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January 2008

Creative Collaborations... announcement of award recipients

Supported by Visiting Arts in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the 2007 Creative Collaborations programme encourages collaborations between African artists and UK participants in education and the community. The following three projects have been selected for the scheme:

Taliesin Arts Centre have invited Junaid Jemal Sendi, from Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, to collaborate with both the County Youth Dance Company and young men’s company Dynion on a new choreography. Jenaid will be in residence for five weeks and a presentation of the work will take place at Taliesin Arts Centre in April and in the city centre during the Dance Days Festival. www.taliesinartscentre.co.uk
 
Professionals and young people from London/Liverpool and Takku Ligguey (Senegal)

The project Intercultural dialogues: The body in African dance is a collaboration between company Takku Ligguey from Senegal and dance professionals, young people and enthusiasts in Liverpool and London. Through explorative residencies, these collaborations will produce a showing of creative and traditional dance, post-show discussions and a seminar at which practitioners involved in dance, disability issues and intercultural practice will meet and discuss issues raised by the work of the company. 

Funmi Adewole and Ukachi Akalawu are co-producers of the project. Ukachi is the director of Akaara Ltd, an arts consultancy company. For more information on the dance company visit: 
www.takku-ligguey.org and www.chm-khady-gueye.org
 
Africa’s Hip Hop connections
 
A creative collaboration in music and language between Hip Hop artists Daara J of Senegal, K’naan, Black Twang and Young Kof will take place in Liverpool this February. The collaborations will evolve alongside residencies with school children and young people in Merseyside. The work from the project will be presented at the 'Free Mike’ event at The Magnet in Liverpool. www.africaoye.com 
 
For more details of the programme, please contact Sabrina Smith-Noble:
sabrina.smith-noble@visitingarts.org.uk
 

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