[Peace] Af Am Poet & Film for Internat'l Women's Day @ Urbana Free Library

[carol inskeep]

Two upcoming events (on the next two Sundays) - See both announcements below - 


Truth
and Beauty: Guest Poet Lamont B. Steptoe Reads from His Work
Sunday,
March 4 at 2:00pm / Urbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium
 
Lamont B. Steptoe is a poet,
activist, Vietnam Veteran, photographer and founder/publisher of Whirlwind
Press.  He is the author of ten books of poetry and is the editor of two
collections of poems by South African poet, Dennis Brutus.  Steptoe has
won many awards for his work, including the American Book Award, and he has
performed around the world.  
  

A Great Grandaddy Speaks by
Lamont B. Steptoe
For Edward Dawson, Sr.
 
“Boy,
You tell my tale ‘cause
I couldn’t read
couldn’t write
back there in slavery’s night
worked from ‘can’t see to can’t
see’
I wasn’t born free!
Somehow, in my blood
I knew you’d come along
pick up the pieces
make a song!”
 
TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Sunday, March 11 at 2:00pm at the Urbana Free Library
A special film showing in
celebration of International Women's Day
 
TAKING ROOT:
The Vision of Wangari Maathai, tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew
into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights,
and defend democracy.

Through
chilling first person accounts and TV-news footage, Taking Root documents the
Green Belt Movement’s dramatic political confrontations in which Maathai and
other Kenyan women endured violent suppression and hunger strikes, and risked
personal injury. Contemporary cinema verité footage of the tree nurseries, and
the improved lives of the women and children who tend them, is testimony to the
power of Maathai’s vision and the positive change it has brought about.  


Two special
guest speakers will follow the film:  Anne Lutoma, (UIUC Ph. D Student
from Kenya) and Teresa Barnes (Associate Professor, Gender and Women's
Studies UIUC).  

Cosponsored
by the University of Illinois Center for African Studies and the African
Students Organization. 
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