360 degrees of Africa, Women, Culture & Entreprenurship
Den 7 – 10 nov 2008 hålls den 9:e upplagan av Selam African Festival!
Förutom konserter, film, minibaazar och god mat så hålls ett öppet seminarium om Afrika, Kvinnor, Kultur och Entreprenörskap.
360 degrees of Africa, Women, Culture and Entreprenurship
Entreprenörskap har idag i Sverige fått en strategiskt central roll inom regionalutvecklings- och genusfrågor med bland Nuteks utnämning av ”kvinnliga ambassadörer”. För att belysa kvinnligt och kulturellt entreprenörskap ”from below” har Selam bjudit in fem intressanta kvinnliga afrikanska kulturentreprenörer till samtal och reflektioner under årets Selam African Festival. Det är en unik chans att få ta del av dessa kvinnors olika roller, vardag, fram och motgångar samt att diskutera aktuella frågor om roller, Afrika, genus och kultur.
Lördagen den 8 nov
Tid: 11.00–14.00
Södra Teaterns Kägelbana
Språk: Engelska
I samband med utställningen ställer MYC4 ut bilder från deras makrolånsverksamhet i Afrika. (myc4.com)
Deltagande gäster:
Mrs Rose Kirumira
Rose Kirumira is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Industrial and Fine Arts, at Makerere University and has just submitted her doctoral thesis to the School of Graduate Studies Makerere University. Her PhD research area is in Art Education investigating the value of informal learning spaces in the formation of African artists. Rose is a practicing sculptor and has practical experience in coordinating artists’ activities in Uganda.
Sasha Dees
Sasha Dees is the founding director of “John106”, a Rotterdam based production company that manages art/cultural projects such as Black Soil Festival and CrimeJazz. She travels between Amsterdam, New York and Paramaribo initiating and working on art- and cultural exchange projects between Europe and the America's / Caribbean.
Maori Karmael Holmes
Maori Karmael Holmes is a filmmaker, writer, curator, and event producer based in Philadelphia. She is the president of the Black Lily Film & Music Festival and a curator for the Philadelphia Film Festival. She is currently director of communications with the Leeway Foundation and manages several recording artists through her company Karmalux Creative.
Napo Mashaeane
Napo Masheane was born in Soweto, South Africa and has studied in Johannesburg. She is today active as a producer, actress, drama and creative writing teacher, play writer, spoken word artist and arts activist and cultural exchange co-ordinator.
Rose Skelton
Rose Skelton is a freelance music and culture journalist and has a degree in African Religious Culture. For the last seven years she has been living in Senegal, where she has focused mainly on African music and culture, writing for the London Guardian, the Independent, the International Herald Tribune, as well as doing radio and photography for the BBC and American and Canadian broadcasters. She is now working on a book which explores west Africa's musical protest movements.
The visual exhibition presented by MYC4
is inspired by the UN 2015 development goals and internationally renowned photographer Jens Honoré. The exhibition focuses on a different Africa, where dreams and drive are in stark contrast to the constant battle for development and survival in Sub-Saharan Africa. Digivisual stories touches and teases and provide food for thought.