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From: Myriam Cottias <m.cottias@wanadoo.fr> ______________ CMAST PAN-AFRICAN LITERARY & FILM FESTIVAL www.cmast.info <http://www.cmast.info/> *Friday, October 30, 2009 - Sunday, November 01, 2009* *The Committee to Commemorate and Memorialize the Abolition of the Slave Trades proudly presents the CMAST Pan-African Literary and Film Festival*. This event takes place from Friday, October 30 to Sunday, November 1, 2009 at the William Doo Auditorium, New College, University of Toronto, located at 45 Willcocks Street (at Spadina Ave, north of College Street). This anticipated 3-day event will feature literary readings, book presentations, and performances by new, emerging, and established authors from Canada, the Caribbean, Continental Africa, and their respective Diasporas, plus exclusive film screenings. Some confirmed authors include Beverley Anderson Manley, David Austin, Afua Cooper, Carol Duncan (/This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto/), Melanie Newton (/The Children of Africa in The Colonies/), and artists such as Waleed Abdulhamid, Ian Kamau, Keisha-Monique, Heyab Muleneh, Nouvel Exposé, Um'Khondé, Peculiar-I and L.E.V.I.A.T.H.A.N*.* * * Special features of the Festival include the launch of two historical novels by *Dr. Afua Cooper*. These books, /My Name is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom /and /My Name is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom/*, *were published by Kids Can Press, 2009. The launch takes place at 6p.m. on Friday, October 30. Poets Ian Kamau, Um'Khondé, L.E.V.I.A.T.H.A.N and Keisha Monique will open the event with exciting poetry performances. Saturday, October 31: Beginning at 12 noon - Music, readings, dance, film screenings and discussions. Presenters include Waleed Abdulhamid, Nouvel Exposé, Carol Duncan, Melanie Newton and David Austin. "Films" Saturday, October 31: 2:30-5:00 p.m. - /Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work; Thomas Sankara: On Burkina Faso and The Revolution./ Facilitated by David Austin and Ameth Lo respectively. Sunday, November 1: Beginning at 2p.m. - Film Screenings and a poetry performance by Heyab Muleneh and Peculiar-I. "Films" Sunday, November 1: 2:20-5:10 p.m. - /Memoire Oubliée...Une Generation Sacrifiée/ (on second generation Haitians in Canada)/; Breakin In/ (young women dancers attempting to make it in hip-hop videos)/; /*and* /Traces of The Trade /(descendants of a Rhode Island slave-trading family examine and come to terms with their slavery-soaked legacy). Facilitated by Martine Duviella, Habiba Cooper Diallo, and Dr. Afua Cooper respectively. The Festival will culminate on Sunday, November 1 at 6p.m. with a reading by *Dr. Beverley Anderson Manley*, author, gender specialist, international social activist, and former First Lady of Jamaica, from her book /The Manley Memoirs/. *** *CMAST* is a community-based coalition formed with the specific objective of raising public awareness about and promote education on the subject of the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the British and United States Trans-Atlantic Slave Trades. Headed by Dr. Afua Cooper (historian, author, and poet), to date, the CMAST team has planned and organized commemorative events and educational outreach activities including lectures, conferences, cultural events, exhibits, symposia, panel discussions, publications (text-based and on-line) outreach to schools, and teach-ins. Sponsors for the C*MAST Pan-African Literary & Film Festival* include the City of Toronto: Access, Equity & Human Rights | Toronto Arts Council | Jamaica National Building Society (Toronto) | APUS | Kids Can Press | Big It Up International | New College (Office of Residence and Student Life), University of Toronto | Alfie Roberts Institute | Dub Poets Collective. For further update and more specific schedules, see www.cmast.info <http://www.cmast.info/> OR Contact: Festival Co-ordinator Eve Labi at special.events.by.eve@gmail.com <mailto:special.events.by.eve@gmail.com> 647- 444-3353 www.afuacooper.com/updates <http://www.afuacooper.com/updates> Afua Cooper, Ph.D. Author: /My Name is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom/ /My Name is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom/ KidsCan Press (2009) www.kidscan.com <http://www.kidscan.com/> "Beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there's a field. I'll meet you there." (Jalal al-Din Rumi, 13thC)
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