on October 18, 2008
Dream graphics from Anansi
on October 9, 2008
Category: Africa - Creative Arts, Literature
Selected images from Lance Tooks new graphic novel, Anansi’s Dreams
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Anansi’s Dreams
Graphic Novel
Eight centuries of Black presence in Holland
on August 9, 2008
Category: African History, Africa - Creative Arts
“Rubens to Dumas - Black is Beautiful” is a collection of paintings, drawings and manuscripts portraying Black people over 8 centuries by Dutch artists Rubens, Rembrandt, Jordaens, Mostaert, Breitner, Jan Sluijters, Karl Appel and Marlene Dumas.
Together these works give an idea of the changing role of black people in Dutch art and culture. They show that for seven centuries black people have been part of Dutch art and history, in which they play an ever more important role. Striking images and new insights take us from the year 1300, via the great masters of the seventeenth century, to contemporary art. Iris Kensmil has made twelve memorial paintings especially for this exhibition; they pay homage to her predecessors in black emancipation. They will be temporarily added to the architecture of the imposing Nieuwe Kerk.
My knowledge of Dutch history is practically non-existent other than the emigration of a large number of members of the Dutch Reformed Church to Southern Africa from around the early 1700s whose descendent’s, the Boers later (Afrikaaner) formed the Afrikaner National Party. The ANP came to power in 1948 and set in motion their “Grand plan for Apartheid” which came to an end in 1994.
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African artists respond to social injustice
on July 28, 2008
Category: Zimbabwe, Xenophobia, South Africa, African Diaspora, Africa - Creative Arts
“Reflections in Exile: Five Contemporary African Artists Respond to Social Injustice” at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury. The show collects work by five immigrants, four of them now living in Greater Boston, the fifth a former MassArt student.
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Speaking of Africa
on June 28, 2008
Category: Art, Africa - Creative Arts
Changeseeker, of Why Am I Not Surprised, says, “Yesterday, surfing the web for the first time since I moved last week, I decided to stalk my favorite website builder’s work and came across a call for applications for the Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program. The application period opened May 12th and closes July 15th, so if you don’t have an idea you’ve already fleshed out pretty seriously, it’s probably too late. And the competition is only for African filmmakers. But you never know.
The Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program will award up to five (5) emerging African filmmakers $10,000 (U.S. dollars) each towards the pre-production, production, or post-production of their short film. Winners will also participate in a three-day workshop in New York City. So, if you or someone you know would be interested in this opportunity, I hope you’ll pass along this information right away.”
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