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For Queer Joy, we were also interested in conversations around spirituality, and we recoded several. Of these, we are thrilled to share two! Today we are thrilled to present Leona Nichole Black and Phillipa Ndisi-Herrmann, in conversation with us (represented by Jim Chuchu).
Read MoreWe are honored to introduce Adéọlá Naomi Adérè̩mí as our next spiritual curator and contributor. Adéọlá Naomi Adérè̩mí is a multilingual, multilocal, AfroGreek, and multi-format artist, scholar, curator, filmmaker, and healer. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Distinguished Diva, a platform where she explores the intersection of spirituality with the daily lives of African people, and where Black storytellers can find community. Distinguished Diva can be found on Youtube here.
Read MoreWe are so excited to announce the start of ‘Queer Joy’, a spiritual exploration with Kenyan queer, gender non-conforming, and trans communities.
Read MoreOur very own Sunny Dolat will be delivering the opening keynote speech at the Africa Fashion Conference in London this week! Inspired by the Africa Fashion exhibition, the Africa Fashion Conference will gather fashion luminaries and creatives from the continent to exchange ideas and knowledge about the fashion scene in Africa, whilst also celebrating the contemporary African creatives shifting the geography of global fashion.
Read MoreOur very own Njoki Ngumi was a panelist for Hey Fashion’s HeyFashion!Talks, in the first of a series of discussions! This inaugural panel was titled ‘An Equitable Circular Economy- Building A System For Everyone’, and Njoki spoke alongside Ayesha Barenblat, founder and CEO of Remake, and Michelle Quintyn, President and CEO of GoodWill Industries.
Read MoreOur very own Njoki Ngumi will be speaking on a panel at the 2022 Museums Association Conference this year! Njoki will be speaking alongside Rudo Sithole, founding director of AFRIMUHERE (African Museums and Heritage Restitution) and Samba Yonga, co-founder, Women’s History Museum; sharing our experience and lessons drawn from working on return and restitution with the International Inventories Programme (IIP). This year’s theme, ‘Make Things Happen’, will focus on exploring how museums can be part of enabling better places for people to live and work.
Read MoreThe trailer of the ‘Rhein-Main’ chapter of our documentary film ‘The Feminine and The Foreign’, made with the kind partnership of the Wiesbaden Biennale, is out now! This visual edition, one of two made at the same time, explores and honors the work of Black artists, community workers, activists and thinkers living and working in the Rhein-Main area, exploring the current and evolving foci of movement work, community strengthening, healing and future-making happening across generations of Black activism, organizing and resistance.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to announce that the trailer of the Nairobi chapter of our documentary film ‘The Feminine and The Foreign’ is out now! We were beyond grateful to have the chance to reflect on and highlight the organising, community work and movement building going on here in our own home, through the kind and considered partnership with the Wiesbaden Biennale that resulted in these films.
Read MoreSome really interesting conversations have been started as a result of our Documenta installation, “Return To Sender” (you can read a little more about it here!) As part of one of them, our very own Njoki Ngumi will be a panellist for Hey Fashion’s HeyFashion!Talks, in a discussion titled ‘An Equitable Circular Economy- Building A System For Everyone’.
Read MoreThe Wiesbaden Biennale takes place at the Wiesbaden State Theatre in the city of Wiesbaden, located in the Hesse state, Germany. The festival aims to celebrate and foreground differences in all possible forms via showcasing new works, perspectives, and aesthetics! We were honored by the invitation to attend this festival, via the extension of our exploration with the Feminine and The Foreign. With the festival as co-producers, we were able to add two new chapters exploring black resistance, organising, strategy, healing and love: one looking at the wider Rhein-Main area near Hesse, extending to Frankfurt, and another exploring similar work in our home, here in Nairobi, Kenya!
Read MoreOur very own Noel Kasyoka and Njoki Ngumi will be in conversation with the wonderful Wajukuu Arts squad, speaking about all our featured art installations at the recently ended Documenta 15! We’ll share about what making, installing and presenting our work was like. We'll also discuss what we learned, what was wonderful and challenging, and the follow-on opportunities that came from this work, the lumbung concept and more!
Read MoreOur very own Njoki Ngumi will be an artist panelist at the 2022 Amesall Comicon. The Amesall Comicon is a symposium organised by the Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University, set up to “consider texts and performances across multiple languages,media, histories and disciplines”.
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