{"id":3228,"date":"2015-12-21T15:59:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2016.africanfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=3228"},"modified":"2015-12-22T17:09:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T01:09:36","slug":"music-and-arts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/press\/festival-highlights\/music-and-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Music &amp; the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3137\" src=\"\/2016\/files\/2015\/12\/rwanda-dance-1.jpg\" alt=\"INTORE\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/files\/2015\/12\/rwanda-dance-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/files\/2015\/12\/rwanda-dance-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/files\/2015\/12\/rwanda-dance-1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please join us every Thursday\u00a0evening\u00a0during the festival for 4 documentaries that investigate how music and performing arts can be a powerful force for social change and cultural expression in times of both war and peace. Watch as people in Sudan respond to conflict\u00a0and adversity\u00a0with music in &#8220;Beats of The Antonov&#8221;;\u00a0embark on a journey of reclaimed cultural identity and healing through the arts in Rwanda in &#8220;Intore&#8221;;\u00a0see a different side of Egypt as popular band &#8220;Les\u00a0Petits\u00a0Chats&#8221; plays through wars and revolutions; and finally join us during Women\u2019s filmmakers week as we watch a circus transform the lives of disadvantaged youth in Morocco in &#8220;Pirates of Sal\u00e9.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday Evening Documentaries:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/2016\/beats-of-the-antonov\/\">BEATS OF ANTONOV<\/a>\u00a0(Sudan)<br \/>\nThursday, February 11th, 7pm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/2016\/intore-the-chosen\/\">INTORE \/ THE CHOSEN<\/a> (Rwanda)<br \/>\nThursday, February 18th, 7pm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/2016\/les-petits-chats\/\">LES PETITS CHATS<\/a> (Egypt)<br \/>\nThursday, February 25th, 7pm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/2016\/pirates-of-sale\/\">PIRATES OF SALE<\/a> (Morocco)<br \/>\nThursday, March 3rd, 7pm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us every Thursday\u00a0evening\u00a0during the festival for 4 documentaries that investigate how music and performing arts can be a powerful force for social change and cultural expression in times of both war and peace. Watch as people in Sudan respond to conflict\u00a0and adversity\u00a0with music in &#8220;Beats of The Antonov&#8221;;\u00a0embark on a journey of reclaimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1016,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3228","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3280,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3228\/revisions\/3280"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}