San Francisco Black Film Festival 
A Film Critic Talks About Movies

Saturday, June 9

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Ernest Hardy will discuss what inspires him to ink a favorable review and examine the films Monster's Ball, Rize, Ghost Dog, Madame Sata, Antwone Fisher, and Raising Victor Vargas. [more]

Urban Kidz Film Series [SFBFF site]

Saturday, June 9

10:00 am - 11:30 am

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Going Into Exile and Masizakhe: Let Us Build Together

Thursday, June 14

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

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Quilombo Country

Saturday, June 16

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

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Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves 

Saturday, June 30

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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John Santos' Roots of Latin Jazz and Salsa  

July 3 - October 16

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

A low-cost 15-week music lecture series taught by four-time Grammy nominated musician, producer, educator and historian John Santos, Roots is a concise, compelling, and entertaining distillation of Santos’ 30 years expertise as a master musician and Afro-Latin ethnomusicologist. Rare recordings, video clips and photographs from the instructor’s legendary collection will cover the evolution of Latin Jazz and Salsa. Salsa - Register early for the entire series! [more]

Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World

Thru - September 2, 2007, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University

Opening Reception – Thursday, May 31, 5:30-9pm

This is the first major U.S. exhibition to examine Tuareg art, culture, and history, and it features more than 200 objects, including jewelry, clothing, leatherwork, and other distinctive items of these semi-nomadic West African people of Niger, Mali, and Algeria. [more]

San Francisco Black Film Festival (Opening Night)

Thursday, June 7, Theater Artaud

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Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks

Thru July 1, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

As part of an ongoing series of exhibitions based on the photographic collection of the Los Angeles-based Capital Group, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces a retrospective of the works of the late Gordon Parks.  The exhibition features 73 works chosen specifically by Parks for The Capital Group as examples of his most potent imagery. [more]

National Black Arts Festival

July 20 - 29, 2007, Atlanta

The National Black Arts Festival (NBAF), a non-profit cultural institution based in Atlanta, Georgia, celebrates the contributions of people of African descent and their impact on world cultures.  The NBAF celebrates the arts in three ways - education, year-round programs, and a summer festival in July. [more]