African culture: the appointments in September
Ana Silva: “Estendal 004” (detail), 2020. Woven plastic bag, embroidery, drawing, tape - 205 x 150 cm.
© Ana Silva Courtesy Galerie MAGNIN-A, Paris
Text by: Siegfried Forster Follow
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In digital or face-to-face form, where will the flagship meetings of African culture take place in September?
Here are twelve proposals.
And don't hesitate to send us your “must-haves” to rfipageculture@yahoo.fr.
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On September 1, the
Afrofuturistik
program
,
distributed by Sudu Connexion, is released in theaters in France.
Five African short films by Sofia Alaoui (France / Morocco), Jim Chuchu (Kenya), Kantarama Gahigir (Switzerland / Rwanda), CJ Obasi (Nigeria) and Sammy Baloji (DRC / Belgium) question the African imagination and its oral transmission and visual in the 21st century.
Who will be the next winner of the
Voix d'Afrique
literary prize
?
On September 1, the official announcement of the second edition of the literary prize will take place, initiated by the editions JC Lattès and RFI, in partnership with the Cité internationale des arts.
An initiative to support and highlight new African literary voices.
Until September 2, the largest European event entirely dedicated to series is being held in Lille.
Séries Mania receives in official selection among others
Dianké
, the West African radio drama produced by RAES, available as a podcast
on the RFI website
and listening platforms.
From September 3 to 9, the International Festival of African Diaspora Films (FIFDA Paris 2021) will offer its eleventh edition 100% online due to the health situation.
On the program: productions from eleven countries, including Haiti, Rwanda, Namibia, Cameroon, Morocco ... to explore the history of Africa and its diaspora.
The Parcours des mondes is celebrating its 20th anniversary in Saint-Germain-des-Près, in the heart of Paris.
The most important international exhibition of extra-European, Asian and archaeological arts invites us from September 7 to 12 to browse around sixty galleries specializing in the arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas.
From September 4, the Parisian gallery A-Magnin is highlighting Ana Silva's first ever exhibition in France.
Around thirty works in which the Angolan artist questions his own history and that of his family.
On September 8, the film
La nuit des rois
(Côte d'Ivoire), by
Philippe Lacôte
, is
released in theaters in France
, a breathtaking production with innovative and ambitious cinematographic writing to tell a crazy story set in one one of the most overcrowded prisons in West Africa, Maca.
From September 9 to 12, Art Paris will be the first modern and contemporary art fair to integrate the Grand Palais Éphémère.
The 23rd edition brings together 140 galleries from twenty countries, including Côte d'Ivoire, but also works by African artists, such as the Moroccan Hicham Berrada or the Burkinabè Adjaratou Ouedraogo.
On September 14, the Praemium Imperiale, the “Nobel” for the arts, created in 1988 by Japan's oldest cultural foundation, will be unveiled.
After the Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui and the Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour in 2017 and the South African designer, plastic artist and filmmaker William Kentridge in 2019, will there again be an African artist in the spotlight?
From September 15 at the Espace Christiane Peugeot in Paris, the
Masked Freedom
exhibition
offers the opportunity to discover four artists from four continents, including Joseph Obanubi, born in 1994 in Lagos.
The Nigerian artist discusses the difficulty of access to drinking water in Nigeria and the dangers faced by the women in charge of collecting it.
In his artistic work, he also explores questions of identity by transforming them into an Afro-futuristic aesthetic.
From September 23 to October 3, the Festival des Francophonies
Les Zébrures d'automne
will open its doors in the halls and streets of Limoges. The 2021 edition will be more particularly dedicated to Asia and the Middle East. But, among the thirteen creations are also African authors, for example
The children owls or the small shadows of the night
written and directed by Basile Yawanké or
It rains humans on our paving stones
by Serdjo Giovanni Houansou, which he will put also on stage.
The Metropolitan Opera in New York opens its 2021/2022 season on September 27 with an opera composed for the first time by an African-American musician:
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
by Terence Blanchard, famous trumpeter and official composer for the films of African-American filmmaker Spike Lee.
His second opera tells the story of a black boy in the southern United States confronted with racism, violence and the search for his sexual identity.
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