{"id":391,"date":"2015-03-31T20:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educatorpoet.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2015-03-31T20:29:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:29:30","slug":"habari-gani-what-is-the-news-the-film-festival-rollercoaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Habari Gani? What is the News?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hotep and Greetings!<\/p>\n

The Film Festival Rollercoaster is the News! \u00a0In the past two weeks, Healing History: The Documentary has been screened in two countries – Bermuda and the United States. \u00a0In the next couple of weeks, it will been shown in Cameroon, Central Africa and in France. \u00a0It is amazing!<\/p>\n

The premier at the Bermuda International Film Festival (BIFF) was well attended and part of the opening night screening of documentary short films. \u00a0Comments were very complimentary and a sampling of them can be read under Film Festivals: What Folks Are Sayin’. \u00a0<\/em>I was delighted that the filmmaker, Kristin Alexander, came for the premier and we were truly gratified by the enthusiastic response.<\/p>\n

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Mwalimu and Kristin Alexander on the red carpet at BIFF<\/p><\/div>\n

The Healing History Weekend was enhanced by the debut of the dramatic presentation Everything We Should Be, a play utilizing my poetry as inspiration and dialogue. \u00a0Written by Ms. Shalane Dill, it was performed by her drama guild students, The Berkeley Players, a group of aspiring, high school actors from The Berkeley Institute. \u00a0 An Encore Presentation of both the film and play is scheduled for Sunday, May 31st at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. \u00a0Tickets are already selling!<\/p>\n

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Mwalimu and The Berkeley Players<\/p><\/div>\n

St. Louis, Missouri has been in the news so much lately that I was filled with excitement and anxiety simultaneously. \u00a0Having the film accepted by Africa World Documentary Film Festival (AWDFF) was an awesome opportunity, as they have venues worldwide and Healing History was accepted by the community venue, The Better Family Life Community Center. \u00a0My graduate school colleague and director of the festival, Dr. Niyi Coker, was a beautiful host, delighting me further in sharing that the film was also accepted by the venue in the Cameroon, Central Africa!<\/p>\n

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Dr. Niyi Coker and Mwalimu<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, my anxieties were unfounded, as the people were warm and welcoming and my schedule full! \u00a0I read and signed books at the Progressive Emporium Bookstore and Education Center, the Ngoma Cultural Celebration and at the AWDFF venue, The Better Family Life Community Center, who requested a second screening! \u00a0The comments were awesome and possibilities are brewing…<\/p>\n

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Habari Gani? \u00a0What is the News?<\/em> \u00a0The film festivals are the news!!!<\/p>\n

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Hotep and Greetings! The Film Festival Rollercoaster is the News! \u00a0In the past two weeks, Healing History: The Documentary has been screened in two countries – Bermuda and the United States. \u00a0In the next couple of weeks, it will been shown in Cameroon, Central Africa and in France. \u00a0It is amazing! The premier at the Continue reading <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0454.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/educatorpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}