Chi-chi Nwanoku
Sergio A. Mims tells us he is hosting a post-screening Question & Answer Session with Chi-chi Nwanoku after the 7 PM showing on February 9, 2015 at Chicago's Black Cinema House:
January 22, 2015
Chi-chi Nwanoku, the
world-renowned double-bass player, will attend a screening of Barrie
Gavin's 2012 documentary, "Chi-chi: Tales from the Bass Line," at
Chicago's Black Cinema House, 7200 South Kimbark Ave., Monday, February
9th, at 7pm. The event is
co-sponsored by the Department of Music and the Center for the Study of
Race Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. Nwanoku will
participate in a post-screening Q&A with CFCA member and Black
Harvest Film Festival programmer Sergio Mims. She is also scheduled to give a talk and masterclass at the University of Chicago on Tuesday, February 10th (click here for the full line-up of events).
According
to the official synopsis on the Black Cinema House site, Gavin's film
includes interviews with Nwanoku where she "recounts the hurdles she
faced growing up as a mixed-race child," the daughter of Nigerian and
Irish parents, and "scaling the musical establishment in Britain." There
is also ample performance footage in which Nwanoku tackles the work of
such legendary composers as Joseph Haydn, Hector Berlioz, Edward Elgar
and Antonín Dvořák.
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Doors open at 6:30pm for the February 9th screening and Q&A. To RSVP, click here.
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