Exhibitions, performances, a platform bringing together different actors from the cultural and creative industries in Africa, major festivals from the ACP zone, presentations of projects and success stories... the focus of the cultural programme put together by Africalia and ACP Culture+ is on innovation and creative economy.
The aim is twofold : to revitalise the EDD village and enhance its attractiveness by offering visitors the chance to participate in cultural experiences from the ACP (...)
Exhibitions, performances, a platform bringing together different actors from the cultural and creative industries in Africa, major festivals from the ACP zone, presentations of projects and success stories... the focus of the cultural programme put together by Africalia and ACP Culture+ is on innovation and creative economy.
The aim is twofold : to revitalise the EDD village and enhance its attractiveness by offering visitors the chance to participate in cultural experiences from the ACP countries ; and to show what the place of culture is in these societies and highlight its richness, diversity and role as a vehicle of development.
Congo Eza photography exhibition This travelling exhibition presents work by Congolese photographers based on a selection of photos from the book Congo Eza. The Congolese photographers come from places such as Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Goma, Kisangani and Bukavu. They capture the thousand and one everyday activities of the inhabitants of this huge country. In the street, at school, on the concessions and at wedding celebrations, they have attempted to delineate their identity.
The exhibition aims to show how these artists reappropriate images in order to give them a particular significance through their own perceptions of the socio-cultural realities they witness.
Freddy Tsimba sculpture exhibition Freddy Tsimba is an artist and sculptor from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He works mainly with iron and bronze, and is fascinated by recycled materials such as bullet casings, shell fragments, machetes or even knives, forks and spoons. These elements breathe life into his works – expressionistic, fragmented, provocative sculptures. Freddy poignantly expresses the atrocities of war and armed conflict. His work reflects the essential questions facing humanity.
Freddy Tsimba
Freddy Tsimba is an artist and sculptor from the Democratic Republic of Congo who was born in Kinshasa in 1967. He graduated from the Kinshasa Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in monumental sculpture in 1989. He explains : ‘My real school (...) is the street where I obtain loads of materials. My teachers were blacksmiths, from whom I learned the arts of forging and welding for five years.’ He has built up his reputation through more than fifty exhibitions in Africa, Europe, Canada and China. He has received numerous awards and honours in France and Canada.
Storyteller A storyteller will walk around the village, meeting and interacting with visitors. Accompanied by his Ngoni (West-African string instrument), François Bamba will challenge visitors with stories, parables and proverbs on cultural diversity, community life and tomorrow’s world.
Storytelling artist François Moïse Bamba took part in MASA 2016 and is a member of the network Arts de la Parole supported by Africalia and operating in Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo and Mali.
François Bamba
François Moïse Bamba discovered storytelling through his father and was able to hone his rhetorical skills with renowned storytellers such as Habib Dembele, Hassane Kouyate, Jihad Darwich and Françoise Diep. He is the principal founder of Burkina Faso’s first storytellers’ association in Ouagadougou. He ran the Yeleen International Storytelling Festival in Bobo-Dioulasso for several years and initiated a network of practitioners of the oral arts in West Africa called Afrifogo. He also created his own company, Les Murmures de la Forge, together with four musicians.
Discover a brief overview of the creativity and diversity of cultural initiatives in the ACP countries through the projects, festivals and cultural hubs presented on this stand.
The link between the cultural and creative industries and a country’s economic and social development is well established.
Four cultural hubs have been invited to showcase their activities. This will be an opportunity for these entrepreneurs to demonstrate that they have developed a viable economic model that creates jobs.
A number of major festivals are held in the ACP countries. They contribute to the economy and reputation of the country in which they take place, support the creation and production of quality goods and services and provide an effective springboard into the international art market for artists and their work.
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