Senegal at Fespaco: Pioneering Imprints
5 PM
As the RAW Cultural Policy season draws to a close, we cordially invite you to join us for our final gathering on Thursday, July 2nd at 5:00 pm with a conversation with filmmakers and producers Angèle Diabang, Souleymane Kébé and Clarence Thomas Delgado moderated by Aboubacar Demba Cissokho. We look forward to welcoming you at Zone B, Rue sans soleil, Villa 2A, BP 22170.
The Cultural Policy program explores Senegal's cultural landscape through a historical perspective, focusing on how structuring political, governmental, and private legacies have shaped the arts today. This program is developed in collaboration with Aboubacar Demba Cissokho. The objective is to highlight the essential role of arts and culture in Senegal's history and continuous development.
This moment is dedicated to the exchange of knowledge and elucidation, drawing on expertise and testimonies to explore fundamental questions: What is culture? What does political culture imply? How is culture built, encompassing communities, traditions, heritage, and infrastructures?
Culture is the foundation of knowledge and the essential driver of all social progress. It is urgent to awaken a collective awareness of its vital importance. This movement strengthens our common identity and encourages us to dialogue with our past, present, and future. Collaboration between the public and private sectors is a powerful catalyst. This approach is a call for "re-cognition" and inspires each generation to place culture at the heart of its fundamental commitments.
Driven by this vision and RAW Material Company’s, a space dedicated to art, knowledge, and society, our programming is resolutely transdisciplinary. It explores the links between art and culture on the one hand, and creativity, curatorial practice, literature, cinema, architecture, politics, music, fashion, and heritage on the other. We highlight the cultural bridge-builders whose mission, passed down from generation to generation since Senegal, not only strengthens its diaspora but also drives a pan-African dynamic, thus reaffirming this territory's historical influence on the global market. We believe that interconnection and sharing are essential for a better common projection, serving as a vehicle for the necessary collective involvement.
The program is designed for and with the public, recognizing that every role has a duty to gather and share to achieve mutual understanding and a common future, with the urgency of considering all functions at play.
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In Senegal, cinema, as the seventh art, constitutes a space where history, memory, and aspirations for freedom are reflected upon, from generation to generation. From its foundational contribution to African cinema to its constant dialogue with FESPACO, Senegalese cinema has shaped a language that goes beyond representation, anchored in research, transmission, and cultural sovereignty. Its perennial presence within the festival testifies not only to an artistic heritage but also to an unalterable commitment to cinema as a practice of knowledge. Here, images transform into archives and storytelling becomes an act of imagination, shaping the new possibilities that underpin our cultural policy today.