Zondag 22 Juni 2014

The Decolonial Summer School Middelburg, the only program in Europe dedicated exclusively to discuss the legacies of the Transatlantic Enslavement Trade from a transdisciplinary perspective, is once again bringing scholars and artists as faculty and among them are many contributors of BE.BOP. Framer Framed is hosting a special 5 hour event with BE.BOP allies. There will be a screening of selected works, a roundtable with individual resonances on the healing and liberation experiences of BE.BOP 2014. SPIRITUAL REVOLUTIONS AND “THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA” (Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin + Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen), after an introduction by BE.BOP curator, Alanna Lockward.

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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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Since 1994, South Africa and Paul Van Kemenade have a warm relationship. In that year, Van Kemenade”s quintet toured South Africa for 7 weeks, where they met great South African musicians and played with them. Now in the project ‘SOUL ‘AFRIQUE’  they meet again, playing compositions of each other. A spectacular collaboration again between the outstanding renowned South African trumpeter Fezile ‘Feya’ Faku, tenorist Sydney Mnisi, guitarist/vocalist Louis Mhlanga and the the quintet of altosaxophonist/composer Paul van Kemenade (Dutch Boy Edgar award).

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