04.22.2008

Life and Debt:
Globalization and Jamaica



Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact.

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The Francophone Community Partnership and the Democratic Republic of Congo's Hands Association are sponsoring the

FETE FANTASTIQUE FRANCOPHONE




What:
Celebration of Congolese (central African) culture with a fashion show, dance performances, music video projection, American and Congolese Food, and live music
Where: University YMCA, Wright St., Urbana
When: Saturday, April 26th from 7-10pm
Cost: $3 w/U of I i.d., $10 general admission


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