The Visionary Africa Festival

International Wed 15-09-2010

The Visionary Africa Festival
By a Correspondent

The European Commission and the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels are organising a press conference, to officially announce the continuation and evolution, on African soil, of the Visionary Africa Festival currently taking place in Brussels.

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The press conference will take place on Friday, 24th September 2010 at 11:30am at the Centre for Fine Arts (entrance: Rue Royale 10, 1000 Brussels) and it will be attended by the two curators of this new project, David Adjaye and Simon Njami.

Paul Dujardin, Director-general of the Centre for Fine Arts, will also inform about the literary closing event ("African Renaissances" on the 25th of September) while presenting a short appraisal of the Visionary Africa Festival.

In 2009, when the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels expressed its intention to create a cultural festival focused on Africa, the European Commission had already emphasised the importance of organising an itinerant exhibition devoted to African art for the occasion of the EU-Africa summit at the end of 2010.

The conclusions of the "Culture and Creativity, development factors" symposium, which convened, in April 2009, more than 40 African ministers of culture and several hundred professionals, explicitly called upon the different parties to facilitate such an initiative.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of independence for 19 African countries and on the occasion of the 3rd Africa-EU summit, the European Commission and the Centre for Fine Arts, in collaboration with the African Union, are today bringing this idea to fruition with a multidisciplinary cultural itinerant project.

The project will include an urban itinerant exhibition of African art, a project of 'artists in residence' and a series of workshops. The exhibition will be presented in the framework of the EU-Africa summit in Sirte (Libya, 29 November 2010). It will then travel between African capital cities at the start of 2011, leaving Addis Abeba (Ethiopia) for Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).

Posted By: Maggie Otieno

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