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Professors John Saul and Paul Lovejoy to receive lifetime achievement awards from CAAS

fmaquito — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:00:00 +0000

For two 91��ɫ professors, receiving an award for Lifetime Achievement in African Studies from the (CAAS) represents a major acknowledgement of decades of work in African liberation, research and teaching.

91��ɫ Professor Emeritus John S. Saul and 91��ɫ Distinguished Research Professor in African history and Canada Research Chair Paul Lovejoy will be presented with the awards during the opening reception of the conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies – Africa Here; Africa There – at 91��ɫ May 5 to 7.

As 91��ɫ history Professor José C. Curto, co-organizer of the conference along with sociology Professor Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, says, “They’ve spent a lifetime fighting, in one way or another, for Africa. You can’t get any better than them.”

Right: John S. Saul

President of the CAAS Dennis Cordell wrote that Saul’s research achievements, along with his “deep and long-standing commitment to the struggle for equity, equality and human rights in Africa” are legion. He also pointed to Lovejoy’s “wonderful abilities to teach and mentor” students and younger colleagues.

Left: Paul Lovejoy

Lovejoy says the award is significant to him “because of the recognition of my contribution to understanding the history of people of African descent especially so since this is the UN International Year for People of African Descent and my personal commitment to exposing the crime of the ‘slave route’ and seeking reconciliation that can only be based on truth about the past.”

In addition to receiving lifetime achievement awards, both Saul and Lovejoy will launch books in conjunction with the conference Saturday, May 7, at Accents on Eglinton Bookstore, 1790 Eglinton Ave. W., Toronto. Saul’s Liberation Lite: The Roots of Recolonization in Southern Africa (Three Essay Collective) will launch beginning at 6:30pm, followed by The Harriet Tubman Institute Series of which Lovejoy is the general series editor at 7pm. There are 10 books in the Tubman series, including Slavery, Islam and Diaspora; Africa, Brazil and the Construction of Trans Atlantic Black Identities; and Africa and the Americas: Interconnections During the Slave Trade.

Liberation Lite is comprised of five essays. “The theme I’m emphasizing is that of liberation as a multiplex concept,” says Saul. His definition of liberation would include race, nation, class and gender, but also a democratically empowered voice. "Others in Africa and elsewhere have come to define liberation only in terms of the narrow construct of national independence."

Saul says liberation has to be multidimensional to be a useful concept. “We expected the liberation struggle would yield more than that,” more than simply national liberation, but also class, race and gender freedom. It is not simply an emphasis that "we white lefties had dreamt up and taken over to Africa. We learned it there. We learned it there from Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane, FRELIMO's first president, for example.” As it stands, “liberation has been pretty light and those who are concerned have to figure out how to deepen and enrich it,” he says. He also takes a critical stance towards global capitalism and corporate imperialism, and what he calls the "re-colonizing" of Africa by a new "empire of capital". In consequence, the concluding essay looks at why socialism still has significant resonance and merit in southern Africa and beyond.

Saul has published some 19 books, including Revolutionary Traveller: Freeze Frames from a Life (Arbeiter Ring, 2009) (see YFile, Jan. 13, 2010), Development after Globalization: Theory and Practice for the Embattled South in a New Imperial Age (Fernwood Publishing, 2006) and Decolonization and Empire: Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond (Fernwood Publishing, 2008).

He is hard at work on three more books. He says the lifetime achievement award may well be an acknowledgement of his body of work, but he is also accepting it “on behalf of all those who have worked diligently in support of South African-related struggles over the years, as well as against Canada's own complicity – that is, our government and corporations too often being on the wrong side of such struggles there.” In 2004, Saul was elected fellow of the .

Last year, Lovejoy received the Distinguished Africanist Research Excellence Award from the University of Texas at Austin for his dedication, lifetime of service and contributions to the discipline. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, and has dedicated his career to researching and teaching African history.

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Four researchers to offer fresh ideas at Saturday's 91��ɫ Circle event

fmaquito — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:00:00 +0000

From the ‘burbs to birds and from social justice to Olympic poetry, the next installment of the 91��ɫ Circle’s popular Lecture & Lunch series returns on Saturday, April 30. It promises plenty of new ideas for inquiring minds.

As with previous 91��ɫ Circle Lecture & Lunch events, organizers have planned a full day of inspiring lectures by some of the University’s leading thinkers. For full details, download a PDF of the 91��ɫ Circle schedule.

In her lecture, “The Bird Detective: Investigating the Private Lives of Birds”, 91��ɫ Professor Bridget Stutchbury (left), Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology, will explain why some birds readily divorce their partners, why females sneak out to have sex with neighbouring males and why some mothers sometimes desert their babies. Based on her book (2010), this lecture promises to raise the blinds on the secret lives of birds.

On a more serious note, Stutchbury will examine whether bird behaviour can help species adapt to the drastic changes humans are making to the environment. Since the 1980s, Stutchbury has studied the ecology and conservation of migratory songbirds. In addition to The Bird Detective, she is author of the book (2007) – a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award.

"The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano, the African, and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade" is the intriguing title of the presentation by 91��ɫ history Professor Paul Lovejoy (right), Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History and director of the . In his lecture, Lovejoy will explore the pivotal role of Gustavus Vassa, better known by his African name, Olaudah Equiano (c. 1742-1797), in advancing the abolition of the British slave trade. Many scholars consider William Wilberforce (c. 1759-1833) and Thomas Clarkson (c. 1760-1846) to be the pioneers of the British abolitionist movement, but Lovejoy posits that it was Equiano who was the seminal influence in advocating the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of those in slavery.

Lovejoy is a member of the executive committee of the UNESCO “Slave Route” Project, co-edits African Economic History and Studies in the History of the African Diaspora – Documents (SHADD), and is research professor and associate fellow of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom.

Acclaimed Canadian poet and 91��ɫ Professor (left) will discuss her experiences as Canadian Athletes Now Fund’s first poet-in-residence during the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games. In her lecture, which is aptly titled, "My Gold Medal Experience: Olympic Poetry", Uppal will describe how she celebrated with the Canadian athletes and their families by writing poetry about winter sports, the games, and the personalities and performances that captured a nation’s imagination.

How she designed and then “trained” for her position, how the athletes responded to daily poetry readings, and other initiatives she’s undertaken to bridge the sometimes separate worlds of sport and art, will all be addressed. In addition, Uppal will read a short selection of the some of the 50 poems written at the games and recently collected in the book Winter Sport: Poems (2010).

"A World of Suburbs? Finding the Heart of the Urban Century in the Periphery" with 91��ɫ environmental studies Professor Roger Keil (right) will offer 91��ɫ Circle members insights into urbanization. The 21st century has been heralded as an urban century. Indeed, urbanization is now the most tangible shared experience of humanity. Keil will explore what is behind the story of the "urban revolution". He will uncover an important and perhaps astonishing truth: Most urban dwellers now live in the periphery. From the squatter settlements of the Global South to the wealthy gated communities of North America, from the tower block peripheries of Europe or Canada to the newly sprawling cities of Asia, a common theme emerges: where cities grow, they grow at the margins.

Keil is the director of the City Institute at 91��ɫ and professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. Among his publications are In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability (2010) and The Global Cities Reader (2006). Keil’s current research is on global suburbanism and regional governance. He is the co-editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and a co-founder of the International Network for Urban Research and Action.

This free series includes two events annually – in the spring and fall each year – and provides opportunities for learning and networking in a relaxed environment.

Lecture & Lunch events are open to members of the 91��ɫ Circle and their guests, each of whom are offered a complimentary lunch sourced from 91��ɫ Region as part of the day.

The 91��ɫ Circle receives generous support from 91��ɫ's Alumni Office (program partner) and the Toronto Community News and Metroland Media Group 91��ɫ Region (print media sponsors).

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CERLAC sponsors lecture on Caribbean women's religious dress March 10

fmaquito — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Religion and culture Professor Carol Duncan of Wilfrid Laurier University will explore Caribbean women’s religious dress traditions at the next instalment of the Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean’s (CERLAC) Caribbean Lecture Series.

“Caribbean Religion and Female Esthetic” will take place Thursday, March 10, from 12:30 to 2:30pm in the Conference Centre on the fifth Floor of the 91��ɫ Research Tower, Keele campus.

In particular, Duncan will look at the religious dress in the Spiritual Baptist faith as a site of meaning-making and identity construction. Drawing on ethnographic research, multiple associations of religious dress, including modesty, leadership and African diasporan religious identities are discussed.

“My research suggests that religious clothing is simultaneously material culture, artistic production and narrative in cloth, linking contemporary life experiences in large urban centres, to which Caribbean people have emigrated, and Caribbean past,” says Duncan.

Left: Carol Duncan

She is the author of This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008) and co-author of Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Abingdon Press, 2007).

The event is co-sponsored by Founders College, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, the Department of Humanities, Vanier College, African Studies, Culture & Expression and Religious Studies.

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SSHRC-funded project provides daily facts about African-Canadian history

fmaquito — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Did you know that African Canadians worshipping on the lakeshore founded Toronto's first Baptist Church in 1826?

Did you know that Upper Canada was the first place in the British Empire to make laws limiting slavery (1793)?

Did you know that Mathieu Da Costa, a multilingual translator of African descent, came to Canada with Samuel de Champlain in 1604?

If you didn’t, now you do. And you can learn many more such interesting facts about the African-Canadian experience.

To mark Black History Month, 91��ɫ’s is posting did-you-knows daily on Facebook and Twitter throughout February.

The postings are part of the institute’s new project, . Funded by a knowledge mobilization grant from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, the project aims to produce and share new scholarship on the immigration to Canada of African American refugees from slavery.

The institute is collaborating with scholars and educators, community groups, libraries, government agencies and other stakeholders to write a new chapter on Canada’s Underground Railroad-era heritage. The objective is to share this new information with the public, especially teachers, children and youth, in easily accessible ways.

For daily facts about the African-Canadian experience, visit , follow and check out the website.

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Dance Professor Danielle Robinson researches the samba de roda's cultural significance in Brazil

fmaquito — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Salvador da Bahia, the second most popular tourist destination in Brazil, is a lively, tropical city on the northeast coast with a population of over two million. Musical rhythms from many different cultures can be heard in its bustling marketplaces, amidst the old Portuguese architecture and on its sandy beaches. In Salvador da Bahia it is commonplace for music and dance to transform streets, backyards and living rooms into performance spaces.

If you are lucky enough, you might get a chance to see the dynamic circle dance that the (UNESCO) has called "a masterpiece of oral and intangible heritage" – the samba de roda. It is here in Salvador and its surrounding countryside that 91��ɫ dance Professor Danielle Robinson (right) engages with the music, dance and culture of samba de roda, the history of which is rooted in rural Brazil and its plantation past. Robinson is drawn to the improvisational character of samba de roda "as a way of moving, thinking, adapting and living."

In this practice, "the music and dance are held together by shared syncopated rhythms, a collective history of colonization and an overall ethos of joy," said Robinson. "People switch between dancing, playing, singing and clapping as the spirit moves them. No one can just watch, everyone eventually ends up in the circle, which is a powerful, inclusive community space."

��ǲ��Բ��ǲ�’s -funded research aims to emphasize samba de roda’s improvisational character and the consequent diversity of movements. Throughout her research, Robinson seeks to understand how participants imagine and embody their relationships with the "roots" of samba, how they distinguish themselves from other movement and dance practitioners and how increasing cultural tourism is changing the practice profoundly, thanks to the recognition from UNESCO.

All of the original materials, including music recordings, music scores, interview transcriptions and translations, video documentation and still images, will eventually be held in the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections in order to promote further research. A parallel collection will also be placed at the Federal University of Bahia in the new Brazilian Popular Culture Research Centre (Centro de Estudos das Tradições Orais Brasileiras) that is currently being planned.

Robinson adds that the people she is working with in Salvador da Bahia want to collaborate and contribute, not be treated as passive research subjects. For this reason, the culminating book, with its numerous forms of writing by lifelong sambadores, includes interviews, song lyrics and essays, as well as writings by local Brazilian researchers.

Although ��ǲ��Բ��ǲ�’s research aims to speak to ethnographers, especially those working in dance and music of the African diaspora, Robinson also hopes "to offer another model of decolonizing research to other scholars working cross-culturally."

Throughout her academic career, Robinson has focused on experiences of identity, industry and appropriation as lived by participants in popular African diasporic dance practices like samba de roda. In particular, she is interested in "community-based dancing and its ability to construct, navigate and contest social divides and stereotypes." Growing up in the southern United States just after segregation ended, she is especially invested in understanding race relations and their manifestations in expressive culture.

Before joining 91��ɫ’s Dance Department in 2005, Robinson taught at the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil, as well as at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Texas, Austin. Her articles have been published in Dance Theatre Journal, Dance Research Journal, Dance Chronicle and Dance Research. At 91��ɫ, she is cross-appointed to the 91��ɫ & Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture. She is a Fellow of 91��ɫ’s Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean, the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples and Winters College. Her varied research and teaching experiences have led to what she considers one of the high points of her career so far. In 2009, she received the Faculty of Fine Arts Dean’s Junior Teaching Award.

By Jacquelin Chatterpaul, Faculty of Fine Arts research officer aide

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Tubman Centre's workshop to discuss 35,000-record Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

fmaquito — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Tracing the various routes of slavery is the goal of , which has records of over 35,000 voyages and is the topic of an upcoming workshop hosted by 91��ɫ’s Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples and the African Economic History journal.

“Documenting where people came from in Africa during the era of transatlantic slavery is essential in terms of understanding the background of African peoples and the impact of slavery on their descendants,” says Paul Lovejoy, 91��ɫ Distinguished Research Professor in African history and director of the Harriet Tubman Institute.

“This workshop analyzes the latest tools in charting the movement of ships that carried enslaved Africans to the Americas. We want to discuss in particular the impact of this forced demographic migration on the different parts of Africa."

Right: Map from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Voyages Databas detailing some of the slave trade routes

The one-day Slave Voyage Database and African Economic History workshop will take place Monday, May 3, starting at 8:30am in the Founders Senior Common Room, 305 Founders College, Keele campus. A reception will follow at 6:15pm.

Speakers will discuss and debate the relevance of the database to an understanding of African economic history. Lovejoy, a member of the Advisory Board for the database, will deliver the opening address, “Memories of the Formation of a Collaboratory on the Migration of African Peoples”. Later in the morning, he’ll discuss “What Happened to the Upper Guinea Coast in the Voyage Database?”

Trent University history Professor Ivana Elbl will talk about “The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database and the Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Slave Trade”, while history Professor Jelmer Vos of Old Dominion University will present “The Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Windward Coast of Africa”.

Left: Paul Lovejoy

Topics in the afternoon will range from “Transatlantic Slave Trade from Bight of Biafra to Brazil, 1750-1850” and “The Supply of Slaves from Luanda, 1768-1806: Records of Anselmo da Fonseca Coutinho” to "Re-examining the Slave Trade on the West Central African Coast: Looking Behind the Numbers", “The Juan Francisco Cascales Shipping Registries: Methodological Problems with the African Names Database” and “Extending the Database of African Names: New Evidence from Sierra Leone”.

The proceedings will be published as a special issue of African Economic History, which is co-edited by Lovejoy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and , and 91��ɫ history Professor José Curto.

For more information about the workshop, download this PDF or visit the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples Web site. For more information about the database, visit Web site.

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91��ɫ Prof. Paul Lovejoy receives Distinguished Africanist Award

fmaquito — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:00:00 +0000

91��ɫ Distinguished Research Professor in African history Paul Lovejoy, director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, was chosen over 10 other nominees to receive this year's Distinguished Africanist Research Excellence Award from the University of Texas at Austin for his dedication, lifetime of service and contributions to the discipline.

Lovejoy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, has dedicated his career to researching and teaching African history. He is currently working on several projects, including ongoing research on the African abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, and he is just starting a new project, titled "Breaking the Chains: Presenting a New Narrative of Canada's Role in the Underground Railroad".

Left: Paul Lovejoy accepts the Distinguished Africanist Award in Texas from Ed Dorn, former dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin

"Being recognized in this fashion came as a complete surprise to me, hence what this has meant to me is very personal," says Lovejoy. "As I listened to the statement of my achievements, I felt very humble and appreciative of everything that 91��ɫ has allowed me to pursue, every dream of collaboration and every attempt to increase the accessibility of knowledge so that people can learn their own histories."

In August, Lovejoy will return to Sierra Leone, where he is principal investigator on a British Library grant under their Endangered Archives Program. He also plans to finish what he calls a long-overdue book this summer, Testimonies of Enslavement: Stories of Slavery in Central Africa. In addition, as director of the Harriet Tubman Institute, he is involved in the organization of various conferences and workshops, about eight over the coming year.

"The award is important because it recognizes what we are doing at the Tubman Institute and it shows that Canada is not peripheral to the history of Africans in diaspora."

He has authored, co-authored or edited 36 books, including , and . In 1994, his co-authored book received the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize from the Canadian Historical Association.

He is series editor for the Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora with an initial 20 volumes set for publication by the end of 2010. In some of his recent publications, he has reopened debate on the role of slavery and the slave trade in Africa. Although trained as an economic historian, Lovejoy has argued forcefully that slavery and the slave trade were unlike any other institution or trade. Slaves, he argues, were "people" active in the shaping of their world and not "things" as commonly expressed in many slave studies.

He is a leading scholar who pioneered the study of the history and dynamics of the African diaspora from an African perspective. Through his research, he traces the history of migration from Africa into diaspora, following individual enslaved Africans to their destinations in the Americas. Lovejoy collaborates with an international network of researchers in Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, Brazil, Latin America, Africa and Europe, creating digitized historical data for his research.

His contributions and investment in African studies are reflected in his dedication to scholarship, administrative leadership, mentoring and interdisciplinary innovation.

Lovejoy is a research professor at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery & Emancipation at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom and a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project in Paris. He received a President's Research Award of Merit from 91��ɫ last year (see YFile, Nov. 5, 2009). In 1994 and 1995, he received the Canada Council for the Arts Killam Senior Research Fellowship.

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Music, artists and film festival featured during Black History Month

fmaquito — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0000

A series of films, concerts, workshops, artist talks and community events will usher in Black History Month this February, under the title Performing Diaspora 2010: Celebrating Black History Month through Expressive Culture – Afro Diasporic Women in Focus.

Produced by 91��ɫ's Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, Performing Diaspora 2010 is designed to serve as a catalyst to bring 91��ɫ and the surrounding community together to celebrate and engage with African and African diaspora arts and culture. The aim of the Harriet Tubman Institute is to strengthen the understanding and leadership necessary to develop prosperous, harmonious multicultural communities.

The celebration starts with the International Research Film Festival: Slavery, Memory, Heritage & Contemporary Forms, a special feature of this year’s Performing Diaspora 2010, which runs until Friday, Feb. 5. It features films which address issues of slavery in its past and contemporary forms, as well as films that explore issues of culture, memory and citizenship among descendants of African slaves in several different societies worldwide. Film screenings will be held during the evenings in the Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross Building, and at 280N 91��ɫ Lanes, Keele campus. Admission is free.

A series of live presentations celebrating Black History Month will begin with "An Afternoon of Gospel Music", featuring members of the 91��ɫ Gospel Choir under the direction of 91��ɫ Professor Karen Burke (left), on Thursday, Feb. 11, from 4 to 5pm at the 91��ɫgate Mall (northwest corner of Jane and Finch, just east of Hwy. 400). Admission is free.

Performing Diaspora’s feature concert, “Afro Diasporic Women in Focus”, showcasing gospel artists Amoy Levy and Nicole Sinclair-Anderson (right), will follow on Feb. 20. These Toronto-based singers will be backed by a band led by drummer Larnell Lewis, an accomplished musician who is well-regarded in Toronto’s gospel and jazz communities. The concert will take place Saturday, Feb 20, at 8pm in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, Keele campus. Admission is $15 or $10 for students and seniors. For tickets, visit the Box Office Web site or call 416-736-5888.

Left: Amoy Levy

Black History Month will wrap up with two days of intensive sessions with Brooksie Harrington (below right), an English professor at Fayetteville State University in the United States. His residency will include a vocal master class and a lecture demonstration on his travels with the first lady of gospel, Shirley Caesar. Everyone is welcome.

In keeping with the theme of Afro Diasporic Women in Focus, Harrington will read directly from his book Shirley Caesar: A Woman of Words. The lecture demonstration will take place Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 4pm in 280N 91��ɫ Lanes, Keele campus. The vocal master class will take place Thursday, Feb. 25 at 5:30pm in 245 Accolade East Building, Keele campus. Admission is free.

Performing Diaspora is presented in partnership with 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Fine Arts, the Department of Music, the 91��ɫ-TD Community Engagement Centre, Burke Music Inc. and others.

For more information about the presentations, including the films being screened as part of the film festival, visit the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African People's Web site.

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Tubman Research Centre to host free international film festival

fmaquito — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:00:00 +0000

From January 31 to February 5, 2010, the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples will present The International Research Film Festival: Slavery, Memory, Heritage and Contemporary Forms.

Funded in part by the (SSHRC), the festival addresses issues of slavery in its past and contemporary forms. Films also explore issues of culture, memory and citizenship among descendants of African slaves in several different societies worldwide. Other editions of the festival will run concurrently in Paris, France; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Quebec.

Screenings will run between 1 to 9 pm each day in the Nat Taylor Cinema and in 280N 91��ɫ Lanes, located on 91��ɫ's Keele Campus. For the festival program, specific screening times and other information, visit the Tubman Centre's Web site.

All screenings will be run free of charge.

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