10.10.2025: Circle U. Workshop "The Significance of Festivals for African and Afrodiasporic Creative Economies"
We are starting into the winter term with a workshop programme open to all IAAW students, staff members & friends. The morning sessions will be on site, the afternoon sessions online, hybrid mood available throughout, Zoom link available on demand: susanne.gehrmann [@] rz.hu-berlin.de
10.10.: Circle U. Workshop "The Significance of Festivals for African & Afrodiasporic Creative Economies"
We are starting into the winter term with a workshop programme open to all IAAW students, staff members & friends. The morning sessions will be on site, the afternoon sessions online, hybrid mood available throughout, Zoom link available on demand: susanne.gehrmann [@] rz.hu-berlin.de
The Significance of Festivals for African & Afrodiasporic Creative Economies
CircleU Workshop at IAAW, Invalidenstraße 118, room 410
9:15 Welcome by ReCrEA team
Roberta Comunian (King’s College, London)
Susanne Gehrmann (HU-Berlin)
Teke Jacob Ngomba (University of Aarhus)
9:30 – 10:00 Toluwalupe Orotoye (University of Ibadan):
From Poetics to Patronage: Oríkì as an Affective Infrastructure in Nigeria’ Festival Economy
10 :00 – 10:30 Estrella Sendra (King’s College, London) & Robin Steedman (University of Glasgow): The Leading Role of “Film Africa” London in the Circulation of African Cinemas
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 ROUNDTABLE
Trajectories and Impacts of Literary Festivals in South Africa and Germany
Stefanie Hirsbrunner (African Book Festival Berlin, director) & Niq Mhlongo (writer & co-founder Gauteng International Book Festival)
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30 Fadekemi Olawoye (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main):
"Fashion Identity and Contemporary Trends in Nigerian Movie Award Events" virtual
14:30 – 15:00 Jen Snowball, Fiona Drummond, Nkululeko Sibanda, & Mawuko Gyan
(Rhodes University, Makhanda):
Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Festival Sustainability: A Case study of the South African National Arts Festival virtual
15:00 – 15:30 Ramcy Kabuya (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin):
Festivalizing Congolese Literature: Field Notes from Berlin and Lubumbashi video
Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 virtual DIALOGUE
Kinshasa’s International Cinema Festival and the Growth of the Congolese Film Industry
Tshoper Kabambi (filmmaker, producer & director Festival International du Cinéma de Kinshasa)