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10/11/99

ARTS IN AFRICA SERIES KICKS OFF OCT. 25 AT ST. LAWRENCE

CANTON -- Ulli Beier, an influential critic, curator, author, 
arts advocate and translator, will give the first in a series of 
talks at St. Lawrence University that will focus on the direction 
African arts may take in the next century.
	Beier's lecture will be on Monday, October 25, at 8 p.m. in 
Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center; it is open to the public, 
free of charge. The event is the 1999 C.L.R. James Lecture in African 
Studies.
	As editor of the journal Black Orpheus and later as a publisher, 
Beier provided a forum for new writers in post-independence Africa. He 
is also the editor of Modern Poetry from Africa and an important force 
in promoting contemporary African visual arts.
	The series "African Arts: Into the Next Millennium" at St. Lawrence 
aims to illuminate and celebrate the explosion of creativity seen across 
Africa during the past half-century, and reflect on the directions this 
momentum may take in the future.

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