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DTSTART;TZID=UTC+0:20170525T190000
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SUMMARY:DIGITAL AFRICA
DESCRIPTION:Open Source and YaPhoto are pleased to announce Digital Africa\, an evening projection of works by 14 African and Diaspora video artists and documentary filmmakers. The artists and filmmakers were selected from an open call launched last March as part of the year-long programme of events and international collaborations developed by YaPhoto\, Cameroon’s platform for photography and lens-based art practices.\n\nThis event will present videos by: Paolo Azevedo (Angola)\, Bruna Cafurica (UK/Sweden)\, Tamara Dawit (Canada)\, Edem Dotse (Ghana) & SUTRA (UK)\, Megan-Leigh Heilig (South Africa)\, Onyeka Igwe (UK)\, Wilfried Nakeu (Cameroon)\, Danielle WaKyengo O’Neill (South Africa)\, Jean Baptiste Nyabyenda (Rwanda)\, Amine Oulmakki (Morocco) and Breeze Yoko (South Africa).\n\nThe works selected include short documentaries dealing with cultural heritage\, gender\, identity\, history and activism\, as well as videos focusing on aesthetics\, visual narratives\, sound and music.\n\nOnyeka Igwe’s We need new names (2015) is a video essay examining how a diasporic identity can be formed and performed through the inherent contradictions of an ethnographic reading of a traditional Igbo funeral\, using both fiction and archive to explore home\, identity\, blackness and cultural memory. Tamara Dawit’s Grandma Knows Best (2015) and Jean-Baptiste Nyabyenda’s Zura Taekwondo Fighter (2016) both address challenging gender expectations. Danielle WaKyengo O’Neill’s videos Crowning (2016) and Stale (2016-2017) respectively look at black hair politics and interrogate white male identity in South Africa. Breeze Yoko’s Biko’s Children (2007) revisits the legacy of Steve Biko (1946-1977) in South Africa’s urban culture\, as this year marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Black Consciousness leader.\n\nAesthetic research and music permeate Edem Dotse & SUTRA’s Waves/The Water (2017)\, Bruna Cafurica’s African Medusa (2017) and Paolo Azevedo’s Kazukuta 365º (2012). Megan-Leigh Heilig’s The Day The Sun Did Not Rise (2017) is a sarcastic take on the current climate of Islamophobia\, terrorist rhetoric\, and the culture of fear cultivated by global news channels. Amine Oulmakki’s Oxygène (2015) is an installation project presenting 9 submerged video portraits depicting water as a prime element\, essential to life\, but also a potential source of asphyxiation. The event will conclude with Wilfried Nakeu’s Hybrid Hypnosis (2017)\, a 20-minute immersive sound and visual experiment taking the audience on a promenade across Yaounde’s life\, arts and sonic environments.\n\nAdditionally\, the Yaounde screening scheduled next November during YaPhoto 2017 will also feature Mounir Allaoui (France)\, Yvon Ngassam (Cameroon) and Saïd Raïs (Morocco).\n\nYaPhoto is an independent platform launched in Yaounde in September 2016 dedicated to promoting photography and lens-based art practices in Cameroon and internationally. YaPhoto 2017: Picturing the Present (November 2017) will include a photography exhibition and slideshow\, a selection from Digital Africa video screening\, a visual culture seminar and a conference on the state of photography in Cameroon and on the global scene.\n\nwww.yaphoto.co\n\nMaking Histories Visible is an interdisciplinary visual arts project based in the Centre for Contemporary Art (School of Art\, Design and Performance) at the University of Central Lancashire. The project is led by Lubaina Himid MBE\, Professor of Contemporary Art supported by Christine Eyene\, Research Fellow in Contemporary Art.\n\nwww.makinghistoriesvisible.com\n\nOpen Source is an artist-led initiative based in Hackney\, East London. Open Source challenges preconceptions about arts and identities through cultural experiences and exchange.\n\nwww.opensource.london\n\n \n\n \n\n 
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/digital-africa-picturing-the-present/
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SUMMARY:Words and Jazz
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Nicki Heinen\, this monthly session has become one of the important nights in the intimacy of Vortex’s Downstairs space where creativity in words and music overlap.\n\nKathy Pimlott\n\n\n\nKathy's pamphlet Goose Fair Night was published last year. Her poems have appeared widely in anthologies\, magazines and on-line\, including in Magma\, Brittle Star\, The North and Southbank Poetry\, And Other Poems and Stare's Nest. She was born and brought up in Nottingham in the yellow shadow of Players cigarette factory but has lived most of her life in Seven Dials\, home of the ballad and the broadsheet\, where she also manages public realm projects. www.kathypimlott.co.uk.\n\nBen Rogers\n\n\n\nBen's pamphlet Mackerel Salad was published with Emma Press in 2016. His poetry also appears in the Carcanet anthology New Poetries VI (2015). He was poet-in-residence for the Poetry in Aldeburgh festival 2016. Previously\, he has also written a puppet show for stage and a comedy sketch show for BBC London radio.\n\nIris Colomb\nPhoto by Evelyn Bencicova\nIris is based in London where she has given both individual and collaborative performances at a range of events as well as producing poetic responses to fine art exhibitions. Iris’ poems have been published in Pocket Litter\, will appear in the next issue of Datableed\, and her co-translation (with Elliot Koubis) of a series of short stories by Apollinaire is due to come out later this year. Her digital drawings have been showcased in the collective exhibition ‘We Fiddle While Rome Burns’ (Donetsk 2014)\, and sold at auction in Versailles (2015). Iris also curates events seeking possibilities beyond the traditional format of poetry readings\, each of which acts as a separate live experiment\, linking poetry and other art-forms such as film\, visual arts\, sound\, and design. Website: iriscolomb.com\n\n \n\nLisa Fannen\n\n\n\nLisa lives in London and has been writing and performing - solo & with improv musicians - for the last few years. She's interested in movement/choreography in relation to text & audio samples\, has self-published a pamphlet of poems called Snapshots and is working on a larger collection of poems and a long performance piece.\n\nThe Clara Green Quartet\n\n\n\nThe Clara Green Quartet consists of Swedish vocalist Clara Green\, British pianist Bruno Heinen\, drummer Riccardo Chiaberta and double bassist Andrea Di Biase - both Italian. The band was formed in 2016\, and came together through their mutual love for pianist Bill Evans and his collaborations with singers. They have drawn inspiration from this shared musical influence in their choice of repertoire\, which is made up of an eclectic selection of Swedish folk songs\, originals and innovative arrangements of jazz standards.\n\n 
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