Do This: Women’s Film Club

The Women’s Film Club was formed to screen independent films that are not otherwise shown in mainstream cinemas to give like-minded women a chance to see these films.

Our mission is to introduce women to different film works from around the world. Through a prepared program of screenings and forum discussions, we will investigate featured themes each month.

The Women’s Film Club through weekly film screenings will explore these themes in all its guises, as presented on film and imitated in real life.

The opening theme is FAMILY.

Our film screenings will immediately be followed by talks and a Q&A with the Women’s Film Club curators and invited guests.

For some, the issues raised during these forums will feel familiar and pressing; for others it may be their first opportunity to explore and share ideas and information publicly. In all cases, this is an opportunity for women from all backgrounds to come along and find out more.

We look forward to seeing you, and please bring a girl-friend!

Film: Late Marriage

Director: Dover Koshashvili

When: 7pm, Friday, May 25

Where: The WHITE SPACE- 58A Raymond Njoku Street, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Fee: N200

For more information on the club and this week’s film, visit Women’s Film Club

‘Letters Of Note’

I am addicted to this s*%t! Pardon my French but for someone like me who loves words and who is hooked on reading this stuff is like crack and I can’t get enough.

You can search for famous subjects and writers and browse by category or just do like I do and hit the random button to see what gem it throws up.

Some of the letters have had me in fits, others have moved me to tears and all have made me think.

I was especially moved by Nothing Good Gets Away written by a father to his teenage son.

I’ll leave you with this one from ancient China, maybe it will come in handy this weekend. TFIF!

I was ready to sink into the earth with shame

Getting hideously drunk at a dinner party and embarrassing yourself is certainly nothing new. As far back as the 9th Century, the beautifully named ‘Dunhuang Bureau of Etiquette’ insisted that local officials use the following letter template (dated 856) when sending apologies to offended dinner hosts. The guilty party would copy the template text, enter the dinner host’s name, sign the letter and then deliver with head bowed. The letter was discovered, alongside thousands of other documents, in a sealed cave library in western China. To read more – and I suggest you do – visit the incredible International Dunhuang Project.

The entire scroll, filled with Form Letters adapted for various situations, can be seen here.Translation follows.Recommended reading: Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road.

Source

Translated Transcript

Yesterday, having drunk too much, I was intoxicated as to pass all bounds; but none of the rude and coarse language I used was uttered in a conscious state. The next morning, after hearing others speak on the subject, I realised what had happened, whereupon I was overwhelmed with confusion and ready to sink into the earth with shame.

Life Changes

I’ve decided that I’m going to stop apologising and beating myself for posting lulls and just accept that right now life is happening at a faster pace than I can keep up with on my blog! Since I last wrote a proper post, I’ve been to South Africa for the first time, went home to Ghana for Easter (must do an Accra Fave 5) and I’ve started at a new job which means Lagos is my home once again! It has been something of a rollercoaster but I’m not complaining. South Africa was a blast and I got to meet and bond with amazing people and we did some great work. I can’t wait to see the finished products and share with you all. Accra was a welcome break and it felt great to go home for a bit but then it was back to the hustle and bustle of Lagos and a new job. I’m still settling in so I won’t say more but it’s going to get pretty exciting! I have a to do list a couple miles long to get my life back into some semblance of order but im taking it one thing and day at a time. For now I’m leaving you with some music from a new friend and talented artist Moneoa. A propos, this single is called Life and her sultry voice makes it all seem ok. She will be releasing her debut album later this year. I’ve got to get back to crossing things off that list so wish me luck!

Please click on the image.

Check out her Facebook page MONEOA and follow her on Twitter @MoNeOa.

On Travel

I’ve been on the road (and in the air) a lot recently so here are a 3 quotes on travel for the price of 1.

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894, Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer and author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

— Martin Buber, 1878-1965,  Austrian-Jewish philosopher & writer.

“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.”

— Danny Kaye, 1913-1987, an American actor, singer, dancer and comedian, star of 1952′s Hans Christian Andersen.

Jo’burg

I’m in Jo’burg! It’s been a hectic 72 hours and I could do with a bit more sleep but check out that view!

I’m here to help out on friend’s video shoot for her second single. I took this picture from the Lister Building rooftop where we went to see South African duo JOZI perform (you can see the gig on www.skyroomlive.com). It’s autumn here in SA so it was freezing up there but it was totally worth it to see the Johannesburg skyline at night.