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African Diaspora Performance

Two inspiring artists expressing creativity and life between two cultures - Ayo-Dele is a singer and playwright, who manages to produce podcasts, homeschool her child and act on stage.
She will be singing from her gently uplifting album 'Forever Becoming'

Gwyn is a 5th Dan belt, in demand architect, regularly plays at the Pizza Express Jazz Soho joint and has been touring internationally his brand of creole, jazz , folk music. He is known for Louis Armstrong's songs and was the guide for the BAFTA nominated Romesh Ranganathan's Misadventures in Sierra Leone - still on Iplayer.

What is making art and being from here and there really like?

Come and find out!!!

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The Decolonial Salon continues exploring African Diaspora Performance

Two inspiring artists expressing creativity and life between two cultures - Ayo-Dele is a singer and playwright, who manages to produce podcasts, homeschool her child and act on stage.
She will be singing from her gently uplifting album 'Forever Becoming'

Gwyn is a 5th Dan belt, in demand architect, regularly plays at the Pizza Express Jazz Soho joint and has been touring internationally his brand of creole, jazz , folk music. He is known for Louis Armstrong's songs and was the guide for the BAFTA nominated Romesh Ranganathan's Misadventures in Sierra Leone - still on Iplayer.

What is making art and being from here and there really like?

Come and find out!!!

My colleague Tayo Aluko celebrating Paul Robeson in Detroit on the same day we will holding our commemoration of him in Devon, UK with HERE I STAND

A Pan Africanist Twinning of which Mr Robeson would approve.

Good Luck Comrade
Onwards!

Paul Robeson : The Giant, In a Nutshell with Tayo Aluko Actor, singer, playwright Tayo Aluko comes to Detroit in a one-night-only celebration of Paul Robeson, to benefit the Michigan Peace Council

Do your thing.

Coming up - I am really looking forward to working with Harold George Choreographer of the multi-award winning Dance Film 'Making Men' (with Film-Maker Antoine Panier) Ric White on Sax and Live Sound Design, and Paolo Forcellati Djembe and Ngoni player.

Paul Robeson is a legendary artist whose commitment to serving people and community through his art and gifts is truly inspirational.

This 6th Edition of The Decolonial Salon will serve
Traditional Syrian Buffet prepared by Iman Farwan

The 3rd edition of a Diaspora Performance Lab happening. This is an Artist Led initiative addressing Aesthetics, Aesthesis, Artists and Citizens interaction.

Dr Cheryl Diane Parkinson will reading from her novel 'Berthas' setting the tone for experimental music making and conversation.

Here is an insight into 'Berthas'

Berthas is a novel exploring the Black British Caribbean Identity of Black British Caribbean Women and the notion of 'blackness.' Set in both the UK and the West Indies, Berthas explores the issues of hybridity, diaspora, and duality; following four women over four generations. The imagery presented is vivid and the language is lyrical. This emotive tale begins with the death of a matriarch and ends in the birth of her granddaughter.

Berthas is written in a lyrical style much like Toni Morrison's Jazz (1992), Beloved (1987) as well as Sam Selvon's Lonely Londoners (1956). Like these novels, Berthas has a distinct but modern style that deliberately links with these lyrical novels. And like the characters and people it represents, the structure of this novel is of a hybrid nature. Berthas rests within the oral tradition of the Caribbean as well as incorporating the traditional superstitious beliefs that survived African Slavery, combined/compared with the religious Christian beliefs of the West, and is very much set in the modern world.

Cultural differences. They do exist. Judge them at your own risk.
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Utopia Theatre revives African Performance in the UK. Three women take centre stage. A story spun across three generations, swimming on the plains of Diaspora! Directed by Mojisola Elufowoju and written by Dipo Agboluaje - Coming near you or write to Utopia Theatre to encourage or find out more.

We have a fantastic line up of performances this week, today we're at Norwich Theatre Playhouse, then we will be at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Lakeside Theatre, The Place Theatre and Old Fire Station, Oxford the rest of this week!

Book your tickets here: https://www.utopiatheatre.co.uk/our-work/heres-what-she-said-to-me--uk-tour-2022/tour-dates

Walter Mignolo speaking in Decolonial Aesthetics and Aesthesis -

Diaspora Stand Up and Connect

“Decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis has become a connector across the continents” C&: Decolonial aesthetics is a concept you have developed in the process of your reflections and work. How did this come about? Walter Mignolo: First of all, this one, as any concept of the modernity/coloniality/decoloniality collective project, is a consequence of collective conversations. I

Tony Ogunyinka Writes and Directs this unique short film Jujuman. Please consider supporting this young artist and his fabulous team.

Jujuman A Dark Humour Short Film directed by Tony Ogunyinka. Produced by Adam Survey Executive Producer Ekoko Mukete

Femi Elufowoju Jnr making strides for Legacy. Congratulations!

Q & A: Stage Director Femi Elufowoju Jr on His Debut as the First Black Opera Director at a Major UK House - Opera Wire (Credit: Tyler Fayose) Femi Elufowoju Jr is a practitioner of many crafts. He’s a screen actor with 15 credits, a stage director who has been at the helm for myriads of productions, and a film director. But there was a missing piece. Elufowoju Jr is a music lover and comprehends the enormous power...

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Maya by Cheryl Diane Parkinson I am Maya. At least, that is the name Momma gave me, even though she called me Saly. Just like Marie is Grace, Daniel is Jason and Jessica is Rosie. Our names are ours… unless of course they are no…

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Ocupação Abdias Nascimento - The theater inside of me Axés of Blood and Hope Abdias Nascimento (1914-2011) devoted himself entirely to the fight against racism. He fought on multiple fronts to gain people’s appreciation of the African culture and raise the self-esteem of the black people, as well as to disprove the notion that Brazil was a “racial...

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Ancestral Allegiance, Memory, Culture and The State (and the legacy of colonialism)

Is Theatre a construct of mortar and bricks? What is the relationship between a big theatre monument and the non-exclusive space?

FESTAC and Erhabor Emokpae

Excellent Theatre Workshops facilitated by Maria Askew - Artistic Director of Superbolt Theatre.

Interested in Social Change Through the Arts? Check this out...

Theatre for Community and Education FREE Workshop - Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts This 90 minute workshop covers practical techniques and creative reflections on how to use theatre as a tool for social transformation.

CALL FOR FEMALE PERFORMERS TO EXPLORE A TRUE STORY OF A SOUTH EAST ASIAN FAMILY FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM IN APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, THEIR EXILE AND RETURN

SALT WATER IN MY VEINS by Prithiraj Ramkisun Dullay - 1.30 - 5.30pm - Arcola Theatre LAB season

'A Collection of short stories and opinion pieces by Prithiraj Ramkisun Dullay.

The year is 1978.

The apartheid machine is grinding all in its path.

Steve Biko was brutally murdered a year before.

Nelson Mandela is in his 17th year on Robben Island.

Strini Moodley was in the 3rd year of his six-year imprisonment term on Robben Island.

It was at this time that life was becoming untenable for a young activist teacher, Prithiraj Ramkisun Dullay, simply because he believed that teaching was a subversive activity, and endeavoured to live out his belief in truth and freedom without fear.

As a consequence of his political activity, Pritz and his family were suddenly thrust into exile, to a strange land just a few degrees south of the Arctic Circle, a land that will become their home for 14 years…(Denmark)

The stories of this enforced departure, and his eventual return to his homeland when Mandela was released, as well as the riveting stories of Pritz’s growing up development, are all told with immediacy and import in SALT WATER RUNS IN MY VEINS.

PROCESS SHARING with Traditional Ginger beer
on 25th Oct 2019 3-5.30 / 6.30 - 8.3

Post-sharing Learning

Praxis Discussion on Themes, Aesthetics, Art and Social Transformation, Networking

Facilitated and Initiated by Patrice Naiambana - African Performing Artist / Animateur
Tree/Barbershop Chronicles/New Nigerians/Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Fringe First Winner for The Man Who Committed Thought

Specialist Collaborators

Rosamunde Hutt Director Artistic Director of Pursued by a Bear

Christella Litras Musical Director / Composer

Richard Olatunde Baker Master Musician, Teacher

Dipo Agboulaje Playwright, Lecturer, Writer in Residence RNT 2018-19

For Expressions of Interest and Further Information

Please call 07955776878 / email [email protected]

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Similar goes for African Theatre.. Most critics can tell a Glaswegian accent from Yorkshire drawl but couldn't tell South African from a Ghanian accent.

Opinion | The Dominance of the White Male Critic Conversations about our monuments, museums, screens and stages have the same blind spots as our political discourse.