A STELLAR day’s entertainment will be held on Saturday for Donegal’s Africa Day Celebration.
Donegal County Council and Donegal Intercultural Platform will jointly present an Africa Day celebration at the Regional Cultural Centre and An Grianán Theatre, Letterkenny. All events are free of charge and all are invited to attend and enjoy.
The celebration opens at 11am with a series of exhibitions, discussions and creative writing workshops, taking place at the Regional Cultural Centre and An Grianán Theatre.
The Women On The Front Line of Climate Change photographic exhibition at the RCC, in association with the Changemakers group, will include a discussion and eyewitness accounts of the impacts of the climate crisis on Africa.
Similarly, at An Grianán Theatre (Upstairs Foyer), Balume Amstrong Dube will host and facilitate a gathering of African writers and fans of African writing, from 11am.
The afternoon will see a colourful Family Fun Day taking over the An Grianán Theatre Plaza from 1.30pm to 6pm, with free African food tasting – courtesy of Chef Lara and Burrito Loco restaurant. There will also be children’s games, traditional and contemporary dance displays and workshops, arts and crafts, face painting, hair braiding and henna tatoos, as well as music from all corners of Africa with DJ Thabo and the wonderful Nigerian-Irish ensemble, Adeniyi Allen-Taylor’s Afrobeat Orchestra.
The celebration concludes with a special showing, free of charge, of the award-winning film, A Girl From Mogadishu (15A), at the Regional Cultural Centre at 6.30pm.
Based on the true story of Somali woman Ifrah Ahmed, the film is an Irish/Belgian production with a truly international cast of actors from Africa, the US and Ireland, including Aja Naomi King (as Ifrah), acclaimed Somali singer and actress Maryam Mursal, Barkhad Abdi and Martha Canga Antonio, with Irish actors Orla Brady, Stanley Townsend and Niall Buggy (as President Michael D. Higgins).
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