Congo sur Seine: far away but close by culture

28/01/2021
Local: 5:00 pm
Paris: 5:00 pm
INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU CONGO (EX CCF) ROND POINT DE LA REPUBLIQUE, BRAZZAVILLE, CG
Congo Republic
FRENCH
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The French Institute of the Congo proposes on its sites in Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire a program built on two axes: culture and new solidarities, in partnership with the Delegation of the European Union in Congo.

Congo is going through a very hard economic crisis. Indeed, the country's oil-based economy has reached a breaking point. In addition to the first oil shock in 2016, the COVID-19-induced shock in 2020, whose destructive effects have been amplified by the health measures of confinement, curfews, fourteen days, etc., have been added to the first oil shock of 2016.

What does it mean to be "close" in such a context and how can we remain so?

- by new solidarities, to survive and live together,
- and through culture, to create and imagine new worlds to be shared, alone or together, a challenge that finds its full resonance in this great country of music, literature, dance and theatre that is the Congo.

5:00 pm to 6:15 pm Round table: New solidarities in Congo

 

 The crisis in our economic and social models calls for the construction of these "new solidarities". The IFC Brazzaville will welcome major solidarity actors of the civil society of Congo for Moderator: Tassé Abye, head of mission of the TELEMA project (Expertise France)
The notion of otherness will be at the heart of this round table. How, by recognising the other as another, and in a spirit of welcome, we discover a new closeness to others, with the testimonies of :
- Mixiama LABA, an artist from Pointe-Noire who grims himself as a "madwoman" to plead the cause of artists and call for benevolence.
- Cyprien Cheval volontaire social international à l'Ecole spéciale, who will describe the causes of his commitment and what this solidarity parenthesis brings him.
- Ange Ngonazmi who is a nurse and who marauds in Brazzaville with young women victims of prostitution.
- Sister Ida about her commitment to autistic children.
- An official of the NGO Renaduc point lecture who will speak about the children's view of COVID and has adapted his practices and reading proposals (which are a vector of encounter with the other).
  18h30 to 19h30 : Afro Beatbox Kongo Jazz Concert

 

A 60mn concert of Afro Beatbox Kongo Jazz, after the ten minutes of discovery on the web TV of the night of ideas.
Three exceptional Congolese musicians from both sides of the Congo River get together to bring music together. The skins of the percussion instruments, the woods of the balafon of traditional African music interact with the brass of the jazz trumpet and the beatbox of hip hop. The beatbox is the voice, and it is through the voice that all music began, an eternity ago... A mother cradling her child, a song around the fire, towards the stars, in the night.
Afro Beatbox Kongo Jazz can make you hear the world of the invisible, the ancients and the sirens.
Afro Beatbox Kongo Jazz can also take you to the streets or the hectic markets of Brazzaville or Kinshasa today, two cities where every morning the fight for survival begins .
With:
May's Bantsimba, trumpet (Brazzaville)
Kratos Mawaza, beatbox (Kinshasa)
Alexandre Mikiouza dit Muleck percussions et balafon (Brazzaville)
CONGO SUR SEINE - FAR AWAY BUT CLOSE BY CULTURE

Musical creation filmed in Brazzaville and interview in Paris with Prof. Fonkoua, broadcast as part of the 24h de Nuit et d'Idées.

The theme "The right distance from people and things" will be declined through culture, which federates, brings people together and helps them find their right place in the world.
Musical creation at the end of a residency of the Afro Beatbox Kongo Jazz group.

This will be their very first concert, initiated by the French Institute of Congo for the Night of Ideas 2020.May's Bantsimba, trumpet (Brazzaville) Kratos Beat, beatbox (Kinshasa), Alexandre
Mikiouza dit Muleck percussions and balafon (Brazzaville).

Professor Romuald Fonkoua, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Foundation for the Memory of Slavery will give an introduction to creation, using the music in the work of Édouard Glissant as a starting point.
Reflection through music on a dialectic of proximity: response to distancing in time and space by bringing together through culture and a common heritage.

- Away: African music, jazz and hip hop
- Far and near: African music in the Congo, jazz and hip-hop born out of the deportation of slavery.
- Close: 3 artists from both sides of the river

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