CELEBRATE OUR BIRTHDAY

FABULOUS AFRICAN FABRICS IS 10 YEARS OLD!

Join us on July 22 at 1:00 P.M. as we visit the Michigan State University Museum's exhibit of African testiles,

eat at an Ethiopian Reataurant,

and tour the msu african studies progam.

The only cost will be for travel and dinner.

For those of you in the Grand Rapids area, we will carpool.

To register for the day, call Christine at 616-975-5590

or Laura at 616-735-4109 by July 15.

1:00  P.M. Meet at the MSU Museum.

1:30 P.M.  Threads of Change:  The Transformation of West African Textiles Exhibit.

      Chris Worland, exhibit curator will provide a tour.  Chris co-leads a MSU Study Abroad group to Mali and West Africa every other year with her husband, the Dean of MSU Residential College for Arts and Humanities.  Chris is a fabric artist and a retired Special Education teacher.  While at the museum, you will have an oportunity to tour Tanzania in deep Time:  A View from the Rift Valley Exhibit.  Thise exhibit documents ongoing research that has produced a series of exciting fossil discoveries from Rukwa Rift Basin of western Tanzania.

3:30 P.M.

     Tour the MSU African Studies Center and engage in an informal conversation with Dr. John Metzler, Outreach Coordinator for the Center.  John is also on the faculty of Teacher Education with specializations in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

5:00 P.M.

     Dinner at Altur's Ethiopian Restaurant