UNSUNG Sheroes & Heroes of Afrikan Heritage - Closing Party
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Sat 29 September 2018 // 19:00
/ Venue Space
Come and celebrate with us as we come to the end of the month-long UNSUNG residency at the Star and Shadow Cinema! After taking in the exhibition of Afrikan Sheroes and Heroes, watching our season of Afrikan films, and participating in stimulating and useful workshops and talks, it's time to PARTY!
The headline act are our favourite international-local Sheroes of Afrikan Heritage, the inimitable Ladies of Midnight Blue! If you haven't seen these ladies play before, then you are in for a treat! Their Afro-Latin rhythms are captivating and dance-inducing, their musicality always on point and their energy and humour are infectious! Ladies of Midnight Blue are an Afro-Latin percussion & brass duet who have performed all over the world for various festivals, charity benefits, peace rallies, and protest marches. In the last 10 years they have been workshop facilitators and guest artists for youth programs, grade schools, universities, and community organizations. Their art and music workshops focus on community building and raising awareness concerning issues of inequality on all levels. They are the originators and producers of the unique Harambee Pasadia Afro-fusion Camping Festival, which is always a serious amount of fun, and full of the richness of all that Afrikan and diasporan cultures have to offer.
A number of young local performers of Afrikan heritage will be supporting the Ladies, and Oz Peters will play the music and songs he has composed especially for UNSUNG, and which took their inspiration from the range of sounds he sampled for his sound-art installation 'Patchwork', his commission for the UNSUNG exhibition.
There will be a full bar on, and tantalising West Afrikan food available courtesy of Nobia's catering.
See you there!
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During the month of September, the programme UNSUNG Sheroes & Heroes of Afrikan Heritage by Dynamix CIC is in residence at Star & Shadow. The programme includes an exhibition, art commissions, workshops, and a film season with movies by and about Afrikans and the Afrikan diaspora.