RAW Ciné-Club : Cultural Policy "The World Festival of Negro Arts, 60 years later: traces, current relevance, and perspectives"

6 PM

For this Cultural Policy program, we will explore the sixtieth anniversary of the World Festival of Black Arts held in Senegal in 1966. We invite you on Thursday, April 23rd at 6 PM to Zone B, Rue sans soleil, Villa 2A.

We will screen Le Sénégal et le Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (Senegal and the World Festival of Negro Arts), a film by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, followed by a discussion between Pr. Ibrahima Wane(President of the Board of Directors of the Museum of Black Civilizations) and Aboubacar Demba Cissokho (journalist and art critic)

Le Sénégal et le Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres — 35 min. | Paulin Soumanou Vieyra — Link (Short film)

Synopsis: Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, who began operating a camera in 1954 and had already shot 10 documentary and fictional films, made this newsreel film dedicated to the World Festival of Black Arts in Dakar in 1966. He paints a portrait of the city of Dakar and its development with a propaganda tone where "modern worlds" and the "black world" coexist. The city prepares to host what is presented as the largest global gathering of Black arts and cultures, featuring debates, festivities, and cultural events. The film dedicates a large part to presenting the artistic expressions of all the African nations invited to the World Festival of Black Arts: traditional and contemporary plastic arts, the dynamic museum of Dakar, photography, crafts, sports, dance, music, dramatic arts, cinema, and literature. Le Sénégal et le Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres is a celebration of this landmark event in African cultural history and of Senegal's place in the world.