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Women wearing kanga cloth, Paje, Zanzibar.

Cultural Workshop: "Fashion and Identity in Zanzibar: the Paris of the Swahili Coast"

Beginning with the late 19th century end of slavery in Zanzibar, liberated women and men reinvented themselves, while the local patricians followed their own fashion reinventing the Sultanate aristocracy. Zanzibar fashion will be compared with that in later 20th century Lamu and Mombasa, the other two cosmopolitan Swahili towns on the East African coast of the Indian Ocean.

Speaker: Sidney Kasfir, Professor Emerita. Art History Department Emory University

Language: English

When: Wednesday April 24th, 2013 | 7:00 pm

Where:  High Museum of Art | 1280 Peachtree Street Northeast Atlanta, GA 30309 |  Driving directions

Seating is limited | Registration is required | Event is free and open to the public

Presented in partnership with the High Museum’s Friends of African Art to celebrate Symmetry/Asymmetry: African Textiles, Dress, and Adornment
(March 23 to August 25, 2013), an exhibition funded by the Fred and Rita Richman Special Initiative Endowment.

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This program is supported in part by the City Office of Cultural Affairs.