Talk: Patricia Kaersenhout, Africadelic Festival 2023

Africadelic Festival opens Africa Day this year with Africadelic Talks at Tolhuistuin. We celebrate the work of visual artist patricia kaersenhout. We will start with an introduction by Simion Blom, followed by the screening of kaersenhout’s short film Le Retour des Femmes Colibris (2022, 18'). The film is a work of re-membrance, which imagines a meeting between 5 women — Josephine Baker, Suzanne Césaire, Frida Kahlo, Paulette and Jeanne Nardal — in order to criticize and correct the invisibility of Black women at the First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris (1956) and in the Négritude movement in particular. In addition, this movie highlights Black women’s contribution to liberation and social consciousness — which lead to movements such as Négritude and Pan-Africanism.

This special screening is followed by a conversation with patricia kaersenhout and philosopher Grâce Ndjako, moderated by artist Chimira Natanna. They will discuss Re-memory and the Négritude movement; the position of Black women, then and now. Finally, the speakers will discuss their experiences and dance towards freedom as Black women in Dutch society, and how this influences their activism, their work as well as their creative explorations.

Time schedule
17:30 – Doors 
18:00 – Film + talk with patricia kaersenhout
19:30 – Roufaida
20:15 – Bab L’Bluz
21:45 – ONIPA
23:00 – Afterparty with Stereo Bam & BBB

Visitors with a ticket for the concert by ONIPA, Bab L'Bluz and Roufaida can also attend the talk with patricia kaersenhout. This also applies the other way around: visitors to the talk by patricia kaersenhout can also stay for the concert by ONIPA, Bab L'Bluz and Roufaida.