Griot

Founded in 2015, GRIOT is a nomadic space @ spaziogriot (IG), a medium+collective producing+amplifying Arts+Culture from Africa, its diaspora, and beyond.

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Inspired by a true story of an infanticide trial and of a writer who follows all the court hearings, Diop’s film seeks to explore ” the great universal question “of our” relationship with motherhood [EN-IT]
#alicediop #festivaldivenezia #saintomer
https://t.co/F4PmPSKOvN

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Sapevate che SPAZIO GRIOT per i prossimi 2 mesi è a Mattatoio con una mostra e un programma pubblico? La prossima settimana, da lunedì 11 a venerdì 5 luglio: workshop e talk con Inua Ellams, performance di SA Smythe, Cherish Menzo, Alesa Herero & more 👉🏾 https://t.co/COVcSTF3fM

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At the Scottish Pavillion, artist Alberta Whittle juxtaposes notions of memory, colonialism and oppression with healing, hope and reconciliation through a combination of film, painting, tapestry and metalwork [EN-IT]
https://t.co/VKIXR3yGCh

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🪄 Renell Medrano
https://t.co/4OcVHBDUOe

[Griot @GriotMag]

“Con questo sorriso vi annuncio che SÌ, È TUTTO VERO! Sarò co-conduttrice, al fianco di Amadeus al Festival di Sanremo il 2.02. Salire su quel palco sarà l’emozione più grande mai provata. La vivrò con tutta me stessa,” dice #LorenaCesarini #Sanremo2022
https://t.co/tqJIXAXNNq

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“In my works I use imitation and embodiment as a way of understanding my own history. I impersonate members of my family. I’m just trying to understand my history through the body of the people who played an important role in it.” https://t.co/CfiiySo945

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RIP #SidneyPoitier
Poitier was the first Black person to win a Best Actor Oscar. He symbolized and challenged the way Black men were represented in movies, and how they might be seen in the real world (Npr)
📷 As Detective Virgil Tibbs 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵

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“We declare our solidarity with #GradaKilomba, who’s been eliminated so far in the still ongoing process of representing Portugal at the #VeniceBiennale, through a crude, ignorant, misogynistic and racist evaluation of her work and of the artist herself”
https://t.co/NL7NaGdIIe

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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

South-African anti-apartheid hero, Nobel Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies aged 90.

Rest In Peace #DesmondTutu 🖤🙏🏾
(7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021

[Griot @GriotMag]

✨The team at GRIOTmag wishes you Happy Holidays. ✨

📷 James Barnor, “Mavis and Mary Barnor with an Agfa advertising Ball”, 1970, Accra, Ghana

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A system that permits a single juror to decide the outcome of a selection process by allowing subjective voting behaviour to alter the majority’s decision cannot be deemed fair.
[IT -EN] #gradakilomba #venicebiennial #portugal https://t.co/ao3559hv3t

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#bellhooks 1952-2021 #RIP
"As a Black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being Black is more important than being a woman; whether feminist struggle to end sexist oppression is more important than the struggle to racism..."
https://t.co/D2Op0QGqnL

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On November 4, 2021, interdisciplinary artist #GradaKilomba spoke with the artistic director of SPAZIO GRIOT, Johanne Affricot about her book ‘Memorie della piantagione’ in an event curated in collaboration with Capovolte and Castello di Rivoli [IT/EN]
https://t.co/nlnNqlUuZN

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Siamo su @StampaTorino con Grada Kilomba “Memorie della piantagione. Episodi di razzismo quotidiano”A cura di #SpazioGriot in collaborazione con @capovolte @rivolicast

[Fondazione Circolo dei lettori @CircoloLettori]

Su @StampaTorino l’intervista a Grada Kilomba autrice di “Memorie della piantagione” (Capovolte) al Circolo giovedì 4 novembre ore 21 nell’evento a cura di @GriotMag con @rivolicast.

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La Direttrice Artistica di SPAZIO GRIOT 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗼𝘁 dialoga con la celebre artista e autrice #GradaKilomba in occasione della presentazione del rivoluzionario libro “Memorie della Piantagione”, edito da #CapovolteEdizioni.

https://t.co/TxEJ5NksgW

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GRIOT Artistic Director 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗼𝘁 speaks to celebrated artist and author #GradaKilomba as the Italian translation of her groundbreaking book “Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism” is published by #Capovolte.
https://t.co/jOywbf1QwC

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“Ci hanno fatto credere che l’Italia è sud Europa e il Mediterraneo nord Africa, che il mare è un luogo di invasione, che la cultura del Sud è diversa da quella del Nord. Ma sono convinta che esista un’identità del Mediterraneo.” Wissal Houbabi [IT]
https://t.co/PDssL3a5gu

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I didn’t feel comfortable in the classical music frame at the time […] Then my teacher introduced me to improvised music. It was a major change because I didn’t know that you could just make things up, or improvise and be free.” @SofiaJernberg [EN-IT]
https://t.co/VpcKCVcINU

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Pioneering reggae and dub producer and artist Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has died today in a hospital in Lucea, northern of Jamaica. He was 85.

🖤 RIP Maestro
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry (20/28 March 1936-29 August 2021)
#LeeScratchPerry

https://t.co/4OcVHBDUOe

[Griot @GriotMag]

Il 28 agosto è il 57esimo l’anniversario della Marcia su Washington, ma la presenza e il contributo delle donne Nere furono marginalizzati. Come spesso è accaduto nella Storia occidentale, politica e arte hanno condiviso progetti, speranze e lotte [IT]

https://t.co/CqeJVsROFY