Join artists, performers, & vendors for a family festival celebration of Senegalese life. Free events for children & adults, as well as a Senegalese marketplace. This event is being held in conjunction with the exhibition "A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal." Please click on the title for the festival schedule.

Sunday, June 1, 2003
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Sunset Blvd. & Westwood
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Festival Schedule as of Friday, May 16, 2003:

(Please check schedule for additional events beginning Monday, May 19)

Hair Braiding by Coiffure Artists Maimouna Barry & Aissata Fall – noon – 3 PM in the William Goldenberg Galleria

*Space is limited, sign-ups required!

Arabesque Drawing Workshop --  noon – 5 PM outside of Fowler entrance

Tie Dye Workshop with Bayette Davis-Dassy -- 12:30 – 2:30 PM & 3:30 – 5 PM on the 2^nd floor Museum Terrace

*Space is limited, sign-ups required!

Reverse Glass Painting Workshop  -- 1:00 – 2:30 PM & 3:30 – 5 PM in Studio at the Fowler, 2^nd floor

*Space is limited, sign-ups required!

Dance & Music Performance & Workshop by Mussukeba Sane, Malik Sow & others

2:30 – 3:50 PM in the UCLA Art Council Amphitheater

Cora Performance by Baajali Cissoko

4 PM in the UCLA Art Council Amphitheater

Also featuring a Senegalese Marketplace and walkthroughs of “A Saint in the City” with curators Polly & Al Roberts throughout the afternoon.

For more information, please call (310) 825-8655. *Sign-ups for limited-space activities will be taken on-site on a first-come, first-served basis.  Festival Du Senegal! is made possible by the Yvonne Lenart Public Programs Fund. 

Enter UCLA from Sunset Blvd. at Westwood. Stay in the middle lane on Westwood and drive straight into Parking lot #4. Parking is available in Lot 4 for $7.

Cost : Free and open to the public

www.international.ucla.edu/jscasc or www.fmch.ucla.edu

Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, Fowler Museum at UCLA