kenya) at Rich Mix a cultural quest
from Nairobi to Berlin by public space hero Upendo Hero and the Ukoo Flani hip
hop clan to understand the impact of gentrification and privatisation of public
spaces, this screening is FREE
At 7.30pm we have 2 Southern African singers at the Hackney Picturehouse, South African Joyce Moholoagae with her mesmerising
voice inspired by the songs of liberation and Namvula with melodies from Brazil to Zambia and Mozambique. Don’t
miss this FREE event with DJ Romanzo
on the decks.
At
9.00pm at the
Hackney
Picturehouse we have
Tahrir 2011:
The Good, The Bad and The Politician (Egypt) a documentary with 3 distinct
takes on the Egyptian Revolution, i.e. the Tahrir Square demonstrations (The
Good), the police response (the bad) and Hosni Mubarak (the politician), this
is a serious subject with a humorous presentation. Tickets are
£10.00 (£9.00 concs and £8.00 members)
from
here
Thursday 8th November
At
8.00pm we have another performance by the
Lionel Loueke Trio at the
Vortex
Jazz Club. Tickets are
£16.50
from
here
Film Africa
At 6.30pm we have 3 shorts, another screening of Cane/ Cain (South Africa), Fluorescent
Sin (Kenya) and then Difficult Love (South
Africa) about the loves and lives of lesbians in modern South Africa at Rich Mix. These screenings are FREE and are repeated at 8.00pm.
At
6.15pm we have
Burma Boy (UK)
at the
Hackney Picturehouse, a
documentary featuring Nigerian World War 2 veteran Isaac Fadoyebo who along
with 100,000 other African soldiers fought in the 1943- 1945 Burma Campaign.
After hearing+ Isaac’s oral history recording in the Imperial War Museum,
journalist Barnaby Phillips tracks him down in Nigeria, eventually travelling
to Burma and Japan. This is followed by the premiere of
His Majesty’s Sergeant which tells the tale of three soldiers
fighting in the Burma Campaign a Ghanaian, Sikh and Englishman, focusing on not
just the fighting but their personal interactions. These extremely pertinent documentaries
are followed by a Q&A with director Barnaby Phillips and Ato Yanney Jr (son
of His Majesty’s Sergeant director). Tickets are £
10.00 (£9.00 concs and £8.00 members) from
here.
At
6.30pm we have
When China
met Africa (UK/ France) at
The Ritzy
Picturehouse, a documentary following several Chinese run businesses in
Zambia, followed by a Q&A with directors Marc and Nick Francis. Tickets are
£10.50 (£9.50 concs and £8.50 members)
from
here.
Following on at The Ritzy is The Boom Yeh: Root Down Sessions featuring Jally Kebba Susso at 8.30pm. This Funk/ Jazz Afrobeat
quintet led by guitarist Jon Speedy ties up with Gambian kora master Jally Kebba
Susso for an inspiring performance. Tickets are £3.00 or FREE with ‘When China Met Africa’ tickets’.
At
9.00pm we have
Cuba: An
African Odyssey (France/ UK/ US)
at
the
Hackney Picturehouse, this
documentary covers the 300,000 Cubans who fought in Africa from Congo to Angola
using archive footage and interviews. A fascinating film for people interested
in post independence African history Tickets
£10.00 (£9.00 concs and £8.00 members) from
here
Friday 9th November
Afrobeat
Fans in London Meetup will be holding their
Official Launch Party at
5.30pm
at
Aquum, 68-70 Clapham High Street,
Clapham, SW4 7UL in conjunction with London Singles Meetup, this should be
an excellent event. Entry is
FREE,
and there is a
FREE Thai dinner,
with the only costs being drinks at the bar (at £8.00 each it’s not that free
unless you get in, eat and then drink water from the bathroom!) RSVP
here.
At
7.30pm we have
the
Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet and
Empirical at the
Queen Elizabeth
Hall,Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Southwark, SE1 8XX, described as a messiah
of the post bop trumpet. Tickets are from
£10.00 to £20.00 from
here.
Also at
7.30pm we
have the
Robert Glasper Experiment with
special guest Doom and Phantom Limb at the
Southbank Centre. With their signature mix of jazz, hip hop and
R&B and surprise special guests this promises to be an interesting session,
while Phantom Limb stands at the crossroads of country and classical R&B.
£10.00 to £27.50 from
here.
At
8.00pm we have
Robert Mitchells Panacea at
Charlie Wrights, 45 Pitfield Street, N1 6DA playing his unique combination of jazz
and 70’s soul alongside Omar Puente the Cuban jazz violinist. Tickets are
£8.00 form
here.
Also at
8.00pm
but at
Ronnie Scotts, 47 Frith Street, Soho,
W1D 4HT we have
Terrence Blanchard,
the 5 time Grammy Award winning trumpeter leading one of the hottest bands on
the jazz scene, tickets from
here.
At
8.00pm we have
the UK premiere of the latest Nollywood production
The Champion Sportsman at
Odeon
Cinema, Bugsby Way, Greenwich, SE10 0QJ, starring John Okafor, Patience
Ozokwor, Sandra Achums, Stephan Lohse, Andy Edelbut, Mimi Beaufort-Spontin,
written and directed by Azubuike Erinugha, it is a comedy about Okoro Ajonuma
(John Okafor) who sneaks into Germany with a very ‘wrong’ passport and must
confound linguistic, legal, financial and even sporting realities to get
through. Filmed in Germany, London and Okigwe (thats a town in Nigeria in case you’re
wondering), admission is
£10.00 from
here and it is hosted by Obi Emelonye (Writer/ director of
Mirror Boy and
Last Flight to
Abuja)
At
8.00pm Afri-Kokoa presents
Master
Kora Griot Seckou Keita at
Rich Mix.
This is the only London performance of the Senegalese maestros 21 show tour, in
which he will be performing with his 7 piece band songs from his new album
Miro, which marks a return to his roots as well as a nod to the influences
during Seckou’s musical travels. Not an event to be missed for a fan of the
kora or traditional African music. This will be followed by Afri Kokoa DJ’s AJ
Kwame, Volta 45 and Baggy. Tickets are
£10.00
in advance from
here £12.00 on the
door.
Film Africa
At
6.30pm at the
Hackney Picturehouse we have
Maami (Nigeria) which is set over a 2
day period in the run up to the 2010 Football World Cup and is the story of
Kashimawo’s return to his homeland and reminisce about his hardscrabble life in
Abeokuta with his mother. Based on the novel
Maami, it is followed by a Q&A with the director Tunde Kelani.
Tickets are
£10.00 (£9.00 concs)
from
here
At
6.30pm at the
Ritzy
Picturehouse we have
Tey (Today) (France/
Senegal) is a poetic exploration of the streets of an unnamed Senegalese city
through the eyes of a doomed young man Satche, played by spoken word hip hop
artist Saul Williams. Followed by a Q&A with director Alain Gomis, tickets
are
£10.50 (£9.50 concs and £8.50 members)
from
here.
At 7.30pm we have Amour, Sexe et Mobylette (Love, Sex and Mopeds
(France/Germany/Burkina Faso) at Rich
Mix a documentary about love in a small village in Burkina Faso, following
the villagers lives in the run up to Valentine’s Day. This is a FREE screening.
At 8.00pm our friends Rita Ray and Max Reinhardt of The Shrine will be featuring Yazid Fentazi the
Algerian oud maestro at the Hackney
Picturehouse, mixing decks with live oud music its £5.00 admission or FREE
with tickets for previous screenings.
At
9.00pm we have
Restless City
(USA) at
Hackney Picturehouse, in
which Djibril moves from Senegal to New York to become a musician but becomes
embroiled in Harlems kinetic landscape, peddling for gangsters, borrowing from
pimps and falling in love with a prostitutes, this is a striking view of
African migrants in the USA. Tickets are
£10.00
(£9.00 concs and £8.00 members) from
here
Saturday 10th
November
From
11.00am to 2.00pm 100
Black Men of London will host their
South
London Community Mentoring Programme Open Day at
London South Bank University, Lecture Theatre L117, 100-116 London
Road, Elephant and Castle, SE1 6LN, where you can learn more about this
worthy groups’ community mentoring programme (there are North, South, East and
West London branches), register your children (ages 10-16) for the Me I can Be
mentoring programme which deals with life skills with modules on self identity,
effective expression, family roles and responsibilities, peer relations, health
and well being, drugs and substance abuse and much more. Adults can sign up to
the Parents in Partnership programme which demonstrates how we can make a
positive impact on the lives of our children by helping them develop into
positive role models and leaders of the future. Since the programme began in
2001 hundreds of children have graduated and been positively impacted. Please
RSVP for this
FREE and very
worthwhile event
here.
From
1.30pm to 5.30pm
we have
Green Deal Nigeria in the
Bloomsbury Suite, Friends House, 173 Euston
Road, NW1 2AX. Hosted by Jean Lambert, Green Party MEP and the Heinrich
Boll Foundation, it seeks to ask what Nigeria will look like when oil has run
out and how millions of Nigerians can access quality jobs and a fair
distribution of wealth. The panel will include Nollywood star Ejike Asiegbu,
campaigners Japheth Omojuwa, Mercy Abang and Azeenarh Mohammed. RSVP for this
FREE event
here
At
5.30pm we have
the
Ghana UK Based Achievement (GUBA)
Awards at
Park Plaza Riverbank
Hotel, Embankment, SE1 7TJ celebrating and acknowledging UK based Ghanaian
businesses and individuals. Tickets are
£60.00
from
here.
From
6.00pm to
11.00pm The African Music Festival 2012 (AMFest) returns for its second year
at
The Round Chapel, Powerscroft Road,
E5 0PU, celebrating modern African music, arts and culture and hosting the
best UK Afrobeat artists such as Dot Star, Shady Blue, 2Kriss, Noni Zondi, Mr
Silva, Flava and Kwamz, VJ OJ and many more. Tickets are
£10.00 from
here
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At
8.00pm we have Proud to be African favourite; jazz guitarist
Femi Temowo and the Elisa Caleb Group at The
Forge, 3-7 Delancy Street, NW1 7NL, will be playing his Richard Bona
inspired vocals and acoustic guitar while Elisa Caleb fuses jazz, folk and
gospel performing standards and own compositions. Tickets are
£10.00 (£8.00 concs) from
here.
At
10.00pm
Akwaaba UK presents
Glamorous (The
biggest ever Afrobeats Party) at
Abacus
Bar, 24 Cornhill, London, EC3V 3ND. Playing Azonto, Afrobeat, RnB, hip hop,
dancehall, soca, old skool, old skool garage, house and slow jams with guest
DJ’s from BBC 1xtra and Choice FM. Admission is
£10.00 before 12.00am more after, if purchased in advance, its
£10.00
for all night tickets from
here.
Film Africa
From
9.00am to
6.00pm we have
Evolving African Film Cultures: Local and Global Experiences at
the
University of Westminster, 309
Regent Street, W1W 2UW
, with 60
international speakers who will debate the evolving African Film cultures in
terms of production, distribution and consumption inside and outside Africa and
how the digital economy especially the internet has opened up huge
opportunities for African film distribution.
Tickets for this 2 day conference are
£140.00 (students £60.00), day tickets are also available
(£100.00/ £45.00). Register
here
From 10.00am to 2.00pm we have The Distribution Forum workshop at the Ritzy Picturehouse which will bring together African and UK based
filmmakers from the Diaspora with UK based film distributors to offer practical
advice of the different methods for distributing African and black films with
focus of digital forms of distribution, The is a FREE event.
At
2.00pm at the
BFI Southbank, Southbank Centre, Belvedere
Road, SE1 8XT we have
Maami
(Nigeria) followed by a Q&A with the director Tunde Kelani. Tickets are
£10.00 (£9.00 and £8.00 members)
from
here.
At
2.30pm we have
Lust (El Shooq)
(Egypt/ France) at the
Ritzy
Picturehouse, about the lives of the people of a marginalised street in
Alexandria, Egypt before the revolution, followed by a Q&A with director
Khaled El Hagar, tickets are
£7.50(£6.50
concs and £5.50 members) from
here.
At 3.00pm we have 5 film shorts at Rich Mix. The Godfather/ Le Parrain (Burkina Faso), The Last Passenger (Algeria), Kengere (Uganda) and then Protect the Nation
(South Africa) where a young boy begins to question whether he has the courage
to do what’s right, Siggil (France)
is about an old man in Dakar who walks the dog of a rich woman until he loses
the dog. These screenings are FREE
and are repeated at 4.30pm and 6.00pm.
An Uncommon Woman (Burkina
Faso) at
3.50pm at the
Hackney Picturehouse is about a successful
businesswoman who catches her unemployed husband with the neighbour’s wife and
reacts in a completely unpredictable way. Tickets are
£7.00 (£5.50 concs and £5.00 members) from
here.
At
5.00pm at the
BFI, Southbank we have
Phone Swap (Nigeria), a warm comedy
which breaks the typical low budget Nollywood mould in this witty story about 2
people who accidentally exchange phones and have to tread in each other’s
paths. Followed by a Q&A with director Kunle Afolayan and lead actor Wale
Ojo, tickets are
£5.00 from
here.
At
6.40pm we have
Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony
(Spain) at the
Hackney Picturehouse
a documentary about Western Sahara and the Sahrawi’s peoples fight against Morocco’s
attempted annexation and the resulting state of war in the territory This is
followed by a discussion, tickets are
£10.00
(£9.00 concs) from
here.
At 8.00pm we have Ruby and the
Vines and Mosi Conde at the Ritzy
Picturehouse. Ruby and The Vines fuses rock, afrobeat, jazz and reggae,
contrasting with multi instrumentalist Mosi Conde who will be performing with
his trademark kora and other instruments, with DJ Africathy on the decks,
admission is £5.00 or FREE for screening ticket holders
At 8.45pm we have Tey (Today) (France/
Senegal) at the Hackney Picturehouse
tickets are £10.00 (£9.00 concs and £8.00
members)
Sunday 11th November
At
3.30pm we have
a screening of the Malian film
Bamako
at the
Africa Centre, 38 King Street, Covent Garden, WC2E 8JT. Directed
by Abderrahmane Sissako this elegiac movie involves a trial held in the
courthouse of the compound inhabited by Mele a bar singer and her unemployed
husband, whilst their marriage flounders, the trial in the courtyard is to
determine whether the World Bank and IMF or corruption are to blame for the
unfortunate state of many African countries. This is a fascinating film, with a
great soundtrack and is
FREE
(although a £3.00 donation is gently hinted at) from
here
From
5.30pm we
have the
8th Screen Nation
Film and TV Awards at
Park Plaza,
Westminster Bridge Hotel, 200 Westminster Bridge Road, Southwark, SE1 7UT.
Hosted by Wil Johnson and Sarah Jane Crawford and broadcast live across several
Sky based channels, the event will feature the cream of black British film and
TV talent as well as stars of the sporting, music, fashion, media and political
world. The event consists of a Caribbean Cocktail Reception, 3 course
Caribbean/ European banquet accompanied by fine wines and music and comedy,
followed by the Award Show starting at 9.00pm followed by the After Party at
10.30pm. Tickets start from
£65.00
for the Awards ceremony and
£35.00
for the After party from
here
Also at
3.30pm at the
Vortex Jazz Club, we have
the
Township Comets, playing the soaring joyous, South African township jazz of
Dudu Pukwana. led by vocalist Pinise Saul, Chris Batchelor (trumpet), Harry
Brown (trombone), Jason Yarde (saxophone), Adam Glasser (piano), Dudley
Phillips (bass) and Frank Tontoh (drums). Tickets are
£8.00 from
here
At
5.00pm the
West Indian
Association of Service Personnel will hold its one hour Remembrance Sunday
Service at
St Peters Church, Prescott
Place, Clapham, SW4 6BT. This is especially for serving or ex uniformed
personnel and their families or anyone who wishes to support, RSVP
here
Also at the
Vortex Jazz Club at
8.30pm we have veteran oud player
Attab Haddad drawing from Middle Eastern
and flamenco influences as well as Sudanese singer
Amira Kheir fusing African music with soul, jazz, latin and Middle
Eastern sounds. Tickets are £12.00 from
here
Film Africa
At
11.30am at the
Hackney Picturehouse we have
Ayens Cooking School for Men (Sudan/
Australia) a documentary that takes a humorous look at gender conventions in
the Sudanese refugee community in Australia, as a Sudanese lady Ayen try’s to
teach young men to cook, followed by a Q&A with Frederique Cifuentes.
Alongside this is
Cinema in Sudan:
Conversations with Gadalla Gubara (Sudan/UK) a portrait of the great
Sudanese filmmaker Gadalla Gubara one of
the pioneers of African cinema who kept working till he was 88 despite being
blind. Tickets
£7.00 (£5.50 concs and
£5.00 children) from here.
here
There will be an
African Market from 12.00pm to 4.00pm at Hackney Picturehouse. At 2.00pm there will be Storytelling with
Helen McDonald, 2.40pm Craft-making with Tonie Grelet, 3.20pm more Storytelling
and at 4.00pm African Songs for the family with Joyce Moholoagae
At
1.00pm is
El Gusto (Algeria/ Ireland) at
The Ritzy Picturehouse, an uplifting
story of a Jewish/ Muslim orchestra torn apart by conflict 50 years ago. This
film allows beautiful Andalusian/ Arab street music take centre stage through
rehearsals in Marseille. Tickets are
£7.50
(£6.50 concs and £5.50 children) from
here.
A
Filmmaking Master
Class for 16-25 Year olds at
South
London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Road, Camberwell, SE5 8UH, at
2.00pm with award winning filmmaker
Karen Boswall. Book this
FREE event
here.
At 2.00pm we have Stories from Lakka Beach (Netherlands) at Rich Mix, qa documentary in which 5 Sierra Leonean villagers
contemplate the most profound moments of their lives and tell stories of the
ocean, land, war, love and hope, This is a FREE
screening.
At
2.00pm we have
Adventures in Zambezia (South Africa) at the
Hackney
Picturehouse, this 3D South African animation is about Kai a young falcon
who feels trapped by his strict father and his isolated desert life, leading
him to take his chances in the bird city of Zambezia, with the voices of Samuel
L. Jackson, Richard E. Grant and Leonard Nimoy this is a fascinating family
adventure. Book tickets
here.
At 5.00pm is Sabar Dance with Diene ‘Waaw Waaw’ Sagna
at the Hackney Picturehouse. An
evening of dance going on till 6.15pm.Tickets are £5.00 (£3.00 for screening ticket holders).
At 6.00pm we have Mama Africa (Germany) at the Hackney Picturehouse, a moving tribute to South African singer and
activist Miriam Makeba documenting her music, life, marriages, exile and
activism/ Tickets are £10.00 (£9.00
concs and £8.00 members) from here.
Sunday the 11th
is Remembrance Sunday in the UK and in majority of the Commonwealth, it is as
good a time as any to bear in mind the 166,550 men and women from the Africa
and 16,000 from the Caribbean, who volunteered to fight in the Second World War
in particular (notwithstanding the thousands of Commonwealth soldiers who have
served in Britain’s Armed forces and are serving today, including Britain’s
first living Victoria Cross holder since 1965, Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry
VC who was decorated for twice saving the lives of his platoon in Iraq by
driving them out of two ambushes despite being wounded).
Whether you disagree
with war in general or these particular wars, this is still a part of our
collective history and if we do not remember these men and women no one will,
there are barely any monuments and scant mention in the history books of the
Nigerians, Ghanaians, Kenyans, Ugandans, Tanzanians, Somalis, Malawians,
Zimbabweans, South Africans, Gambians, Sudanese, Egyptians, Sierra Leoneans,
Bermudans, Jamaicans, Trinidad and Tobagoans, St Vincent, Grenadans,
Barbadians, British Guyanese, Leeward Islanders, Windward Islanders, British
Hondurans and Turks and Caicos Islanders.
If we do not remember
them, no one will
From 6.00pm to 9.00pm
we have Women at the Top Diversity
Masterclass at the UK Supreme Court,
Parliament Square, SW1P 3EE. Chaired by Garry Green (Barrister, Tooks
Chambers) , this is a panel discussion on various issues such affecting women
in the legal profession as well as a tour of the Supreme Court and the
opportunity to gain CPD points. Speakers include Courtenay Griffiths QC (25
Bedford Row), Sallie Bennett-Jenkins (Barrister, 2 Hare Court), Judy Khan QC
(Garden Court Chambers), Lucy Scott-Moncrieff (President of the Law Society),
Judge Deborah Taylor (Southwark Crown Court), Caryl Longley (General Counsel,
Deloitte LLP) and Sarah Bailey (Solicitor, Arts Council England). This will be
an invaluable networking and information event for anyone in the legal
profession. Tickets are £20.00 (£10.00 earlybird
and £5.00 students/ unemployed) from
here.
From 6.30pm to 9.00pm
The South African High Commissioner Dr Zola Skweyiya will be Welcoming the SA Agulhas I for its Trans Antarctic
Expedition at Canary Wharf, E14.
This is the first ever dedicated South African Training ship and will be taking
an expedition team to undertake the Coldest Journey on Earth, the first ever
winter crossing of the Antarctic. The Trans-Antarctic Winter Expedition will
take place from December 2012 to March 2014 and aims to bring together
scientists from Commonwealth countries that have an interest in Antarctic
research and showcase South Africa’s and Africa’s maritime skills development
programme. The ship will be moored at Canary Wharf until 3rd
December and then at HMS Belfast until 6th December 2012. This is a FREE event, more information here.
From 10.00am to
4.00pm we have the MKYCC 1 day
Yoruba Workshop at the Hart Culture
CIC, Thames Refinery (Tate and Lyle), Factory Road, Silvertown, E16 2EW,
this workshop is designed to give people an insight into one of the most widely
spoken languages in West Africa. Yoruba is spoken in Nigeria, Benin and Togo,
as well as Brazil and dialects in Cuba, Haiti and other parts of the Caribbean
and South America and is the most widely spoken African language in the UK,
this workshop will give you a basic grounding in Yoruba greetings, numbers,
respect for elders, folk songs, alphabet, simple everyday phrases, proverbs as
well as imbue confidence and a knowledge of ancestry and history. All this for
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From 11.00am to
5.00pm we have Rich Visions Wealth
Creation and Business Expo at the Crowne
Plaza, Royal Victoria Dock, Western Gateway, Docklands, E16 1AL. This event
is designed to encourage enterprises, entrepreneurs and sole traders to enter
the New Year with the right tools to grow their businesses. Expert speakers
include Mavis Amankwah (PR guru), Warren Knight (Social Media expert), Jessica
Huie (Serial entrepreneur) and Leigh Ashton (Sales Consultancy). This is a FREE exhibition for a limited number
and £5.00 thereafter. Book here. 
From
3.00pm to 8.00pm we have the Book
Launch of Is it Possible to be Single, Spiritual.. and Sexual at The Caribbean edge, 117 Bruce Grove,
Tottenham, N17 6UR. This self help novel and accompanying poetry CD ‘Seeds
of Love’ is about a young Christina woman’s inner struggle with her religious
beliefs and sexual desires leading to an 11 year transformational quest. This
event is FREE
From
3.00pm to 8.00pm we have the Book
Launch of Is it Possible to be Single, Spiritual.. and Sexual at The Caribbean edge, 117 Bruce Grove,
Tottenham, N17 6UR. This self help novel and accompanying poetry CD ‘Seeds
of Love’ is about a young Christina woman’s inner struggle with her religious
beliefs and sexual desires leading to an 11 year transformational quest. This
event is FREE
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