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Africa Beyond e-newsletter

(14 February 2008)

Thanks to all that made it to Translations and helped create a great night; keep an eye on the site for pictures and video footage. Also a note of thanks to all those that completed the questionnaire, your feedback on the site will help shape its future. - Africa Beyond

Africa Beyond welcomes any information about events and news relating to African Diasporic art forms. Please send details marked AB Arts plus the name of your organisation to Africabeyond@bbc.co.uk

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www.bbc.co.uk/africabeyond - Arts and culture
www.bbc.co.uk/africaonyourstreet - Music
FEATURES

African Soul Rebels
Salif Keita, Tony Allen and Awadi are part of the 2008 edition of the African Soul Rebels tour starting on 15 February. More

Grammy Awards 2008
Benin's Angelique Kidjo and South Africa's Soweto Gospel Choir picked up Grammy awards at this year's ceremony in Los Angeles. More

Review: Afrika! Afrika! A magical circus adventure
Uchenna Izundu marvels at the Afrika! Afrika! Circus showing in London’s O2 arena until April 2008 when it goes on national tour. More

Myspace
Visit our myspace site and connect with the African artistic community. http://www.myspace.com/africabeyond

Netsayi short-listed for national award.
Singer/songwriter, Netsayi Chigwendere has been shortlisted for the UK's most lucrative national prize for Music: The PRS Foundation New Music Award. She's competing with 5 other hopefuls for the £50,000 prize which will be spent on making "Adustments", an African operetta about love, poetry and colonisation. The Operetta will be written and developed in collaboration with Patrick Neate, Alies Sluiter, Luke Sutherland and Chirikure Chirikure.

read more about it at http://www.prsfoundation.co.uk/newmusicaward/adjustments.htm

Events
Don’t forget to visit the Gigs & Events section where you can also find out what’s happening in African Arts and African music!

ALFREDO JAAR
Exhibition: 16 February – 6 April 2008
For his forthcoming solo show at the South London Gallery, New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar presents six works born of his enduring interest in Africa. Jaar has exhibited extensively internationally, featuring most recently at the 2007 Venice Biennale, and is represented in the permanent collections of major institutions around the world including MOMA and Tate Modern, but this will be the first opportunity in fifteen years to see a significant body of his work in London.

TALKS AND EVENTS
In conjunction with his South London Gallery exhibition, Alfredo Jaar will be giving a talk at Tate Modern in the Starr Auditorium on 13 March 2008.

South London Gallery
65 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH
Gallery open Tuesday – Sunday 12-6pm. Closed Mondays.
24 hour recorded information T. 020 7703 9799
General enquiries T. 020 7703 6120
SMS. 07981 007 845
www.southlondongallery.org

Kalabash World presents:
Ladbroke Grove FILM WRITE is a monthly film night showcasing groundbreaking films/authors/poets. Free film screenings, incredible authors and poets reading from their recent publications, local filmmakers discussing what brought them to achieve their works and discussions with figures from the community participating.


FREE ENTRY 6.30pm-11pm Free Caribbean Food (2nd Tuesday every month)
Film starts PROMPTLY at 7pm followed by reading/performance/discussion
Inn on The Green, 3-5 Thorpe Close, Portobello Green, London W10 Tube: Ladbroke Grove

Tuesday 11th March
Film: Pressure (Dir: Horace Ove)
A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Spoken Word with Tuggstar from 'Season of Love Lost' www.myspace.com/tuggstar

Tuesday 8th April
Film: The Spook Who Sat By The Door (Dir: Ivan Dixon)
1970s first black CIA recruit uses his skills to train the youth in guerilla warfare accross the ghettos of the USA
Koje Oyedeji reads from 'Tell Tales' anthology www.telltales.co.uk

Further events taking place in May and June.
In conjunction with SABLE www.sablelitmag.org
SABLE is a LitMag which publishes new work by established and emerging writers of colour.

For further details on any of the events:
E: filmwrite@kalabashworld.com facebook: Film Write T: Kate 07956 883 440

London's Burning - Thursday 28.02.08, 9pm
Africa's coming to West London... Flavour of this month:

NDEYE, The Clash

Who better to choose for our first event than, a Guinean artist with a twist. You must be puzzled by the word Clash. Ndeye has been able to blend Guinean traditional music with Hip POP... Clash has never sounded this good... you'll need to experience it for yourself....

Then from Guinea, we are off to different parts of Africa with a DJ mixing House with Kuduro (Angola), Ndombolo (DRC), Coupé Décalé (Ivory Coast), Zouk and so much more...

ArchAngel
11-13 Kensington
W8 5NP

CHARLIE DARK AFRICAN BEATS

UK Tour: 7th – 14th March 2008 #
African Beats is the product of Charlie’s life-long love of - and a career in - the communicative nature of rhythm, of its role at the root of all music and its evolution through the history of dance music. African Beats explores the subtleties and complexities of dance rhythms generated from the analogue side by talking drum and from the electronic side by digital beats.

Fri 7 March SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims Concert Hall
www.turnersims.co.uk / 023 8059 5151

Sat 8 March N. YORKSHIRE, The Shed
www.theshed.co.uk / 01653 668494



Sun 9 March MANCHESTER Contact Theatre
www.contact-theatre.org / 0161 2740600



Tues 11 March BIRMINGHAM, Jam House

www.birminghamjazz.co.uk www.thejamhouse.com

Wed 12 March LEEDS, The Wardrobe
www.leedsjazz.org.uk / Tickets from Jumbo Records 0113 245 5570

Thurs 13 March LONDON, Cargo

www.cargo-london.com


Fri 14 March OXFORD, The Zodiac

www.ocmevents.org / 0870 750 0659

www.myspace.com/charliedark

Volunteering/jobs

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS & FILMMAKERS

imagine art after is a multi-stage project for internet, gallery & broadcast curated by Breda Beban that brings together artists and filmmakers who made a home in London with those who stayed in their country of origin

For its second edition, imagine art after is looking for artists and filmmakers from the following places, who either live there, or in London

Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Angola | Bangladesh | Cameroon | China | Colombia | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Former USSR | Gambia | Ghana | India | Iran | Iraq | Ivory Coast | Jamaica | Kenya | Libya | Nigeria | Pakistan | Palestinian Authority | Romania | Serbia | Sierra Leone | Somalia | Sri Lanka | Sudan | Syria | Turkey | Uganda | Vietnam | Zimbabwe

For more information and an application pack, go to www.imagineartafter.net, or email info@imagineartafter.net

DEADLINE 1 JUNE 2008

FEEDBACK
Have you been to an event listed on the site? Do you have something to say about African arts? Or do you have a comment about the site? If, so we’d like to hear from you, please leave your comments on our new look site - click here to leave us a message. We will reply via email or on the site.

Africa Beyond is a non-funding organisation supported by the Arts Council of England

The project is hosted at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) Bravo. Vancouver, Western Canada.

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