On Wednesday 3 July the Mwalimu School for the Development of African Music and Creative Art opened the academic year at Mt Olivet Baptist Church with a lively and varied show of art and musical performances. This is the seventh year running the School has hosted such an event. Mrs Manet Harrison Fowler, president and founder of the School, directed the event which was opened with an exhibition of some works from the East African Forum of the African Men's Culture League. Other groups who had their work showcased were the children of the School, and the Mwalimu Festival Chorus. Special guests at the event included, Mrs Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (founder of the New History Soc.), Mirza Ahmad Sohrab (Dir. New History Soc.) and Miss Frances R. Grant (VP of the Roerich Museum). Dr O Clay Maxwell, Pastor of Mt Olivet Baptist Church also handed out awards to the school's most outstanding students to close the event.