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"Don't Tell Us Who We Are!" puts Afro-descendant women in the foreground and shows that they are more than the common image that exists about them. This exhibition is an opportunity for everyone to learn the stories and trajectories of several amazing women.

Travel through the profiles, photos, professions, backgrounds and lives of the diverse women of the African Diaspora.

From 3 march 2023, "Don't Tell Us Who We Are!" will be exhibited at GC De Zeyp.

On the 3th of march the opening of the expo starts at 19u30

LUMENE, a film by David Shongo

Screening at 20h.

[The film screening will be followed by a discussion between artist David Shongo and curator and journalist Ayoko Mensah].

'Lumene' is a documentary-series project by David Shongo funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Rietberg Museum in collaboration with the University of Zurich. The film is part of an art installation to be exhibited at the Rietberg Museum in Zurich from 17 March to 17 September 2023.
In the first part of the film, titled Privatisation, David Shongo reflects both artistically and intellectually on the process of privatising memory and space, using the photo archive now kept at the Rietberg Museum in Zurich.
These photographs were taken between 1938 and 1939 by German ethnographer and anthropologist Hans Himmelheber. While in Congo, Hans Himmelheber travelled to Bandundu, Kwilu, Kasai and Kwangu, where David Shongo's father was also born, whom he did not know and whose history is marked by absence.
David Shongo's research therefore becomes a personal search for his own memory and the history of his father, who died in 1998. In this search, he encounters a society that, like him, is bereft of its memory and a region still marked by the traces of the colonial enterprise and the expeditions of European ethnographers and anthropologists.

At our Kuumba Jam concerts, you can come and enjoy the music and atmosphere, but for anyone who wants, there is also a chance to jump on stage afterwards and jam with the artist! 

This Saturday, the fantastic artist AiméDOH will be on our stage!

Start: 20h30

Once a month on friday,  we organise Kuumba Outspoken. An evening where our stage is ready for everyone who wants to show their poetry, slam poetry or spoken word talent. Do you want to let your voice be heard? Or do you just want to come and listen to the words of others? Everyone is welcome at our Kuumba Outspoken.  

when? :21 april 2023 at 20h30pm 

where? : waverse steenweg 78, 1050 Ixelles

During the summer Kuumba changes location, but we say goodbye to our spot on Waverse Steenweg in style!

Of course, we will do this with a stunner of a party! An evening full of music, poetry, delicious food, dancing, ... 

Come and enjoy and dance with us!

Once a month on friday,  we organise Kuumba Outspoken. An evening where our stage is ready for everyone who wants to show their poetry, slam poetry or spoken word talent. Do you want to let your voice be heard? Or do you just want to come and listen to the words of others? Everyone is welcome at our Kuumba Outspoken.  

when? : 19 april 2023 at 20h30pm 

where? : waverse steenweg 78, 1050 Ixelles

In order to offer the great diversity of African and Flemish cultures a place to meet and interact, Kuumba has chosen to honour Angola. This will take place in november 2023. 

The cultural richness of this country will be highlighted through its literature, cinema, visual arts, performing arts and gastronomy.
We look forward to seeing you there!