Woensdag 01 Augustus 2018

Het MIAGI Youth Orchestra speelt én danst het dak eraf. In Stravinsky’s De vuurvogel, Bernsteins Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, en Duncan Wards spectaculaire eerbetoon aan Nelson Mandela. In Stravinsky’s De vuurvogel houdt een monsterlijke tovenaar een hele reeks prinsessen gevangen. De held, kroonprins Ivan, wil ze redden en kan daarbij de hulp van de mythische Vuurvogel goed gebruiken. Een spannend Russisch sprookje, door Stravinsky op enerverende muziek gezet. Vandaag speelt het Zuid-Afrikaanse MIAGI Youth Orchestra de suite uit dit zeer geliefde werk. MIAGI is een afkorting van 'Music is a great Investment'. Ware woorden, en het prachtige motto van een bijzonder jeugdorkest dat in 2014 dé hit van de Robeco SummerNights was. Dirigent Duncan Ward houdt van projecten die méér bieden dan een leuk concert. Hij werkt met daklozen, kleuters en in dit geval met Zuid-Afrikaanse jongeren. Velen van hen komen door MIAGI in een heel ander leven terecht. Ward roemt de aanstekelijke energie van het orkest. Hij kiest een bijbehorend werk: Bernsteins dynamische ‘jazzconcert’ Prelude, Fugue and Riffs. Hierna klinkt Wards nieuwe compositie Rainbow Beats, een eerbetoon aan Nelson Mandela. In dit spectaculaire werk komen Afrikaanse liederen, teksten van Mandela en citaten van Monteverdi samen. MIAGI speelt én danst het dak eraf.

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45 pictures by photographers Jürgen Schadeberg (Germany/South Africa) and Louise Gubb (South Africa). Schadeberg featured Mandela in the 50s and 60s when he was working for Drum, an iconic anti-apartheid weekly, as well as in 1994 when the photographer accompanied Mandela to a visit to his former prison cell on Robben Island. As a press photographer Gubb featured Mandela after his release from prison and during his presidency (1994 – 1999).

The exhibition is an initiave by the Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus e.V.

This exhibition explores the life and times of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918 – 2013) and marks the centenary of his birth. It provides insight into Mandela’s journey from young freedom fighter to becoming the inspiration for an international movement against South Africa’s violent and oppressive apartheid system, and an emblem of an ongoing struggle to build a more just and equitable world.

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Artworks MandelaAs part of the 2018 Nelson Mandela Day and Nelson Mandela’s centenary, the UMURAGE Foundation is pleased to present 'We Are The Legacy: Celebrating Nelson Mandela Centenary 2018'. The art exhibition will feature portraits of 100 African legacy makers who, in their own unique way, embody Nelson Mandela’s three key principles – to free yourself, free others and serve every day – and 100 artworks from across the motherland. Featured artists are coming from : Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo Brazaville, Congo DRC, France, Madagascar, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Tchad, Malawi, Togo and Zambia. The UMURAGE Foundation is an international non-profit organisation, head-quartered in Amsterdam, which aims at promoting, supporting, connecting, recognizing and rewarding individuals, organizations, businesses and communities shaping Africa’s collective legacy. Its vision is a world embracing and celebrating Africa’s contributions to humanity’s collective legacy.

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The upgraded Tata Madiba exhibition content and objects are meant to stimulate conversation about his life, struggles and extraordinary contribution to protection of South Africa’s rich biodiversity; but also connect to contemporary issues around conservation and sustainability.  The exhibition also includes the many species named after him and those he and his fellow prisoners may have encountered on Robben Island.  The exhibition includes as its central piece the iMadiba Project which is a participatory art project conceptualized and created by artist and photographer Erhardt Thiel. It is endorsed by the Nelson Mandela Foundation The intention of the installation or micro museum is to facilitate dialogue, memory, reflection and forward thinking. The combination of the Tata Madiba exhibition and the iMadiba Project art installation is therefore an apt marriage to celebrate the centenary of this great statesman Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

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