First Fridays
Friday, August 1, 2008
6 to 10pm
FREE ADMISSION!!
Location: The Andrew Freedman Home
1125 Grand Concourse @ McClellan Street
(across the street from the Bronx Museum)
Rain Venue: The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse @ 165th Street
The Andrew Freedman Home will serve as the backdrop for the Bronx Museum’s FREE First Fridays! event “Africanísimo!” Organized in collaboration the African Film Festival and Afrokinetic, the program will offer an exciting afternoon of outdoor film screenings by some of today’s brightest filmmakers, and live musical performances.
Program Schedule:
6:00 pm Doors Open.
DJ Chris Annibell (Afrokinetic) spins on the ones and twos.
7:15 pm Opening remarks by Holly Block, Executive Director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
7:20 pm Live music and dance performance by Michael Markus & Magbana Drum and Dance NYC.
8:00 pm Presentation of films by Rico Speight and Mahen Bonetti of the African Film Festival.
8:15 pm Screening of “Little Girl Who Sold the Sun”
Dir. Djibril Diop Mambety
Senegal – 1999 – 45 min. – in Wolof with English subtitles
9:00 pm Screening of “Mambety”
Dir. Papa Madieye Mbaye
Senegal – 2002 – 28 min. – in Wolof and French with English subtitles
9:45 pm Closing remarks.
For more information about The Bronx Museum of the Arts events, visit http://www.bronxmuseum.org
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, New York 10456
tel/ 718.681.6000
fax/ 718.681.6181
Getting to The Bronx Museum of the Arts Subway: Take the D or B to the 167 Street / Grand Concourse station. Exit at rear of station, walk south along Grand Concourse two blocks. 4 to the 161 Street / Yankee Stadium station. Walk east three blocks to the Grand Concourse, then, walk north four blocks along Grand Concourse to 165th Street. Bus: Take the Bx1, Bx2, or BxM4 Express to 165th St. and Grand Concourse. Museum Hours Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday from 12 – 6 pm. Friday from 12 – 8 pm. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday
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