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MC: JEMEDARI Performances by Kitu Sewer, Wenyeji, Wanjiku, Elani, DJ TimDawg and much more LIVE @ Sarakasi Dome, Ngara Road, Ngara, Nairobi Saturday, February 27th, 2010, 9am-3pm OPEN MIC: 1pm Free Entry COMEDY-SINGERS-HIP-HOP-POETRY- SPOKEN WORD -B-BOYING - GRAFFITI - SELF ELEVATION

The American University in Cairo Performance and Visual Arts Department and Townhouse invite you to participate in Windows A collaborative multichannel video installation project by Aras Ozgun Sharjah Art Gallery and Townhouse Gallery 6 – 23 March 2010 Deadline for Application: Thursday, 28 February 2010 The main idea of this project is to provide an open framework (literally, "frames") that can combine and cultivate many different experimental narratives, aesthetic techniques and approaches that are possible in video. Each frame/video is open to be called with a performance as well as a documentary, with sound, acts, or a still-life or a landscape image. Each artists contribution can re!ect a personal statement/concern relating to a limit situation between private and public. While each contributors work remains as an autonomous piece/expression, it resonates with the others at the same time, and forms a collective, participatory body of work. Program Session 1 - Introductor...

..... by SENAM OKUDZETO (Lives and Works in Basel, Switzerland) DATE & TIME SATURDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 3PM PLACE CCA,LAGOS 9 MCEWEN STREET, OFF HERBERT MACAULAY ST, SABO, YABA, LAGOS GUEST ARTIST BIO SENAM OKUDZETO IS A TRANSNATIONAL ARTIST, WRITER, AND SCHOLAR, (GHANA /UK/USA). BORN IN CHICAGO, USA, SHE SPENT HER CHILDHOOD LIVING IN GHANA, NIGERIA, THE UK, AND USA SHE NOW DIVIDES THE YEAR BETWEEN PROJECTS IN BASEL, LONDON, NEW YORK, AND ACCRA. SHE RECEIVED HER BA FROM THE SLADE SCHOOL OF FINE ART, UCL, LONDON, HER MASTER’S FROM THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON AND CONTINUED POST-GRADUATE STUDY AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM’S INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM IN NEW YORK. IN 2003/2004 OKUDZETO WAS AWARDED A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AT THE RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY. RECENT PROJECTS INCLUDE A SOLO SHOW AT KUNSTRAUM LAKESIDE KLAGENFURT, AUSTRIA (2009), A SOLO PROJECT AT PS1 MOMA -’PORTES-ORANGES’ (2007), THE DAK’ART BIENALLE IN SENEGAL (2006), WHERE SHE REPRESENTED THE...

7 Weeks, 7 Residencies, 7 Ways to Activate Change Stanley Picker Gallery in collaboration with the Live Art Development Agency 9 February - 27 March 2010 Featuring: Steven Levon Ounanian & Thomas Thwaites / Áine Phillips / Sean Burn / Ansuman Biswas / Stacy Makishi & Yoshiko Shimada / Prick Your Finger / The Vacuum Cleaner Week 2: Áine Phillips ³The Lost Runway² 16-20 February Using the conventions of the fashion show format, Áine Phillips¹ The Lost Runway is a collection of specially created sculptural costumes, each dedicated to a Œlost girl¹ as a living personal monument embodying the story of her life. The Lost Runway is an ideological space invested with beauty, desire, loss and longing. The work is a sensitive, poetic and challenging testimonial to missing persons, and the lifelong searches of their friends and families, giving public form to private memory in the service of human freedom and the right to the protection of life. www.ainephillips.com Please visit www.stanl...

by Elizabeth Salmon culled from http://www.catchavibe.co.uk/spotlight-on-poet-inua-ellams/5605/ With his play The 14th Tale being picked up at the National Theatre, Inua Ellams met up with Catch a Vibe to talk about poetry and his numerous projects. Spoken word artist - Inua EllamsCatch a Vibe: When did you decide to become a Poet? Inua Ellams: I didn’t decide to become a poet. It was by accident. I wrote a poem and my English teacher told me it wasn’t bad. I didn’t think of it as a poem just me writing rubbish on paper. Then a friend of mine dared me to write a sonnet, which I did, but even then there were just far too much obscure hip-hop references for it to qualify as literature, or so I thought. Then I came to London from Dublin and another friend of mine played me a CD – Amethyst Rockstar by Saul Williams and I saw what he tried to do with literature and I wanted to do the same thing. So I began to chase it… I guess I didn’t really see myself as a poet until people started calli...

QUESTIONS FROM THE PAST Friday 12 February 2010, 14.00–15.30 Artist Grace Ndiritu works at the intersection of film and performance. This talk uses performance video art from her Still Life and Responsible Tourism series to dialogue with paintings from the Orientalism movement and Henri Matisse, examining how these works influenced Western ideas of Africa in the late nineteenth century. Tate Britain Duffield Room Millbank London £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/talks/20951.htm ACTION 30 January to 28 March 2010 Artists: Beverley Bennett, Appau Boayke- Yiadom, Grace Ndiritu, Robin Deacon an exhibition curated by Sonia Boyce as part of Liverpool and the Black Atlantic season including: Sonia Boyce: Like Love Parts One & Two at Bluecoat Gallery Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic at Tate Liverpool http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/afromodernism/around-liverpool.shtm Bluecoat Gallery School Lane Liverpool L...

Dates: Friday 19 February - Friday 19 March 2010 Open: Monday - Friday, 13.00 - 18.00 Private View: Thursday 18 February 2010, 18.00 - 21.00 Venue: Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, Wimbledon, SW19 3QA A video lounge with a changing programme of screenings and events, including key works that have championed the medium from the 1960’s to 2010. Curated by Terry Smith, Teaching Fellow in Drawing at Wimbledon College of Art. For further information please visit www.experimentaldrawingclass.com

Saturday 6 February 2010, 10.30–17.30 This symposium focuses on the use of the spoken word in artistic practice and its manifestations in sonic and audiovisual art works. Taking the lead from the recently published anthology of works Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice, this event encompasses performances, talks and conversations by artists and researchers who employ spoken words as their material and inspiration. Contributors include Tomomi Adachi, Caroline Bergvall, Dani Gal, Brandon LaBelle, Cathy Lane, Oswaldo Macià, Nye Parry, Inua 'Phaze' Ellams, Imogen Stidworthy, David Toop and Trevor Wishart. In collaboration with CRISAP, Creative Research into Sound Art Practice, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £25 (£15 concessions), booking recommended For tickets book online http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/20795.htm or call 020 7887 8888.

Three 'In Conversation' sessions exploring current thinking in the research, making and curation of fashion-centred film Organised by the LCF Fashion Media and Image Hub Wednesday 20 January 2010 5.30pm RHS East Space Creative Director of SHOWstudio, Ross Phillips, will discuss fashion and clothing in relation to current developments in interactive and online media Wednesday 10 February 2010 5.30pm RHS East Space Filmmaker Adam Mufti will showcase current developments in creating editorial and advertising fashion films for online and discuss his experiences working on the BBC documentary on Christopher Kane Wednesday 3 March 2010 5.30pm RHS East Space Marketa Uhlirova, the director of the Fashion In Film Festival, will speak on the issues facing the curator of historic and contemporary films featuring fashion Talks will last one hour and drinks will be served afterwards. Please contact research@fashion.arts.ac.uk to RSVP or for further information. London College of Fashion, 2...