Spend an invigorating afternoon at our second World Music Series program, with master drummer John Dankwa (Assistant Professor of Music at Wesleyan University), and dancer/choreographer Iddi Saaka (Douglas J. and Midge Bowen Bennet Associate Professor of Dance at Wesleyan), together with their student performers. We will learn about and experience powerful rhythms, dynamic movement, and the communal energy of West African performance traditions. All ages are welcome!

Wind can be seen as a malevolent force—gale-force destruction and cataclysmic fires—or as a savior of our planet—harnessed for clean, “safe” power. Between these poles lies a world of fascination, history, literature, science, poetry, and engineering which Simon Winchester explores in The Breath of the Gods with the curiosity and vigor that are the hallmarks of his bestselling works. Elm Street Books will be on site for book sales and signing.

Paul Starr is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and founding coeditor of the American Prospect magazine. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and Bancroft Prize in American History for The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Over a half-century he has written essays and op‑eds for newspapers and magazines as well as books on America’s institutions, history, and politics.