{"id":11447,"date":"2011-03-04T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T22:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=11447"},"modified":"2011-03-04T17:06:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T22:06:03","slug":"film-festival-in-the-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=11447","title":{"rendered":"Film Festival in the Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/neworleansafrikanfilmfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Afrikan Film Festival<\/a> is once again returning to MidCity to offer up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/mardigras\/index.ssf\/2011\/03\/officials_urge_mardi_gras_reve.html\" target=\"_blank\">film<\/a> at the Fairgrounds on March 11th at 6PM. NOAFest has a done a good job of vetting films we may not see in any other venue that are worth a look. This one is <em>Awake My Soul<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Synopsis:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp is the first feature documentary about Sacred Harp singing, a form of a cappella, shape note hymn singing. Shape note singing has survived over 200 years. Singers break open The Sacred Harp, a 160-year-old shape note hymnal which has preserved these fiercely beautiful songs which are some of the oldest in America. The film offers a glimpse into the lives of this \u201clost tonal tribe\u201d whose history is a story of both rebellion and tradition.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Afrikan Film Festival is once again returning to MidCity to offer up a film at the Fairgrounds on March 11th at 6PM. NOAFest has a done a good job of vetting films we may not see in any other venue that are worth a look. This one is Awake My Soul: Synopsis: Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp is the first feature documentary about Sacred Harp singing, a form&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[354,353,355],"class_list":["post-11447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-awake-my-soul","tag-new-orleans-afrikan-film-festival","tag-the-story-of-the-sacred-harp"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2YD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11449,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447\/revisions\/11449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}