Events

Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of the enchanting documentary/road movie FACES PLACES (VISAGES VILLAGES,) co-directed by 89-year old Agnes Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist JR. A sensation at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and a selection of the Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, it is scheduled to open in New York on Friday, October 6 at Lincoln Plaza and the Quad Cinemas, followed by a national roll out.

Kindred spirits, Varda and JR share a lifelong passion for images and how they are created, displayed and shared.  Together they travel around the villages of France in JR’s photo truck meeting locals, learning their stories and producing epic-size portraits of them.  Their photos are prominently displayed on houses, barns, storefronts and trains revealing the humanity in their subjects, and themselves. FACES PLACES documents these heart-warming encounters as well as t

The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) celebrates its 25^th anniversary with a total of 64 films from 31 countries including 31 World, US and NY Premieres. Screenings will be held in three venues in Manhattan: Teachers College, Columbia University, Cinema Village and MIST Harlem. 

The films in ADIFF 2017 – some coming directly from important national and international film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto or Berlinale - illustrate the diversification of the global film industry, from portraits of trailblazers  of yesterday and today (Winnie, Sammy Davis Jr., Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba) to intimate stories that will touch the audience in many ways (The Citizen, Foreign Body, Rosa Chumbe).

ADIFF 2017 FACT SHEET

WHAT:  25^th Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival 
WHEN: November 24 to December 10, 2017
WHERE: 

* MILBANK CHAPEL, TEACHERS COLLEGE, CU - 525 W 120th St.- 125 Zankel & 177GD/179GD

* COWIN CENTER, TEACHERS COLLEGE, CU - Entrance between 120th and 121t

Flamenco is synonymous with Spanish culture. Since its inception, theorists have sidelined the fundamental contribution of Afro-Andalusians. Commercial exploitation of the American colonies brought hundreds of Africans to Spain to be sold as slaves, forming a population who over time managed to gain space in a society wrought with racial prejudices. Music and dance were a fundamental part of their expression and the most important affirmation of their identity. As the black population began to disappear from Spain in the late 19th century, so too did their contribution to this extraordinary art form. In Gurumbé, their story is finally told. Directed by M. Angel Rosale, Spain/Mexico/Portugal/Senegal, 2016, Documentary/History, Music, 72 min, Spanish with English subtitles.

SCREENING FOLLOWED BY LIVE FLAMENCO PERFORMANCE

Flamenco demonstration by YINKA ESI GRAVES Co-fondator, choregraph et dancer for Dotdotdot Dance

Q&A with director after the screening and performance!

Tickets Here

Brigitte Saint Ouen will lead the playgroup as follow :

sign the meet uphttps://www.meetup.com/Sunday-French-Playgroup/events/245335167/

sunday 10th december2017 at 3pm 

cost 5$ for the school EINY

206 5th Avenue · New York, NY

• 3pm – 3:15pm Welcome the families and free play time with Play-Doh or coloring,

• 3:15pm – 3:45pm French reading
Looking for french mum and dad to read stories!

• 3:45pm – 4pm art craft

• 4pm – 4:25pm gymnastics, playtime, networking introduction of EINY and Bleu Blanc Rouge NY

• 4:25pm – 4:45pm singing songs

• 4:45pm – 5pm clean-up

Feel free to invite friends and other parents who have a concern multilingual, must register on this meetup before coming. Thank you.

A très bientôt

KEMTIYU-CHEIKH ANTA - Q&A

SUNDAY DECEMBER, 10TH @ 5:30PM

“The Universal Man,"  "The Capital Contemporary," "The Giant of Knowledge," "The Last Pharaoh," these were the headlines, the day after his death on February 7, 1986. Thirty years later, KEMTIYU paints a portrait of Cheikh Anta Diop, a trail-blazing scholar with an insatiable thirst for science and knowledge as well as an honest, enlightened political figure, venerated by some, decried by others, and unknown to most. Directed by William Mbay, Senegal, 2016, Documentary, 94 min, Wolof.  

Screening follow by Piano Performance by NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston!

“When Randy Weston plays a combination of strength and gentleness virility and velvet emerges from the keys in an ebb and flow of sound seemingly as natural as the waves of the sea” - Langston Hughes

PANEL DISCUSSION with director William Mbay, Randy Weston, Pierre Thiam and Bara Thiokhane.

VIP reception after the screening!

Tickets Here

GURUMBE: AFRO-ANDALOUSIAN MEMORIES

SUNDAY, DECEMBER, 10TH 2017 

Flamenco is synonymous with Spanish culture. Since its inception, theorists have sidelined the fundamental contribution of Afro-Andalusians.

Commercial exploitation of the American colonies brought hundreds of Africans to Spain to be sold as slaves, forming a population who over time managed to gain space in a society wrought with racial prejudices. Music and dance were a fundamental part of their expression and the most important affirmation of their identity. As the black population began to disappear from Spain in the late 19th century, so too did their contribution to this extraordinary art form. In Gurumbé, their story is finally told. Directed by M. Angel Rosales, Spain/Mexico/Portugal/Senegal, 2016, Documentary/History, Music, 72 min, in Spanish with English subtitles.

SCREENING FOLLOWED BY LIVE FLAMENCO PERFORMANCE

Flamenco demonstration by YINKA ESI GRAVES Co-fondator, choregraph et dancer for Dotdotdot Dance

Q&A wAutoR