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Thursday, December 11 starting at 11 p.m.
FILM FESTIVAL
African Diaspora Film Festival
The African Diaspora Film Festival is an eclectic mix of independent, urban, foreign, and classic films that focus on the global black experience featuring Adios Momo (Uruguay, 2005) by Leonardo Ricagni; Playing Away (Trinidad-Tobago/UK, 1986) by Horace Ove; Patterns of Passion (USA, 2008) by Patrick Coleman; and Muhammad Ali The Greatest (USA, 1977) by William Klein.

Tickets: $10; $8 for seniors and students and $25 for Women Indies Night. For schedule and ticket sales, call (212) 864-1760 or visit www.NYADFF.org.

Thursday, December 11 from 6 to 8 p.m.
BOOK SIGNING
Pichón: A Memoir/Race and Revolution in Castro’s Cuba
Join us for a book signing with famed author Carlos Moore of his latest work, Pichon: A Memoir/ Race and Revolution in Castro’s Cuba, in a behind-the-scenes memoir that explores the Revolution from a perspective of a pichon, the racist Cuban term for a black of Hatian or West Indian descent.

Sunday, December 14 at 3 p.m.
CONCERT
Ritz Chamber Players
To mark the holiday season, the Schomburg Center is happy to invite you to its classical concert featuring The Ritz Chamber Players, the nation’s first chamber music ensemble series comprised solely of accomplished musicians spanning the African Diaspora. The ensemble brings a fresh, new energy to the classical music genre as they seek to increase the visibility of African-American classical composers and heighten public awareness about their contributions within the genre.

Tickets: members, $16; non-members, $20. For ticket charge, call The Schomburg Shop at (212) 491-2206. Ticket charge hours, Tuesday through Saturday, Noon to 6 p.m.

Exhibition:
December 11, 2008 through February 28, 2009
Obama: The Historic Campaign & Victory in Photos
The exhibition Obama: The Historic Campaign & Victory in Photos presents 100 photographs documenting the campaign from its start with several thousand supporters gathered in Springfield, Illinois on a very cold day in February 2007 to that unusually warm evening in Chicago on November 4, 2008 when Barack Obama delivered his victory speech as President-elect of the United States of America. The images capture the vitality of the campaign and the passion and commitment of the millions who rallied to Obama’s theme, Yes We Can!, as his movement for Change grew and moved forward. The exhibition is curated by Deborah Willis and Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe.