Our International Projects in 2018
As in previous No Boundaries projects, our aim is to work across artistic genre boundaries, to connect artists internationally. The geographical breadth and the diversity of artistic expression are intended to make clear the different perspectives that we humans can have on the subject of nature, the environment and water, thereby opening up a multidimensionality.
Dry Waters - 2018
Senegal - Germany - Australia
DRY WATERS
SENEGAL, June 2018
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung presents the "Atlas des mers" in Dakar and we will be part of this presentation, with our project "Dry Waters": performances, new compositions, singer songwriting, senegalese griots and chora...
It will be all about the oceans!!!
Looking forward to this new encounter.
From June 18-June 22nd, 2018 Babacar Mbaye Ndaak (Dakar / Senegal), Georgie Fisher (Australia / Germany), Daniel "El Congo" Allen (Cuba / Germany), FATIM (Dakar / Senegal), Sira Sissokho (Drums) and Malik Sy (Dakar / Senegal) will work together for 3 days in order to create a whole performance dedicated to the OCEAN. Stories, lyrics and melodies will be created for this ocasion and put on stage in Dakar at the Heinrich Böll Office.
The whole performance will be the frame of the presentation of the French version of the "Atlas de Mer", published by Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
A short documentary
On September 2014, poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner (Marshall Islands) opened the UN Climate Summit with her poem "Dear Matafele Peinem", a text about her sinking homeland, the sinking Marshall Islands, which she wrote for her daughter. It is a poem about Climate Refugees and environmental changes manifesting in the Marshall Islands.
The much talked about Anthropocene encompasses the period of time in which humans have become one of the most important influencing factors on the biological, geological and atmospheric processes on Earth. With our project, we would like to launch a call for invited artists to address the question of how man-made environmental changes in their region relate to the seas, oceans and waters and how they affect people's everyday lives. The works created for this purpose will be collected by us and prepared for a performance in Dakar, which will also be filmed and recorded. Here the art speaks for itself.
During three workshop days, artists from Germany and Senegal will work on creating new texts, music and images on the theme of "oceans, seas, climate change" on the basis of the ocean atlas and their own life experiences. In the process, they present each other with existing works, which are then set to music or lyrics and drawn together, as well as creating completely new works.
After these 3 intensive days of rehearsals and work, the results will be performed on stage in Dakar. There will be a discussion in which 2-3 participating artists will talk about their experiences, and a performative part that is a symbiosis of concert, storytelling and poetry performance.
The program in Dakar:
Program:
18th June, 18h: MCU with Africulturban: Short Concert
21st June, 13h: Gorée Island, Musee de la Mer: Short Performance during the presentation of Atlas of the Ocean.
21st June, 19h: Heinrich Böll Foubdation: Concert
22nd June, 9h-14h: Maison des èclaireurs: Concert
Participating Artists:
Babacar Ndaak Mbaye (Griot), Fatym Sy (Spoken word / HipHop), Georgie Fisher (singer songwriter), Malick Sy (Bass), Sira Sissokho (Drums/ Percussion), Daniel "El Congo" Allen (Trumpet/ Percussion).
Senegal - Australia - Cuba and Germany meeting in Dakar in June 2018 to create new stories, lyrics, melodies dedicated to the OCEAN
From June 18-June 22nd, 2018 Babacar Mbaye Ndaak (Dakar / Senegal), Georgie Fisher (Australia / Germany), Daniel "El Congo" Allen (Cuba / Germany), FATIM (Dakar / Senegal), Sira Sissokho (Drums) and Malik Sy (Dakar / Senegal) will work together for 3 days in order to create a whole performance dedicated to the OCEAN. Stories, lyrics and melodies will be created for this ocasion and put on stage in Dakar at the Heinrich Böll Office.
The whole performance will be the frame of the presentation of the French version of the "Atlas de Mer", published by Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
For further information on our artists check out these videos:
Daniel "El Congo" Allen: Musical Director, curator, composer, trumpet, percussion from Cuba and Berlin:
Babacar Mbaye Ndaak: griot, teacher, poet, writer, co founder of national storytellers association "Léebóon ci leer":
Georgie Fisher: singer songwriter, performance artist from Australia, Sidney now in Berlin!!:
Fatim Sy: is a Senegalese MC, Slammer, Television Moderator and member of the Group Wa Bng 44 as well as member of Farafina Mousso.
She is one of the first female MCs in Senegal. She made her Debut with Wa Bmg 44 avec with whom she got the chance to tour through Senegal and Europe.
Her lyrics are fearless and does not hold back any of her opinions. In 2007 together with Gina, Angel and Njaaya, she founded the female HipHop Crew: Farafina Mousso. She represented Senegal at the Shanghai China International Arts Festival. For the Spanish Television she has produced several documentaries on environmental topics. At the moment she is working on a new production with the Label Bois Sakré.
Malick Sy: Bass Player, Dakar / Senegal
Malick SY is a Senegalese bass player who, at the age of 15, had a passion for music and began to play acoustic guitar. But very soon the bass guitar became his favorite instrument which engaged him in an exciting adventure made of meetings, discoveries and travels.
From self - taught training he was able to deepen his musical skills by attending the big names of Senegalese music at the beginning in the district of his adolescence at the "Diokhanés" and the great musical families of the Sicap Street 10 including the Cissé family (IBOU CISSE a member of the family is the keyboard player of YOUSSOU NDOUR) and the Faye (late HABIB FAYE was the bass player, keyboard player, composer and arranger of YOUSSOU NDOUR).In the 90 's he founded with his friends the XAMELE afro band which had a very good reputation in the Dakar music scene. 4 years later He saw his young talent rewarded by replacing HABIB FAYE in the Super Etoile’s group of YOUSSOU NDOUR for concert series in the largest halls of Dakar.
This event marked an important turning point in his musical career and he collaborated with leading artists of the Dakar music scene as Side Man for live concerts and studio sessions.
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