Daima Exhibition in Wiesbaden - Opening Saturday March 11th

I am excited to announce that exhibition to accompany the publication "Daima. Images of Women of Colour in Berlin" by the late Nzitu Mawakha will be shown again in Wiesbaden during March 2017.

"Daima" is a collection of black and white images of Black women from or living in Germany. The exhibition was produced in November 2013, at the same time as the book publication of the same name. The photo-book "Daima" is the third publication of the Witnessed Series.

The opening of the exhibition is on Saturday March 11th from 1.30pm and it is being shown alongside the ISD exhibition "Homestory Deutschland" in the context of the Internationale Wochen gegen Rassismus 2017.

Venue: vhs Wiesbaden, Alcide-De-Gasperi-Straße 5, 65197 (Haus B, Erdgeschoss)

Eintritt frei!

Organisers: vhs Wiesbaden and Spiegelbild 

Opening of the "Daima" Exhibition in Wiesbaden - Thursday, November 12th, 7pm.

The exhibition "Daima. Images of Women of Colour in Germany" by the late Nzitu Mawakha (1973-2014) will finally be showing again, this time in Wiesbaden from Thursday, November 12th until Sunday, December 13th 2015.

"Daima" is a collection of black and white images of Black women from or living in Germany. The exhibition was produced in November 2013, at the same time as the book publication of the same name. The photo-book "Daima" is the third publication of the Witnessed Series.

This exhibition showing in Wiesbaden is part of a programme of events taking place to celebrate 30 years of the Initiative Black People in Germany (Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland), a non-profit organisation which was founded in Wiesbaden in 1985.

On Thursday, November 12th the exhibition will be opened by Sharon Dodua Otoo, Editor of the Witnessed Series, and Christelle Nkwendja-Ngnoubamdjum, one of the protagonists in Daima.

Exhibition opening times: Wednesday from 3pm, Thursdays and Friday from 5pm, Saturdays from 3pm and Sundays from 1pm.

Venue: Deutsches Filmhaus, Wiesbaden, Murnaustr. 6, 65189 Wiesbaden

Organisers: „WIR in Wiesbaden“, Hessische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD Bund), Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung

Book Presentation of "Also By Mail" on Saturday, June 1st CANCELLED

Witnessed is sorry to announce that the reading planned for Saturday, June 1st has been cancelled.

We will hold a reading at  Aicy & Mimi's at another time in the very near future. Stay tuned!

"Also By Mail" by Olumide Popoola
Series: Witnessed Edition 2
Publisher: Edition Assemblage

Paperback, 142×205 mm
96 pages, 9.80 EUR [D]
ISBN 978-3-942885-38-6
Out now!

"The Little Book of Big Visions" at Homestory Deutschland

The editors of "The Little Book of Big Visions" will participate in the panel discussion "Black Perspectives - Kultur und Widerstand" as part of the Homestory Deutschland programme of events this Friday, April 5th starting at 8pm.

Black cultural producers will make keynote statements pertinent to the current debates in Germany about the use of racist imagery and language in art. Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and Sharon Dodua Otoo will participate in the panel discussion alongside Mekonnen Mesghena, Head of Migration and Diversity at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Nadine Golly of Leuphania University and Lara-Sophie Milagro, Artist Director of Label Noir.

For more information about this event visit the website: http://www.homestory-deutschland.de/ausstellungsorte-programm/hamburg/diskussionsrunden.html

Friday, April 5th 2013
20:00
Westwerk, Admiralitätstr. 74, 20459 Hamburg
Entrance: Free

Signed copies of the book will be on sale!

Book Presentation "Also By Mail" in Frankfurt - a success!

From left: A. Schwarz-Msesilamba, S. D. Otoo, M. Nuenning, P. K. Koepsell, M. Adekunle and N. Hofmann
Image © 2013 ISD Frankfurt (Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland)

The premiere book presentation of "Also By Mail" by Olumide Popoola on Saturday, February 16th was a great success. Well attended (over 80 people) and well received, this was the second of the Black History Month 2013 series of events in Frankfurt, which opened on Saturday, February 2nd with a launch party in Circus.

For the entire BHM 2013 programme visit the ISD website.

Further book presentations are planned in Berlin (Friday, March 1st) and in Hamburg (Friday, March 29th). For more information watch this space!

Copies of the play may be purchased for 9,80 € from edition assemblage.

From left: A. Schwarz-Msesilamba, S. D. Otoo, M. Nuenning, P. K. Koepsell, N. Hofmann, M. Adekunle and T.V. Germain
Image © 2013 ISD Frankfurt (Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland)