The Road to Timbuktu

Film Screening

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Brown Auditorium Theater, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet

1:00 p.m. – Film Screening – The Road to Timbuktu

Discover a mysterious and captivating city where salt was worth its weight in gold, and gold was spent on books.

2:00  – Reading – The Epic of Sundiata Keita

An ancient epic tale springs to life in a  reading by an array of Houston’s citizens.  Here one of the world’s great adventure stories

4:00 – Performance

Delight to the sounds of fiery percussion, the elegance of dance and mesmerizing cadences of chant in a performance incorporating West African tribal groups with Arabic musicians

Free with general museum admission