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PAN-AFRICAN FOOD FEST #6

Pan-African Food Festival

PAN-AFRICAN FOOD FEST #6

Christian Davis is the co-founder, with Meymuna Hussein-Cattan, of Flavors from Afar in Los Angeles. As a social enterprise extension of the Tiyya Foundation, Flavors from Afar works with refugees and asylum seekers to create an authentic, rotating menu featuring traditional dishes from around the world. The refugee chefs receive

Grave In the Water

Grave In the Water

From Howard French via The Washington Post / "The scuba divers marched through the cobblestone streets of one of the world’s most infamous former slave ports, carrying tape measures, clipboards and fins. There was a Senegalese police officer who’d learned to dive the month before. A more seasoned diver

Omar - The Opera.

Omar - The Opera.

From the LA Opera / In 1807, a 37-year-old scholar living in West Africa was captured and forced aboard a ship bound for Charleston, South Carolina. Omar Ibn Said's life and Muslim faith are remembered and retold in this inspirational West Coast premiere inspired by his remarkable 1831 autobiography (the only