Arts & Entertainment
Masks Of African Society To Be Shown At QCC
The masks of the influential Sande Society will be present for display in Bayside.
Over 60 art pieces from West Africa will be on display at the Art Gallery starting this week.
Masks worn by a pan-African society of women known as the Bundu or Sande Society, will be on display, starting on April 19.
The Sande Society is an association of women from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The group initiates young women into African society as wives, mothers, social, economic and political leaders. Members of this society have political power conferred on them, as well as he responsibilities of promoting health and treating disease.
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The exhibition, as well as the accompanying book by Africanist scholars, Gavin H. Imperato and Pascal James Imperato, will be open to the public starting at the exhibition opening at , on April 19, from 6p.m.-9p.m.
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