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PAN Calendar of Bay Area Africa Events is updated frequently.
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Now Playing
is the inspiring story of Marion Cloete, a clinically
trained therapist who, with her husband and two daughters, fearlessly walked away
from a privileged life in a wealthy Johannesburg suburb to establish an extraordinary
village and school that provide shelter, food and education to more than 550
South African children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The stories of the
children are interwoven with the dramatic parallel saga of the orphaned elephants
of Pilanesberg National Park. In the last few years, elder female elephants have
been re-introduced into the park's population in the hopes of re-socializing the young.
The experiment is working—and it offers a resonant reflection of the healing taking
place for the human children being "re-parented" by Marion.
Directed by Louise Hogarth
Playing at the:
1572 California Street at Polk , San Francisco, CA 94109
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NOVEMBER 2007
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Friday November 2
6:00 - 9:30 pm
Celebration with the Women’s Intercultural Network
Delancey Street Townhall
600 Embarcadero, San Francisco
The Women's Intercultural Network and the California Women's
Agenda invite you to a festive evening of celebration.
Four incredible community activists will be honored, including Marcus Books owner
Dr. Raye Richardson and Veteran Feminists of America's Gracia Molina de Pick. We
will also have a silent auction, a sit-down buffet, and live entertainment.
For more information contact:
November 4
2:00 pm
God Grew Tired of US
Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival,
GOD GREW TIRED OF US explores the indomitable spirit of three “Lost Boys” from the Sudan
who leave their homeland, triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversities and move to
America, where they build active and fulfilling new lives but remain deeply committed to
helping the friends and family they have left behind.
Admission: $5.00
1834 Park Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94606
Tuesday November 6
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Workshop: “Transforming Conflict by Peaceful Means” with Dr. Johan Galtung
Burlingame Hall, 252 W. Spain St. in Sonoma
Workshop: “Transforming Conflict by Peaceful Means” with Dr. Johan Galtung
This workshop features expert training and practice sessions that include negotiating personal and political conflicts.
Johan Galtung, Ph.D., is one of the world's experts on peace studies and is the founder of the Peace University in
Austria and TRANSCEND, an international network of peace negotiators and mediators. A recipient of the Right
Livelihood Award, Galtung also directed the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway and is the
author of numerous books and manuals. DON'T MISS this opportunity to learn peace, communication, negotiation,
and mediation skills from a leading international expert! Dr. Galtung is not often in the U.S., and we are most fortunate
to be able to host this workshop! Register online at http://www.praxispeace.org or call 707-939-2973.
For more information contact: Tel: (707) 939 2973
Mondays, November 5, 12, 19, 26
At U.C. Berkeley Bear’s Lair Pub & Grill
(near the food court, next to the campus bookstore)
If you have further questions, please contact our Swahili Lecturer,
For more info: Abdi Jibril - abdijibril@berkeley.edu
Saturday November 10
7:00 pm
Report -back from HAITI: Building Democracy from the Grassroots
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (wheelchair accessible)
1924 Cedar at Bonita, (a block above MLK Jr Way) Berkeley
Program to include:
* Akinyele Umoja - Associate Professor of African-American Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Dr. Umoja is an activist/scholar
who has participated for over 35 years in the Black liberation struggle. His is a founding member of the New African People's Organization and
the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
* Richard Brown - Black Panther Party Veteran / San Francisco 8
* Slide presentation from the recent delegation to Haiti
This summer, members of the Haiti Action Committee, along with Dr. Akinyele Umoja of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, traveled to Haiti. We met with grassroots activists, political prisoners and human rights workers. We heard the continuing calls for the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. We saw close-up the resistance to U.S./U.N. occupation.
Throughout our trip, Haitian sisters and brothers expressed their support for the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. They sent solidarity to the San Francisco 8 Black Panther Party veterans/political prisoners now facing trial. And they made it clear that their fight for justice and democracy in Haiti is one and the same as the fight for freedom here.
We are holding this event in solidarity with Lovinsky Pierre-Antonine. Lovinsky is a noted Haitian human rights advocate who has not been heard from since August 12th and is presumed kidnapped. We urge everyone to continue to work for his safe return.
For more information contact: www.HaitiSolidarity.net and www.MXGM.org
Monday, November 12
7:00 to 10:00 pm
Orphans of Rwanda !
With Dr. Paul Farmer World renowned physician and anthropologist
Scholarship program. Our mission is to help orphans and socially vulnerable young people
in Rwanda pursue a university education and become leaders in fostering
economic development and social reconciliation.
at the Herbst International Exhibition Hall in the Presidio
385 Moraga Avenue in San Francisco
Wine, hors d'oeuvers, and photo auction !
Dr. Farmer is founding director of Partners in Health
Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School
Co-founder and Associate Chief, Division of Social Medicine and
Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Tickets: $50 ($60 at the door)
Students: $35
Wednesday, November 14
(2004, 93 minutes, in Portuguese with English subtitles)
Vitorio is an amputee veteran of the civil war in Angola. One
day someone steals his prosthetic leg and during his search
for it he starts relationships with other residents of the sprawling
capital city of Luanda who, like Vitorio, are trying to rebuild their
lives after years of war. This Sundance award-winner was compared
in the New York Times to BICYCLE THIEF and films of the Italian
neo-realism.
701 Mission St @ 3rd in San Franc
The Ethiopian Jews of Israel
1414 Walnut Street in Berkeley
The Ethiopian Jews of Israel: Personal Stories of Life in the Promised Land with author Len Lyons
Using historic and contemporary photographs, music, and audio clips from in-depth interviews,
Len Lyons presents the dramatic and inspiring stories of Ethiopian Jews struggling to become
Ethiopian Israelis. Lyons introduces soldiers, students, lawyers, actors, musicians, spiritual and
political leaders who tell us how they have overcome hardship and life-threatening journeys to make
meaningful contributions to the State of Israel.
“A loving tribute to the resilience and courage of Ethiopian Jews, the tenacity of Jewish tradition over the centuries and the reality of Israel as a multiracial
society.” ~ Rabbi Harold Kushner
FREE!
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DECEMBER 2007
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Sunday, December 2
2:00 PM
Dry Season
Chad, 2006. The government has granted amnesty to all war criminals. Atim, 16 years old,
is given a revolver by his grandfather so that he may kill the man who killed his father...
Atim leaves his village for N'djamena, seeking a man he does not know. He quickly locates
him: former war criminal Nassara is now married and settled down as the owner of a small
bakery... With the firm intention of killing him, Atim gets closer to Nassara under the
guise of looking for work, and is hired as an apprentice baker… Intrigued by Atim's attitude
toward him, Nassara takes him under his wing and teaches him the secrets of making bread...
Over the weeks, a strange relationship evolves between the two. Despite his disgust, Atim
seems to recognise in Nassara the father figure he has always needed, while Nassara sees
the teenager as a potential son. One day, he suggests adoption...
Admission: $5.00
1834 Park Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94606
