DÁ FALA

(Some musings from a curator accidently caught in the revolution)

DATE: JANUARY 23, 2011 11:28:37 AM GMT+01:00

Correspondence

To: Clare Butcher

‘By the way, to add to our troubles, 25th January is a (highly unpopular) national holiday: National Police Day” (ha!). CIC will be business as usual and so will the airport. It was invented last year as a celebration of some great victory the police had over the Brits in the past, the problem now being the police’s tendency to murder Egyptians in the present, so people are taking it as a day of protest rather than celebration. By the time you land the roads will surely be totally clear but I’ll text you updates. They tend to organize roadblock checkpoints at this time of night, but they are normal and the driver will be used to navigating around them so don’t be alarmed…’

This is a beginning. I’m carrying large rolls of photographs and carefully packed images and DVDs: objects all part of an exhibition we’ve been trying to pull off in Cairo since last year. The exhibition came as the result of an invitation from Mia Jankowicz at the Contemporary Image Collective – a primarily photographic space for exhibitions and workshops in downtown Cairo. Mia had been approached to do a show of photography and other media which might include the work of South African artists and so she asked me to do some brainstorming about some possible themes – neither of us wishing to make anything that would amount to a geographic survey show. And so ‘Propaganda by Monuments’ as a concept was born.

Taking its cue from the short story by Ivan Vladislavic written during South Africa’s tumultuous turn of apartheid to democracy the story offers a fictional correspondence between an opportunistic South African businessman and a translator working for a department of the former Soviet Union. The businessman is looking for a partner in the export/import scheme of the century – a monumental transport of removed Lenin statues to South Africa for re-fashioning as the country’s new heroes (a bit smaller to allow for eyes and ears of course!) Satirical humour aside, the story has become something of a pedestal for me – supporting or rather framing the work of so many contemporary artists working and thinking about their immediate conditions in a post-something context (be it -colonial, -communist, -agrarian, -secular, -political, -modern).

Twenty-one prominent writers from a dozen different countries, will converge on Durban for a thought-provoking week of literary dialogue and exchange of ideas at the Time of the Writer international writers festival from 14 to 19 March. Hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal) and with principal funding from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, this 14th edition of the festival, presents a packed programme of both day and evening activities. ‘Freedom of Expression’ will feature as an underlying thread within the festival and audiences can expect to hear the opinions of leading writers on creative processes which inform their writing as well as on the enabling or constraining forces of political, social and environmental contexts within which they write.

The festival’s Opening Night Keynote Address will be delivered by the recently retired Constitutional Court judge, esteemed writer and cultural activist, Justice Albie Sachs. The award-winning author of a number of books, including Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter and Justice in South Africa, Sachs was instrumental in the process of writing the constitution of South Africa and is therefore eminently qualified to speak on the festival theme of Freedom of Expression.

A Diana Andringa pede divulgação deste relato: 

Sou um velho jornalista do Porto que, com muito gosto, vos convido a visionar uma história de guerra por mim vivida há mais de 40 anos, em Tete, Moçambique, e que ainda está à espera de conhecer um epílogo: procuro um ex-guerrilheiro da Frelimo para lhe dar um abraço e devolver-lhe algo que lhe pertence.
Peço que divulguem este episódio. Há um conjunto de razões com raízes fundas em mim que me levam a fazer este pedido. Uma dessas razões facilmente a descortinará através do visionamento do vídeo publicado no Youtube 

Entretanto, chamo a atenção para um detalhe relevante da história. Trata-se de uma imagem do referido guerrilheiro que segue em anexo. Eu não costumava levar máquina fotográfica para as operações, mas dessa vez aconteceu. Ainda bem, digo-o agora. A imagem (para mim) é dolorosa por destapar um dramatismo não ficcionado. Se a tivesse de legendar, escreveria:
Ecce homo - Eis o homem a quem devo o rádio e um abraço.
Grato pela atenção, Jaime Froufe Andrade

Feira da Mulher 

Dias 5 e 6 de Março das 10h00 às 20h00 

Jantar da mulher “Janta com Ele” 

Jantar dedicado às mulheres com presença dos homens. 

Dia 8 de Março no Restaurante “Oficina de Sabores” no espaço CACAU. 

Movimento Pró-Mulher 

Um dia para os homens viverem a vida das suas mulheres. 

Dia 8 em S.Tomé e Príncipe e todos os territórios que nos estejam a acompanhar neste momento. 

Debate Televisivo “As mulheres têm a Palavra” 

Debate na TVS onde as mulheres têm a palavra para dizer de sua justiça. 

Dia 15 na TVS 

Dia da Poesia 

Um dia de poesia dedicado às mulheres, feita e dita por homens e mulheres. 

Dia 20 na CACAU 

Campanha de rastreio “Cancro da Mama” 

Campanha de sensibilização para prevenção do Cancro da Mama 

Em parceria com a empresa Portuguesa Lanidor, Ministério da Saúde e o Instituto Marquês de Valle Flor. 

Dia 25 

CineMulher 

Ciclo de cinema dedicado à Mulher. 

Dias 4, 11, 18 e 25 

Dia 4: Comer, Orar e Amar 

Dia 11: O sexo e a Cidade 

Dia 18:The Women 

Dia 25: Amar é Complicado 

no dia da mulher angolana no mês março mulher, inconfundivel e inesquecivel a voz de belita palma.

dica de Paulo Flores. 

Inaugura dia 4 Março às 18h30: exposição 4 cidades no CAPC de Coimbra com Inês Moura e Maura Grimaldi, Jorge Colombo, Vasco Mourão e Yonamine.

os albinos na África austral, as discriminações e crenças de que são alvo e porquê, aqui fica esta conversa televisiva com o nosso colaborador Palo Granjo: