Where: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture @ The New York Public Library (515 Malcolm X Blvd)
When: Today, Sept. 27
Time: 11am - 5pm
What: The Schomburg Center presents a new film series dedicated to the2008 commemoration of the Bicentennial of the American Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The series will focus on Resistance and Revolt in the African Diaspora. Screenings will be held on selected Saturdays starting September 27-November 15. September 27
11 a.m. Quilombo chronicles Palmares, the most famous marooncommunities which flourished for several decades under the reignof the legendary chieftain Ganga Zumba.
1:30 p.m. Maluala takes us into a Palenque, a settlement ofrunaway Africans hidden somewhere in Cuba’s eastern mountains.
3:30 p.m. Placido portraits the dramatic story of Gabriel de laConcepcio Valdes (Placido), a mulatto Cuban poet accused ofleading a conspiracy against the Spanish colonial government.
FREE ADMISSION FOR ALL!!!
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