25.09. | 19:30 – 01:00 An informal opening night will take place at Stadtwerkstatt, where we invite our guests to explore the photo exhibition „Be Yourself – Stay Black and Beautiful“ and the Time’s Up project „ToR – Tales of Resilience“. Highlight of the evening: the screening of the internationally celebrated documentary film „The Stuart Hall…
26.09. | 16:00-16:45 JOHNNY PITTS „On Afropean Culture“ I spent five months traveling through Europe on trains, searching for an alternative side of the continent, not offered in the tourist literature of its cities. Mine was a search for ‚Afropea‘, the land of 2nd, 3rd and fourth generation children of immigrants, too indelibly connected…
25.09. | 21:00 – 22:30 THE STUART HALL PROJECT Dir. John Akomfrah (2013, UK, 98min) Synopsis: Stuart Hall is one of the most influential and esteemed cultural theorists of a generation. A thinker and commentator, his peers include other giants of political commentary such as Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, Alan Ginsberg, Michel Foucault and Gore Vidal. …
