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Algiers PANAF: 1969 – 2009
Photo and video exhibition on the 2nd PANAF
(Pan-African Cultural Festival of Algiers) (Algeria)
The Institute of African American Affairs at New York University invites you to a photo and video exhibition on the 2nd PANAF (Pan-African Cultural Festival of Algiers) in Algeria. The exhibit includes art and documentary photographs of festive scenes of Algiers during a month long festival celebrating African and African Diaspora arts: visual arts, films, dance, music, literature, and theater. The show also features a video documentary with Kathleen Cleaver participating in the 2009 festival and remembering the Black Panthers years in Algiers in 1969.
Photographs by Charles Martin, Deborah Willis, Salah Hassan and video by Lydie Diakhaté.
Curated by Lydie Diakhaté
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, April 16, 20106:00 – 8:00 pm
Push our continent ahead.”Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
In 1969, the Pan-African Cultural Festival (PANAF) took place in Algiers in a political situation marked by the liberation fight led by many African countries against colonialism. This 1st festival commemorated the great decade of independence movements in Africa.
In 2009, the 2nd PANAF in Algiers marks its difference by celebrating that which is unique with every society: its energy and creativity. The festival was an opportunity to evaluate the richness and cultural diversity in Africa nowadays; and to reassert a commitment to the values of Pan-Africanism, based on the dialogue between the African countries. The festival brought to light what is most important today for the African continent: to look forward and undertake the effort to unite Africa.
For the second time in her history, people from all over the world gathered in the city of Algiers. Fifty-one African countries were invited by the festival, in addition to the United States and Brazil. Ten thousand artists, intellectuals and officials attended the festival. From the traditional to the contemporary, all the arts were represented: music, dance, theater, literature, visual arts, film and fashion design.
The exhibition, presented by the Institute of African American Affairs at New York University, displayed as a photo-reportage attempts to re-create from different perspectives the magical ambiance and strength generated by the festival around the city. The photos of Charles Martin, Deborah Willis and Salah Hassan illustrate the vitality and diversity of the events, while the reflections on the PANAF 2009 from the scholar Clyde Taylor and the writer Joel Dreyfuss bring personal flavors into the narrative.
In a video-portrait, Kathleen Cleaver, The Return, Kathleen Cleaver recovers from the threads weaved in 1969, remembering the Black Panthers years as she was on exile in Algiers. The video is also an exceptional document that links the 1969 PANAF and the 2009 edition.
FESTIVAL D’AVIGNON – OFF
PROJECTION / PREMIERE EN EUROPE
Edouard Glissant:
Un Monde en Relation
Une série de clips vidéo réalisée
par Manthia Diawara
Date: 15 Juillet 2010 / July 15th
Heure: 10h30 / Time: 10.30 am
Lieu / Venue: Théâtre du Verbe Incarné
(Théâtres d’Outre-mer en Avignon)
21G, rue des Lices – Avignon
réservation 04 90 14 07 49
www.verbeincarne.fr
Les Ecrans du Tout Monde en partenariat avec | In partnership with Institut du Tout-Monde
La projection sera suivie d’une rencontre avec Manthia Diawara, Edwy Plenel et Edouard Glissant
(en liaison directe depuis Le Diamant — Martinique)
Edouard Glissant: Un monde en relation
Une série de clips vidéo réalisée
par Manthia Diawara (45 m, 2010)En 2009, Manthia Diawara a suivi Edouard Glissant sur le Queen Mary II, pour une traversèe de l’Atlantique entre South Hampton (UK) et Brooklyn (New York). Cet extraordinaire voyage s’est traduit par la rèalisation d’une série d’une vingtaine de clips video, qui tout en dèclinant la pensèe d’Edouard Glissant sous diffèrentes thèmatiques, apporte un èclairage nouveau à son travail sur la thèorie de la “Relation”.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Manthia Diawara, Edwy Plenel and Edouard Glissant (from Le Diamant, in Martinique).
Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation / Premiere in Europe
A series of video-clips directed
by Manthia Diawara (45mins., 2010)In 2009, Manthia Diawara, with his camera, followed Edouard Glissant, on the Queen Mary II, in a cross Atlantic journey from South Hampton (UK) to Brooklyn (New York). This extra-ordinary voyage resulted in the production of fifty short clips in which Glissant elaborates on his theory of Relation. Diawara divided the breathtaking video clips into four general applications of the theory of Relation that shed new lights on Gltssant’s work.
