Maandag 09 Juni 2014

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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Met aan Afrikaanse musici dit jaar o.a. Cheikh Lô: een van de bekendste zangers van Senegal. Maakt mbalax met latin-invloeden; Mamar Kassey: band uit Niger brengt virtuoze ode aan West-Afrika; N´Diale (Foune Diarra Trio & Jacky Molard Quartet): Malinese zangeres meets Bretonse (folk)violist en Soul'Afrique: Nederlands/Zuid-Afrikaans verbond met Paul van Kemenade (sax) en gitarist Louis Mhlanga.

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Start van de lange wereldtour van de internationale persfotowedstrijd. Ruim 150 indrukwekkende persfoto’s van 53 prijswinnaars, in negen categorieën. De bezoeker maakt in de kerk een fotografische wereldreis door alle continenten en langs de meest uiteenlopende thema’s en historische gebeurtenissen uit 2013. De jaarwinnaar is John Stanmeyer, USA, met zijn foto Signal, gemaakt voor National Geographic. Dit mystieke beeld toont hoe Afrikaanse migranten op een strand bij de stad Djibouti met hun telefoons trachten signaal op te vangen uit buurland Somalië. Ook andere foto's met Afrikaanse onderwerpen zijn in de prijzen gevallen.

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The first exhibition to focus on the art of Ife, an ancient city in modern day Nigeria. The artists of Ife made sculptures from metal, stone and terracotta that have placed the region on the map in terms of world art history. The exhibition displays some of the world's most sophisticated historical art works – more than 100 sculptures of metal, stone and terracotta from the 12th to 16th centuries tell the story of the African civilisation of Ife, ancestors of the Yoruba, one of the largest ethnic groups of modern day Nigeria. The exhibition has previously been on view in the USA, Great Britain and Spain.

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Aspects of a career spanning more than half a century. The works on show are from the collection of George Hallett and augmented by a comprehensive display of biographical information, as well as, book and record covers designed by Hallett. Included on this exhibition, amongst others, are recognisable images of Hout Bay, District Six, the Bo-Kaap, as well as immigrants and gypsies in London. His series of portraits of exiled South African writers, artists and musicians in London and France are of special interest.

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In deze tentoonstelling nemen we u mee naar Ganvié, een vissersdorp aan de zuidkust van het West-Afrikaanse land Benin. Kenmerkend voor het dorp zijn de woningen op palen, zwevend boven het water van een lagune, het meer van Nokoué. Fotografe Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Cameroun) bezocht Ganvié de afgelopen jaren meerdere keren, ging in gesprek met de vrouwen en volgde hen in het ritme van hun dagelijks leven, waarin water zo’n cruciale rol speelt. Want terwijl de bewoners, de Toffinou, volledig omringd worden door water, is drinkwater schaars. De vrouwen spelen een belangrijke rol in het watermanagement, beheren de grote vaten met drinkwater en zijn uiterst zuinig in het gebruik ervan.

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On April 7^th 2014, it will have been 20 years since the genocide started in Rwanda. The international community didn’t take action and the country was obliged to find justice on its own. 20 years later some of the survivors say they have forgiven the people who killed their family members. Creative Court wonders: What could forgiveness be in a genocide context and how would one visualize it? South African photographer Pieter Hugo and Dutch photographer Lana Mesić went to Butare, in the south of Rwanda, in an attempt to find out. Part of a series of exhibtiions and events.

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On three floors, one each devoted to heaven, hell and purgatory, works of over 50 artists from all over Africa in a variety of media are presented: paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, installations and performances. Against the background of the many Africa-related exhibitions of the past years, the MMK perceives the need to investigate the significance of African art not only in the post-colonial context but also with regard to aesthetics. The exhibition concept transports the universal issues of the Divine Comedy, an incunable of European literature, into the present and places them in a transnational contemporary context.

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Skoto Gallery is pleased to present Selected Works 1962-2010 by Ibrahim El Salahi, an exhibition of dynamic drawings and paintings by the Sudanese-born artist. This will be his second solo show at the gallery and the first U.S presentation of his work since his highly-acclaimed retrospective at the Tate Modern, London in 2013.

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Waargebeurd verhaal over overleven in Somalië, gezien vanuit het perspectief van een piraat. In een kruising van animatie en documentaire biedt de film een innovatieve kijk op de manier waarop de Somalische piraat Mohamed in dit harde, gevaarlijke bestaan terecht is gekomen. Animaties van Mohameds herinneringen, angsten en dromen, gepresenteerd vanuit zijn eigen gezichtspunt, staan tegenover de rauwe beelden uit zijn dagelijks leven.

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In september 2013 ging Kwasa Kwasa vzw van start met een poëtisch project “Dichter bij Afrika”. Kwasa Kwasa vroeg dichters uit verschillende regio’s (Malawi, Gent, Vlaanderen en andere Afrikaanse landen) om een gedicht te schrijven over hun relatie met Afrika en/of Noord-Zuidrelaties en/of Malawi. Via poëzie willen we mensen dichter bij Afrika brengen of bij een bepaald aspect van een Afrikaans land of een bepaalde culturele gewoonte uit dat Afrikaans land. De gedichten worden tussen 28 mei en 25 juni op originele wijze gepresenteerd in het café van De Centrale.

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Mufuki Mukuna studied monumental painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. His work concentrates on exploring relentlessly the boundaries of figurative painting. In each of his paintings, Mufuki invites us to witness clashes, changes of life or attitudes boiled down to simply "human behaviour" with dark shades or a night time feel inspired by Motion Pictures, urban environments, Occidental or African elements. An abundance of images that highlight the loneliness human beings are often subjet to. A spiritual, raw and lively approach to painting, sometimes painful or even fascinating.

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For Diane Victor, making art ‘provides a way of working through troublesome images that lodge themselves persistently in her memory.’ The process is cathartic. The visual equivalent of psychoanalytic ‘talking cure’, Victor draws her subject matter from far and wide, pulling information from the media and personal encounters, transforming them into rich and heavily populated compositions, full-blown narratives employing her grotesque and characteristic iconography. In this exhibition, one sees Victor still pre-occupied with ‘the big “catholic” sins – greed, lust, envy and excess.

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These paintings are the realisation of a process of automatic drawing. Similar to the Dadaist technique of automatism which relied on the improvised free-flow of thoughts and expressions, Booyens would carry on drawing as he slipped into sleep, only to discover the results of the process the following day. In describing his reasoning for this method, Booyens says that he came about it in order to try and break away from the premeditated conditioning of his compositions. Easily dismissed as insignificant marks and doodles, these drawings have however been brought to life as they are boldly reinterpreted as large-scale oil paintings.

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For Eastman, his surroundings and environment have a profound influence on his work.  Subjects are taken from lived interiors, cityscapes, studio views, family photographs and landscapes that are known to him. Eastman disassembles the image and reconstitutes it to form an entirely new picture which bears a vague semblance to the original, but for the viewer there is an uncanny familiarity and connection to the content, which is suffused with opaque moods and dreamlike memory. New shapes and forms emerge through the process of gradual fragmentation.

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Brengt de bijdrage van de Nederlandse anti-apartheid activisten en hun sympathisanten aan de internationale strijd tegen racisme en voor vrijheid in Zuid-Afrika in beeld. De tentoonstelling is ontwikkeld door ZAM, in opdracht van de Nederlandse ambassade in Zuid-Afrika en de Zuid-Afrikaanse ambassade in Nederland en met steun van het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG) in Amsterdam. Signs of Solidarity werd samengesteld door Paul Faber en vorm gegeven door Dave Hoop. Bart Luirink (ZAM) en Kier Schuringa (IISG) fungeerden als belangrijkste adviseurs. Vanaf juli dit jaar reist de tentoonstelling door Zuid Afrika.

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