Bobel Author Wole Soyinka to Speak at Nasher Today
Friday, April 18, 2008
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Durham, NC -- Wole Soyinka will give a talk, "FESTAC AGONISTES: the Politics of a Transatlantic Dialogue." The Nigerian dramatist and essayist and 1986 Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature explores the history of FESTAC '77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture.
FESTAC '77 set in motion rich exchanges across the Atlantic; works and ideas continue to move back and forth between minority artists from the Western hemisphere and Africa. Yet the talk also raises questions about the influence of one-party states on the tenor of large arts festivals and the freedom of artistic creativity.
Free and open to all. Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Auditorium. Free and open to all. Admission required for museum exhibitions. The museum is open until 9 PM on Thursdays.
Co-sponsored by Karl van der Heyden Distinguished International Lecture Endowment, Thiessen Family International Faculty Endowment, Duke University Center for International Studies, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and the Department of African and African American Studies.
