May 11th 2010 – Meet the Filmmaker

Free Movie Night
7:00 pm Tuesday March 11th
Sputnik Bar, Coral Bay 776-6644

PLAY, JANKUNU PLAY by Oliver Greene (45) 2006

“… a highly significant accomplishment for the Garifuna people, in their effort to preserve their culture and share their rich heritage with the world.”

The Garifuna are people of West African, Arawak and Carib descent who live along the Caribbean coast of Central America from Belize to Nicaragua. One of their most popular rituals is wanaragua, commonly called Jankunu. Dancers wearing colorful regalia entertain by mimicking the military and social customs of the European colonizers of Belize… similar processions performed in the Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica, North Carolina, St Kitts-Nevis and Cape Coast, Ghana, reveal the extent to which this ritual is practiced.

Meet the Filmmaker! Free Cultural Music Workshop with Oliver Greene  5:00 – 6:30 PM

Filmmaker Oliver Greene will present a free workshop before the film and will also participate in audience discussion afterwards. Greene is an Associate Professor at the School of Music, Georgia State University. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology (emphasis, ethnomusicology) from Florida State University and masters and bachelors degrees from Southern Methodist University and the College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, respectively. He has published articles in the Black Music Research Journal, Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and in the book The Garifuna: A Nation Across Borders.

Be sure to come meet Oliver Greene and hear of his experiences in creating this informative and colorful film.