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Agenda December 2016 What We Agenda December 2016 ________________________________________________________________________ What we do… lettera27: a new website A new website of lettera27 in three languages is on-line, gathering the storytelling of the 10 years of the foundation’s activities. The platform contains the archives of the past projects, the current initiatives and the ideas for the future. The stories and the sections of the website reflect lettera27’s team vision, always committed to promoting access to literacy and education and to building new forms of knowledge. Nation25 al FILFEST December 2-4th | FILFEST, Catania, Italy Nation25 will be in Palermo, in the frame of the FILFEST of Catania to present its activities and join the network of organizations that are part of the Festival della Felicità Interna Lorda. With numerous interventions, round tables, workshops, concerts and shows the FILFEST will be a privileged space to discuss about blue economy, new educational methods, actions and reflections between the land and culture within the sustainable and collaborative ethics. AtWork Addis Ababa December 9 – 14th | Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Addis Ababa will be the sixth chapter of the extraordinary AtWork journey that has started four years ago. The workshop that will take place in Addis Ababa from December 9th-14th is the first event that lettera27 is implementing with the help of the crowdfunding campaign. The full AtWork immersion will revolve around the theme “What is home?” and will involve 25 young creative talents, photographers, visual artists and students. The workshop will be conducted by AtWork advisor and prominent international art curator Simon Njami and will be implemented in partnership with Addis Foto Fest and Aida Muluneh. The activities will take place at the Italian embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute. On December 17th in the frame of Addis Foto Fest the 5-day AtWork exhibition showcasing the notebooks produced during the workshop will be inaugurated at DinQ Art Gallery. Blaxploitalian on the road December 16th | Cinema Lumiere, Bologna, Italy The tourneè of Blaxploitalian inspired by the book “Africa in Italy” curated by Leonardo De Franceschi continues. Blaxploitalian is a documentary film that follows the tracks of different pioneers that have preceded this generation of new Afroitalians, from the beginning of the nineteenth century. A story of about a hundred years that starts from the silent and colonial cinema and arrives to the contemporary cinema, focusing on the contribution of Afroitalian actors. What we suggest… Online Educa Berlin – Shaping the future of learning November 30th – December 3d | Berlin, Germany OEB is a global conference on technology-supported learning and training. Every year, OEB pushes boundaries, challenges stereotypes and preconceptions, and catalyzes new ideas through innovations in the exhibition, meetings and conferences, with more than 2,300 participants from over 100 countries. Year after year, this reach program of events is contributing to shaping the future of training and learning. P.I.E.T.À. Le Plan prend forme: Bili Bidjocka returns in Cameroon October 13th – December 13th | MAM Gallery, Douala, Cameroon Bili Bidjocka, the author of Ecriture Infinie and lettera27’s long-time partner, comes back to Cameroon with a personal show. The exhibition is born out of the encounter of three extraordinary figures: Bili Bidjocka, Simon Njami, the curator and Maréme Malong, the founder of the gallery that will host the show. This return for Bidjocka is also coming back to his roots and the poetical genesis of his art. It’s a unique occasion to get to know the works of the artist that we have admired at Venice Biennale in 2007, Dakar Biennale this year and as a conductor of AtWork workshop that has just concluded in Milan. Afropean Mimicry & Mockery III November 24th – December 3d | Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany The Festival “Afropean Arts” will take place in Frankfurt between the end of November and beginning of December, welcoming the artists from the African continent, Europe and the diaspora. As each year the festival will give the possibility to many artists to showcase their work for the first time. This year’s exhibition will have female African artists at the center and will pose three main questions: what does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be black? What does it mean to be “the other”? Decolonize This Place September 17th– December 17th |Artists Space Books & Talks, New York, USA Organized by MTL+ collective on invitation by Common Practice in New York, “Decolonize This Place” will transform the Artists Space Books & Talks in a space where the resources for art and research can be shared. The entire program will revolve around 5 topics of the political inquiry: indigenous fights, “black” liberation, free Palestine, global salary for the workers and de-gentrification. Dreams Are Like Water November 30th – January 18th 2017 | 50 Golborne, London, UK The artistic collective Ubuhle, composed by a group of South African women specialized in production of textile, will be exhibiting at 50 Golborne gallery in London with the show called ‘Dreams Are Like Water’. The creative starting point of the collective is to revive the lost local traditions of bead-making to the local women of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa and enable them to use their restored skills as a means to sustain their livelihoods. The central theme of the exhibition and the artworks will revolve around the water, in figurative and symbolic terms. Mwangi Hutter: Circling Around Oneness Nov 25 – January 21, 2016 | Galerie Wedding – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany The exhibition “Circling Around Oneness” is trying to redefine the concept of oneness. Oneness, a unity of two, as in love, as in a family, as in joining two otherwise separate, yet complementary parts or positions. How can we understand and attempt oneness in a world of individualism, of generic race and gender conflicts, or in a world focussed merely on difference? These themes are central in the two video works that Mwangi Hutter present at Galerie Wedding (The Act of Leaving the Body and Nothing Solid, both 2015), which ponder on the performative and collective nature of the duo’s endeavour, as they also involve themselves as performers as well as one of their daughters. .
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