Vingwengwe: Rhythm of the Fipa — Film Screening & Discussion
Thu, Sep 25
|Barrows Auditorium, Billy Graham Hall, Wheaton College 500 College Ave, Wheaton, IL 60187, USA
You’re Invited: Vingwengwe: Rhythm of the Fipa — Film Screening & Discussion Join Director Rod Kirkman and Producer Dr. Johann Buis for a powerful evening of film, conversation, and cultural preservation.
Time & Location
Sep 25, 2025, 7:30 PM
Barrows Auditorium, Billy Graham Hall, Wheaton College 500 College Ave, Wheaton, IL 60187, USA
About the event
You’re Invited: Vingwengwe: Rhythm of the Fipa — Film Screening & Discussion
Join Director Rod Kirkman and Producer Dr. Johann Buis for a powerful evening of film, conversation, and cultural preservation.
We are thrilled to invite you to the first public screening of Vingwengwe: Rhythm of the Fipa — a film that carries ancestral rhythm, memory, and resistance forward.
Join us for the film screening and discussion of Vingwengwe: Rhythm of the Fipa — a powerful documentary by Director Rod Kirkman and Producer Dr. Johann Buis.
This special evening invites you to experience a living tradition of rhythm, memory, and resistance carried forward by the Fipa people of western Tanzania. Vingwengwe uncovers a centuries-old musical practice — a clay pot and a wooden stool transformed into instruments of identity, storytelling, and survival.
Kirkman, an award-winning Los Angeles–based filmmaker, was first introduced to this tradition more than twenty years ago through Dr. Buis’s teaching.…