African futures
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Program 30.5. – 11.6. 2023
From May 30 to June 11, 2023, under the motto “African Futures,” visions of the future were drafted and challenges were addressed, and the complexity, multi-layeredness and creativity of modern Africa and the African diaspora were presented in Cologne. The varied and diverse program at various locations in Cologne offered concerts, film and theater performances, as well as readings, discussions and other formats.
Monthly Weekly Daily List
May 2023
b/or/der st/or/ies – Intervention in the permanent exhibition of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
b/or/der st/or/ies takes place as an intervention in the permanent exhibition of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, and deals with the question of "or": because people...
30 May - 11 Jun
All Day
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Alter Voices – Covid Stories: A podcast series of the research unit “Communication during and after COVID-19: (re)producing social inequalities and/or opportunities among African migrants in the United Arab Emirates and China”.
Learn about research for listening - with our podcast series "Alter Voices - Covid Stories," on display at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum starting May 31.
30 May - 11 Jun
All Day
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Round table discussion: African Energy Futures – Navigating sustainability, electrification and export opportunities
African energy futures face multiple challenges. While there is consensus that electricity generation needs to be expanded to reach 100% electrification and SDG7, it is...
30 May
18:00 - 20:00
Universität zu Köln, Neuer Senatssaal
Exhibition Opening: L’Océan Noir – An Afro-American View on Atlantic History: Exhibition by William Adjété Wilson
Appliqué" is the name of the elaborately crafted tapestries made of fabric in Benin, with which important events were already recorded at the court of the kingdom of Dahomey. This...
30 May
18:00
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
L’Océan Noir – An Afro-American View of Atlantic History: Exhibition by William Adjété Wilson
Appliqué" is the name of the elaborately crafted tapestries made of fabric in Benin, with which important events were already recorded at the court of the kingdom of Dahomey. This...
31 May
All Day
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
re|despair – Painful encounters in German museums
Co-laboration and repair, restitution and healing have become commonplace phrases in German museum discourse on how to deal with colonial collections and the colonial past.
31 May - 11 Jun
All Day
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Exhibition: Shall you Return Everything, but the Burden – Give everything back – except the burden
The starting point of Lebohang Kganye's exhibition project is a collection of photographs and drawings by the German painter and photographer Marie Pauline Thorbecke, who from 1911 to 1913, together with her husband...
31 May - 11 Jun
All Day
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Is there a future for African Studies in Europe? Opening Roundtable ECAS
It seems contradictory, certainly at first sight. Can a European Conference on African Studies wiggle itself loose from the colonial past? Can one claim to offer spaces for encounters, knowledge....
31 May
18:15 - 20:00
Universität zu Köln
Where do we go from here? Innovative, transcultural music from Nigeria, Ghana, Italy and Inner Mongolia – concert in the framework of the OLUZAYO Music Festival
Four compositions, four world premieres and four perspectives on the musical traditions of Africa - the opening concert of the OLUZAYO Festival presents extraordinary works from Nigeria, Ghana, Italy and Inner Mongolia
31 May
20:00
Comedia Theater
Vondelstrasse 4-8, 50677 Cologne, Germany
The Counter Museum – Masello Motana’s The Vocal Museum (Live Performance with Band)
South African singer, actress and performance artist Masello Motana's performance and sound documentary takes a foray into South African...
31 May
20:30
FORUM Volkshochschule am Neumarkt
June 2023
L’Océan Noir – An Afro-American View of Atlantic History: Exhibition by William Adjété Wilson
Appliqué" is the name of the elaborately crafted tapestries made of fabric in Benin, with which important events were already recorded at the court of the kingdom of Dahomey. This...
01 Jun
All Day
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
We have always been here: Unearthing Hidden Histories – Prof. Joseph Major Nyasani at the UoC – Lecture & Discussion
"Humans, not places, make memories". Ama Ata Aidoo
We cannot be able to talk about African Futures if we do not speak about the African past and the achievements of those who came before us and set a footprint.
01 Jun
11:15 - 13:00
University of Cologne / Seminar Building
Exhibition opening: My Life Began Several Centuries Ago. An Ecosystem of Circulating Images – With Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré
For centuries, the relationship between Africa and Europe has been determined by a hegemonic system of exploitation in the sense of a Western-influenced capitalist plantation logic.
01 Jun
18:00 - 21:00
Akademie der Künste der Welt
re|despair: Painful encounters in German museums – Livespeaker event
Co-laboration and repair, restitution and healing have become commonplace phrases in German museum discourse on how to deal with colonial collections and the colonial past. A student group....
01 Jun
18:00 - 20:00
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
African Futures – All Around: Opening Event
With Lord Mayor Henriette Reker. Rector of the University of Cologne Dr. h.c. Axel Freimuth, actors of the regional Afro-diasporic communities. Author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
African Futures - All Around offers a...
01 Jun
18:15
Depot 1 des Schauspiel Köln
Ancient Voices, Sibusile Xaba, Ocen James & Rian Treanor – Experimental Songwriting, Traditional Xhosa Music, Transcultural Avantgarde Improvisation
KIndigenous traditions and experimental approaches to songwriting, composition and avant-garde electronics. Sibusile Xaba, a charismatic and highly original experimental guitarist and singer combines ....
01 Jun
20:00
City Garden / Concert Hall
Venloer Str. 40, 50672 Cologne
Opening africologneFESTIVAL & afterwards. Presentation SAMSON
In times of intolerance and polarization, Samson, a young man with a hero's mission, channels the rage of his oppressed population and wreaks terror on those he considers...
01 Jun
20:15
Depot 1 des Schauspiel Köln
L’Océan Noir – An Afro-American View of Atlantic History: Exhibition by William Adjété Wilson
Appliqué" is the name of the elaborately crafted tapestries made of fabric in Benin, with which important events were already recorded at the court of the kingdom of Dahomey. This...
02 Jun
All Day
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Business Forum: A day all about startups and companies
Various facets of successful African-German economic cooperation are discussed.
02 Jun
10:00 - 16:00
Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung
Business Forum: Two Continents – One Team: Intercontinental Cooperation in the African-European Startup Ecosystem.
We are pleased to invite you to our panel discussion on successful teamwork and collaborations in African-European startups and intercontinental startup ecosystems.
02 Jun
13:45 - 15:15
Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung
My Life Began Several Centuries Ago. An Ecosystem of Circulating Images – Exhibition
For centuries, the relationship between Africa and Europe has been determined by a hegemonic system of exploitation in the sense of a Western-influenced capitalist plantation logic.
02 Jun
14:00 - 19:00
Akademie der Künste der Welt
Curator’s tour: Shall you Return Everything, but the Burden?
The starting point of Lebohang Kganye's exhibition project is a collection of photographs and drawings by the German painter and photographer Marie Pauline Thorbecke, who from 1911 to 1913, together with her husband...
02 Jun
14:00
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Black and Queer – Empowerment for Black people who identify as lsbtiaq*.
Queer Black people are underrepresented in Afro-diasporic communities. With this offer we would like to create a space where we can work with all our...
02 Jun
15:00 - 19:00
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
TWM Library Children’s Program at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum – Shaping the African Future (02.06.23)
TWM Library places a special emphasis on empowering our children, African Future, and all children in general.
02 Jun
15:00 - 19:00
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
African Futures – Together on the Way (Program at RJM on 02.06.23)
The program within the framework of African Futures in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum and in the FORUM Volkshochschule offers two days of information and entertainment on various sections and topics of "African Futures
02 Jun
15:00 - 21:30
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Music Program – African Futures – Together on the Way 2/3.6. at the RJM
Opening Ceremony of African Futures - On the Road Together on 6/2, at 3pm / 6/3. at 1:30 pm and 5:30 pm
02 Jun
15:00
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Decolonizing Approaches on Black Health: Black Voices – A panel discussion between Black medical professionals.
This means that every person, regardless of origin, gender, social status, religion, sexual orientation, etc., should have equal access to equal health care.
02 Jun
15:30 - 17:00
FORUM Volkshochschule am Neumarkt
International Crisis – Intersectional Solutions
The climate crisis is everywhere and on everyone's lips. However, their effects are anything but equally distributed. Those who have contributed the least to the global emissions debacle are suffering the most from the consequences of the climate catastrophe, which is already well advanced...
02 Jun
16:00 - 17:30
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
My Tanzania – acrobatics and dance with young artists from the Kigamboni Community Centre (KCC)
The play shows everyday life in Tanzania, the challenges many people face and how they overcome them.
Mainly it is about difficulties...
02 Jun
17:00 - 17:30
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
(Post)Colonial Expert Panel meets UNITED NATIONS
The "Decade for People of African Descent" (2015 - 2024) proclaimed by the United Nations commits all member states to promote the rights and recognition of people of African descent and to combat discrimination and racism. Cologne is participating in the implementation and has set itself the goal of coming to terms with the city's (post)colonial heritage
02 Jun
17:30 - 19:00
FORUM Volkshochschule am Neumarkt
Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices) – Film Screening and Talk
Using rare film, photo and sound archives, Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices) recounts the adventure of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative founded in 1977 by West African migrant workers in Paris to ...
02 Jun
18:00 - 21:00
Filmhaus Köln
Diaspora remittance: curse or blessing
Curse or BlessingForms and Strategies of Sustainable Support for the Country of Origin by the Diaspora
02 Jun
18:00
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Music as a socio-political mouthpiece – Artist Talk and concert with the Cape Verdean band “Grupo Pilon
"Music expresses what cannot be said and what is impossible to be silent about." (Victor Hugo). Grupo Pilon" is a band with Cape Verdean roots, which lives in the second generation in Europe's diaspora.
02 Jun
18:00
Groove Attack Recordstore
Maastrichterstr. 49, 50672 Cologne
Presentation of SAMSON
In times of intolerance and polarization, Samson, a young man with a hero's mission, channels the rage of his oppressed population and wreaks terror on those he considers...
02 Jun
18:30
Depot 1 des Schauspiel Köln
Roundtable: Biodiversity and Food Security
Our Roundtable's discussion is set against the backdrop of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 15) agreement of putting 30 per cent of the planet and ...
02 Jun
19:00
Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung
The Transforming Museum And Its Publics – Roundtable on museums in post/colonial societies
In the past, in Europe as much as in Africa, many museums and their exhibitions were catering to white European publics. In the globalized and postmigrant societies...
02 Jun
20:00
FORUM Volkshochschule am Neumarkt
BIKUTSI 3000 – Dance performance/ European premiere of the pan-African version
In Blick Bassy's Afrofuturistic narrative, the Queen of Nkolmesseng in present-day Cameroon leads a resistance through the centuries to bring the continent...
02 Jun
21:00 - 22:05
TanzFaktur Köln / Halle
Aftershow Party “Milieu Tropicale” with DJ Marcus Kwa
"Music expresses what cannot be said and what is impossible to be silent about." (Victor Hugo). Grupo Pilon" is a band with Cape Verdean roots, which lives in the second generation in Europe's diaspora.
02 Jun
23:00
King Georg
OLUZAYO Clubnight – Catu Diosis, Jay Mitta & Kadilida, Hibotep, Dope Gal Soundsystem
The OLUZAYO club night, co-hosted by Cologne's nascent international Dope Gal soundsystem, features female artists, MCs and dancers from Africa and the African diaspora.
02 Jun
23:30
City Garden / JAKI
Venloer Str. 40, 50672 Cologne
L’Océan Noir – An Afro-American View of Atlantic History: Exhibition by William Adjété Wilson
Appliqué" is the name of the elaborately crafted tapestries made of fabric in Benin, with which important events were already recorded at the court of the kingdom of Dahomey. This...
03 Jun
All Day
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
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