Maandag 08 Oktober 2012

This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.

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Images by Congolese photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji feature the industrial landscapes around Lumbumbasi, the capital city of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The images serve as a visual indictment of the failed postcolonial leadership that mismanaged and squandered Katanga’s industrial resources, its modernity, and the economic prosperity of the region.

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While Jane Alexander’s figures are, in many ways, emblems of monstrosity, they are oddly beautiful. Her creatures expose the human animal for all it is and all it could become. Though clearly concerned with social issues, Alexander’s sculptural installations and photographs do not judge, nor do they convey a particular political or moral standpoint.

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Lalla Essaydi's elegant, creative work belies it subversive, challenging nature. Approximately 30 works of diverse media are drawn from each of her photographic series, including the richly hued Silence of Thought and the more widely known Converging Territories and Les Femmes de Maroc. The exhibition also includes a selection of new works, as well as rarely exhibited paintings and installations.

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Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.

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Goddelijk en Griezelig is een interculturele tentoonstelling over het oudste dierensymbool ter wereld: de slang. De tentoonstelling laat in de vorm van oude en moderne kunst uit de hele wereld zien dat de slang vanaf de prehistorie tot op de dag van vandaag in alle culturen een bijzondere betekenis heeft.

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Zita Swoon Group is touring with Wait For Me, a collaboration with singer Awa Démé (Burkina faso) and on the balafon Mamadou Diabaté Kibié from Burkina Faso. "The sound is a mixture of raw acoustic blues and folk and the traditional ‘mandigue’ music from West-Africa. The songs deal with the moral and the problems of modern African society".

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The theme of the Festival is “Innovation in the Arts” under the title “12 BOXES MOVING”. The Festival aims to explore new and innovative ways of creating art and presenting outcomes to the public. 12 shipping containers will be placed around the city and used as an exhibition space and platform to showcase new artistic talent.

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De veelzijdige Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar William Kentridge ontwikkelde de afgelopen decennia een multidisciplinaire werkwijze waarin film, animatie, tekenkunst, grafiek en theater samenkomen. Typerend voor zijn werk zijn de krachtige houtskool- en pasteltekeningen die hij tot bewegend beeld transformeert. Black Box/Chambre Noire is een mechanisch theater waarin gedurende 23 minuten zes mechanische figuren beurtelings optreden tegen een geprojecteerde achtergrond van geanimeerde houtskooltekeningen.

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Challenging, stimulating, thought-provoking: a festival of contemporary theatre, dance, spoken word and music from South Africa and beyond. Then add into the mix the venue's Township Cafe. You'll find authentic African food and drink plus a host of festival fringe events: workshops, debates, after-show talks, late night music or other pop-up performances. Buy yourself a ticket for a main stage event, or simply turn up to see what happens. Afrovibes is more than just a show - it's an experience. In London, Birmingham, Manchester, Lancaster, Liverpool, Nottingham, Hereford, Cardiff, Aberystwyth...

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A series of independent yet intersecting exhibitions will be brought together under one roof to form a complete piece that explores the nature of belief and the dynamics of communication. The complete exhibition, entitled MMXII, is a solo display by James Webb. A keynote work in the exhibition is Prayer, a multi-channel sound installation of prayers recorded from over 65 different faith groups in greater Johannesburg. Other works, including static and time-based media projects, will be shown alongside JAG’s collection.

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De Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili is live on stage een ware sensatie. Deze straatmuzikanten met een handicap kunnen swingen! De hartslag van Afrika klinkt door in hun soepele Congolese rumba en ballades. Nu op tour met hun tweede album Bouger Le Monde, een nieuw geluid: krachtiger en geraffineerder, maar het blijft natuurlijk wel nog typisch Staff Benda Bilili met hun geïmproviseerde instrumenten en ontroerende teksten.

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Zuid-Afrikaans/Nederlands kwartet dat inzet op flinke bass muziek, dikke beats en Zuid-Afrikaanse rap: neder-afro electrobeat. Het duo achter Skip & Die zijn frontvrouw Cata.Pirata en producent Jori Collignon, bekend van C-Mon & Kypski en Nobody Beats The Drum. Live worden zij vergezeld door vijfkoppige liveband die garant staat voor een groot feest. Skip & Die bindt zich niet aan een genre, waardoor veel wereldwijde invloeden terug zijn te horen in hun unieke geluid.

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Poëtisch drama van Kim Nguyen volgt de jonge Afrikaanse Komona als ze op 12-jarige leeftijd wordt gedwongen haar ouders te doden en zich aan te sluiten als kindsoldaat bij het leger van Great Tiger. Regisseur:
Kim Nguyen; acteurs: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda, Mizinga Mwinga. Canada/DR Congo 2012

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Exhibition focuses on the complexities of global exchange fostered by capitalism, and its effects on life and art. Time, Trade & Travel set the participating artists on a quest for the historical encounters between Europeans and Africans, in which trade and the concomitant cultural exchange receive particular attention. In collaboration with the Nubuke Foundation in Accra, Ghana and featuring Dutch and Ghanese artists.

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An outstanding exploration of the sounds and rhythms of Africa and the Diaspora and a groundbreaking digital experience that pays homage to artists and music of Africa and the African diaspora, the first tribute to black artists of its kind. The exhibition uses state-of-the-art technology, with over 100 interactive audio-visual setups transmitting the sights, sounds and rhythms of artists from all over the world. The exhibition comprises of a mind-blowing 13 hours’ worth of footage.

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Baron Binnert Van Harinxma thoe Slooten en bioloog Gerrit Brouwer kregen op 2 november 1930 de unieke kans om de kroning van keizer Haile Selassie in Ethiopië bij te wonen. Maak hun expeditie mee met de foto's, persoonlijke aantekeningen en filmbeelden. De reis naar Ethiopië had oorspronkelijk het doel om de dierenwereld te bestuderen, maar hoogtepunt van de reis werd uiteindelijk de kroning van Haile Selassie.

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Meestergitarist Jan Kuiper en zijn bekende ensemble The Five Great Guitars in concert met de Afrikaanse gitarist en zanger Habib Koité. Koité stamt uit een familie van bekende Malinese griots. Zowel zijn zang als gitaarspel hebben een typische Afrikaanse, vriendelijk deinende kalmte. De vijf gitaristen ontwikkelen samen met Koité nieuwe muziek, met nadruk op de grooves en swing van de Afrikaanse muziek.

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Op zondag 16 september om 16:00 uur wordt de expositie in aanwezigheid van de kunstenaar geopend door Sasha Dees, independent producer / curator on international art projects (New York / Amsterdam) en curator van Open Ateliers Zuidoost Residency programma. De Thami Mnyele Stichting heeft Ekpuk twee weken (tot 24 september) ondergebracht in haar Amsterdamse studio.

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Mufuki Mukuna is known for his moody portraits and urban landscapes, often depicting a darker side of life. His characters appear to be on an identity quest, sometimes showing signs of despair and loneliness. Using oil on canvas and other mixed media materials, the artist creates powerful images. He has the ability to paint scenes suggesting a blend of serenity intertwined with very disturbing feelings, creating a unique harmony. Exhibition opening: Friday 21 September 18.00h. The artist will be present.

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Photographic exhibition examining the legacy of the apartheid system and how it penetrated even the most mundane aspects of social existence in South Africa, from housing, public amenities, and transportation to education, tourism, religion, and businesses. Complex, vivid, evocative, and dramatic, it includes nearly 500 photographs, films, books, magazines, newspapers, and assorted archival documents and covers more than 60 years of powerful photographic and visual production that forms part of the historical record of South Africa.

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Blom writes: A quote from Françoise Gilot's biography on Picasso made a lasting impression on me at the end of last year: '[Work] below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.' The added benefit of such a limitation in painting is that it has the potential to facilitate a refinement and expansion of one's language and ability. A limitation by its very nature forces one to seek out alternative avenues or ways to solve problems, and in doing so it can open up a range of new possibilities.

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Commune.1 celebrates their first birthday in September, with their first group show showcasing brand new work by all the artists who have exhibited with them in the past year, as well as premiering the work of artists who will be exhibiting with them in the future.

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Rhode Bath-Schéba Makoumbou is geboren op 29 augustus 1976 in Brazzaville, Republiek Congo. Sinds haar kinderjaren werd ze ingewijd in de schilderkunst door haar vader, de schilder David Makoumbou Vanaf 1989 heeft ze zich ten volle geëngageerd in de kunst. In haar werken legt ze vooral de nadruk op de traditionele sociale activiteiten van de Afrikaanse vrouw. Vernissage op 05/10 om 18u30 (natje, droogje en streepje muziek).

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Een fototentoonstelling over het leven in Kliptown, onderdeel van Soweto bij Johannesburg. De bijzondere foto’s van Hanneke de Vries (NL) en David Blom (ZA) brengen Kliptown en de Kliptonians, zoals de inwoners van Kliptown zichzelf noemen, op intieme wijze in beeld. Overigens zonder voyeuristisch te worden.

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Now in its eighth year, the Baxter Dance Festival offers a chance for choreographers to showcase their work to captive audiences and fellow dance enthusiasts. Established companies join emerging dance schools and youth programmes to offer 10 days of performances at the Baxter Theatre Centre.

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Zulu has a deep interest in biology, sociology, astronomy, philosophy, history and psychology. The word histopathology from the exhibition title, refers to the microscopic examination of tissue undertaken to study the manifestations of disease. Zulu acts as pathologist, so to speak, looking at the universality of our human biology as a metaphor for exploring what he understands to be a “diseased society”, where our lived human experience is far from the one of the universality which our cells, tissues, muscles would suggest it to be.

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Out of Africa - Safari Through Magical Kenya  is het vervolg op hitproducties als Sikulu, Stamping en African Mamas en neemt u mee op safari door het magische Kenia. Opzwepende dansen van Masai-krijgers, close harmony songs van de vrouwelijke dansers, een ballet van flamingo's, funky African jazzritmes en vrolijke bengamuziek uit de nachtclubs van Mombassa en Nairobi: het wordt allemaal gebracht met niet aflatende Afrikaanse energie en vitaliteit. Zowel het traditionele als het moderne Kenia krijgt in deze overdonderende show een plek.

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Acclaimed for his work in animated film, visual art, theater, and opera, William Kentridge had his first survey exhibition in the United States in 2001 at MCA Chicago. From this exhibition, the MCA acquired more than a dozen drawings and two of his best-known films: Felix in Exile (1994) and History of the Main Complaint (1996), both of which will be on view. The drawings featured in the exhibition are those used to make this latter film—charcoal sketches that Kentridge erased and reworked to create the memorable segments that depict his alter egos and their struggles in late and post-apartheid Johannesburg: Felix Teitlebaum, the romantic artist who is always shown nude, and Soho Eckstein, the self-absorbed, wealthy mine owner and land developer who always wears a pinstriped suit.

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