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Find out what's going on in the world of African arts and music. We've listed everything from club nights to conferences.
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January 2008 Events
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Inhuman Traffic: The Business of the Slave Trade
- Exhibitions & Shows
- 1-31 January 2008
- British Museum
- London
This small exhibition explores how the Transatlantic Slave Trade functioned.It covers more than 500 years, including the Parliamentary Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807.
It features resistance leaders including Toussaint l'Ouverture, Olaudah Equiano and Nanny of the Maroons, and their continuing llegacy of the struggle to end enslavement.
Located in room 69a.
- Time: 10.00am - 5.30pm
- Admission: free
- Address: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG
- Nearest stations: Holborn, Tottenham Court Road, Russell Square, Goodge Street, Covent Garden, Euston
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Brent Black Music History Exhibition
- Festivals & Special Events
- 1-31 January 2008
- Willesden Green Library Centre
- London
A photographic exhibition of the photos of artists, music industry players, and buildings with a black music history, as captured by Patrick Friday and Kwaku for the Brent Black Music History Project (BBMHP) DVD and booklet. The year-long exhibition will be kept fresh with changes in photos, plus small events based around the exhibition.
- Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
- Admission: free
- Information: 020 8450 5987
- Address: 95 High Road, London NW10 2SF
- Nearest station: Willesden Green
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A Christmas Carol - Ikrismas Kherol
- Theatre & Dance
- 1-19 January 2008
- The Young Vic
- London
A vibrant, thrilling musical adaptation of Charles Dicken's most enduring of all ghost stories. This time Scrooge is a woman, the setting is today’s South Africa and the past is life under the apartheid regime. These are exciting times... The rise of a new economic class. Others face harsh poverty while Scrooge is rich and successful. But she lives a lonely, loveless life. Three ancestral spirits come to visit. By the end she understands it is never too late to learn from the past, to change and live a meaningful and happy life.
An extraordinary new company of 30 performers arrives at the Young Vic this Christmas with two world premieres, filled with the rich musical voice of South Africa - emotional, exuberant and hugely uplifting. Discover these two classics as you have never seen them before. With modern township backgrounds, both shows are performed in the languages of South Africa and English and feature Pauline Malefane, star of the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear-winning film U-Carmen (2005) and most recently seen at the Young Vic in generations.
Played in repertoire with The Magic Flute - Impempe Yomlingo.
- Time: 2.30pm & 7.30pm
- Tickets: £24.50/ £21.50/ £9.50
- Information: 0207 992 2922
- Address: 66 The Cut, London SE1 8LZ
- Nearest station: Waterloo
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The Magic Flute - Impempe Yomlingo
- Theatre & Dance
- 1-19 January 2008
- The Young Vic
- London
The greatest piece of music theatre performed as you’ve never heard it: the South African way - thirty singers, marimbas, drums and township percussion. Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor Berlin Philharmonic on Mark Dornford-May's The Magic Flute/Impempe Yomlingo.
It’s a story about the trials of life - growing up, finding the love of your life, learning to be wise. Adventure, fairy story, comedy, drama are all set to glorious music.A delight for young and old alike, with its message of reconciliation. An extraordinary new company of 30 performers arrives at the Young Vic this Christmas with two world premieres, filled with the rich musical voice of South Africa - emotional, exuberant and hugely uplifting.
Discover these two classics as you have never seen them before. With modern township backgrounds, both shows are performed in the languages of South Africa and English and feature Pauline Malefane, star of the Berlin Film Festival, Golden Bear-winning film U-Carmen (2005) and most recently seen at the Young Vic in gernerations.Played in repertoire with A Christmas Carol - Ikrismas Kherol.
- Time: 2.30pm & 7.30pm
- Tickets: £24.50/ £21.50/ £9.50
- Information: 0207 992 2922
- Address: 66 The Cut, London SE1 8LZ
- Nearest station: Waterloo
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Afrika Afrika!
- Theatre & Dance
- 17-31 January 2008
- The Tented Palaces, O2 Arena
- London
André Hellers sensual discovery of Africa fascinates the audience with its tempo, energy and the zest of life that is oozing out of the tent. The troupe travelled through Africa for two years between Mali and Morocco, and Egypt and South Africa, to all the coasts and the heart of the continent for more than 100 artists, eccentrics, dancers, singers and musicians who had that special something.
This circus theatre offers sensous pleasure to children and adults, workers and intellectuals. Unbelievable acrobatics, intoxicating rhythms and costumes of exceptional beauty will entrance you for more than two hours. The pole artists from the troupe “Hakuna Matata, (Swahili for no worries here) will have you holding your breath as they elegantly swing back and forth on poles, nearly touching the top of the tent, while other dancers build a dizzingly high human pyramid. Body eccentrics bend and curve into proud snake-like formations: Feet become hands and hands become feet in a rare spectacle known only to the African tradition of cult-like mastery of bodily movements.
- Time: 8.00pm
- Tickets: £19 - £65
- Box Office: www.ticketmaster.co.uk
- Address: Greenwich, London, SE10 0BB
- Nearest station: North Greenwich
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Anna Mudeka
- Music
- 25 January 2008
- St Paul's Centre
- Cambridge
Anna Mudeka has been a professional singer, dancer and drummer since the age of 14. She has toured Japan with the late Ephat Mujuru and was also a member of Thomas Mapfumo's Blacks Unlimited. She has worked and performed with other well-known musicians including Leon Ruselsson and Stella Chiweshe, the Queen of Mbira.
Since coming to the UK in 1995, Anna has continued to perform both traditional and original modern Zimbabwean music. She tours nationally and internationally with The Tambai Ensemble, runs workshops and gives solo performances based around Mbira. To date Anna has recorded five CD albums: Chirungu, Rwendo Nevadzimu, Cham'tengure and Hamunyare and the latest one Zvachose.
- Time: 9.00pm
- Tickets: £12/ £14/ £10
- Box Office: 01223 511 511
- Information: theodore15@btinternet.com
- Address: Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1JP
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Africa Beyond's Translations
- Music
- 28 January 2008
- Bernie Grant Arts Centre
- London
Translations is a creative experiment to showcase the best of African influenced arts in the UK.Africa Beyond has commissioned three cross-artform collaborations to take place this winter, involving artists with wildly varying styles and genres who are all leading lights in their field.
On this night, the commissioned work has a Nigerian flavour, led by one of the UK’s best hip-hop and rap artists Breis, and pioneer of the Afro-beat scene Dele Sosimi. Dele Sosimi has played extensively with Fela Kuti; blending funk grooves, Nigerian traditional music, African percussion, jazz horns and other instruments, and rhythmical singing to create the ground-breaking Afro-beat sound. They will be joined by dancer Christina Oshunniyi who performs widely around the UK, and also writes for film and theatre.
- Time: 8.00pm
- Tickets: £7/£5 conc
- Information: 020 8365 5450
- Box office: boxoffice@berniegrantcentre.co.uk
- Address: Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham Green, London N15 4RX
- Nearest station: Seven Sisters
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