Event - Circolo Nero N***8:Pan-African Encounters at Villa Medici
Hamedine Kane ends his residency at Villa Medici, where he has developed a space for the production and creation of new narratives dedicated to the Afro-descendant presence, with an international meeting in the spirit of the Congresses of Black Writers and Artists in Paris (1956) and Rome (1959). In a spirit of filiation and continuity, Kane summons to Rome the descendants and heirs of those who organized the Paris and Rome Congresses of the last century. In this way, this workshop is transformed into a space for the enactment of a new narrative, through the creation of a space for discourse, readings, film and music.
Initiated by Hamedine Kane, the event is co-organized by the Villa Medici (Rome), Selebe Yoon (Dakar), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Mémoire d’encrier (Montréal).
Public program:
Monday, June 24 from 6 to 8 p.m.: Conference by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
At Grand Salon - Villa Medici / In French
Tuesday June 25, 6pm-8pm: Screening of L'argent, la liberté, une histoire du Franc CFA by Katy Léna Ndiaye
At Salle Michel Piccoli - Villa Medici / In French
In the presence of :Alicia Knock (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Jennifer Houdrouge (Selebe Yoon, Dakar), Rodney Saint-Eloi (Mémoire d’encrier, Montréal), Ntone Edjabe (writer, DJ, founder of Chimurenga), Sarah Frioux-Salgas (Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris), Franck-Hermann Ekra (art critic), Mohamed Mbougane SARR (writer), Marie Helene Pereira (conservation consultant Raw Material Company LLC, Dakar ; curator of performative practices Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin), Katy Lena Ndiaye (film director), Valérie Nivelon (RFI - Radio France Internationale), Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (curator at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin ; writer), Maboula Soumahoro (Université de Tours), Ramata Toulaye Sy (film director), Justin Randolph Thompson (Black History Month Florence), Eliana Vagalau (Loyola University Chicago, Chicago) and Marie Cecile Zinsou (Fondation Zinsou, Ouidah).