Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, at the corner of Jefferson Avenue, where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, continues its 23rd season with the music of Resistance, Resilience and Resurgence.

On Saturday, March 16, at 9 and 10: 30 pm, multi-percussionist Camile Gainer Jones leads a band that features trumpeter Sharif Kales, saxophonist Chris Hemingway, bassist Lonnie Plaxico, and pianist Keith Brown. This series, titled Phenomenal African Sistas in our History celebrated by Phenomenal Present Day African Sistas, honors the Queen of Africa, Miriam Makeba, this Saturday. Ms. Jones, leading a band for the first time at Sistas’ Place, has organized a band of exceptional musicians for the occasion. Don’t Miss This!

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Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, at the corner of Jefferson Avenue, where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, continues its 23rd season with the music of Resistance, Resilience, and Resurgence.

On Saturday, March 2, at 9 and 10: 30 pm, Grammy-Nominated Spoken Word Performance Artist Gh’ail Rhodes Benjamin with bassist Binky Brice present Brave Brown Sistas From The Front Lines, a collage of Spoken-Word Monologues and Music from the voices of Ella Baker, Winnie Mandela, Miriam Makeba, Ida B. Wells and Fannie Lou Hamer. We begin this series of concerts for Womens’ History Month with a dynamic presentation that will incorporate a glimpse of all the women being celebrated this month. Don’t Miss This!

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456 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, NY (see map)

A focused study on a singular African American photographer, through an archival encounter with her documentation of the landmark FESTAC’77 festival.

From January 15 to February 12, 1977, more than 15,000 artists, intellectuals and performers from 55 nations worldwide gathered in Lagos, Nigeria, for the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, also known as FESTAC’77. Taking place in the heyday of Nigeria’s oil wealth and following the African continent’s potent decade of decolonization, FESTAC’77 was the peak of Pan-Africanist expression. Among the musicians, writers, artists and cultural leaders in attendance were Ellsworth Ausby, Milford Graves, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Samella Lewis, Audre Lorde, Winnie Owens, Miriam Makeba, Valerie Maynard, Queen Mother Moore and Sun Ra.

While serving as the photographer for the US contingent of the North American delegation, Brooklyn-based photographer Marilyn Nance made more than 1,500 images throughout the course of the festival—one of the most comprehensive photographic accounts of FESTAC’77. Drawing from Nance’s extensive archive, most of which has never before been published, Last Day in Lagos chronicles the exuberant intensity and sociopolitical significance of this extraordinary event. Remi Onabanjo is the editor of Last Day in Lagos.

Available for sale at the event! Or backorder the book online. Don’t Miss This!

For more info, contact Sistas’ Place at (718) 398-1766.

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Read the New York Times article about Last Day in Lagos and Marilyn Nance. (Gift link from paid NYTimes subscription.)