In 2003, two men meet. One is Cameroonian, born in 1971, the other is Belgian, born in 1963. Today, they are friends, but to get there, it took everyone “symbolically” to cross the River.

This path is the subject of the show: a question mark on our memory, that of our own and that which is common in history that marked our country, our community membership. It is the story of our tears during the fall of the Berlin Wall: tears of joy for Guy to the men and women standing on the wall,… It is the story of big and small stories that we went through: the encounter of a woman in the streets of Dakar, one last beer at an airport, a visit to the Louvre museum, a trip by taxi clando, … But also, Independence Tchatcha, Rostropovich, Césaire, Mitterrand, Sankara, Christiane Taubira’s speech, Lumumba, …

No characters, but the story of two men trying to find, armed with their differences, a truth that brings them together.

After the show

Thursday, March 15: Meeting with Mirko Popovitch (Africalia)

La Vénerie/Ecuries, Place Gilson, 3 à 1170 Bruxelles

Thursday 8, Friday 9, Saturday 10,  Thursday 15, Friday 16, Saturday 17 mars 2012 à 20h30

Info: 02 663 85 50

www.lavenerie.be

Cultivons la Culture !

Conférence de presse du RAPEC Réseau Africain des Promoteurs et Entrepreneurs Culturels au siège des ACP, avenue Georges Henri 451 – 1200 Bruxelles  au cours de laquelle le rapport Général du 1er Congrès Panafricain sur la culture et ses liens avec l’économie en Afrique a été rendu publique.

Programme de la conférence de presse :

- Restitution des travaux du 1er Congrès panafricain sur la culture et ses liens avec l’économie en Afrique.

- Recommandations de Lomé à l’endroit de l’Union Africaine, des autorités des Etats Africains, du RAPEC.

- Lancement du 1er Trophée des Entrepreneurs Culturels d’Afrique (TECA)

Pour Africalia, présence de Dorine Rurashitse et Mirko Popovitch.

Ce congrès s’est tenu les 17 et 18 novembre 2011 à Lomé (Togo), au siège de la Banque d’Investissement et de Développement (BIDC) de la CEDEAO.

Il avait pour but de démontrer que la culture contribue réellement à la croissance économique et qu’elle est l’un des moteurs incontournable du développement. En effet, face au déficit de compréhension dont souffre encore le secteur culturel en Afrique, le défi du congrès a été de convaincre les responsables publics et opérateurs économiques de promouvoir efficacement l’activité culturelle sur le continent africain.

Ce 1er Congès de Lomé a réuni plus d’une centaine de participants et délégués en provenance d’Algérie, de Belgique, du Bénin, du Burkina Faso, du Burundi, du Cap Vert,  du Cameroun, du Congo Brazzaville, de la Côte d’Ivoire, de la France, du Gabon, du Ghana, de Haïti, du Mali, du Niger, du Nigéria, du Sénégal, du Tchad et du Togo (pays hôte), soit au total 19 pays.

www.rapec.org

In het kader van het Europese Cultuurprogramma 2007-2013, is Zuid-Afrika in 2012 het prioriteitsland als niet-Europees partnerland bij culturele samenwerkingsprojecten tussen minstens 3 Europese landen.
Africalia werd gevraagd om tijdens deze infosessie een voorstelling te doen van zijn programma en ervaringen in het werken met culturele partners in Zuid-Afrika. Bjorn Maes, programmacoordinator Zuidelijk Afrika voor Africalia, gaf bovendien relevante suggesties en deelde inzichten over samenwerking met betrouwbare artistieke partners in Zuid-Afrika.”

Africalia in Zuid-Afrika
In Zuid-Afrika focust het Africalia programme op transformatie en dus op het wegwerken van historische ongelijkheden. De doelgroep zijn jonge mensen en groepen uit voormalig achtergestelde gemeenschappen, waarvoor het programma kansen wil helpen creëren om hun artistiek talent professioneel te ontplooien.

Met onze partner The Cultural Development Trust bouwen we structureel en duurzaam capaciteit in 25 culturele organisaties verspreid over de 9 provincies.
www.cuhede.org.za
www.vansa.co.za
www.pansa.org.za
www.fthk.co.za
www.at.artslink.co.za
www.orchestracompany.org.za/DevProgrammes.html
www.baxter.co.za/zabalaza.html

Paul Brikhill, Creator Director of Pamberi Trust. Interview made by Bjorn Maes “programme coordinator Southern Africa” for Africalia.
Pamberi Trust is founded on the belief that the arts are critical in shaping values that reflect society. Cognisant of the economic potential of the arts and the need to create free and diverse means of cultural expression, Pamberi Trust exists as an enabling facility, by which all performing artists and producers of culture may develop, promote and perform their works, and participate in building the nation.

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“Un soir à Bruxelles – One evening in Brussels”

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

An emission published and presented by David Courier.

Emission diffused on the Belgian television “Télé Bruxelles”

Bruxelles-Ouagadougou-Kigali-Bruxelles- Kinshasa

Several questions about the theater in Africa were asked during the emission.

Why several Belgian theaters tries hard to produce African spectacles ?

Can the African theater really live without the help from the Coopération ?

Guests on the show : : Isabelle Pousseur (Songe d’une nuit d’été) et René Georges (Un Homme est un Homme, Allah n’est pas obligé,…)

The extract with just the interview of Mirko Popovitch

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Best wishes for 2012

Meilleurs voeux pour 2012

Beste wensen voor 2012

Die besten Wünschen für 2012

Sinifisela umnyaka omusha 2012

Mobu Molamu 2012

Sambè-Sambè 2012

Mwaka Mupya 2012

December 22, 2011, 20h30 at Bronks, Varkensmarkt/rue du Marché aus Porcs 15-17, 1000 Brussels

Free entrance – reservations at info@corban.be

Corban presents the results of its first TRANCEMEDIAMIX (TMMX) held this summer and autum.

TMMX connects different arts and cultures. Two artistst with a different artistic and cultural

background work together during one month, resulting in a showcase that can take any artistic form.TMMX is a platform where interdisciplinarity and intercultural cooperation is essential.

TMMX1 / The machine is always precise

Panaibra Gabriel Canda (dancer and choreographer from Maputo, Mozambique) and Michela

Henle (Swiss circus artist who lives and works in Brussels)

In TMMX1 both artists have worked out a solo movement for Michela, using an interactive system: a laser scanner detects objects and movements. The dancer controls image and sound through her position in space. The installation also influences the movements of the dancer. Who manipulates whom?

TMMX1 / The Machine… was shown in the PARTS Summer studios on July 29. This cooperation will be shown by way of video fragments.

TMMX2 / Bare-Faced

Lazara Rosell Albear (Cuban-Belgian artist with a background in dance, music and visual arts) and Sammy Baloji (photographer and video artist from Lumumbashi, DR Congo, who currently lives and works in Brussels)

For these artists TMMX2 was the trigger to look for a shared history. They followed routes from

Central-African Congo culture to Cuba, via traditional religious practices based on trance.

The spectator is taken on a journey in an audio-visual installation. A trip between documentary and free-jazz.

TMMX2 / Bare-Faced was created at De Vaartkapoen on August 20 and is shown here in a

condensed version with the cooperation of Sam Rushton (portable electronics) & Kitsbeagle

December (trumpet & horn).

TMMX3 / Article 0.0

Liz Kinoshita (Canadian dancer, lives and works in Brussels) and Ornella Mamba (actress from

Kinshasa, DR Congo, currently lives and works in Paris)

For TMMX3 both artists searched intensely for what they share and for what divides them. The

starting theme was religion and religious practice. They show a transversal cut of their encounter, the process they went through, their opposed ideas and shared memories. The public is invited to assist in writing the new credo.

TMMX3 / Article 0.0 is shown integrally, as it was during the end of the work process, early

November in the studio of the Needcompany.

The performances take about 2 hours, with an intermission between TMMX 2 and 3.

Corban and TMMX are supported by de Vlaamse Overheid and the Vlaamse

Gemeenschapscommissie. Thanks to: Cimatics, PARTS Summer studios, Kaaitheater,

Workspacebrussels

Corban Aalststraat 7-11 1000 Brussel 02 218 81 51

info@corban.be www.corban.be

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Africalia in partnership with the Commune of Ixelles organize a retrospective devoted to the life and the work of Paul Panda Farnana, first graduate Congolese of higher education, committed intellectual and panafricanist.

This retrospective will take place on December 21st, 2011 – “Petit Théâtre Mercelis”, Rue Mercelis 13 – 1050 Ixelles.

THE PROGRAM
The exhibition « Faces of Panda Farnana » is accessible during the day.

6 pm: unveiling of one commémorative plaque at the Athénée Royal d’Ixelles, located rue de l’Athénée and rue  J. Bouillon.

7 pm: presentation of the film « Paul Panda Farnana, a disturbing Congolese » by Françoise Levie, Ellen Meirsonne and Anna Van Der Wee.
Just afterwards, projection of the film (time: 55 minutes). The film recalls the live and the work of Panda Farnana thanks to new documents and scènes turned in Congo.

8 pm: debate « Panda Farnana, a Congolese at the crossroads of the History ». Discusses with Jean Pol Hecq, journalist; Valérie Kanza, author; Francoise Levie, film Producer, author; Antoine Tshitungu, historian and as moderator Pierre Lardot.

Paul Panda Farnana
Raised by an unmarried female Belgian artist, Panda Farnana was the first Congolese to have been awarded a diploma in higher education in Belgium in 1909. Appointed as an agronomist, he returned to the Congo as the first Belgian civil servant with black skin. He underwent there the apartheid and little by little had to renounce his various posts due to harassment.
Back to Belgium, he was to devote all his energy to demanding equality between whites and blacks through education, under the virulent attacks of the colonial press. He closely collaborated with the Afro-American W.E.B. DuBois in the organisation of the Pan-African Congress of Brussels in 1921. His belonging to two worlds – as a nationalist Congolese and Belgian patriot – casts a different light on Belgian-Congolese history.

Petit Théâtre Mercelis
Rue Mercelis, 13
1050 Bruxelles

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