TREFFPUNKT.AFRIKA#2
3.5.2012 - 5.5.2012


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From 3rd until 5th of May 2012 the cultural organization STADTWERKSTATT Linz arranges together with local and national partners the international festival TREFFPUNKT.AFRIKA#2. It will partly be held at a ship (the MS Schönbrunn) on the bank of the danube. The focus of the festival lies on a two-day Symposium with the topic „Survival of the Hippest? - Urban Art and Culture in Africa“

The lectures will be accompanied by Filmscreenings, a Concert and DJ Nightline with musicians from Ghana, Zimbabwe, Côte d'Ivoir, France, Germany and Austria and an International Soccer Tournament.
The Book Cafe - A Cultural and Political Hotspot in Harare
Presentation of the project and discussion with Chirikure Chirikure. Furthermore a recorded interview with Penny Yon / CEO Book Cafe.

What sets The Book Café apart from other venues in Harare and the rest of Zimbabwe, is that it is much more than an eating, drinking or dancing place. It offers a broad range of facilities and is basically the hub for arts and culture in Harare. In a country in which spaces for free expression have been shrinking, The Book Café has defied many odds to remain almost a second home for most artists, arts practitioners, academics and the open minded public. www.zimbabwearts.org

Funkfeuer Linz / Chirikure Chirikure
Chirikure Chirikure is a former member of The Book Café Board of Directors and is one of the artists who have been performing there regulary from its inception. He is also patron of The Book Café House of Hunger Poetry Slam programme. He is currently on an arts fellowship in Berlin, Germany.