Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College

Tsotsi - A Dartmouth Film Society (DFS) Movie. Spaulding Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
TSOTSI is the riveting, explosive story of a desperate teen gangster in Johannesburg, South Africa who is forced to grow up quickly when he accidentally kidnaps a baby during a carjacking.

Girlhood in African American Literature - 12.30pm Hood Museum of Art - Museum Galleries. Free and open to the public.
Lunchtime Gallery Talk with Nazera Wright, Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College.

Orchestra Baobab - Presented by the Hopkins Center. 8.00pm Spaulding Auditorium . Free and open to the public.
A lively musical performance on the Dartmouth Green. Orchestra Baobab, based in Dakar, Senegal, are Africa's soul survivors, an iconic six-member band who have come through nearly four decades of dramas and disruptions with their classic 1970s line-up largely intact and their uniquely diverse cocktail of styles and influences sounding as fresh and relevant as ever. Centered around singers Rudi Gomis and Balla Sidibe and visionary guitarist Barthelemy Attisso, this band of rugged individualists came together in 1970 as the house band of Dakar's swankiest and most exclusive nightclub - the eponymous Baobab.

Community Shout! 7.00pm Top of the Hop. Free and open to the public.
Let your voice be heard! Join Reggie Wilson and members of Fist & Heel for a rejuvenating, transformative sing-a-long. Learn about the important role of songs and storytelling in African, Caribbean and American South oral traditions. All ages welcome. For more info, call Hop Outreach at 603.646.2010.

Artist Gallery Talk. 4.30pm Hood Museum of Art - Museum Galleries. Free and open to the public.
A talk with Zaneli Muholi.

Intermediate Level Dance Master Class with Reggie Wilson. 5.30pm Struas Dance Studio. $10.
Reggie Wilson, "one of this country's most talented choreographers" (New York Times), instructs participants in his own movement idiom, bringing contemporary technique and post-modern structure together with rhythmic folk traditions. Enrollment limited to 25, ages 16 and up. To register, call the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422 or sign up online.

Black Girl preceded by a short Film Borom Sarret. A DFS Movie. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
A Senegalese maid is taken to the Riviera by her employers, whereupon she begins to realize that she is nothing more than property.

Dead Eyes! The Ugly Side of Black Dolls. 4.30pm Arthur M. Loew Auditorium. Free and open to the public.
An Artists Lecture with Artist Senzeni Marasela.

Reggie Wilson Fist and Heel Dance Company. The Tale: Npinpee Nckutchie and the Tail of the Golden Dek.
Presented by the Hopkins Center. The Moore Theater. 8.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
Acclaimed African-American choreographer Reggie Wilson explores intimacy and devotion, libido and love in a seamless collage of music and dance. Six performers enact the complicated rituals of coupling and the sensual dance of lovers, with the undulating rhythms of traditional African, Caribbean and African American social dance. In collaboration with the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts.

Devil came on Horseback - A DFS Movie. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
DEVIL exposes the tragedy in Darfur, Sudan through the eyes of an American witness whose photographs, published in The New York Times, woke up the world.Discussion and Q&A with producer and Brian Steidle's sister, Gretchen Wallace follows.

Cooking Oil - Part of Eti East Africa Speaks. 5.00pm Warner Bentley Theater. Free and open to the public.
A reading of a new play by Ugandan playwright/performer Deborah Asiimwe. 5.00pm Warner Bentley Theater. Free and open to the public.

Remember Lumumba - Part of Eti East Africa Speaks. 8.00pm Warner Bentley Theater. Free and open to the public.
A reading of a new play by Ugandan playwright and Brown University Ph.D. candidate Charles Mulekwa.

African Remembrances: Black womanhood in European and Contempory Diasporic Art. 12.30pm Hood Museum of Art - Museum Galleries. Free and open to the public.
A lunchtime Gallery Talk with Angela Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College.

Last King of Scotland with discussion after the film. A DFS Movie. Spaulding Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
As the brutal Ugandan dictator, Forest Whitaker's staggering performance earned him the Best Actor Oscar

A Tribute to Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Including a screening of his new film Daratt. A discussion with Mr. Haroun follows the film. A DFS Movie. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is a Chadian director whose films have earned him international acclaim and top festival prizes. Shooting solely in Chad (and not without risk), Haroun is committed to keeping the dream of cinema alive in Africa.

Forged In Fire. Part of Eti East Africa Speaks. 5.00pm Warner Bentley Theater. Free and open to the public. Tickets available at the door 1 hour before showtime.
A collaborative performance piece by Ugandan playwright/performer Okello Kelo Sam; Tanzanian musican/dancer Robert Ajwang'; and Dartmouth Theater professor Laura Edmondson, integrating dance, music and testimony to explore Okello's wrenching experiences during the civil war in northern Uganda.

Come Good Rain - Part of Eti East Africa Speaks. 8.00pm Warner Bentley Theater. Free and open to the public. Tickets available at the door 1 hour before showtime.
A solo autobiographical play written and performed by Ugandan playwright/actor George Seremba, incorporating song, folklore and live percussion to take us on his journey from bare survival and terrifying experiences to triumph over the oppressive political regimes of Milton Obote and Idi Amin in 1970s Uganda.

Mtumishi wa Umma/Public Servant - Part of Eti East Africa Speaks. 5.00pm Warner Bentley Theater. Free and open to the public. Tickets available at the door 1 hour before showtime.
Featuring Tanzanian poet/performer Mrisho Mpoto, this piece exploring corruption in contemporary medical practice draws upon Parapanda Theatre Lab's unique style of Swahili-language ensemble theater that fuses improvisation, dance, music and drama.

They Call Me Wanjiku - Part of Eti East Africa Speaks. 8.00pm Warner Bentley Theater. Free and open to the public. Tickets available at the door 1 hour before showtime.
A solo piece by Kenyan writer/actor/producer Mumbi Kaigwa with music by Andrea Kalima of Tanzania, exploring the complexities of womanhood and the struggle to reclaim and re-articulate female identity in Kenya today.

Black Womanhood Film Festival - 6.00 - 8.30pm. Loew Auditorium. Free and open to the public.
The Hood presents a special evening featuring three significant films that explore women's identities and self-image in Africa and its diasporas. Intermission refreshments provided by Tastes of Africa.

Without the King - A DFS Movie. Spaulding Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
The Kingdom of Swaziland is the world's last absolute monarchy. King Mswati III lives a life of luxury with his 12 wives, while his subjects suffer from crushing poverty and the world's highest HIV infection rate.

Iron Ladies of Liberia - A DFS Movie. Spaulding Auditorium 8.30pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
LADIES follows the first freely female elected African head of state - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirlead and her female cabinet during their critical first year in office.

Enough (Barakat) - A DFS Movie. Spaulding Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
In this engrossing tale of heroism and determination, which garnered awards and acclaim for its female director, a doctor makes a dangerous pilgrimage through war-torn Algeria in search of her journalist husband. In this engrossing tale of heroism and determination, which garnered awards and acclaim for its female director, a doctor makes a dangerous pilgrimage through war-torn Algeria in search of her journalist husband.

Judith Byfield - Rapping and Wrapping: Critiquing the Body Politic in Post-WW II Nigeria.
4.30pm. Haldeman Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041 with reception to follow in the Russo Gallery.

Nowhere in Africa - A DFS Movie. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
This 2002 Best Foreign Language winner is the extraordinary true tale of a wealthy Jewish family who flees Nazi Germany for a remote farm in Kenya.

Performing Black Womanhood. 4.30pm Arthur M. Loew Auditorium. Free and open to the public.
A round table discussion on Film Photography and New Media Art. Participants will include artists Wangechi Mutu, Igrid Mwangi and Berni Searle. Moderated by Rory Bester, independent scholar, South Africa.

Triumph of Her Death A performance by Ingrid Mwangi.

Yeelen -A DFS Movie. Spaulding Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
Set in the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century, this film is about a time of gods, magic and wonder.

Rivers of Sand with short by Jean Rouch and First Film - A DFS Movie. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
RIVERS captures an isolated Ethiopian tribe who tout their open, even flamboyant male supremacy. Ethnographic master Jean Rouch has the chance to improvise a new commentary for his first film, an African tale that was butchered by the studio before release.

The Constant Gardener - A DFS Movie. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
When his activist wife (Rachel Weisz) is brutally murdered in Kenya, a UK bureaucrat (Ralph Fiennes) opens up a hornet's nest of corporate imperialism at its most diabolical.

Coup de Torchon - A DFS Movie. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium 9.15pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
avernier deftly transplants the story of an inept police chief-turned-heartless killer and his scrappy mistress from the American South to French West Africa.

I am the Woodpecker That Terrifies the Trees: African Female Masquerade Traditions versus Patriarchy. 4.30pm. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium. Free and open to the public.
Artist Esiaba Irobi, Associate Professor of International Theatre at Ohio University Athens.

Bab'Aziz - A DFS Movie. Spaulding Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
Filled with breathtaking images and wonderful music, BAB'AZIZ is a fairytale-like story of longing and belonging, filmed in the enchanting and ever-shifting sandscapes of Tunisia and Iran.

War Dance a - A DFS Movie. Spaulding Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
Dominic, Rose and Nancy live in a refugee camp, their lives torn apart by northern Uganda's 20-year civil war. When they are invited to compete in an annual music/dance festival, their historic journey to the capital is an opportunity to regain a part of their childhood and to taste victory for the first time.

Still Black, Still Proud: An African Tribute to James Brown.
With Special guests Cheikh Lo (Senegal) and Vieux Farka Toure (Mali)
Spaulding Auditorium 7.00pm. Presented by The Hopkins CenterHopkins Center. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
Godfather of Soul James Brown said it loud: "I'm Black and I'm Proud" - an exuberant declaration, an infectious funk classic, an anthem of Black pride in 1968. Now, two of Brown's chief sidemen and collaborators - saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis and trombonist Fred Wesley - get down, foot it and strut their stuff with an international funk lineup of extraordinary talent.

Cry, The Beloved Country - A DFS Movie. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium 7.00pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
Powerful and uplifting, CRY is adapted from Alan Paton's celebrated novel set in apartheid South Africa

Boesman and Lena -A DFS Movie. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium 8.50pm. Tickets available from the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422.
Athol Fugard's acclaimed play moves to the silver screen with Danny Glover and Angela Bassett struggling to live with dignity under South Africa's apartheid regime.