Thursday, March 18, 2010
Robert Farris Thompson @ MoCADA Tonight
(POSTED BY MATT)
If you're free tonight and are looking for something FREE to do, we suggest the following:
Robert Farris Thompson: Eshu in the Americas
March 18, 6pm-8pm
FREE
MoCADA, 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Yale Professor of African & African-American Art History, Yoruba practitioner and internationally acclaimed author, Dr. Robert Farris Thompson will present a dynamic lecture/discussion on the Yoruba deity Eshu (the Trickster). Dr. Thompson will trace the deity's history from West Africa to the Americas and how the Yoruba religion is practiced today.
A Q&A will follow the presentation, and Dr. Thompson will sign his signature book Flash of the Spirit, along with a small reception.
The book will be available at MoCADA's store for $14.95.
www.africanart.org/programs/106/robert_farris_thompson_eshu_in_the_americas_copresented_with_mocada
For more information on Robert Farris Thompson and to hear the radio program we produced with him on Tango, check out our Hip Deep site.
If you're free tonight and are looking for something FREE to do, we suggest the following:
Robert Farris Thompson: Eshu in the Americas
March 18, 6pm-8pm
FREE
MoCADA, 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Yale Professor of African & African-American Art History, Yoruba practitioner and internationally acclaimed author, Dr. Robert Farris Thompson will present a dynamic lecture/discussion on the Yoruba deity Eshu (the Trickster). Dr. Thompson will trace the deity's history from West Africa to the Americas and how the Yoruba religion is practiced today.
A Q&A will follow the presentation, and Dr. Thompson will sign his signature book Flash of the Spirit, along with a small reception.
The book will be available at MoCADA's store for $14.95.
www.africanart.org/programs/106/robert_farris_thompson_eshu_in_the_americas_copresented_with_mocada
For more information on Robert Farris Thompson and to hear the radio program we produced with him on Tango, check out our Hip Deep site.
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