Carleton’s Regional Carls Program

The Chicago Carleton Club
and the Carleton Multicultural Alumni Network

invite you to

A Documentary Screening and Reception
with Carleton Professor Chêrif Keïta

Sunday, May 8, 2011, 2 to 4:30 p.m.

University Conference Center
525 S. State Street (Lake Room), Chicago

Please join the Chicago Carleton Club and the Carleton Multicultural Alumni Network in welcoming Professor Chêrif Keïta to the University Conference Center.  Professor Keïta will be screening his documentary "Cemetery Stories: A Rebel Missionary in South Africa.”  A Q&A and light reception will follow the documentary screening.

Professor Keïta came to Carleton in 1985.  A native of Mali, Professor Keïta created and directs Carleton’s francophone seminar in Mali.  He has led four French programs to Pau and Paris for Carleton and a January interim to South Africa for St. Olaf.  On campus, he teaches the French language, francophone African and Caribbean literature, African cinema, and Mande culture.

"Cemetery Stories: A Rebel Missionary in South Africa" - this 57-minute documentary film features the life and work of John Langalibalele Dube (1871-1946), pioneer educator, journalist, musician, churchman and politician, who co-founded the African National Congress in 1912 (before Nelson Mandela was born) and served as its first president until 1917.  The film connects the family of John Dube in Inanda, South Africa, with the family of his American benefactors, missionary William Cullen Wilcox and his wife Ida Belle Clary, natives of Northfield, Minnesota.  This film has received positive acclaim at prominent festivals in Africa and Japan.

Cost:  $12 per person includes light reception.  To make your reservations, go to the secure alumni website at:  https://apps.carleton.edu/alumni/clubs/events/keitaevent/ to pay by credit card no later than Monday, May 2. 

Catering arrangements require all reservations to be paid in advance.  Please contact Vickie Gunderson ’05 if you have any questions.

Directions:  University Conference Center is located in downtown Chicago at State Street and Congress Parkway and is easily accessible by public transportation.  Street parking is difficult and a number of pay-lots are available in the area for those who opt to drive.  BY CAR:  From the Southwest (I-55 Stevenson Expressway)  Proceed east to the end of I-55 to North Lake Shore Drive. Continue north (towards downtown) on Lake Shore Drive to Balbo Street.  Turn left on Balbo to State Street; turn right on State Street.  Continue one block. University Center will be on your right between Harrison Street and Congress Parkway.  From the South (I-57 to I-94 Dan Ryan Expressway)  Exit at Congress Parkway.  Drive east towards downtown to State Street.  Turn right on State Street. University Center will be on your left between Congress Parkway and Harrison Street.  From the North (I-90/94 Kennedy/Edens Expressway)  Exit at Congress Parkway.  Drive east towards downtown to State Street. Turn right on State Street.  University Center will be on your left between Congress Parkway and Harrison Street.  From the West (I-290 Eisenhower Expressway)  I-290 turns into Congress Parkway at it nears downtown. Continue driving east to State Street.  Turn right on State Street.  University Center will be on your left between Congress Parkway and Harrison Street.