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CONTENTS
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COMIC EXHIBITION: “Spirou4rights”
9 cinéma: 21 Nuits avec Pattie (2015) 10 BARAZANI: Sisi Tambala 11 BARAZANI: Dabo & Ashimba 12 cinéma: Tilaï (1990) 13 salsa social 15 LIVE MUSIC CONCERT: THE MAFIK 18 World Press Photo Exhibition 19 Open Discussion on Photo Journalism 20 CINE KIDS: La Jeune Fille sans mains (2016) 21 Nuit des idées 22 concert: busara teaser M’Toro Chamou 22 concert: busara teaser Dago Roots 24 sauti za busara zanzibar 25 cinéma: L’Amour est un crime parfait (2013) 26 art exhibition 28 CONTEMPORARY DANCE NIGHT 29 Short Film: SUKARI 31 cinéma: Primaire (2016) 31 CINE KIDS: Braguino (2017) 32 art EXHIBITION: DRUMS AND MARIMBa 34 Documentary Screening: les arbres Tanzaniens
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Chers amis de l’Alliance française, Chers étudiants,
Dear friends of Alliance Française, Dear students,
Toute l’équipe de l’Alliance française de Dar es Salaam se joint à moi pour vous souhaiter une année de bonheur, de joie et de rencontres inoubliables. L’alliance française restera en 2019, un centre culturel ouvert sur le Monde, ouvert à tous et soucieux de provoquer les échanges et les découvertes. Espace de promotion des artistes tanzaniens, nous avons également à cœur de proposer le plus souvent possible, des spectacles, expositions ou performances d’artistes francophones et venus de France. Ces deux premiers mois de l’année sont à l’image de la programmation que nous souhaitons vous présenter. Les propositions sont variées et de qualité et couvrent des univers artistiques différents. Les arts visuels sont à l’honneur avec de belles expositions proposées par nos partenaires des ambassades suisses et des Pays-Bas. La photographie et la peinture nous permettront de nous évader et de nous interroger sur le monde qui nous entoure. Artiste tanzanien prometteur, originaire de Bagamoyo, Amani Abeid présentera dans ce cadre, sa première exposition en solo. Associés de longue date aux organisateurs du Festival Sauti za Busara, nous organiserons cette année, pour la première fois, un concert proposé comme un apéritif, la veille de l’ouverture du principal événement musical de Zanzibar. Deux groupes français seront alors accueillis sur notre scène. Venus en voisins, M’toro Chamou (Mayotte) et DagoRoots (La Réunion) viennent chacun d’un département français de l’Océan Indien et seront également proposés dans la cour du vieux fort de Zanzibar, au cours du Festival. Et ne manquez pas le concert de The Mafik, organisé en partenariat avec le Goethe Institut à l’occasion de la deuxième session du stage proposé aux ingénieurs du son de nos structures culturelles partenaires. Belle et douce année 2019.
The whole team of Alliance Française of Dar es Salaam joins me to wish you a happy and prosperous year and memorable encounters. Alliance Française will remain in 2019, a cultural center open to the world, open to all and keen to promote exchanges and discoveries. As an area for the promotion of Tanzanian artists, we are also keen to organize, as often as possible, shows, exhibitions or performances of French-speaking artists from France
A bientôt dans votre Alliance Française !
The first two months of the year are just like the image of the program we intend to present to you. The proposals are diverse and of quality and cover different artistic space. The visual arts are in the spotlight with stunning exhibitions offered by our partners from the embassies of Switzerland and the Netherlands. Photography and painting will enable us to escape and question ourselves about the world around us. A talented Tanzanian artist from Bagamoyo, Amani Abeid will showcase his first solo exhibition. As long-time partners of the organizers of the Sauti za Busara Festival, we will organize this year, for the first time, a concert planned to be a teaser, the day before the opening of the main musical event of Zanzibar. Two French groups will then be performing on our stage. Coming from neighboring countries, M’toro Chamou (Mayotte) and Dago Roots (Reunion) each come from a French province of the Indian Ocean and will also be performing in the courtyard of the old fort of Zanzibar, during the Festival. And do not miss the concert of The Mafik, organized in partnership with the Goethe-Institut on the occasion of the second session of the course proposed to the sound engineers of our cultural partner structures.
Frédéric TIBERTI
Director
Wishing you a happy and prosperous year 2019.
See you soon at your French Alliance and everywhere in the city!
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cinéma
COMIC EXHIBITION OPENING MON
CLOSING SAT
10th DEC 2018
19th JAN 2019
FRI 11TH JAN 2019
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “Spirou4rights” “In 2018, we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Written in the aftermath of the Second World War, this founding text is just as relevant today as it was in 1948. On this occasion, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Journal SPIROU wished to carry out an exhibition “#spirou4rights”, dedicated to human rights and the Declaration. The most talented comic book writers have focused on telling this universal text, addressing serious and essential topics with humor and emotion. The exhibition “#spirou4rights”, comprising 17 panels, was created from the drawing boards from this special issue of SPIROU and presents the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights illustrated in comic strips. “
21 Nuits avec Pattie (2015) During the height of summer, Caroline, a forty-year-old Parisian and mother, arrives in a small village in the south of France. She must hastily organize the funeral of her mother, a flighty lawyer, whom she barely used to see. Caroline is welcomed by Pattie, who likes to talk about her love affairs with the local men to anyone who’ll listen. While the whole valley gets ready for the traditional mid-summer dance, Caroline’s mother’s corpse mysteriously disappears.
Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu KINGDOM OF BELGIUM www.diplomatie.belgium.be
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BARAZANI
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BARAZANI
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16th JAN 2019
16th JAN 2019
Sisi Tambala
Dabo & Ashimba
Since their formation in 1997 this group has been receiving wide critical acclaim for their originality in reinterpreting traditional Tanzanian music and dance styles into their own “ngwashala” style. They sing in a variety of tribal languages, English and Kiswahili, portraying messages of African unity and peace as well as other social and economic issues. In April they performed at Youth Festival of SADC countries in Mozambique and were the 1st runners up in M-Net Where U At Awards for Best Group 2001.
Dabo & Ashimba Quartet is an Afro Funk grooves, the band based in Zanzibar/ Tanzania. Members is an combination from different back ground of Music Schools in Africa (East & west) with diverse international music backgrounds. One of the Zanzibaries most established group.
Alliance Française | 7 PM | FREE ENTRANCE
Alliance Française | 7 PM | FREE ENTRANCE
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Musicians (4) 1st album 2017. Preparing for South Africa music Tour Marsh 2019 & Poland Apr/May 2019.
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cinéma
FRI 18th JAN 2019
19th January, 2019
Tilaï (1990) Saga smiles as he looks down on his village from a hillside, takes out his horn and blows a blast on it to announce his return from a two-year absence. Though his arrival seems to provoke some uncertainty and apprehension, the whole village comes to meet him, but only his brother, Kougri, comes forward to greet him. He reveals that Nomenaba, their father, has married Saga’s fiancée, Nogma, during Saga’s absence: “Now she’s our mother”. Saga refuses to enter the village, and settles in an abandoned hut nearby. Saga makes a secret nocturnal visit to the village to tell his mother, Koudpoko, Nomenaba’s first wife, he is leaving, but encounters Nogma, who has been massaging the aged Nomenaba.
16th February, 2019
Happy New Year! Happy Beginnings! Happy Dancing! Be part of the experience and brace yourself for a night of Social Dancing and networking with a great crowd, breathtaking ambience and a musical mix of awesomely blended and keenly selected Latin tunes “Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba, Semba, ChaCha, Tango, Merengue,” mark your calendar and get busy with us on every 3rd Saturday of the month and let’s just dance…
FREE SALSA LESSON
6 pm - 7 pm
Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo Alliance Française | 6.30 PM | FREE ENTRANCE 12
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LIVE MUSIC CONCERT
THUR 24th JAN 2019
MUSIC CONCERT BY THE MAFIK The Mafik, a band from Dar es Salaam, is working with 10 aspiring sound engineers from Tanzania in a five days’ workshop to enhance their capacity in producing good sound. The workshop will be facilitated by German sound engineer Nicolas Sierig from 21st to 25th January 2019 and completed by a concert at the Alliance Française on Thursday 24th January with the Mafik. This workshop is a collaborative initiative from the Alliance Française and the Goethe-Institut to strengthen practical capacity of stakeholders in the music scene of Tanzania. In October 2018 the first phase of the workshop took place at the Alliance Française with a show case concert at the Goethe-Institut. Come end enjoy the fruits of passion for sound.
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EXHIBITION EXHIBITION 2019 2018
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Come visit the World Press Photo Exhibition 2018 on its world-wide tour showcasing the stories that matter! News photographs and stories from all over the world are seen in this exhibition. From environmental issues to sports, there will be something for everyone. This the years’ exhibition particularly special2018 for Tanzania Come visit World Pressis Photo Exhibition on its because one tour of the winning stories includes by world-wide showcasing the stories thatphotos matter!made News photographs and stories from swimming all over thelessons world are seen in this Anna Boyiazis of women having from instructor exhibition. From environmental issues to sports, there will be Kazija in Zanzibar. something for everyone. This years’ exhibition is particularly special for Tanzania because one of the winning stories includes photos made by Anna Boyiazis of women having swimming lessons from instructor Kazija in Zanzibar.
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Ronaldo Schemidt, Agence France-Presse.
EXHIBITION 2018 EXHIBITION 2019
Anna Boyiazis
EXHIBITION 2018 EXHIBITION 2019
Is telling your thoughts, perceptions and stories through photography your dream? Then this could be something for you! On Friday 1 February 2019, 15:00 pm at the Alliance Française (Dar es Salaam), Hivos together with Tamwa will organize an open in which2018 experts discussion about photojournalism Come visit the World Press Photo Exhibition on from its the field will exchange their experiences and thoughts. Even more world-wide tour showcasing the stories that matter! News photographs stories alltwo overlocal the world are seen inwill thisbe exciting is thatand during thisfrom event photographers exhibition. environmental to sports, will be awarded withFrom a grant of EUR 5,000issues each from Voice,there a partnership something for everyone. This years’ exhibition is particularly of Hivos and Oxfam Novib! Keep an eye on the Facebook page of special for Tanzania because one of the winning stories includes the Netherlands embassy @DutchembassyTanzania Hivos @ photos made by Anna Boyiazis of women having and swimming voice.global.online for more information about how to apply for the lessons from instructor Kazija in Zanzibar.
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CINE CINE KIDS CLUB
SAT 26th JAN 2019
Nuit des idées
THUR 31st JAN 2019
The Night of Ideas PLASTIC WASTE. OCEANS SAY STOP. WHAT ABOUT US? La Jeune Fille sans mains (2016) In hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes from the Devil who, in revenge, deprives her of her hands. So begins a long journey towards the light... The Girl Without Hands is the audacious feature debut from acclaimed short filmmaker Sébastien Laudenbach, whose beautiful and dreamlike take on the Brothers Grimm story has created an adult fairytale destined to become a classic.
“La Nuit des Idées” (the Night of Ideas) is celebrated since 2016 all around the world on the initiative of the French Institute. In the evening of the last Thursday of January, every year, French and International voices gather on all five continents to discuss major challenges of our century. Conferences, forums, exhibitions and artistic performances are organized around one common theme, which this year is “Face au present” (Facing the present). Panel Discussion - What are the multiple impacts of plastic waste pollution? Our five panelists, coming from the public and private sectors as well as the research and civil society sectors, will discuss the consequences of pollution from plastic waste on climate change, biodiversity and health.
Director: Sébastien Laudenbach
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concert / 100% live
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concert / 100% live
6th FEB 2019
busara teaser M’Toro Chamou (Mayotte) Originally from Mayotte, M’Toro Chamou mixes the transcendent vibrations of the traditional rhythms of its island, such as M’Godro, Shigoma or Chengue with western sounds blues-rock. An unclassifiable style, which is defined by Afro M’Godro Blues Rock. His new album Sika Mila, which means “preserve your culture” comes out April 26, 2019. An opus that showcases his culture, where Mahoran percussion such as dry and n’goma rub shoulders with electric guitars, the banjo and the ‘harmonica. An album with chiaded arrangements and catchy melodies, pure jewels, a trip that takes you from the islands of the Comoros archipelago to Mississippi. M’TORO CHAMOU also performing at the sauti za busara - zanzibar
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busara teaser Dago Roots (Reunion Islands) Influenced by his personal history between Madagascar, France and Reunion, Dagoroots reflects the music and sounds of his wanderings. As a musician and singer-songwriter, this charismatic artist combines different rhythms in his sound creation that he calls the Rezzega, a mix of reggae, rock, jazz, traditional maloya, salegy and world music. Originally from Madagascar, where he bathed in music from an early age, Dago Roots touched his first guitar aged 6 years. At 14, he arrived in Reunion Island and took up formal guitar lessons. He also lived several years in France, where he had the opportunity to collaborate with other artists. Dago Roots also performing at the sauti za busara - zanzibar
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cinéma CINE CLUB
FRI 8th FEB 2019
L’Amour est un crime parfait (2013) Living with his dominating and eccentric sister in their mountain lodge, Marc is caught between work, the absolutely stunning architecture of the college, and home, a beautifully appointed place of warmth and wood. The divergent physical spaces reflect his Jekyll-and- Hyde personality. One is where he meets the women he beds, the other is his playground. When an attractive student disappears and her stepmother arrives on campus determined to uncover her life is about to become even more so.
Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
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Art Exhibition OPENING THUR
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CONTEMPORARY MAKERS BY AMANI ABEID “Contemporary makers is a book written by Robert Weil in 1973 where, he gathered different information of the then tool makers. The tittle inspired me to look at it in a different creative perspective to define the context and roles of African contemporary makers in determining continental prosperity. In my work of art, contemporary makers have widely been explored by their occupations and roles in politics, economic, religious, technological, environmental and cultural arena. I use metaphoric language articulated with beauty, sense of humor and detailed patterns merging from the background to the central subject questioning and challenging their deal of social change.“
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Short Film CINE CLUB
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21st FEB 2019
21st FEB 2019
CONTEMPORARY DANCE NIGHT BY NANTEA DANCE COMPANY Nantea Dance Company is a dance company based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The company produces new works and activities through dance exchanges, trainings, projects and performances. Nantea Dance was founded and established in 2015 by Alawi Saidi Alawi, Salum Kabasa and Samwel Japhet and has later been joined by two other dancers, Shaa Mwanandumi and Mussa Suleimani. Since 2018, the company organizes dance events called ‘Contemporary Dance Night’ twice in a year. The aim of this event is to provide a platform for young Tanzanian contemporary dance artists to present their work to diverse audiences. In the future, Nantea Dance Company strives to invite accomplished choreographers, artistic directors of festivals and companies from Africa and other continents.
SUKARI Synopsis: Come 2030 it is estimated that about 42% of youth population will be residing in Africa, however, while they are facing economic hardship, what are possible decisions they opt to make out there? A graduate of University of Dar es Salaam, Born and raised in Tanga, Tanzania. Hatibu Madudu has over ten years’ experience in media industry, combining his knowledge of Art in social and community based issues and research, Hatibu Madudu have been involved in media campaigns for Action Aid (Don’t sell our future), Julius Nyerere Intellectual International Festival (JNIF) as publicity committee convener under Mwalimu Nyerere Professorial chair in Pan-African studies, Foundation for civil society and Empowerment Enterprise Africa, just to name a few.
Writer & Director: Hatibu Madudu Alliance Française | 7 PM FREE ENTRANCE / DONATION APPRECIATED 28
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cinéma CINE CLUB
FRI 22nd FEB 2019
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Primaire (2016) Florence is a school teacher devoted to her students. When she encounters young Sacha, a child with problems, she will do everything she can to help him, even to the point of neglecting her own children, her own life, and of questioning her vocation. Little by little Florence realizes that we learning has no age limit.
Director: Hélène Angel @Alliance_Dar
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CINE CINE KIDS CLUB
SAT 23rd FEB 2019
Braguino (2017) In the middle of the Siberian taiga, 450 miles from the nearest village, live two families: the Braguines and the Kilines. Not a single road leads there. A long trip on the Ienissei River, first by boat, then by helicopter, is the only way to reach Braguino. Self-sufficient, both families live there according to their own rules and principles. In the middle of the village: a barrier. The two families refuse to speak. In the river sits an island, where another community is being built: that of the children. Free, unpredictable, wild. Stemming from the fear of the other, that of wild beasts, and the joy procured by the immensity of the forest, unravels a cruel tale in which tensions and fear give shape to the geography of an ancestral conflict.
Art Exhibition
OPENING THUR
CLOSING SAT
28th FEB 2019
9th MAR 2019
DRUMS AND MARIMBA EXHIBITION by JEJI B In 1994 Jeji B decided to use traditional music instruments in his own music band. His main idea was to fuse traditional and modern music instruments. In his quest for a perfect and unique fusion, he realized that there were very few artists who were making traditional music instruments in Tanzania. And the few who were making them, were lacking in seriousness and creativity. To Jeji B the making of traditional music instruments reflects the dynamic creative impulses of any society. He was not satisfied with the static atmosphere surrounding the industry. He decided to make his own instruments starting with one marimba out of two old ones.
The Opening will be followed by a Concert.
Director: Clément Cogitore Alliance Française | 11 AM | FREE ENTRANCE 32
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Documentary Screening
FRI 1st MAR 2019
Learn Kiswahili for adults
les arbres Tanzaniens
Morning, Evening & Private Tuition
In Tanzania, Jeji B. is interested in the ancestral practices of the Makondé tribe, which he knows well, and he has made more than 250 wooden drums, thus bringing genuine works of art, reminiscent of memory and with its precious history, is a genuine act of resistance to the ravages of globalization, which in a subterranean but inescapable way robs the country’s wealth and begins the soul of the Tanzanian people. The forest is disappearing, taking with her the art of making instruments, music, and a whole section of the country’s culture.
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This screening will be followed by Q&A session which will be held after the screening.
Director: Julie Clavier Alliance Française | 6.30 PM | FREE ENTRANCE
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