On Friday, June 22, at the 16th Annual American Black Festival in Miami Beach, FL, ABFF will celebrate the success of the hit film, “Think Like A Man” (Screen Gems) produced by Will Packer (Rainforest Films).
In the U.K.? Check out Belong, a new play by Bola Agbaje.Questioning our idea of home, Kayode’s hiding. He’s not even answering the door to the cleaner, and Rita is not going to start getting out the Hoover in her designer heels.
The films in ABFF’s 2012 Narrative Features section reflect a creative multiplicity which can be seen, felt and heard in controversy through rhythmic Jamaican patois (Better Mus’ Come) to a young Parisian woman’s search for her father (Elza).
IYAGO ENTERTAINMENT GROUP Presents WHAT BLACK MEN THINK – An In Depth View of How Myths, Stereotypes and Misrepresentations render Black Men Non-Necessities in their Communities and Families… In the most provocative Black film of the year, Janks Morton presents a searing examination of the role that myths, stereotypes and misrepresentations have played in the decimation of modern era black relationships, and how the symbiotic relationship between government, the media and black leadership perpetuates misinformation to further marginalize the role of black men in society.
The Donald Gordon Creative Arts Awards provide liberating funding to the imaginative projects of UCT staff in partnership with other academics and/or externally situated artists without limitations in discipline.
Sugarcane Congratulates for this year’s BET International nominees like Lira, Camp Mulla, Ice Prince, Sarkodie, Wizkid and Mali’s own Mokobe. BET choose some of the best and we know this will be a difficult choice.
Sugarcane is beyond happy that the female MC is making a comeback by getting real airplay. Our latest chica on the mic is Azealia Banks, who releases her album tomorrow in the United States .
Here is a sneak peak at a documentary about Nigerian-Irish Double Bass Player and Broadcaster Chi-Chi Nwanoku. She’s a member of the British ensemble “The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment”
( Thanks to Afro-Europe) Margins to Mainstream: The story of Black Theatre in Britain is the latest documentary film produced by the Octavia Foundation and Nu Century Arts, Birmingham with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The SUNY Orange Symphonic Band will offer a collection of premieres of contemporary concert band compositions when it presents its annual Spring Concert at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 12 at Middletown’s historic Paramount Theatre.
