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Highlights:

ICACD 2008

"Development divorced from its human or cultural context is growth without a soul" (WCCD, 1995). An important event will be held on the African continent - the organization of the 1st International Conference on African Culture and Development (ICACD 2008) in Kumasi, Ghana. This conference is designed to draw attention to the missing link in the futile attempts to develop the African continent: culture.
Visit www.icacd.ccoghana.org

Where: Kumasi, Ghana
When: 21 - 26 April, 08

Festival on the Niger

The third Festival on the Niger offers you a unique spectacle, with music and dance from the region, as well as well-known West-African artists, who will play on the river Niger. This year's theme will be "Ségou, City of Architecture". Through a varied program, the Festival on the Niger offers you an interdisciplinary and intercultural meeting, bringing together people from Ségou, Malians and foreigners from all over the world.
Visit www.festivalsegou.org

Where: Ségou, Mali
When: 1 - 3 February, 08

Bård Breivik donation

The Norwegian artist Bård Breivik is donating an exclusive art object, in his work entitled "Score for a longer Conversation", to Imagine Africa. Score for a longer conversation consists of more than hundred objects - all within a hull-like shape - all within the length of 120 centimetres - and most of them are done within different traditions of craftsmanship from all over the world, making it a manifest work of a global cultural dialogue. The artist, Bård Breivik, is donating an exclusive art object from this work to the benefit of the Imagine Africa campaign. More

Introduction

In the 2007 conference ARTERIAL - vitalizing African cultural assets, the executive director of Goree Institute, Breyten Breytenbach, invited African practioners within arts and reasoning to take part in the creation of a common citizen agora for reflections, debate and expressions.

This campaign was set up as a direct response to Breytens call for action

  • to give African culture activities a common visual expression
  • to demonstrate belonging to a movement
  • to use simple tools for awareness rising
  • to establish a broad concept for fundraising
  • to attract new parties to the African Arts and Culture network
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