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The Arts Politic Issue 2
THE ARTS POLITIC ISSUE : BIAS | SPRING EDITOR Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud EXECUTIVE EDITOR Danielle Kline CREATIVE DIRECTOR Kemeya Harper CULTURE EDITOR RonAmber Deloney 15 COLUMNISTS RonAmber Deloney and Brandon Woolf CONTRIBUTING WRITERS & ARTISTS Melanie Cervantes, Edward P. Clapp, Rhoda Draws, Amelia Edelman, Shanthony Exum, Rachel Falcone, Arlene Goldbard, Robert A. K. Gonyo, Malvika Maheshwari, Ashley Marinaccio, Gisele Morey, Michael Premo, Bridgette Raitz, Betty Lark Ross, RVLTN, Gregory Sholette and Wendy Testu. CONTRIBUTING VOICES Chris Appleton, Sally Baghsaw, Phillip Bimstein, Joshua Clover, Dan Cowan, Maria Dumlao, Kevin Erickson, Elizabeth Glidden, Joe Goode, Art Hazelwood, Elaine Kaufmann, Danielle Mysliwiec, Judy Nemzoff, Anne Polashenski, Garey Lee Posey, Kevin Postupack, Gregory Sholette, Manon Slome and Robynn Takayama. FOUNDING EDITORS Danielle Evelyn Kline & Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud SPECIAL THANKS Department of Art and Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU 31 THE ARTS POLITIC is a print-and-online magazine dedicated to solving problems at the intersection of arts and politics. Cultural policy, arts activism, political art, the creative economy—THE ARTS 12 POLITIC creates a conversation amongst leaders, activists, and idea-makers along the pendulum of global civic responsibility. A forum for creative and political thinking, a stage for emerging art, and a platform for social change, THE ARTS POLITIC provides a space that is intelligent, that is visionary, that is thoughtful, that will TAP new ideas from the frontlines to get things done. Copyright ©2010 by THE ARTS POLITIC. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. If you would like to order the print edition and/or subscribe to the online edition, please visit: theartspolitic.com/subscribe. -
Z Is for Zimbabwe – Sample Chapter from Book
Copyrighted Material MEET ZIMBABWE! is for Zimbabwe MALAWI Z ZAMBIA a m b e z i r R ive i v R Z e i a r z m e Lake Kariba b b ez m i Za Ri NAMIBIA HARARE ve Victoria r Falls MUTARE MOZAMBIQUE BULAWAYO Great INDIAN Zimbabwe OCEAN BOTSWANA SOUTH AFRICA Z is Zimbabwe, the great “House of Stone,” Where zebras, giraffes and elephants roam. ZIMBABWE 311 Sample Chapter from "Australia to Zimbabwe" ©2015 Copyrighted Material MEET ZIMBABWE! Here you can hear the mbira’s soft sounds [em-BEER-rah] Calling the ancestors Mbira out of the ground. (Thumb Piano) Here Victoria Falls Victoria Falls from the river Zambezi, [zam-BEE-zee] “Mosi oa Tunya” And across the plateau, the weather is easy. Here men find great sculptures hidden in stones, Stone Sculpture Near fields where tobacco and cotton are grown. But their food is from corn Cotton served with sauce (just like pasta) – For breakfast there’s bota, for dinner there’s sadza. Once a colony British called Southern Rhodesia, Sadza This nation was founded on historic amnesia Bota 312 ZIMBABWE Sample Chapter from "Australia to Zimbabwe" ©2015 Copyrighted Material MEET ZIMBABWE! Brits believed civilization arrived with the whites, Who soon took the best land and had all the rights. Cecil Rhodes Rhodesia’s Founder They couldn’t believe Great Zimbabwe had been Great Zimbabwe Constructed by locals – by those with black skin. This fortress in ruins from medieval times Bird Sculpture from Had been city and home Great Zimbabwe to a culture refined. White settlers built cities Great Zimbabwe and farms in this place, And blacks became second class due to their race. -
No. 233, 26 Juillet 2009
Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa The Observatory is a Pan African international NGO created in 2002 with the support of African Union, the Ford Foundation, and UNESCO. Its aim is to monitor cultural trends and national cultural policies in the region and to enhance their integration in human development strategies through advocacy, information, research, capacity building, networking, co-ordination, and co- operation at the regional and international levels. O C P A OCPA NEWS N° 233 26 July 2009 Published with the support of the Spanish Agency for International Co- operation for Development (AECID) This issue is sent to 8485 addresses * VISIT THE OCPA WEB SITE http://www.ocpanet.org * We wish to promote interactive information exchange within Africa and between Africa and the other regions. Please send us information for dissemination about new initiatives, meetings, research projects and publications of interest for cultural policies for development in Africa. Thank you for your co-operation. * Nous souhaitons promouvoir un échange d’information interactif en Afrique ainsi qu’entre l’Afrique et les autres régions. Envoyez-nous des informations pour diffusion sur des initiatives novelles, réunions, projets de recherches, publications intéressant les politiques culturelles pour le développement en Afrique. Merci de votre coopération. Máté Kovács, editor: [email protected] *** Contact: OCPA Secretariat, 725, Avenida da Base N'Tchinga, P. O. Box 1207 Maputo, Mozambique Tel: +258- 21- 41 86 49, Fax: +258- 21- 41 86 50 E-mail: [email protected] or Executive Director: Lupwishi Mbuyamba: [email protected] You can subscribe or unsubscribe to OCPA News via the online form at http://ocpa.irmo.hr/activities/newsletter/index-en.html. -
Human Rights for Musicians Freemuse
HUMAN RIGHTS FOR MUSICIANS FREEMUSE – The World Forum on Music and Censorship Freemuse is an international organisation advocating freedom of expression for musicians and composers worldwide. OUR MAIN OBJECTIVES ARE TO: • Document violations • Inform media and the public • Describe the mechanisms of censorship • Support censored musicians and composers • Develop a global support network FREEMUSE Freemuse Tel: +45 33 32 10 27 Nytorv 17, 3rd floor Fax: +45 33 32 10 45 DK-1450 Copenhagen K Denmark [email protected] www.freemuse.org HUMAN RIGHTS FOR MUSICIANS HUMAN RIGHTS FOR MUSICIANS Ten Years with Freemuse Human Rights for Musicians: Ten Years with Freemuse Edited by Krister Malm ISBN 978-87-988163-2-4 Published by Freemuse, Nytorv 17, 1450 Copenhagen, Denmark www.freemuse.org Printed by Handy-Print, Denmark © Freemuse, 2008 Layout by Kristina Funkeson Photos courtesy of Anna Schori (p. 26), Ole Reitov (p. 28 & p. 64), Andy Rice (p. 32), Marie Korpe (p. 40) & Mik Aidt (p. 66). The remaining photos are artist press photos. Proofreading by Julian Isherwood Supervision of production by Marie Korpe All rights reserved CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Human rights for musicians – The Freemuse story Marie Korpe 9 Ten years of Freemuse – A view from the chair Martin Cloonan 13 PART I Impressions & Descriptions Deeyah 21 Marcel Khalife 25 Roger Lucey 27 Ferhat Tunç 29 Farhad Darya 31 Gorki Aguila 33 Mahsa Vahdat 35 Stephan Said 37 Salman Ahmad 41 PART II Interactions & Reactions Introducing Freemuse Krister Malm 45 The organisation that was missing Morten -
Zena El Khalil Zena El Khalil, Born Year of the Dragon, Is a Visual Artist, Writer and Cultural Activist Based in Beirut, Lebanon
Zena el Khalil Zena el Khalil, born year of the Dragon, is a visual artist, writer and cultural activist based in Beirut, Lebanon. She has lived in Lagos, London and New York. Her work includes mixed media paintings, installations and performance and is a by-product of political and economic turmoil; focusing on issues of violence, gender and their place in our bubblegum culture. She has exhibited in the United States, Europe, Africa, Japan and the Middle East. While living in NYC, Zena co-founded xanadu*, an art collective dedicated to promoting emerging Arab and under - represented artists as a direct response to the 9-11 attacks which she witnessed. Currently, xanadu* is based in Beirut where Zena is focused on curating cultural events and publishing poets and comic book artists. During the 2006 invasion of Lebanon, Zena was one of the first largely followed Middle Eastern bloggers; her writings published in the international press, including the BBC, CNN, and Der Spiegel. The entire Guardian G2 supplement in July was dedicated to her blog, Beirut Update. In 2008, she was invited to speak at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo and soon after, completed her memoir, Beirut, I Love You, now translated in several languages. Her publishers include The New York Review of Books and Saqi Books and Publishers Weekly gave her book a starred review. In an attempt to spread peace, Zena is often seen running around Beirut in a big pink wedding dress. In 2012, Zena was made a TED Fellow and has since given a few TED and TEDx talks. -
Channel Package Orbital Position Satellite Language SD/HD/UHD 1+
Orbital Channel Package Satellite Language SD/HD/UHD Position EUTELSAT 1+1 13° EAST HOT BIRD UKRAINIEN SD CLEAR INTERNATIONAL 13D EUTELSAT 24 TV 13° EAST HOT BIRD RUSSE SD CLEAR 13D EUTELSAT 2M MONDE 13° EAST HOT BIRD ARABE SD CLEAR 13D EUTELSAT 4 FUN FIT & DANCE RR Media 13° EAST HOT BIRD POLONAIS SD CLEAR 13D EUTELSAT Cyfrowy 4 FUN HITS 13° EAST HOT BIRD POLONAIS SD CLEAR Polsat 13C EUTELSAT 4 FUN HITS RR Media 13° EAST HOT BIRD POLONAIS SD CLEAR 13D EUTELSAT 4 FUN TV RR Media 13° EAST HOT BIRD POLONAIS SD CLEAR 13D EUTELSAT Cyfrowy 4 FUN TV 13° EAST HOT BIRD POLONAIS SD CLEAR Polsat 13C EUTELSAT 5 SAT 13° EAST HOT BIRD ITALIEN SD CLEAR 13B EUTELSAT 8 KANAL 13° EAST HOT BIRD RUSSE SD CLEAR 13D EUTELSAT 8 KANAL EVROPE 13° EAST HOT BIRD RUSSE SD CLEAR 13D EUTELSAT 90 NUMERI SAT 13° EAST HOT BIRD ITALIEN SD CLEAR 13C EUTELSAT AB CHANNEL Sky Italia 13° EAST HOT BIRD ITALIEN SD CLEAR 13B EUTELSAT AB CHANNEL 13° EAST HOT BIRD ITALIEN SD CLEAR 13C ABN 13° EAST EUTELSAT ARAMAIC SD CLEAR HOT BIRD 13C EUTELSAT ABU DHABI AL 13° EAST HOT BIRD ARABE HD CLEAR OULA EUROPE 13B EUTELSAT ABU DHABI 13° EAST HOT BIRD ARABE SD CLEAR SPORTS 1 13C EUTELSAT ABU DHABI ARABE, 13° EAST HOT BIRD SD CLEAR SPORTS EXTRA ANGLAIS 13C EUTELSAT ADA CHANNEL Sky Italia 13° EAST HOT BIRD ITALIEN SD CLEAR 13C EUTELSAT AHL-E-BAIT TV 13° EAST HOT BIRD PERSAN SD CLEAR FARSI 13D EUTELSAT AL AOULA EUROPE SNRT 13° EAST HOT BIRD ARABE SD CLEAR 13D EUTELSAT AL AOULA MIDDLE SNRT 13° EAST HOT BIRD ARABE SD CLEAR EAST 13D EUTELSAT AL ARABIYA 13° EAST HOT BIRD ARABE SD CLEAR 13C EUTELSAT -
Zimfest 2007 Registration Guide
ZIMBABWEAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Olympia, Washington • August 24 - 26, 2007 GREETINGS! ZIMBABWEAN GUESTS Welcome to the Zimbabwean Music Festival 2007 Our community began when a master musician from Registration Guide. This year’s festival will be held on Zimbabwe, Dumisani Maraire, arrived in Seattle in 1968. August 24, 25, and 26 at South Puget Sound Community Spreading the joy and culture from his homeland, the College (SPSCC) in Olympia, Washington, with Prefest world is now a much richer place than it was before activities on August 23. Olympia is a community rich in he came. Arriving in 1982, Ephat Mujuru was the next World Music, with local groups performing Indonesian Zimbabwean musician to make the United States a place gamelan, Brazilian samba, West African drumming, and to live and teach on a regular basis. From opposite sides Zimbabwean marimba and mbira, as well as many more of the ocean Paul Berliner and Andrew Tracey were also musical traditions. We are very excited to bring Zimfest instrumental in propagating knowledge. It is to these to Olympia and look forward to sharing this wonder- people that we give a moment of recognition for the ful music and culture with friends and fellow musicians work they have started. This work continues through all here! the teachers who visit from Zimbabwe as well as through Many excellent bands and musicians will be perform- those of us who leave home for a while to deepen our- ing in the afternoon and evening concerts. There is no selves in the Shona and Ndebele cultures in Zimbabwe. charge -
Politics and Popular Culture: the Renaissance in Liberian Music, 1970-89
POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE: THE RENAISSANCE IN LIBERIAN MUSIC, 1970-89 By TIMOTHY D. NEVIN A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FUFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2010 1 © 2010 Timothy Nevin 2 To all the Liberian musicians who died during the war-- (Tecumsey Roberts, Robert Toe, Morris Dorley and many others) Rest in Peace 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my parents and my uncle Frank for encouraging me to pursue graduate studies. My father’s dedication to intellectual pursuits and his life-long love of teaching have been constant inspirations to me. I would like to thank my Liberian wife, Debra Doeway for her patience in attempting to answer my thousand and one questions about Liberian social life and the time period “before the war.” I would like to thank Dr. Luise White, my dissertation advisor, for her guidance and intellectual rigor as well as Dr. Sue O’Brien for reading my manuscript and offering helpful suggestions. I would like to thank others who also read portions of my rough draft including Marissa Moorman. I would like to thank University of Florida’s Africana librarians Dan Reboussin and Peter Malanchuk for their kind assistance and instruction during my first semester of graduate school. I would like to acknowledge the many university libraries and public archives that welcomed me during my cross-country research adventure during the summer of 2007. These include, but are not limited to; Verlon Stone and the Liberian Collections Project at Indiana University, John Collins and the University of Ghana at East Legon, Northwestern University, Emory University, Brown University, New York University, the National Archives of Liberia, Dr. -
1 THEATRE EMBASSY | 2001-2017 Theatre Embassy
1 THEATRE EMBASSY | 2001-2017 Theatre Embassy We achieve Development Cooperation in Performing Arts by working in five fields. Folklore Theatre Processions Folklore, or indigenous rituals/theatre forms. The roots of our We work on the streets to perform for the broadest possible theatrical discipline lie in performing artistic expression for public. This offers an opportunity to see and experience the- the community. These forms of expression: rituals, dances, atre to a broader public. The parade, or procession, is an old performances, and similar, are extremely diverse. They are form of theatre that can be used to tell a story or convey im- part of our intangible cultural heritage. The diversity of these ages to a broad public at unexpected times. Parades need to forms of expression is coming under pressure from popular rise above the crowd and, consequently, they require concise, culture and modern developments in communication: many clear images. Street parades have only gained in quality and forms have now become tourist entertainment. However, they power in today’s times of computer games and video clips. are actually the carriers of a rich cultural heritage. Thea- tre Embassy intends to devote attention to and support the Cultural Management wealth of this cultural heritage to ensure that ethnic theatre traditions can continue to flourish and develop. To lay a solid foundation for artistic development, it’s very important to create strong financial and organizational preconditions. This part is usually not the strongest point Theatre for Education of young talented artists. To realize the strengthening of our partner organizations in this sphere, Theatre Embas- Theatre for Education makes use of the theatre’s strength as sy frequently sends professionals in cultural management, means of communication. -
Nietzsche Was a Man TEXT
NIETZSCHE WAS A MAN Video art by 19 Iranian women 10 april – 15 juni 2014 C-salen ARTIST BIOS / WORK INFORMATION / STATEMENTS Fereshteh Alamshah (Isfahan/Iran) BIO Alamshah is a member of the Chakad Group, and the Painter’s Association in Isfahan. Her work can be found at the Wead Women Environmental Artists Directory. She has taught painting at the Alamshah Visual Arts Institute for nine years, and was The Executive Director of The 22nd Environmental Art festival, Gav khuni pond, and the Manager of Land Art Workshop, both in Isfahan (2009). Her activities include 3 solo painting shows, over 27 group shows, and over 10 environmental art festivals in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tabriz, and other cities in Iran. Alamshah has won awards at The Manifestation of Feeling Festival in Tehran, Niavaran (2009), in Isfahan at The Tabriz Painter’s workshop (2008), Sugvare Painting Festival (2007), Ashura Painting Festival (2006), and The First Conceptual Art Festival (2006). Her videos were screened at the Videoholica Festivals in Bulgaria (2010, 2011); 1st Azadegan Festival in Tehran (2010); Athens Video Art Festival in Greece (2011); 6th Crosstalk Video Art Festival in Budapest (2011). She has held a solo exhibition of her photo, video, and installations at the Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art, in 2010. “Tree Spirit” 2010, 5:28 min, color, sound STATEMENT For me, dry trees wrapped with plastic symbolize existence and interference of humans in nature. This interference favors neither nature, nor mankind. Artificial creations, garbage and chemical compounds lead to gradual death of nature. Humans create their own bondage when they hold nature in captivity by littering it with plastic compounds. -
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Mhishi, Lennon Chido (2017) Songs of migration : experiences of music, place making and identity negotiation amongst Zimbabweans in London. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/26684 Copyright © and Moral Rights for this thesis are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners. A copy can be downloaded for personal non‐commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder/s. The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. When referring to this thesis, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given e.g. AUTHOR (year of submission) "Full thesis title", name of the School or Department, PhD Thesis, pagination. Songs of Migration: Experiences of Music, Place Making and Identity Negotiation Amongst Zimbabweans in London Lennon Chido Mhishi Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD Anthropology and Sociology 2017 Department of Anthropology and Sociology SOAS, University of London 1 I have read and understood regulation 17.9 of the Regulations for students of the SOAS, University of London concerning plagiarism. I undertake that all the material presented for examination is my own work and has not been written for me, in whole or in part, by any other person. I also undertake that any quotation or paraphrase from the published or unpublished work of another person has been duly acknowledged in the work which I present for examination. -
Program for the World Premiere
INTERNATIONAL ISEMAN THEATER ARTSf~ FRI JUNE 22, 6PM, SAT JUNE 23, 1PM & 6PM IDEAS WORLD PREMI ERE Commissioned by the Internatio nal Fest ival of Arts & Ideas Written and Performed by Toto Kisaku Co -Director/ Producer/Sound Designer Hanifa Nayo Washington Co-Oirector/ Dram a turg Will MacAdams Scenic Design er David Sepulveda Lighting Designer Jamie Burnett Sculpture Designer Susan Mccaslin Music Composer Yaira Matyakubova Stage Manager Katherine Sullivan Live Illustrator Sara Zunda Script Translator Robert Barsky Production Assistant Uwizeyimana Angelique Voice Actors Patrick Dufou, Rose Anou, and Sara Zunda Yale Production Manager Alex Worthington Stage Carpenter Ross Wick Audio Supervisor Paul Bozzi Master Electrician Linda Young Scenic Painters Jamie Burnett, David Sepulveda, and Amie Ziner A fiscally sponsored project of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Special thanks: Kehler Liddell Gallery (KLG), Whitneyville Cultural Commons, Collective Consciousness Theater, Lotta Studio, Literacy Volunteers of Greater W aterbury, Toni Dorfman & the Yale School of Drama, Cathy Edwards & NEFA, Sem i Semi-Dikoko, Jock Reynolds, Chad & Michelle Herzog, Susan Clinard, and Jean Kerr. All our supporters near and far for your donations, time, energy, care and encouragement! Thank you for lending your hearts and hands in building community around this project! MEDIA SPONSOR l~-Qly News HISTORY AND BIOS In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there is a growing problem of children who are systematically mistreated, accused of witchcraft or sorcery, and drive n from their parental homes into the streets to fend for themselves. Toto and his theater company took up the cause of these children and created theatrical performances/events to bring attention to their plight.