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 

Heidelberg | Presentation of Witnessed and reading from Winter Shorts - today!

This evening at 6pm begins a wonderful celebration of Black in Germany literature, poetry and music as part of the programme of events to support the ISD exhibition Homestory Deutschland.

Sharon Dodua Otoo will open with a presentation of the Witnessed Series - an English language publication series written by Black authors who have lived in Germany.

This is followed by a reading of a short story "Waste of Mist" by WoMANtís RANDom. This was published last year in the fifth book of the Witnessed Series, "Winter Shorts", edited by Clementine Burnley and Sharon Dodua Otoo.

And to round it all off, a brilliant Spoken Word Performance will be provided by SchwarzRund.

See you there!


Wednesday, 23. March 2016 from 18:00
Café Leitstelle
in DEZERNAT 16
Emil-Maier-Str. 16, 69115 Heidelberg

Thank you for your support!

It didn't work out this time. We were unable to jointly raise the necessary funds to publish the English translation of "Homestory Deutschland" as the next edition of Witnessed though Startnext although so many of you showed love! 

What's next? 

First of all, everyone who donated money will get it back - please let me know if there are problems with this. Secondly, I am going to try and work out what went wrong (so I would be grateful for your feedback! Just comment below...) Thirdly, I will renew my fundraising efforts for this publication through other channels. You will be able to buy this book very soon! Just a little later than originally planned... :-)

Best wishes,
Sharon Otoo, Witnessed Series Editor

"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!