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L’ALMAMY SAMORY TOURE – ACT II, DAKAR
We are pleased to invite you to the launch of Act II, L’Almamy Samori Touré – An Unmade Film by Ousmane Sembène, decomposed, disarranged and reproduced by Chimurenga, and hosted by RAW Material Company as part of the 14th edition of Partcours. The program will run as follows
Monday December 08:
/ 5 p.m. | Opening session, on popular music and the production of history — Ibrahima Wane with Ntone Edjabe
Wednesday December 10:
/ 5 p.m. | On two unrealised historical films, Kattan & Talatay Nder – William Ousmane Mbaye and Pape Samba Kane with Aboubacar Demba Cissokho
/ 7 p.m. | A listening session inspired by Abdoulaye Sadji’s essay “Ce que dit la musique africaine” — with Ibrahima Wane, Felwine Sarr and Ntone Edjabe
Thursday December 11:
/ 5 p.m. | On his journey alongside Sembène, the preservation of his work and memory – Clarence Delgado with Aboubacar Demba Cissokho
/ 6 p.m. | On Daaray Sembène, Thies, and the Ousmane Sembène Association and its traveling evening school – Hadja Maimouna Niang and Magueye Kasse with Fatou Kandé Senghor
/ 7.30 p.m. | On collaborating with Ousmane Sembène on Samori – Moustapha Ndiaye aka Picasso with Ntone Edjabe
Friday December 12: The Guinean cultural socialist revolution and its discontents; African history as a problem
/ 3.30 p.m. | On African historiography – Babacar Buuba Diop with lbrahima Wane
/ 5 p.m. | Three takes on the writing of Samori – Moses Marz, Fatoumata Sagnane and Ntone Edjabe
/ 6.30 p.m. | On writing history as fiction – Boris Boubacar Diop with Aboubacar Demba Cissokho
Saturday December 13: On theatre, fashion and the arts in the production of history, the case of “l’École de Dakar” (The Dakar School)
/ 3.30 p.m. | African history in theatre, cinema, and fashion — Lamine Seyba Traoré and Oumou SY with Madiaw Ndiaye
/ 5.30 p.m. | On the work and life of Alpha Waly Diallo – Massamba Mbaye with Babacar Mbaye Diop
/ 6:30 p.m. | African cinema and the archive of the unfinished – Eva Munyiri and Annabelle Aventurin with Ntone Edjabe.
IMAGI-NATION NWAR in PARIS – SUN, 09 MAY 2021
Day 5 of Imagi-nation Nwar, a live broadcast from Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Goutte d’or, Paris 2:30pm – The premiere of The Africans – Act 2, a radio play by Christian Nyampeta 4pm – listening through the record collection of Sarah Maldoror with Pascale Obolo, Anna Tje and Annouchka de Andrade 6pm – a live performance by Cheikh Tidiane Fall and Tommie McKenzie
IMAGI-NATION NWAR in PARIS – SAT, 08 MAY 2021
Day 4 of Imagi-nation Nwar, a live broadcast from Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Goutte d’or, Paris 2pm – Screening of Les Saints Et Les Anges and Zatrap/Le piege (Elsie Haas) 3pm – In conversation with Elsie Haas 4pm – Music as a site of memorialising – a sonic lecture with Franck Biyong 5:30pm – The premiere of The Africans – Act 2, a radio play by Christain Nyampeta 7pm – live showcase of Gwo Ka featuring Henri Poitou dit Toutoul, Rony …
IMAGI-NATION NWAR in PARIS – FRI, 07 MAY 2021
Day 3 of Imagi-nation Nwar, a live broadcast from Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Goutte d’or, Paris 2pm – Screening of Solitaire a micro ouvert and La vieille quiloboise et le majordome (Julius Amedee Laou) 3pm – Brice Ahouno expands the soundtrack beyond the screen, with Wasis Diop and Roger Raspail 5:30pm – Digging into the FRench reggae scene with Maboula Soumahoro
IMAGI-NATION NWAR in PARIS – THURS, 06 MAY 2021
Day 2 of Imagi-nation Nwar, a live broadcast from Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Goutte d’or, Paris 2pm – Screening of La noiraude 2:30pm – Zouk as aesthetics of black transnationalism, with Marie Julie Chalu and guests 4pm – Hamedine Kane digs deeper into the sonic archives of black radicalism in Paris 5pm – Live cross-over to the markets of Lomé with Elom 20ce
IMAGI-NATION NWAR – a PASS session in Paris, 5-9 May 2021
imagi-nation nwar – a PASS broadcast from Paris, 5-9 May 2021 Lavoir Moderne Parisien (35 rue Leon, Goutte d’or) From 2pm daily. Listen at panafricanspacestation.org.za Presented by Chimurenga with: Blaise N’Djehoya; Marie-Julie Chalu; DY Ngoy; Yebga Likoba; Cheikh Tidiane Fall; Fabienne et Véronique Kanor; Hamedine Kane; Elom 20ce; Brice Ahounou; Wasis Diop; Roger Raspail; Pascale Obolo; Julius-Amedee Laou; Jean-Jacques Dufayet; Maboula Soumahoro; Elsie Haas; Amandine Nana; Franck Biyong; Hemle Boum; Christian Nyampeta; Christelle Oyiri; Célia Potiron; Anna Tje; Annouchka de …
Revisit sessions from PASS in Oslo
Over four days, from 17-20 February 2021, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) broadcast daily sessions for ‘Actions of Art and Solidarity’, a group exhibition curated by Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) in Oslo and organised with Kunstnernes Hus. These transmissions looked to the Festac ’77 book and selected narratives to expand on in sound. They were the first PASS sessions to be produced under the conditions of a global pandemic. More about the landing can be found here …
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PASS landing at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
From Wednesday, 17 – Saturday, 20 February, 2021, Pan African Space Station (PASS) broadcast a daily session, produced for ‘Actions of Art and Solidarity’, a group exhibition curated by Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) in Oslo and organised with Kunstnernes Hus. These PASS transmissions unpacked and expanded stories and research published in the Festac ’77 book in which we revisited the imaginative (im)possibilities of pan African festivals (the PANAFESTs) that took place in the utopian moments of the post-independence …
Bantu Hour with Ade Bantu and guests: Temi Dollface and Brymo
Adegoke Odukoya, better known as Adé Bantu (born 13 July 1971 in Wembley, London), is a Nigerian-German musician, producer and activist. He is best known as the founder of the Afro-German musical collective and NGO Brothers Keepers and as the front man of the 12 piece band Bantu. He received the Kora Award (the Pan-African equivalent of the Grammy) for his album “Fuji Satisfaction” in 2005. In Thursday’s programming, he features singers Temi Dollface and Brymo. Temi Phil-Ebosie better known as …