Zondag 01 December 2013

Once a month, singer and guitarist Omar Ka hosts this African dance fest in Rotterdam This afternoon you can hear the best in African live music, attend dance workshops, children's activities, and see surprising guest musicians perform. The afternoon's proceedings will be linked together with the juiciest tracks, African and crossover, by the hottest DJs. Special guest on December 1 - Ntjam Rosie.

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A selection of African barbershop boards from Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Zaïre. These non-verbal brightly coloured messages were collected over the last forty years by Esger Duintjer in Africa’s big cities, where they are hand-painted using industrial paints and lacquers on walls, hardboard, plywood, metal sheets and used canvas flour bags. Most of the craftsmen are autodidactic and anonymous although some are known by their chosen artist's name or the name of their collective workshop.

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Kane Mathis has been making trips to The Gambia, west Africa for the past 16 years to study the Kora, a 21-string harp. He holds a diploma from The Tiramang Traditional music school in The Gambia and has appeared on Gambian National Radio and Television. In 2011 his work was recognized by the National Center for Arts and Culture in The Gambia. He is a 2010 Earshot Jazz album of the year winner and a recipient of the 2012 Camber Music America grant.

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In the Malinese desert the entire kosmos is reduced to only a few elements. While the sun and sand scorch you during the day, the stars guard over you at night. In a similar fashion, the traditional guitar patterns and percussion of Terakaft will bring you in a hypnotized trance-like state and transport you there. And you know you’re in good hands: founding member Kedou is a celebrity in his own land, known for his part in the history of the rebellion as well as his musical contributions in Tinariwen and Terakaft. Also samples and beats by Eric Copeland (USA) and dub reggae by The Mad Professor Neal Fraser (Guyana).

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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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First major exhibition to examine the conceptually complex and visually rich relationship between African artists and the land upon which they live, walk, and frame their days. Approximately 100 artworks are on view in five thematic sections. For the first time, five artists create land-art installations in the Smithsonian gardens. Drawing upon a rich literature related to Earth shrines and religious organizations, this exhibition also contributes new and ground-breaking research on contemporary earthworks in Africa.

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Als uitgangspunt voor haar project The Afronauts, koos Cristina De Middel (1975, Spanje) een klein onderwerp uit de geschiedenis van Zambia. Een ruimtevaartprogramma gestart door een onderwijzer waardoor Zambia mee zou doen aan de internationale ruimtewedloop. Door gebrek aan financiële hulp was het initiatief echter gedoemd te mislukken. 50 jaar na dato reconstrueert De Middel dit verhaal, resulterend in de publicatie The Afronauts en de gelijknamige tentoonstelling; fantasie- en kleurrijke beelden vol humor, met prachtige zelf gecreëerde rekwisieten.

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Samba’s paintings reveal his perception of the social, political, economic and cultural realities of Zaïre, exposing all facets of everyday life in Kinshasa. His canvases offer a running commentary on popular customs, sexuality, AIDS and other illnesses, social inequalities, and corruption. From the late 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings. For Samba, this is not an act of narcissism; rather, like an anchor on TV news broadcasts, he places himself in his work to report on what it means to be a successful African artist on the world stage.

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Het Zuid-Afrikahuis opent de deuren voor de inmiddels traditionele kerstmarkt. Dé plek om alvast uw Sinterklaas- en kerstcadeautjes te kopen. U kunt op deze kerstmarkt onder meer terecht voor wijn, boerewors, biltong, sieraden, ansichtkaarten en San kunst uit de Kalahari. Uiteraard ontbreken ook onze eigen specialiteiten niet: boeken: zowel nieuw als tweedehands.

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A protean and controversial artistic personality between the 1960s and the 1990s, Kevin Atkinson embraced a multiplicity of approaches to making art and made a deep impression on generations of students at UCT. This exhibition, drawn from the Atkinson’s underground studio named ‘Plato’s Cave’, is both a posthumous tribute and an attempt to come to a greater understanding of the impressive contribution that he made to South African art, both as an artist and an educator.

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Het programma van het 26ste International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA 2013) is bekend. Vorig jaar was er een teleurstellend aantal documentaires uit Afrika.
An Inconsolable Memory is the only South African documentary to be selected for the IDFA.

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Roger Ballen (b. 1950) has been shooting black-and-white film for nearly a half-century. A New York native, he has lived in South Africa for more than thirty years. Ballen's photographs of rural Afrikaners in their homes and urban-based "outsiders" in windowless rooms quickly became distinguished for their interior arrangements and the events that transpired among the people, animals, and furnishings within. Ballen's interest in line-whether of coat hangers, electric wire, or marks made on walls-has been constant.

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Drie Soedanese kunstenaars, allen afgestudeerd aan het 'College of Fine and Applied Art' in Khartoum en werkend en levend in België. Nahia Mahdi legt zich, behalve op moderne schilderkunst, ook toe op het illustreren van kinderboeken. Nasir Abbas is een moderne schilder en specialiseert zich daarnaast ook in digitale audio en video. Mohamed Shabini verwierf enige naambekendheid in Gent door zijn samenwerking met 'Ambrosia's Tafel' en het project 'Shabini's Droom'.

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The Mzansi Fela festival has become one of the most anticipated festivals of the year in the Tshwane Metropolitan. The festival presents some of the most exciting music, theatre, dance, comedy and poetry in South Africa. Launched in 2007 the festival has grown in leaps and bounds from being “Mzansi on Stage” to “Mzansi Fela Festival” presenting the arts and diversity of our country.

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Recent paintings by Ghanaian-born artist George Afedzi Hughes. Hughes's recent work uses art as a tool for cultural provocation, by challenging contemporary systems of order and engaging notions of violence, including the consequences of misused power. He utilizes creative processes that reactivate imagery through a variety of media in which elements from diverse sources such as war machinery, military uniforms with epaulettes, automobiles, colonial / historical references are charged with meaning.

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In zijn eigen land is Jannie du Toit een begrip. Als singer-songwriter stond hij eind jaren ’70 aan de basis van de Musiek & Liriek-beweging. Samen met artiesten als Koos du Plessis, Laurika Rauch en Amanda Strydom zorgde hij ervoor dat de Afrikaanstalige muziek brak met een lange traditie van vertaalde hitjes, overgewaaid uit Duitsland en Amerika. De Musiek & Liriek-beweging kenmerkte zich door een uitbarsting van creatieve activiteit, vol oorspronkelijke composities en poëtische teksten.

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In de koude wintermaanden zorgt African Angels voor een scala aan ontroerende en opzwepende Afrikaanse liederen in combinatie met Amerikaanse gospels. De leden van Afrika’s belangrijkste operahuis brengen u een concert met ingrediënten waar Zuid-Afrika bekend om staat: intense beleving, verstilde momenten, maar vooral heel veel vrolijkheid! Onder regie van Leoni Jansen is een mix van gospel, traditioneel Afrikaans en klassiek het resultaat met nummers als Gimmy Hope Johanna, kerstnummers en liedjes van hoop en licht.

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Prachtig vormgegeven en elegant vertelde animatie gebaseerd op het waargebeurde verhaal over de eerste giraffe die in 1827 naar Parijs kwam en voor een rage zorgde in de lokale dierentuin. De kleine Maki ontsnapt aan een Franse slavenhandelaar en beleeft vele avonturen voordat hij zijn belofte kan inlossen om de giraffe Zarafa terug te brengen naar Afrika. Zonder een moment opdringerig te zijn biedt Zarafa naast stilistisch meesterschap en Maki's spannende avontuur ook een blik op Frankrijks gewelddadige verleden en de koninklijke freakshow die toen de boel bestuurde.

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Exploration of nostalgia in five African countries; Senegal, Nigeria, Algeria, Benin and South Africa. This exhibition tells the stories of bygone eras – positioning them firmly within present day narratives. Through architecture, construction, cartography, photography, communal archives, and historical reenactment, each artist and participant has a conversation with a past through which they did not live by juxtaposing design elements with those of today.

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Explores representations of the structures that the bare eye cannot see. Marx focuses on the structures that hold or shape the fluid aspects of existence; the ribcage that holds the soft, near shapeless interior of the body, the city structure that funnels and facilitates the flows of lives lived together. Marx literally brings the informational abstractions of aerial views, maps, and anatomical illustrations into his physical world by using plant material from his immediate environment as medium. The techniques that Marx develops to do this are at once practical, poetic and conceptual strategies.

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In The Future White Women of Azania Ruga is turning his attention to an idea intimately linked to the apartheid era’s fiction of Azania – a Southern African decolonialised arcadia. But Ruga, in his imaginings of Azania, has stuck closer to the original myth, situating it in Eastern Africa as Pliny the Elder did. Here Ruga in his map The Lands of Azania (2014-2094) has created lands suggestive of sin, of decadence and current politics. Countries named Palestine, Sodom, Kuntistan, Zwartheid and Nunubia are lands that reference pre-colonial, colonial and biblical regions with all their negative and politically disquieting associations.

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Bijzondere tentoonstelling met wandkleden van de Malinese kunstenaar Abdoulaye Konaté. Konaté (1953) heeft wereldwijd geëxposeerd, nam in 2007 deel aan Documenta 12 in Kassel, Duitsland, en ontbreekt in geen van de recente naslagwerken over hedendaagse Afrikaanse kunst. Met textiel stelt hij monumentale ‘wandsculpturen’ samen. “De Wereld in doeken”, waarin een negental wandkleden wordt geëxposeerd, is de eerste solotentoonstelling van Konaté in Nederland.

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Vier Somalische piraten overvallen een vrachtschip en gijzelen de kapitein (Hanks). Regisseur Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy) maakt van de ware gebeurtenissen een actiethriller doordrenkt van menselijkheid. Met zijn kenmerkende stijl van handheld camerawerk, snelle montage en een perfect gevoel voor timing creëert hij een gecontroleerde chaos, waarin de spanning steeds intenser wordt opgevoerd. Hanks overtuigt als de soms heldhaftige, dan weer breekbaar angstige kapitein, terwijl nieuwkomer Barkhad Abdi schittert als de leider van de kapers.

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