New Orleans Film Society

FREE Screening of A POR POR FUNERAL FOR ASHIRIFIE at Tulane

Friday, March 23

The Tulane Department of Music, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, and the New Orleans Film Society present a FREE screening of the documentary film A POR POR FUNERAL FOR ASHIRIFIE, along with a jazz funeral demonstration and a panel discussion, on Friday, March 23, beginning at 7:00 p.m. The event will take place at the Freeman Auditorium at Tulane inside the Woldenberg Art Center.
“Hallelujah Bye and Bye: Funeral Processions in Ghana and New Orleans” will begin at 7 p.m. with a jazz funeral demonstration by Michael White, to be followed by the film screening at 7:15, and to finish with a panel discussion at 8:15 p.m. The panel will include Steven Feld (filmmaker, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music at University of New Mexico), Rev. Kwame Assenyoh (PhD student, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, former pastor at Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in New Orleans), Michael White (Rosa and Charles Keller, Jr. Professor of Arts and Humanities, Xavier University), and Freddi Williams Evans.
The event is free and open to the public.