{"id":6649,"date":"2015-03-15T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T14:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2015-03-15T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T14:20:43","slug":"yale-sponsors-1st-african-arts-culture-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/yale-sponsors-1st-african-arts-culture-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale sponsors 1st African Arts &#038; Culture Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Africa-Salon-at-Yale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Africa-Salon-at-Yale.jpg\" alt=\"Africa Salon at Yale\" width=\"960\" height=\"444\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Africa-Salon-at-Yale.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Africa-Salon-at-Yale-225x104.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Africa-Salon-at-Yale-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfrica Salon, Yale\u2019s first annual contemporary African arts and culture festival \u2014 featuring some of today\u2019s top artists from the continent and diaspora \u2014 will take place on Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Yale Africa Initiative, the interactive event will include a series of panels, readings, exhibits, and performances.<\/p>\n<p>The event will open on Friday evening with a panel moderated by Michael Veal, professor of music and African American studies. Saturday\u2019s events will include a series of panels \u2014 each accompanied by a performance or visual presentation \u2014 highlighting key artists and their work in contemporary African literature, visual art, film, music, fashion, and dance. At each panel, faculty and students who are producing artistic work on Africa will be featured.<\/p>\n<p>A free-to-the-public concert will held at Battel Chapel, located at 400 College Street, New Haven. Other events take place at the Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park St. Registration is $20 for the public and $10 for students.<\/p>\n<p>View the full schedule and register for Africa Salon at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africasalon.org\/\">africasalon.org<\/a>. More information about the festival at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yale.edu\/2015\/03\/12\/inaugural-african-arts-and-culture-festival-will-bring-emerging-contemporary-artists-yale\">YaleNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the share <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/senzala1954\">Kevin Blythe Sampson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Salon, Yale\u2019s first annual contemporary African arts and culture festival \u2014 featuring some of today\u2019s top artists from the continent and diaspora \u2014 will take place on Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28. Hosted by the Yale Africa Initiative, the interactive event will include a series of panels, readings, exhibits, and performances. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/yale-sponsors-1st-african-arts-culture-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yale sponsors 1st African Arts &#038; Culture Festival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13,648],"tags":[1792,37,1793],"class_list":["post-6649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-art-culture","category-events-activities","tag-africa","tag-art","tag-yale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6655,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions\/6655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}