Our itinerant educational format AtWork continues its journey. We are happy to announce the fourth and the final leg of our AtWork Tour 2018 “I had a dream”. The 5-day intensive workshop conducted by a prominent South African photographer Andrew Tshabangu, with the special guest presence of our advisor Simon Njami, will take place in Harare, Zimbabwe on November 20-24th and will be implemented in partnership with the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Through an open call selection, the 25 young creative talents were awarded Moleskine Foundation scholarships that will cover their workshop participation fees. The international group of aspiring artists and students from Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia will exercise their critical thinking skills during the workshop hosted by the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
On November 19th we will also be hosting a Training of Trainers session conducted by Simon Njami. The invited prominent Zimbabwean artists Berry Bickle, Dana Whabira, Kudzanai Chiurai will spend a day learning about the format, its vision and methodology in order to acquire the necessary tools to conduct an AtWork workshop in the future.
This is the second time that AtWork is coming to Harare after its 2017 debut. The former AtWork participants are also assisting us this time to conduct the monitoring and evaluation process aimed at improving and evolving the format. Establishing a long-term partnership with the National Gallery and training new potential AtWork conductors is crucial for us to ensure the format’s replicability, sustainability and growing scale.
Following the footsteps of the first three legs of the Tour that took place in Rome, N’Djamena and Kampala, the participants will have a debate on their “useful” dreams and then will creatively interpret them on the pages of a notebook.
The created artworks will be exhibited at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe on November 26th, 2018- January 7th, 2019 in a show co-curated by the participants.
The final international exhibition in 2019 will feature 100 participants, 100 dreams, 100 projects. In the meantime follow us on social media and spread the word. Let’s inspire a new generation of creative thinkers together!
Claude Bunny Massassa is a contemporary artist from Gabon. She created Bunny Studio in 2016, a start-up dedicated to photography production, which became DWABI Studio in 2021. As an artist, she has represented Gabon in many international exhibitions in Senegal, Uganda, France, the United States, and Italy. In her art, she denounces social stigmas around issues of identity and mental health, and explores themes of traditions and myths.
Executive Director Kimberly Aceves- Iñiguez has been passionately committed for over 20 years to social justice organizing and advocacy efforts that bring voice and power to youth, LGBTQ people, people of color, and working-class communities in the Bay Area. Before coming on as the Executive Director for RYSE, Kimberly served as the Executive Director for Youth Together, the founding organization of the RYSE Center.
Kanwarpal Dhaliwal is one of the co-founders of RYSE and currently acts as the Associate Director. She supports and guides the implementation and integration of healing-centered practices, grounded in racial justice and liberation, and also develops, promotes, and advocates for policies, investments, practices, and research that enliven healing, justice, and liberation. Kanwarpal believes that the purpose of her work and life is to contribute to movements, communities, and legacies of liberation that honor the ancestors who fought for her existence and survival, and to forge a world that is just and gentle for future generations.
Sagal Ali is the founder and executive director of SAF. After a few years in her career in heritage protection in the cultural sector, she decided to develop the initiative to directly support young creatives in Somalia by launching her own foundation. She hopes to bridge the social gaps and inequalities women face in Somalia, both in society and in the arts scene.
Co-founders Catherine Dunga and Marleen Palmaers created Kitambo to bridge the gap between the African diaspora in Colombia and the narratives from the continent. From Kinshasa and Antwerp respectively, they work to connect African artists from the continent and their peers from the Colombian diaspora.
Martha Kazungu is a curator, art Historian and Founder of Njabala Foundation, an organization that curates periodic exhibitions and organizes a public program of activities to create a safe space for female artists to thrive and blossom.
Alicia Hansen is a photographer and teacher from New York. She founded NYC SALT in 2008 and, beyond teaching valuable creative skills to her students, has developed a long-term support system to uplift them through school and into their early artistic careers.
