Sarasotai Magyar Hirmondó, 2008 (14. évfolyam, 2-12. szám)

2008-03-01 / 3. szám

THE MESSENGER

Newsletter of the Kossuth Club March 2008. Vol. 14. No. 3.

March Programs

Thursday, March 27 at 4:30 PM In the Selby Library, 1331 First Street, Sarasota

KATI SZENTPÁLY BOGNÁR:

Trading Beads from West Africa: Fashion Jewelry Show

Kati spent three full years in Nigeria, at the Bight of Benin, where her husband was a Fulbright Professor implementing a Broadcasting and Film Program at the University of Ibadan, Africa's oldest academic institution south of the Sahara. With a lot of leisure time on her hands, she waded into the deepest of native markets and discovered beads. Chevron beads or aggry beads were like the “millefiori. ” She befriended traders who brought strings of trading beads from the bush villages. She selected the best ones before they were taken to big city markets. The trading beads were made in Murano and Venice. Camel caravans transported them across the Sahara to Timbuktu and other markets. They were used as money for African goods. West Africans value their aggry beads like gold. Kati started to use aggry beads to design unique pieces of artistic fashion jewelry. She uses other ornaments and beads from Ibadan, Ife-Ife, Ilorin and Osogbo. The glass beads are from the renowned Nigerian town of Bida. They are individually baked and blown; others are hand carved. She uses coral, turquoise, amber, ivory, sterling silver, sliver plate, pewter, and other metals. She coordinates the colors of the millefiori with semi-precious stones and minerals. All her designs are originals; they all are one of a kind.

Monday, March 31 at 2:00 PM

In the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, 2635 Fruitville Road

The Life of Albert Wass

This documentary feature film depicts the life and works of Hungarian writer Albert Wass who was born one hundred years ago near Kolozsvár, in Hungary and died ten years ago in Astor, Florida. His early successful literary career was derailed when he was forced into exile after WWII. He found refuge in the United States where he lived from the early 1950’s until his death. As a writer he blossomed in Florida and published yearly novels and poems of exceptional beauty. The film is in Hungarian.

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