November 2004

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College Offers Program on Black Presence in Latin America and the Caribbean

The 2004-05 African American Studies and Latin American Studies Lecture and Performing Art Series at Gettysburg College focuses on “The Black Presence in Latin America and the Caribbean.”

The film Krik? Krak! will be shown on Sunday, November 14, and Monday, November 15, both days at 7:00 p.m. in McCreary Hall, Room 101. The film carries the political documentary into the realm of the fantastic. The story of Haiti’s misery under two generations of Duvaliers is told impressionistically, mingling absolutely extraordinary documents of daily life (including an interview with Papa Doc himself) and scenes from fiction films to convey the continual shifts between levels of reality in Haitian life.

On Monday, February 28, at 7:30 p.m., in the Lyceum of Pennsylvania Hall, Professor Alejandro de la Fuente of the University of Pittsburgh will speak on the Black presence in Cuba.

Makina Loca, a group that fuses Afro-Cuban rhythms, will perform in The Attic on Friday, April 8, at 8:00 p.m. Makina Loca means “crazy machine” in Spanish and “dancing in a trance” in Kikongo. Come see them perform and you will experience both meanings first-hand! (This performance is co-sponsored by the departments of French, Italian, Music, Sociology and Anthropology, and Spanish, the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, and College Life.)

Two films will be shown during the spring semester, at times and places yet to be determined. The Harder They Come features reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff as Ivan, a rural Jamaican musician who journeys to Kingston in search of fame and fortune. Sugar Cane Alley is set on a dirt road on a lush sugar cane plantation in Martinique. Euzhan Palcy’s award-winning film is an honest, deeply moving human drama of a young boy who fights against the odds for his future.

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