April 19 (TODAY)
7:30 pm

Makina Total City at The Backyard Boogie 215 South Clark Street (Mid-City) nikkithanos@gmail.com 504-616-1888

April 20th

12:00 pm

--Makina Total City at Xavier University's University Center (UC--Yard)

1 Drexel Drive (in front of the UC--Room 308 in case of rain)

April 21st-April 24th

7:30 pm

--Performance and Talk at Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Day: 21:

7:30 pm

--OMNI-ZONAFRANCA in the Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Art Video Projection Documental:

This is a family.

20:00 mint.

Dir: Luis Eligio / Amaury Pacheco / Nile Julian Gonzalez

Enforis Productions.

Omni-Scan Auto Zonafranca interventions that show their reality.

-Show Makina Total City Alternative (version III) / OMNI-EXPRESS

Day: 22:

7:30 pm

--OMNI-ZONAFRANCA in the Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Projection:

Videos neo-reality-show tour of Omni in the United States

Alamar Express / documentary / Poland / Cuba / USA

Dir: Patrycja Satora / Village film.

60 mint.

Documentary about the history and philosophy of freedom in the social context of Cuba's Omni-Zonafranca group.

Day 23:

7:30 pm

--OMNI-ZONAFRANCA in the Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Projection:

Videos neo-reality-show tour of Omni in the United States

-Show Makina Total City Alternative (version IV) / OMNI-EXPRESS.

-Cuba Performance / Documentary / Cuba / Germany

Elvira Rodríguez Puerto Dir / egbe film

57:00 mint.

Omni-Zonafranca:

Their lives are marked by the actual performance of life, giving communities other ways to enjoy life and art to the fullest. What´s going on in the country? What´s going on in the spirits of the people? What about freedom?

This is the first documentary film about the life of Omni-Zonafranca

Questions / answers with members of Omni-Zonafranca.

Day 24:

7:30 pm

--OMNI-ZONAFRANCA in the Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Soy libre | by Andrea Roggon | Scene 1 from Andrea Roggon on Vimeo.

Screening of the film:

-I'm Free / documentary / Cuba / Germany

Dir: Andrea Roggón

87:00 mint.

Faces, sounds and voices from Havana. Off-screen and with complete honesty, Cubans tell us about their idea of freedom. "It is a lie I have repeated so often, I have started to believe it: I am free." They are very well aware of the restrictions placed on them as human beings: "I can do whatever I want, but only within a clearly defined context, place and time." Public enemy number one is Yoani Sánchez, a female blogger who exposes the nature of the system in her articles. Her aim with her blog, Generación Y, is to overcome her apathy and silence. "Freedom is the freedom to scream in public that you are not free," she says. Many desperate Cubans have braved the hazardous crossing to the United States. But in the words of poet Konstantinos P. Kavafis you will always be walking the streets of Havana wherever you go - you can't shake off the past. The peaceful, beautifully framed street scenes and exceptional soundtrack supplement the stories told in this production by Baden-Württemberg Film Academy student Andrea Roggon. The people shown in the film are not those speaking. We watch them as they get crammed onto the bus, or wash their hair. We see puddles on the street, rolling waves, like mirrors.

Luis Eligio D Omni/ Shakespeare (Manager Artist of Sweet Lorrain), Amaury Pacheco D Omni/ Espoken Word Artist

10:00pm

- Makina Total City at Sweet Lorraine's Poetry Night :
1931 St. Claude Avenue

April 27th

10pm (e-mail for confirmation)
--Poetry Night; 2500 Bayou Road (Close to the Jamaican Restaurant CoCo Hut)

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We have private show on 28/29 and April 30. To join, please send a request:omnizonafranca@gmail.com