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1-31 October 2010 iDANS Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival presented by Bimeras Cultural Foundation invites once more to creativity! The Istanbul based interdisciplinary arts festival iDANS will take place between 1-31st of October . The fourth edition of iDANS will rock the streets and the stages of Istanbul with 154 artists, 41 projects and more than 50 performances. The festival will continue with additional events until the end of 2010. Organized around the theme of " Cosmopolitanism ," iDANS aims to bring into attention the complexity, hybridity and heterogeneity of identities and to expose the multiple cultural affiliations of artistic practices. The festival program highlights the "choreographic" as a practice of cultural, political and affective negotiation and probes the significance of artistic expressions for a democratic public space. An Overview of the Festival Program The festival program presents some 41 projects including 5 commissi...

Image caption: Film still from Testament (1988), dir: John Akomfrah Autograph ABP is pleased to launch the film season with the award winning film Testament (1988:80 mins), a Black Audio Film Collective production followed by a discussion with director John Akomfrahnon Friday 1st October, 6.30pm. Testament focuses on the Kwame Nkrumah era in Ghanaian history and paints a portrait of a female African government minister forced into exile after a coup d'état in 1966. Two decades later the protagonist returns to confront the country she left behind. Filmed partly in Ghana, Akomfrah's film explores themes of diaspora, memory, political struggle and liberatory idealism. Contact Rivington Place directly for further details and to reserve a space; £3.50 on the door. Autograph ABP Rivington Place London EC2A 3BA T +44 (0)20 7729 9200 F +44 (0)20 7739 8748 www.rivingtonplace.org

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6.45pm Thursday 23 September Tricycle Cinema, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6, BOX OFFICE: 0207 328 1000 The documentary exposes how the British establishment have utilised propaganda and deliberately demonized and marginalized Islam as a means to bolster support for their wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Additional screening: Riverside Studios 7.30pm Thursday 30 Sept Crisp Road, Hammersmith BOX OFFICE: 0208 237 1111 We strongly recommend that you purchase your tickets in advance as ricenpeas events are generally sold out. This is a documentary not to be missed. Please feel free to forward this invitation For more information visit our website and check out this month's issue of our online magazine. http://ricenpeas.com

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 18TH SEPTEMBER 2010. I am happy to inform you about the first Triangle Arts Trust Workshop in Lagos organised in collaboration with CCA,Lagos to be held from the 4th-17th October 2010 at Stone House in Alakuko . The workshop hopes to accommodate 18 professional artists from Nigeria, across Africa as well as internationally. The workshop is open to artists working in all media. Whilst the focus will be artists from Nigeria (up to 10) priority will also be given to artists from the Global South. Applications are also welcome from around the world. The two-week workshop will bring together a group of artists working in various disciplines to share ideas,experiences and to make new work inspired by the context and the opportunity to work alongside other artists. Approximately 18 artists will participate in the workshop, half from Nigeria and the rest from other countries in Africa and further afield. During the workshop participants will also be invited to present...

16 September 2010 6.30-8.30pm, Rivington Place, London Autograph ABP presents two major photographic exhibitions: James Barnor’s street and studio portraits from the late 1940s to the 1970s, in Ghana and England, and the W.E.B. Du Bois collection of portraits compiled for the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Both aim to explore the notion of the photographic archive in relation to visual politics of race, representation and difference, as well as the question of modernity within post-colonial and transatlantic perspectives on photography in the 21st century. James Barnor’s archive was produced during a career that started in 1949. It covers a remarkable period in history, bridging continents and photographic genres as it creates a transatlantic narrative marked by his passionate interest in people and cultures. Many of his works will be shown for the first time in the UK. Through the medium of portraiture, Barnor’s photographs represent societies in transition: Ghana moving towar...

Call for Entries Deadline: 20 September 2010 www.videonale.org "A place for discoveries" – That's what the German magazine art wrote about VIDEONALE, the international festival for contemporary video art. From 14 April to 29 May 2011 the 13th edition of VIDEONALE takes place at Kunstmuseum Bonn/Germany. You can submit single or – this year for the first time – multi channel works created in the past two years for VIDEONALE 13. The entry deadline is 20 September, 2010 (post mark). Founded in 1984 the biannually initiated VIDEONALE is counted amongst the oldest festivals for video art in Germany and Europe. Besides its high standard of presented works, VIDEONALE reached a widely accepted reputation in its attempt to develop new forms of presentation for video art. Like in the past also at VIDEONALE 13 a team of architects and designers will develop a cutting-edge exhibition architecture to meet the requirements of the reception of media art. For the 13th VIDEONALE about 40 ...