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At the Cantor Museum at Stanford University Dr. Henry John Drewel's "Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas” is up through January 2011. Born and raised in New York City and Hempstead, NY, Dr. Drewal received his BA from Hamilton College majoring in French and minoring in Fine Arts. After graduation he joined the Peace Corps, taught French and English and organized vacation arts camps in Nigeria. It was during his two years in Nigeria that he apprenticed himself to a Yoruba sculptor. That experience was transformative. See http://www.henrydrewal.com/ & See http://museum.stanford.edu/calendar/ and Artists from Honoring Revolution with Visions of Healing, Dia de los Muertos 2010 at SOMArts Cultural Center through November 6, 2010: Patricia Montgomery, Carla Oden, and Sue Matthews. Visit www.somarts.org. We close with an interview with Guy Gunaratne/Phil Pachenko/Heidi Lindvall, director/producers of the film, "The Truth That Wasn't There" Sri Lanka/UK, 2010. Cinema verite sylistically