San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition

Mark Hanis is the Founder and President of the Genocide Intervention Network. Genocide Intervention Network’s mission is to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. As a grandchild of four Holocaust survivors, Mark has a deep understanding of individual persecution and of hope and opportunity. Outraged by the international community’s inaction when the Darfur conflict began, Mark began on a journey that still continues today.
“We need to shift from a culture of reaction to one of prevention.”  – Mark Hanis
EVENT FLYER

Mark Hanis

Location: UC Berkeley, Room 470, Stephens Hall
Time: 12:30 PM – 2pm

Refreshments will be provided
RSVP requested to hrc@berkeley.edu

Event co-sponsored by:

The International Criminal Court is almost 10 years old, but the Obama administration has yet to decide if the U.S. will join. Fear that it would be a politicized institution likely to prosecute American soldiers have not been realized, nor has it been effective in prosecuting persons responsible for war crimes. In recent years the U.S. has moderated its hostility to the court, but where do we go from here?

Speaker: William H. Taft, IV, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Stanford Law School

Date: February 24, 2010
Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program
Cost: $8 members, $15 non-members

Registration: http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=1&shcode=1664

Location:
The Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco Office:
595 Market Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Telephone: (415) 597-6700

Pacific Film Archive presents
African Film Festival
January 27–February 24, 2010

This annual series invites Bay Area audiences to experience the vibrant voices and visions of African cinema. Copresented by the Department of African American Studies and Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley.

http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/aff_2010

Film Nora

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27
7:00 Coming of Age: African Shorts
(Ghana/U.S., Kenya, Nigeria, 2007–2008, 66 mins)
A collection of award-winning African shorts—Bronx Princess (Yoni Brook, Musa Syeed, Ghana/U.S., 2008, 29 mins): A “Bronx princess” heads to Ghana; Coming of Age (Judy Kibinge, Kenya, 2007, 12 mins): A Kenyan teen comes of age along with her country’s fledgling democracy; and Area Boys (Omelihu Nwanguma, Nigeria, 2008, 25 mins): Two Nigerian gangsters try to go straight.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 4
7:00 Sacred Places
Jean-Marie Téno (Cameroon/France, 2009, 70 mins)
Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Téno profiles a poor but lively neighborhood in the capital of Burkina Faso, where a cine-club proprietor tries to include Burkinabe films among the action and Bollywood fare.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10
7:00 Dance Dance Revolution: Contemporary African Dance on Film
(U.S., U.K., Mozambique, 2007–2008, 100 mins)
Two remarkable films on contemporary African choreography: Nora (Alla Kovgan, David Hinton, U.S./U.K./Mozambique, 2008, 35 mins), a dance-film about and starring Zimbabwean choreographer Nora Chipaumire; and Movement (R)Evolution Africa (Joan Frosch, Alla Kovgan, U.S., 2007, 65 mins), which follows nine African choreographers on a U.S. tour.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 17
7:00 Wrestling Grounds
Cheikh Ndiaye (Senegal, 2006, 105 mins)
A young man enters the flavorful world of Senegelese wrestling (a national obsession) in this vibrant award-winner, based on a novel by acclaimed writer Aminata Sow Fall. A primer on contemporary African pop culture.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18
7:30 Prince of Broadway
Sean Baker (U.S., 2008, 100 mins)
Sean Baker in person
“It’s a hard knock-off life” for a Ghanaian immigrant saddled with a baby boy amid the hustlers of New York’s Garment District. From the director of Greg the Bunny; winner of the L.A. Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize and the Special Jury Award from Locarno.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24
7:00 In My Genes
Lupita Nyong’o (Kenya, 2009, 78 mins)
Eight individuals from across a wide spectrum of Kenyan society, all united as albinos, share their stories in this documentary, a heartfelt counter to the recent serial murders of albinos in Africa.

The African Film Festival National Traveling Series is organized by the African Film Festival, Inc.

The Pacific Film Archive Theater is located at 2575 Bancroft Way (between Telegraph and Bowditch) in Berkeley. Advance tickets are available by calling (510) 642-5249 or visiting http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/tickets

For more information on these and other programs, visit http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries