African culture: the appointments in December 2021
Rufai Zakari, “Jenny et son bonnet rose” (2020), a work made from fragments of recycled plastic, exhibited at Selebe Yoon in Dakar, as part of the 10th edition of Partcours, the annual meeting of art spaces in the Senegalese capital.
© Rufai Zakari
Text by: Siegfried Forster Follow
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In digital or face-to-face form, where will the key meetings of African culture take place in December?
Here are thirteen proposals in France, Senegal, DRC, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville ... And don't hesitate to send us your “essentials” to rfipageculture @ yahoo.fr.
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From December 2, the group exhibition
Entre-Acte will
be deployed on the artistic platform Selebe Yoon in Dakar, Senegal.
Rebecca Brodskis (France), Rufai Zakari (Ghana) and Khadim Bamba (Senegal) “
will reveal the multiplicity of faces of a contemporary society and the urban landscapes of West African cities through the use of painting. oil, textiles and recycled plastic
”.
The exhibition is part of the 10th edition of Partcours, the annual meeting of the 30 best art spaces in Dakar which offers openings and meetings organized in the neighborhoods until December 12.
The goal being to draw "
another map of the City, a sensitive geography of a Dakar which is renewing itself
".
From December 2, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury is presenting Serigne Ibrahima Dieye's first personal exhibition in Senegal.
Endowed with his sharp style and his gloomy fables, the artist examines in
Undulatory Metamorphoses "
on the drifts of the media and" all communicational "
".
Unlimited
promises the photographic exhibition designed by Arlette Bashizi and Moses Sawasawa at the Paralympic Stadium in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). From December 3, the two Congolese photojournalists are launching this “
traveling
event
in several corners of the city and its surroundings
” to document the situation of people with disabilities who are often confronted with the prejudices of society.
From December 4 to 7, the Palais des Beaux-Arts Bozar in Brussels, Belgium, is offering
The Halaqat Project
to explore the cultural links between Europe and the Arab world. Designed as a platform for co-creation with debates, film screenings, concerts, performances and exhibitions, this initiative aims to "
deepen exchanges between the two regions in order to dismantle clichés
".
Until December 5, writer-directors from seven countries (Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mali, Ivory Coast and Togo) will meet at Ciné Guimbi in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, as part of the Sentoo writing residency. This is the 2nd edition of this pan-African program of support for cinematographic creation which aims to give African authors and producers "
the tools and material means to develop their films while preserving their African identity and their rights to exploit them
". According to the organizers, it is "
the first time in Africa [that] a program of support for cinematographic creation combines writing residencies, a production and co-production workshop and development aid
".
Mariam Abouzid Souali: “Berouita” (wheelbarrow), Rule of Game Series, 2017. © Collection Fondation Alliances - MACAAL
At the Museum of Contemporary African Art Al Madeen (Macaal) in Marrakech has just opened
Art, a serious game
.
Until February 14, this collective exhibition explores the theme of play in art through 80 works by 64 artists, including Mariam Abouzid Souali, Joy Labinjo or GaHee Park.
See you on December 4 to experience the ceremony of the 7th edition of the Francophone Cinema Trophies, at the Intare Conference Arena in Kigali, Rwanda.
The 9 trophies will reward 9 French-speaking cinema laureates from the last three years to “
encourage diversity and the freedom of cinematographic creation
”.
From December 7 to 21 in Paris, the Maghreb film festival “
confirms its editorial line turned towards social and political struggles, protest and its revolts
”. At the heart of this 2021 edition is the “Tunisian Spring” of 2011, with a program of “
six films more or less born directly from the events
”, thus also testifying to the influence of these uprisings in many countries of the Arab world.
The Mobile Film Festival 2021 awards ceremony will take place in Paris on 8 December. The Grand Prix is endowed with 10,000 euros, the documentary and student film awards of 5,000 euros each. A selection of 50 films (1 Mobile, 1 Minute, 1 Film) from 34 countries (including productions from Algeria, Burundi, DRC, Mauritania, South Africa, Uganda) is currently free online under the theme of
Making Peace with nature
. Each year, the selected films are viewed by millions of Internet users.
In southwestern Congolese, dozens of peoples live together in the present-day provinces of Kinshasa, Kwango, Kwilu and Mai-Ndombe.
The Quai Branly museum in Paris unveils in
La Part deombre
160 sculptures from southwestern Congo from the years 1875-1950, most of which have never been exhibited.
Thus, the Parisian institution wishes from December 14 "to
restore all its letters of nobility to Congolese wooden statuary
".
From December 14 to 22, the 18th edition of the Mantsina festival is being held on stage in Brazzaville, Congo.
Co-founded by the director Dieudonné Niangouna, directed by Sylvie Dyclo Pomos, the Brazzaville International Theater Meeting is displayed this year under the theme “
Opening up more to the world
”.
On December 30, the Artcurial Maroc house is organizing a
Moroccan winter
event sale
at La Mamounia, in Marrakech. Contemporary African art will be at the center of this auction, preceded by an exhibition of works, including photographs by Malick Sidibé and Seydou Keïta, but also a large work by Pilipili, emblematic artist of the Hangar, an art center created in the Congo, or an exceptional
Seattle
tour
by the famous Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez. The contemporary African art scene will be represented by Aboudia, who works between Abidjan and Brooklyn, but also by the Kenyan Joseph Bertiers, the Ugandan Arim Andrew or the Angolan Keyezua.
► Send us your “
essentials
” of African culture in 2022 to rfipageculture@yahoo.fr.
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