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

Nzitu Mawakha 1973-2014

Daima Exhibition, August-Bebel-Institut, Berlin-Wedding
Photo ©2014 Ralf Steinberger

Nzitu Mawakha was, for many reasons, a remarkable woman and I will forever be grateful, that I am one of those, fortunate enough to be able to have called her my friend.

At one point during the misery of Winter 2012, Nzitu and I huggled together on her sofa and dreamed up a plan to work on the third edition of Witnessed together. It was quite literally a dream. Neither of us realised at the time how many people's hearts this project would come to touch. We didn't even know that it would really come to exist. Nzitu loved photography. It was clear that this would be a book of her photographs. Beyond that, we simply did not know.

Now, nearly two years later, Daima is easily the best selling publication of the Witnessed Series. The exhibition of same name is being constantly booked to be shown in cities across Germany. The media interest in an English language publication about Black women by Black women caught Nzitu and I both off guard. There has yet to be a book presentation where tears have not been shed. The photograph above was taken at the opening of the exhibition in the August-Bebel-Institut earlier this year. The place was quite literally bursting at the seams.

Nzitu is now gone.

She died suddenly and unexpectedly at the beginning of August 2014.
She leaves behind her partner, her young daughter and many, many grieving family members and friends.
And yet, with Daima, we have a beautiful, lasting legacy of her work, her passion and her vision.

Nzitu Mawakha

Nakupenda sana, Nzitu.
Nakupenda sanaa!

I love you with all the pieces of my broken heart....daima!

Sharon Otoo
Series Editor, Witnessed

Daima. Images of Women of Colour in Germany

Nzitu Mawakha (2013)

Daima goes Dresden!

The exhibition "Daima. Images of Women of Colour in Germany" will be shown in Dresden from next week Tuesday, 6th May in IG Metall as part of a series of events to raise awareness about racism in Germany.

As part of the exhibition opening Nzitu Mawakha, photographer, and Pasquale Virginie Rotter, Empowerment Trainer and Grinberg Practitioner will give presentations.

Copies of the book of the same name, the third publication in the Witnessed series, will be on sale.

All welcome!

Tuesday, 6th May 18:00
"Daima bedeutet "für immer" in Kiswahili
IG Metall Dresden - Entrance Hall
Schützenplatz 14

Film Clip: Daima Exhibition and Book Launch. November 2013, Berlin

(In German).

With (in order of appearance) Sharon Dodua Otoo (Editor), Nzitu Mawakha (Photographer & Author), Pasquale Virginie Rotter (Protagonist), Nouria Asfaha (Protagonist) and Maisha Eggers (Protagonist).

Thank you for your support!

Daima: On Wit­nes­ses, Ima­ges and Vi­si­ons. A Book Pre­sen­ta­ti­on in Dresden

“wi­thout a vi­si­on, every so­ci­al chan­ge feels like death.”

Audre Lorde

In glo­bal con­texts, Black women have his­to­ri­cal­ly been ren­de­red in­vi­si­ble both wi­t­hin (white do­mi­na­ted) fe­mi­nist mo­ve­ments and wi­t­hin (male do­mi­na­ted) Black power mo­ve­ments. In Ger­ma­ny, this si­tua­ti­on has been no dif­fe­rent and cul­tu­ral re­pre­sen­ta­ti­ons in this coun­try con­ti­nue to be do­mi­na­ted by the ide­als of „white“ and „male.“ Just the same, Black women in Ger­ma­ny have con­ti­n­uous­ly or­ga­nis­ed and re­pre­sen­ted them­sel­ves – the pho­to­book „Daima“ is sim­ply one fur­ther cont­ri­bu­ti­on to a long tra­di­ti­on of cul­tu­ral pro­duc­tions and crea­ti­ve work by Black women in Ger­ma­ny.

In this in­ter­ac­tive event, mo­ther, aut­hor, edi­tor and ac­tivist Sharon Dodua Otoo will talk about her mo­ti­va­ti­on for crea­ting the English lan­gua­ge book se­ries „Wit­nes­sed“ with a spe­cial focus on the la­test pu­bli­ca­ti­on „Daima. Ima­ges of Women of Co­lour in Ger­ma­ny“ by Nzitu Ma­wak­ha.

Pre­sen­ta­ti­on in English & Ger­man. All wel­co­me.

Cafém - getting to know feminism part 6

Date: Sunday, Fe­bru­ary 16th 2014
Where: kos­mo­tique, Martin-Luther-Str. 13, 01099 Dresden
When: 2 – 8pm (talk begins 4pm)

Daima Exhibition in Berlin - Opening on Valentine's Day!

Image © 2013 Nzitu Mawakha

The "Daima" exhibition will be on display in Berlin for 6 weeks from mid-February in the August-Bebel-Institut (Berlin-Wedding).

Please click here for more information (in German), and here to see the Facebook event.

We look forward to seeing you at the opening on Friday February 14th :-)

Daima Book Launch! Sunday, 24th November in Berlin-Kreuzberg

The third book in the Witnessed Series is almost here! Come and celebrate with us!

Daima 

Images of Women of Colour in Germany

Book Launch ~ Reading & Exhibition

Daima is is a collection of selected black and white photographic portraits of twelve inspiring Black women who live and /or work in Germany. From intimate representations of two ladies confiding in each other, through lively group pictures of sistahs together, to beautiful individual portraits: this book captures their interactions in a variety of settings. Afro-German photographer Nzitu Mawakha presents a unique collection of striking images and combines these with texts, where the women portrayed focus their gaze on the reader-viewer and where the women portrayed are the ones to ask the questions.


Date: Sunday, 24th November
Time: 15:00
Venue: T Berlin, Fidicinstr. 38, Berlin-Kreuzberg
BVG: U6 Platz der Luftbrücke
Entrance: Free
Languages: English and German

Signed copies of the book will be on sale - come and get yours!


We are also celebrating the publication of "die dinge, die ich denke, während ich höflich lächle"  translated by Mirjam Nuenning from the English original "the things i am thinking while smiling politely" by Sharon Dodua Otoo.

We look forward to seeing you!

"Daima" by Nzitu Mawakha
Series: Witnessed, Edition 3
Publisher: Edition Assemblage

Paperback, 205×205 mm
96 pages, 123 photos, 19.80 € [DE]
ISBN 978-3-942885-48-5 | WG 116
Publication date: November 25th 2013

We did it!

Woo hoo!!!

With three more days to go we have already reached the full amount for the Daima Crowdfunding Campaign (www.startnext.de/daima)
To all of you who have contributed to this success... put on your dancing shoes and turn up the volume on Kool and the Gang - you deserve to be celebrated!

Please watch this space for more news about this beautiful project.

...and THANK YOU!

Crowdfunding on Startnext for Daima begins!

www.startnext.de/daima/

Please spread the word!

Coming Soon! Witnessed Edition 3: "Daima"

“Daima” is a black and white photographic portrayal of a group of inspiring Black women who live and work in Germany. From lively group pictures of sistahs together, through intimate representations of two ladies confiding in each other, to beautiful portraits of individuals, this book captures their interactions in a variety of settings. Afro-German photographer Nzitu Mawakha presents a unique collection of striking images and combines these with texts, where the women portrayed focus their gaze on the reader-viewer and where the women portrayed are the one to ask the questions.

"Daima" is the third publication in the Witnessed Series and is due out in October 2013...watch this space!