Learning from the Past: Living for a Healthy Future

Drum Call — Bata Inle

Mo Fiyah featuring Ras Tree & Desirae

Reggae

East St. Louis Community Performance Ensemble

West African Dance

Legend Singers Choral Ensemble /h4>

Choir/Chorale<

Sherri Rich

Folk

Harambee Institute — Kenya Ajanaku

African Drum & Dance

Tribe Ayaka

Belly Dancing

Sharif Hanif Shakur

Spoken Word/Poetry

Balla Kouyaté

Master Balafon Musician & Griot (Mali)

Effigy Pots
Momma Adelia

Create clay vessels inspired by the Ancestors — one-of-a-kind works of art by Professor Adelia Parker-Castro.

Sister City Scrapbooking
Lois Ingrum

Build a photograph and word montage connecting St. Louis, MO to our twin sister, St. Louis, Senegal, with one of the best photographers in our region.

Clay Masks
Gundia Lock

Learn how to use tools to sculpt 3-D African masks using modern clay and ancient techniques.

Flowers of the Motherland
Sponsored by the Saint Louis Art Museum

Decorate flower pots with African designs inspired by nature and receive African Violet seeds to take home and plant.

Afrikan Head Tie
Anapa Wilkerson

Come and learn how to dress your head with beautiful and colorful traditional African fabrics into an elegant head adornment.

Beading It
Khadijah Mahdi

The Art of Afrikan Bead work will be demonstrated by educator and artist Khadijah Mahdi. Join us for an informative demonstration detailing the jewelry, stone quantity, design, and the creation of fashionable handcrafted jewelry making. Don’t miss this hands-on experience.

Capoeira
Tebogo Schultz

Capoeria is an Afro-Brazilian art form that mixes martial art, dance and music. You will be sure to have fun "sparring" with your group mates.

Fitness Hour—Low Aerobics Workout
Marschell Bettis

Healthy Talk — Obesity and Healthy Cooking
Dr. Joyce Johnson

Healthy Talk — Healthy Living & Fitness
Marschell Bettis, RN, BSN, AFAA Certified

The Power of African Art

Join us for guided, family-friendly tours of the African Art galleries. Meet at the Information Center. Free.

St. Louis African Arts Festival Drummers and Dancers

The program will consist of traditional African dance with live music. Schnuck Family Plaza

The Cutting Tradition

A moving and sensitive documentary examining the complex social, religious, cultural, and economic issues that underpin the ongoing practice of female genital mutilation. The film raises questions that are critical in understanding why, despite being illegal in many countries, the practice continues to be very common in both rich and poor communities. For mature audiences only. (United Kingdom, 47 min.)

Grandmother to Grandmother: New York to Tanzania

The film introduces two projects—one in the South Bronx and one in Tanzania—in which grandmothers are stepping in to raise their grandchildren who have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS, drugs, and violence. When grandmothers and grandchildren from the Bronx travel to Africa to meet their Tanzanian counterparts, there is instant recognition that "sisterhood is powerful." (USA, 60 min.)

Shades of the Border

Located on the same small island divided by class, wealth, and skin color, Haiti and the Dominican Republic face heated immigration issues. This film explores the disconnect between the Dominican media and the reality of violence and racism against Haitians in the Dominican Republic. (Dominican Republic/Haiti/USA, 12 min.)

Solidarity in Saya: An Afro-Bolivian Music Movement

This documentary examines traditional Afro-Bolivians, who have remained isolated in rural poverty as subsistence farmers since the abolition of slavery, and their recent efforts to use their Saya music to pursue social and political goals. (USA, 30 min.)

Rwanda: Hope Rises

During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Nicholas (a Hutu) manages to protect his wife Elsie (a Tutsi) from murderous Hutu militias. Elsie assumes a false identity and the two begin a dangerous journey to flee the country. This film chronicles the couple’s struggle to survive the genocide and their journey toward restoration and healing in the years after their narrow escape. (Canada, 65 min.)

My White Baby (Me Broni Ba)

A lyrical portrait of hair salons in Ghana and the tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa as evoked through images of women practicing hair braiding on discarded white baby dolls from the West. (USA/Ghana, 22 min.)

Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy (Narrated by Edwich Danicat)

Told through the lives of five compelling Haitian women, Poto Mitan gives an inside perspective on globalization, Haiti’s current crisis, and the resilient women who are challenging this system. (Haiti/USA, 50 min.)

Lecture by Dr. Niyi Coker, Jr.

Dr. Coker explores the influences of African films and filmmakers.