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Susan Cooksey, UF. Agents of Change: Metal Arts and Artists in sub-Saharan Africa. 3:30pm Register here: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cxBLSFuERbmulabN4BRiiA
Mixing Disciplines Working Group Symposium
Africa | COVID Time: Lockdown, Disquiet, Waiting, Masking. April 22 | 9:30am-12:00pm EDT April 23 | 10:30am-4:30pm EDT (with midday intermission) Our reflections will be about COVID, but also about time and the pulse of events and the everyday, troubles and worries (minds, health, care), policing powers, masking practices (carceral and affective), the arts, …
Carter Lectures 21.1
ZoomCarter Lectures 21.1 with Funmi Adewole, De Montfort University. Contemporary Dance as African Cultural Production. ‘Funmi Adewole is lecturer in dance, School of Humanities and Performing Arts, De Montfort University in Leicester. Scholar, storyteller, and dramaturge, Dr. Adewole started out as a media practitioner in Nigeria and moved into performance on relocating to England in 1994. For several …
Carter Lectures 21.2
ZoomCarter Lectures 21.2 with Faustin Linyekula Back to the Future: Choreographers Mobilizing Africa-sourced Futures in the (post)COVID Era. Register to attend on Zoom. Faustin Linyekula is known as a dancer, choreographer, but calls himself a storyteller. He tells his stories through writing, theatre, dance, still or moving images. Linyekula lives and works in Kisangani, Democratic Republic …
Carter Lectures 21.3
ZoomCarter Lectures 21.3 with Qudus Onikeku, UF. AFRICAN TIME: A New World-Thinking Qudus Onikeku is currently the first “Maker in Residence” at The Center for Arts, Migration and Entrepreneurship of the University of Florida – 2019-2022. Qudus Onikeku is a movement artiste made of diversity. Over the decade, he has established himself as one of …