Shot on location throughout South Africa, this hour-long documentary focuses on the work of artist/ activist Kim Berman. She mobilizes people to use art to address HIV/AIDS, poverty alleviation, and the empowerment of women and children across South Africa.

A panel discussion will follow, including:

Dr. Pamela Allara is Professor Emerita, Brandeis University and two-time Fulbright Scholar to South Africa. Dr. Allara has curated major exhibitions, including "Co-Existence: Contemporary Cultural Productions in South Africa." She has written extensively on twentieth century art, feminist activism, and global contemporary art. She is on the Board of the Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dr. Marina Cunningham is the Executive Director of the Global Education Center at Montclair State University and the chief international officer on campus responsible for fostering global education and advancing international objectives across the campus. She headed up programs for Eastern European refugees and has taught Russian literature, language, and seminars in Globalization.

Dr. Patricia Whitley-Williams is Division Chief of Immunology, Allergy, and Infectious Disease and a Professor of Pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is a liaison member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Network for Immunization Information of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. She has worked extensively in South Africa, and her interests include pediatric HIV infection/AIDS, tuberculosis in children and childhood immunization.

The panel will be moderated by Eileen M. Foti, Assistant Professor, Art and Design, MSU; and Patricia Piroh, Producer/Director at MSU's Broadcasting Department.

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This film was made possible by a grant from the NJ Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations in the film do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the NJ Council for the Humanities. This event was sponsored in part by the Global Education Center and the College of the Arts Office of Education and Community Outreach at Montclair State University.

     Heidi and Melinda Basaran, the owners of Lalezar Restaurant in Montclair, were born and raised in Turkey where their mother supervised the cooking for the village, also named Basaran, near Ankara. Present day family members have brought this tradition to their Montclair restaurant, Lalezar.  

     The Basarans will be joined by one of their top-notch chefs, who will provide a cooking demonstration. With the assistance of the MSU Food Management students, a sampling of Turkish recipes will be offered, including: Lebne -a thick cream yogurt garnished with walnuts; Sigara Böregi – phyllo wrapped with feta cheese and parsley, Tavuk Adana – diced chicken breast with Turkish seasonings, and Turkish heirloom delicacies such as Baklava.

     Artemy Troitsky is a well-known Russian journalist, musicologist and historian. He teaches at the Moscow State University and the Russian State University of Management, and has a weekly radio show on the high-profile “Echo of Moscow”, as well as running a concert/event agency and a record label.  His most recent publication, “Let Me Take You Down to the World of Pop” spent two months as the top selling non-fiction book in Russia in 2006, and he writes for assorted national and international publications and also appears in feature films.

     Born in 1955 in Prague, he became the first DJ in Moscow, when discos were a totally alien concept for Russian youth. Writing about Western music, he became Russia’s first rock journalist and critic, and also organized a 1980 rock festival considered the “Soviet Woodstock”. Blacklisted in the early 80’s, after Perestroika and Glasnost he became active as the leading expert and promoter of the new Russian music and culture. He has published several books, including “Back in the USSR: The True Story of Rock in Russia” and “Tusovka: Whatever Happened to Soviet Underground Culture”

     Ted Goertzel is the author of Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Reinventing Democracy in Brazil. He is currently working on a book on politics under President Lula da Silva and articles on political corruption.

     Stephanie Golob, an expert in Latin America and international trade, has published in World Politics, Democratization, and other scholarly journals. She has won a Fulbright, a Mellon, a Whiting, and other fellowships.

     Celia Regev, a professional chef for over 25 years, is a graduate of Cordon Bleu and Le Notre Cookery schools in Paris and has undergone further studies in London and Italy. She has taught at L’Academie de Cuisine of Bethesda, Maryland, among others. In Israel, Ms. Regev is co-founder of the renowned patisserie and coffee shop, Reviva and Celia, which is widely considered to have had a revolutionary influence on food and pastry-making in the country. Ms. Regev has written and been featured in articles and on television on culinary topics, specializing in French, Italian and Middle Eastern cookery. Her recipes have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post cooking supplements, The New York Times Jewish Cookbook and Joan Nathan’s Foods of Israel Today, and she writes a regular feature in a mass circulation gourmet magazine in Israel.

A sampling of Ms. Regev’s recipes will be prepared by MSU’s Food Management students.

*The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Seating is very limited and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

**This program is made possible in part by Whole Foods Market at Montclair.

     Taneyev, (1856- 1915) a Russian composer, pianist, composition teacher, music theorist and author, studied composition with Tchaikovsky  and piano with Nikolai Rubinstein. Taneyev taught at the Moscow Conservatory until 1905, serving as Director from 1885-1889. His works include the opera Oresteia (1895), symphonies, string quartets and other chamber works, and a setting for chorus and orchestra (1915). Taneyev was a great teacher, a popular eccentric and an intimate of the Tolstoy family. Sofia Tolstoy's infatuation with Taneyev and his music echoes the story of Tolstoy's penetrating dissection of marital relations in The Kreutzer Sonata.

     Dr. Svetlana Sigida is a faculty member in Music History at Moscow State Conservatory, where she teaches musicology. Her research focuses on 20^th C. American and Russian composers, and she has published numerous articles on the music of Harry Partch, Leo Ornstein, Meredith Monk, and Charles Ives, among others. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan and received a Rockefeller Fellowship for research at the American Center in Bellagio, Italy. She has been a visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Juan in Argentina, and has lectured at Boston Conservatory, the University of Maryland, Indiana University and Rutgers University.