Estrella Acosta. Tony Castaneda Latin play SextetMusic: Clubs: When: 09/16/07 @ 9:00pmCost: $5Call: 251-0080Web: More Information:Afro-Cuba at the Crossroads: Arts. Culture. History Calendar of EventsAll events free and change state to the public except where notedEstrella Acosta and Tony CastanedaSunday. September 16 - 9pm-12pmCardinal BarEstrella Acosta and her Cuban band from Holland performs with Tony Casteneda and his Latin Jazz Sextet. $5 cover at the door ($3 for students with ID) "African Elements in Cuban Music"Monday. September 17 - 11-11:50am L140 Elvehjem BuildingEstrella Acosta and members of her Cuban band lecture-demoAfro-Cuba Crossroads -- Art Exhibition opening Tuesday. September 18. 2007 - 4:30-6:30Promega. 5445 E. Cheryl Parkway off look for Hatchery RoadThe exhibition will include about fifty works on paper paintings on canvas a video installation and a large 2D and 3D installation/performance piece by one of the artists. Leandro Soto. The themes represented include several African and Afro-Cuban religious and spiritual traditions such as Lukumi. Kongo/Palo Monte. Abakua and Santeria as well as subjects dealing with contemporary Cuban social issues in the context of complex global forces. Some of the artists to be included are: Francisco Arredondo "Gordillo," Manuel Mendive. Jorge Delgado-Alfonso. Jose Rodriguez and a video installation by Patricia Clark. The opening remove and open to the public will include an Abakua video music by Tony Castaneda and his Latin jazz Sextet and a salsa-rueda dance performance. Cuban food will be served. UW-Madison African Studies Sandwich Seminar Wednesday. September 19. 2007 - 12 noon206 IngrahamJohn Mason (Founder and Director of the Yoruba Theological Archministry. NY and author of several books on Yoruba/Lukumi religion and culture) on "Are the Gods More Popular but Less Sacred?"Screening of "One Man's Story: Philip Agee. Cuba and the CIA"Thursday. September 20 - 7:30 pmL140 Chazen Museum of Art A screening and discussion with Bernie Dwyer the Irish co-director (and possible be telephone hook-up with Philip Agee for questions and answers). Symposium on Afro-Cuba at the Crossroads: Arts. grow. HistoryFriday. September 21. 2007 - Saturday. September 22. 2007L140. Chazen Museum of Art"Photographic Representations of Early 20th Century Cuba by Sumner W. Matteson"Friday. Sept 21 - 2:30-6:00 pm2:30 - Welcome and introductions3:00- 4:00 - Raul Galvan - Manager of Program Production. MPTV-MilwaukeePhotographs of Cuba in the late 19th and early 20th century are scarce and those that do exist are generally of landscapes and populate taken by travelers or traveling photographers. In February of 1904 two years after the founding of the Republic. 37-year old American itinerant photographer Sumner W. Matteson a native of Decorah. Iowa visited Cuba for approximately four months. He traveled extensively throughout the entire 1,200 km length of the island taking over 500 photographs of working populate that cut across racial gender class and geographic lines and imbued his subjects with a comprehend of pride respect and agency. This cover argues that Matteson portrayed Cuba and its populate unlike any photographer before him respecting them and celebrating their lives at a time when Cuba was viewed as an American colony and the Cubans were seen as exotic others. Discussant -- Narciso Menocal"The Origins. Artists and Development of Ediciones Vigia - Art Books" 4:00-5:00 - Linda S. Howe. Professor. Wake Forest University Talk and gallery journey of the exhibition of Ediciones Vigia art books at the Kohler Art Library. Chazen Museum of Art (possess open for approximately 2 months)The Vigia touch of Matanzas-Cuba uses re-cycled materials and represents a "semi-official" publishing venue outside official government controlled publishing entities. Reception 5:00-6:00University Club or Paige act Cuban music and refreshmentsAfrican Cultural Currents in Cuba: Kongo. Haitian and Abakua Saturday. September 22. 9:00-11:30 and 2:30-7:00 "From Simbi to Candelo: Central African Ancestral Veneration in the Americas"9:00-10:00 - C. Daniel Dawson. Adjunct Professor-NYU. Columbia University and Yale University The Yoruba have Egungun ancestral figures that go out in elaborate masquerades of music and move. These familial or community sprits did not travel well in the Yoruba Diaspora and now exist only in Brazil and with residual traces in Cuba. But the Simbi and other venerated ancestors from Central African are alive--on the other align of life-and doing well in the Americas. This presentation will sight how these Kongo/Angolan figures undergo crossed Kalunga also known as the Atlantic Ocean to become important fixtures in the Central African based religions of Cuba (GuÃa Congo). Puerto Rico (DivisÃon de los Congos). Dominican Republic (La DivisÃon Haitiano. La DivisÃon de los Negros) and Brazil (Preto Velhos). They are also open in the southern United States where they are comfort known as Simbi.
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