When: April 17th 6:00-8:30pm

Where: Einstein Auditorium, NYU Steinhardt Department of Art & Art Professions, 34 Stuyvesant St., Barney Building, Ground Floor

Space is limited: Please RSVP now: http://wagner.nyu.edu/events

Special Guest Speakers:

Awam Amkpa, PhD. Filmmaker, author, and Chair of NYU Africana Studies. Organizer of Real Life: Pan African Festival of Documentary Films, and the Kofi Ghanaba musical archive in Ghana. He will show excerpts from his new documentary film on West African artists.

Ross Bleckner, MFA. Renowned artist, whose works are held in prominent public collections throughout the globe, including MoMA, MoCA, Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is a Clinical Professor at NYU Steinhardt’s Art Department. Mr. Bleckner will present paintings made by former child soldiers during his workshop in Uganda, where he has recently been appointed the first Artist Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations.

Djibril Diallo, PhD. Lon. As Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Dr. Diallo helps advance the priority of universal access to HIVA/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support. Dr. Diallo also serves as the chair of the Leadership Committee for the U.S. Launch of FESMAN 2009 (the World Festival of Black Arts 2009), which will be held in Senegal in December 2009, offering an opportunity to strengthen the role of the arts in promoting development and peace. He is also the co-Chair of the World Affairs Taskforce of the U.S.-based National Association of Black Journalists, and is a Board Member of All for Africa, a U.S. non-governmental organization promoting African development, and the Africa Centre in London.

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