Celebrating black women living in Europe.

Glad to have you back!

I will be checking them out in Stockholm:

Host: US Embassy Sweden
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Immanuelskyrkan
Street:Kungstensgatan 17
City/Town:Stockholm, Sweden
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Howard Gospel Choir is a gospel choir associated with Howard University, Washington DC. This first college choir of its kind in the nation, the Howard Gospel Choir has traveled internationally, recorded commercially and worked with notable artists to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ through song. We celebrate the accomplishments of our alumni who include Grammy Award winners Richard Smallwood and Core Cotton of the Sounds of Blackness, as well as Elbernita and Twinkie Clark and Angela Winbush.

During Black History Month in February, the U.S. Embassy has supported the Scandinavian Tour of the Howard Gospel Choir, so forget ‘Körslaget’ and get up from your living room sofa and experience great gospel live!

ADMISSION IS FREE!

You can get their full schedule from the HU Gospel Choir MySpace page.

Wanuri Kahiu with film Pumzi

Wanuri Kahiu was born and raised in Nairobi. She read the masters program in filmregi at UCLA in Los Angeles and broke through with music movie Ras Star (2007) about a young Kenyan artist who tries to bring in a talent show. Wanuri Kahius own production company, Dada Productions, produces her films. Her first feature film From a Whisper was very attentive to CinemAfrica Ubuntu! Film Festival in autumn 2009.

Pumzi is the first science fiction film ever shown CinemAfrica, a 22 minutes short story about a near future without water. If Pumzi has Kahiu said that “the idea was born from a conversation with a friend to live in a world where people buy bottled air, shortly after I was told that the oxygen-bars already exist in some places on earth.” Pumzi was one of the winning films in the short film contest Latitude – Quest for the Good Life, Pan-African Short Film Competition 2009th
http://www.cinemafrica.se/

Wanuri Kahiu med filmen Pumzi

Wanuri Kahiu är född och uppvuxen i Nairobi. Hon läste mastersprogrammet i filmregi vid UCLA i Los Angeles och slog igenom med musikfilmen Ras Star (2007) om en ung kenyansk artist som försöker komma med i en talangshow. Wanuri Kahius eget produktionsbolag, Dada Produktions, producerar hennes filmer. Hennes första långfilm From a Whisper blev mycket uppmärksammad på CinemAfricas Ubuntu! Filmfestival hösten 2009.

Pumzi är den första science-fiction-filmen som CinemAfrica någonsin visat, en 22 minuter kort historia om en nära framtid utan vatten. Om Pumzi har Kahiu sagt att ”idén föddes ur ett samtal med en vän om att leva i en värld där människor köper luft på flaska, kort därefter fick jag veta att syre-barer redan existerar på vissa platser på jorden”. Pumzi var en av vinnarfilmerna i kortfilmstävlingen Latitude – Quest for the good Life, Pan-African Short Film Competition 2009.

http://www.cinemafrica.se/

Oona King was born in Sheffield, England to a Jewish mother and African American father, Preston King. In 1997 she went on to become the 2nd black woman in Britain voted to Parliament. Last year Oona King became the head of diversity at Britain’s television Channel 4. In 2007 she wrote The Oona King Diaries: House Music.

She joined the Labour Party in 1971 as a teenager and went on to serve on the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, and as an assistant to Glyn Ford MEP and and Glenys Kinnock MEP. in 1997 King was chosen to represent the seat of Bethnal Green & Bow.

In 2003 King supported the war in Iraq which led to her loosing her Parliamentary seat in 2005.