DÁ FALA

Na 5ª-feira, sete mulheres que participavam numa manifestação (de mulheres), pacífica, cantando “ADO”  para pedir a tomada de posse de Alassane Dramane Ouattara), o vencedordas eleições presidenciais de Novembro, foram barbaramente assassinadas pelo exército da Costa do Marfim, leal ao candidato derrotado, o presidente Laurent Gbagbo.

Alain Le Roy, que chefia as operações de manutenção de paz das Nações Unidas, confirmou a barbárie, negada oficialmente mas reconhecida por fontes do exército marfinense. Entretanto, o Alto Comissariado da Organização das Nações Unidas para os Refugiados anunciou ontem que suspendeu as suas operações na região oeste da Costa do Marfim, devido a razões de segurança. “Infelizmente, deixámos de operar na região devido aos combates e à insegurança”, revelou a porta-voz do ACNUR, Melissa Fleming. Na véspera, o Conselho de Segurança da ONU lançou um aviso que deveria ser óbvio desde dia 3 de Dezembro: a Costa de Marfim está à beira de uma guerra civil. E confirmou que a UN continua UN-able em mais um conflito.

Palmira F. Silva no JUGULAR

Rainha e Dama do Chiloli, 2011, acrílico, 150 x 140 cm (foto SBK Amsterdam / Rob Moorees)

Olavo Amado in Amsterdam, februari 2011 (foto Giovanni Piesco)

“Het leven als labyrint” - recente schilderijen

23 março - 20 abril 2011  GALERIA 23 - Amesterdão

dica de Adriano Mixinge

O que os artistas no mundo dizem sobre música?

What artists in the world say about music ?

Etats généraux des musiques du monde : “Paroles d’artistes”

Les Etats généraux des musiques du monde se tiennent les 11 et 12 septembre 2009 à Sciences-Po Paris. A cette occasion, Mondomix a rassemblé des paroles d’artistes du monde entier qui chacun à leur manière, par leurs énergies créatrices, contribuent à construire l’édifice de la mémoire, de la paix et du rassemblement.

LES ARTISTES :  A Filetta (Corse (france))  Abd Al Malik (France)  Danyel Waro (Réunion)  David Krakauer (Etats-unis)  Ken Boothe (Jamaïque)  Lee Scratch Perry (Jamaïque) Lhasa (Canada, Mexique)  Manu Dibango(Cameroun, France  Rajery (Madagascar) 

Find here. 

26th February 2011 - 17th April 2011

 review: Friday 25 February 2011, 6.30-9pm

Foreword to Guns for Banta is the first UK solo show by Paris-based artist Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc. The exhibition follows Abonnenc’s two-month residency at Gasworks.

Foreword to Guns for Banta introduces the public to the work of Sarah Maldoror, a pioneering yet little known French filmmaker of Guadeloupean origin, whose films are closely linked to the liberation struggles in lusophone Africa. Using her films as a catalyst for his research, Abonnenc aims to question how to approach images of past revolutionary moments and to reactivate the spirit and unifying character of the liberation movements.

Consisting of a diaporama and a selection of archival documents, the exhibition at Gasworks focuses on the lost film Guns for Banta (1970), the first feature-length film by Sarah Maldoror. Shot in Guinea-Bissau, Guns for Banta follows the life and untimely death of Awa, a countrywoman involved in the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). Parallel to this semi-fictional narrative, the film offers rarely seen images of the involvement of women and children in the struggle.

Friday, March 25^th, 2011: 3-9pm Saturday, March 26^th, 2011: 9:30am-10pm; with a dance celebration of Afro-diasporic culture by Uhuru Afrika, 10 pm-1am.  Sunday, March 27^th, 2011: 10am-1:30pm  All events will take place at:Lowell Lecture Hall, Harvard University7 Kirkland St. (enter on Oxford St.), Cambridge, MA 02138 Uhuru Afrika Dance Celebration will be at:Cambridge Queen’s Head, Harvard University 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Free and open to the public. 

African DANCE DIASPORA is a symposium that will gather nationally and internationally recognized scholars, dancers, and musicians to perform and discuss embodied knowledge in the context of the African Diaspora, where embodied knowledge and bodily practice figure powerfully in human life ways, social organization, and systems of belief.