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SUMMARY:New Art at Elegba Folklore Society\, "SANKOFA"
DESCRIPTION:NEW ART AT ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY\, “SANKOFA\,” features paintings by Ghanaian artist Ben Agbee.\n\n“It is the love of African ways of life\, \nthe natural environment\, extended families \nand strong communities that my paintings depict.”\n\nSankofa is the Asante Adinkra symbol\, or expression of wisdom that means “go back and fetch it.” In his paintings\, Agbee welcomes the viewer to as he says\, “look back to the Motherland to see its future.  There is natural power in our earthy relationships among people — the simple things that\, in my work\, are visual reminders of the cultural richness of everything that is African — respect\, appreciation\, unity.” \n \nHis palette knife and brush techniques create a unique vibrancy that makes his work stand out in synonymousness with his name in the industry and in the marketplace.  His works are a visual preservation of foundational Ghanaian values despite\, as Agbee laments\, “the negative impacts and distractions of Western influences.”\n \nArt speaks.  This is Ben Agbee’s second exhibition at Elegba Folklore Society.  He has exhibited in Europe\, Canada and other US locations in addition to various West African nations. His work has been committed to cards\, bags\, calendars and the like and can be found in gift shops at the Smithsonian and elsewhere.  Agbee’s original works reside in numerous collections worldwide.\n \nLiving in his choice to give back\, Agbee donates a portion of the proceeds from the sale of his work to support young artists at the Opportunities Industrialization Centre\, where he also received training.\n \n \nMake one of these evocative canvasses your own.  \nFrame it to match your spirit and your environment.\n\n\nFor more\, contact Elegba Folklore Society at 804.644.3900 or story1@efsinc.org.
URL:https://efsinc.org/event/new-art-exhibit-sankofa-the-paintings-of-ben-agbee/
LOCATION:Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center\, 101 E Broad St\, Richmond\, VA\, 23219\, United States
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SUMMARY:3rd Saturday Documentaries at Elegba Folklore Society: Al Jazeera's "A Moral Debt"
DESCRIPTION:  \nA Moral Debt: The Legacy of Slavery in the USA\n\nA journey of self-discovery and education\, spanning the legacy of Confederate America and its modern ramifications.\n\n \n  \nJournalist James Gannon has inherited a controversial family legacy – that of a clear descendancy from General Robert E Lee\, who led the Confederate Army against the Union during the American Civil war in the mid-19th century. \nGannon grew up in Richmond\, Virginia\, the former capital of the Confederacy\, where an 18-metre high statue of his ancestor dominates the landscape in Monument Avenue\, the city’s grandest street. \nFor over 100 years\, Richmond has honoured Lee as one of its greatest heroes. Until recently. \nIn 2015\, 21-year-old white supremacist Dylann Roof shot nine African Americans in a church in Charleston\, South Carolina. Photographs of Roof draped in and posing with the Confederate flag emerged on a now defunct white supremacist website. \nSoon after\, the city council in New Orleans voted for their Confederate monuments to be removed. Public consultations over Confederate memorials took place in Virginia\, which once had the largest enslaved population in the United States. \nWhen a “Unite the Right” rally to protest against the removal of a Robert E Lee statue in Charlottesville\,  Virginia\, turned into violent clashes in August 2017\, it accelerated the national debate about what to do with the country’s more than 1\,500 monuments and publically-installed symbols memorialising the American Civil War. \nWhat happened that weekend in Charlottesville made Gannon consider the true legacy of his slave-owning ancestors. \nOn a journey into his family’s legacy\, Gannon explores why people across the US are so divided on the subject of Confederate monuments and whether the oppression of enslaved people by his ancestors still has an effect on black lives in the US today. \nTravelling across Virginia and Maryland to meet key actors in the ongoing moral dilemma the US finds itself in regards to the Civil War and glorification of Confederate monuments\, Gannon finds himself face to face with the debate for justice\, reparations and the fight to tear these statues down. \n 
URL:https://efsinc.org/event/3rd-saturday-documentaries-at-elegba-folklore-society-al-jazeeras-a-moral-debt/
LOCATION:Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center\, 101 E Broad St\, Richmond\, VA\, 23219\, United States
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