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Calendar of Events > Paris is Burning (Again)
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Location: Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street (at Third) San Francisco, California 94105
Date: Thursday, April 13, 2005
Time:
10:00-4:00 Symposium
4:30-5:30 Self-guided MoAD Tour
5:30-8:30 Reception and Book signings
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The Museum of the African Diaspora will present the first program in the MoAD
Arts and Lecture Series, Paris Is Burning (Again), a critical day-long symposium
focusing on the black Francophone world and celebrating the 100th anniversary of
the birth of Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, first Senegalese president and founder of
the cultural/artistic movement, Negritude.
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Reception catered by Marco Senghor,
nephew of the late President Senghor and
owner of Bissap Baobab in San Francisco.
$ 25.00 General admission
$ 20.00 Students with current ID
$ 20.00 Seniors
Ticket price includes a Continental breakfast,
lunch and reception.
For further information call 415 358-7200.
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Confirmed Participants
Simon Njami, co-founder and editor
of Revue Noire and curator of the
upcoming Bamako 2007: African
Photography Encounters, a biennial
photographic exhibition of African
photographers is the keynote speaker.
Emmanuel Dongala, author of four
novels including Little Boys Come
From the Stars and the recent,
Johnny Mad-Dog and scholars
Tyler Stovall (UC Berkeley)
Janet G. Vaillant (Harvard)
Trica D. Keaton (Indiana U.)
Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyl (Stanford).
Louis Chude-Sokei (UC Santa Cruz) is moderator for the Symposium.
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Paris Is Burning (Again) is co-sponsored by Alliance Francaise and is made possible through a grant from
the James Irvine Foundation.
Senghor portrait from the collection of Léna Senghor Mbake, grandniece of Leopold Sédar Senghor
Strasbourg photo by François Schnell
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