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Chantal Dos Santos – Powerful Woman
Lead Artist & Innovator Chantal is a multidisciplinary artist with a foundation in movement. Holding an M.A. in Development Economics, Chantal focuses her artistic work on social + socioeconomic themes and outcomes. Her movement studies have included Contemporary & Modern Dance (Release, Horton, Limon and Dunham Technique), Oriental Dance, Russian Romany Dance, Afro-Caribbean dance and Somatic Movement methodologies (Franklin, Alexander …
Powerful Woman – Angela Fobbs
The Black Women in Europe™ blog, created in 2006 by Adrianne George, released its 11th Black Women in Europe™: Power List 2020 – A List of Our Own©. This 11th year we feature 9, and give special recognition to 11 women who provided 14 workshops and performances in our Let’s Do Us! Series to mitigate …
Hey guys, it’s Jocelyn B. Smith!
Jocelyn B. Smith was born 1960 in New York. Music was always an intense companion in her life. When she was 5 years old, Jocelyn started classical piano lessons, which she then pursued, with a lot of discipline, for another twelve years. Jocelyn only discovered later, when she was 11 years old, that her voice …
Meet LotusFlowerBomb in Germany
I’m a model, artist, entrepreneur, and filmmaker, based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. My Body of work is about Art, Photography, Documentaries, Modeling, Business, Networking, positive media presentation, and representation of dark skin African girls and women. Join me through my Afropolitan journey as an entrepreneur, model, photographer, videographer, and artist, meet other creative stakeholders. …
The Angry Black Woman (In Germany)
Here’s what her website is all about: I have to be honest, the “idea” of this website has gone through MANY iterations. I have wanted it to be thought provoking, intelligent, witty, informative, provocative, and educational. You know, all of that polished “Pinterest” type shit. I felt a need to provide information about so many facets of what it …
Work-/Life-Balance when (suddenly) Working from Home: LET’S DO US! Workshop May 21
You are invited to join the fifth workshop in the LET’S DO US! series created by Black Women in Europe (®) to be a part of our solution for surviving and thriving in these uncertain COVID-19 days, weeks and months. Trina Roach is an executive coach, leadership workshop facilitator, and Human Resources Development consultant. In her …
Pierrette Herzberger Fofana – Power Woman
Politics Germany Member of European ParliamentAlliance 90/The GreensGroup of the Greens/European Free Alliance Afro-German politician, human rights activist, and scholar Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana was born in Bamako, Mali, but grew up in Dakar, Senegal, the daughter of a Cape Verdean mother, Dona Joaquina Semedo-Lopès, who was Christian, and a Guinean father who was Muslim. Her early experience with nationalities and religions greatly influenced the course …
Our Winners in the 2019 EU Elections
Antonella Bunda, Mayor of Florence, Italy Alice Bah Kuhnke, MEP Sweden Green Party View this post on Instagram TACK 🌱. Jag kommer göra allt jag kan med allt jag har och bära ert förtroende med stort allvar. Det känns, inte minst efter alla meddelanden och möten, att ni har stora förväntningar och jag ska anstränga …
Cultural awareness and wellness through dance
CDS Movement Collective encourages cultural awareness and wellness through dance – Afro-Caribbean, Bellydance, Contemporary and more! Workshops are running in Germany in May & June. Look out for Dance & Wellness retreats in Barbados in 2020! Chantal Dos Santos is the Founder & Artistic Director of CDS Movement. Here is a bit about her: She is originally …
May Ayim – Black poet fighting racism in Germany celebrated by Google
Afro-German May Ayim – Fighter against racism Hat Tip: @AfroGermans – Source: Speigel.de Brigitte Sylvia Gertrud Opitz was born in Hamburg in May 1960, her father was from Ghana , her mother was German. May Ayim was her stage name. She grew up in Münster with a foster family, she studied pedagogy in Regensburg, from the mid-eighties she lived …
THE 8.INTERN: TÜBINGEN AFRICA FESTIVAL 2018 IN GERMANY IT IS NOW OFFICIALLY OPEN FOR REGISTRATION & PARTICIPATION
The 1-year break is over, its time to get back to business as usual and this time on a big note. The festival is now called GAIEXPO as it has included African Small and Medium enterprises worldwide. This sector shall promote the continent Africa not just as a tourist but business destination with endless opportunities …
Y’Akoto – Mermaid Blues
Y’Akoto’s New Album Bio from 2014 Y’AKOTO Letting go. Backpedalling. Taking a deep breath, The easiest things are often the most difficult ones to do. But in the supposed banality of these things lies the danger of losing oneself on the surface and forgetting them. It’s that simple. Even Y’akoto, an artist known for her level-mindedness, is …
Sharon Dodua Otoo wins 2016 Ingeborg Bachmann prize
Dodua Otoo wins 2016 Ingeborg Bachmann prize I first blogged about Sharon in 2007 and it is thrilling that 9 years later I can share her wonderful news. Sharon Dodua Otoo, born in London, received the 25,000 Euro Ingeborg Bachmann prize for the text “Mr Gröttrup sits down”. She lives and works in Berlin. The …
Soul Sisters: Black Arts Retreat
This initiative needs our support. Donate now. Dear Family, Friends, and Supporters! Thank you so much for helping us realize our goal in organizing the first ever Black Arts Retreat in Germany! 5 Days left and our journey begins! We have recently learned of the safety issues (right-wing extremists) surrounding the location of our retreat …
Fountainhead Tanz Theatre November 2015 e-Letter
FOUNTAINHEAD® Tanz Théâtre e – Letter November 2015 . Berlin.Germany www.fountainhead-tanz-theatre.de www.blackinternationalcinema.de www.black-international-cinema.com Please send replies to / Bitte senden Sie Antworten an bicdance@aol.com Anniversary 2015 Fountainhead® Tanz Théâtre, 35 years Black International Cinema Berlin, 30th edition Black International Cinema Berlin Film Awards, 25 years THE COLLEGIUM – Forum & Television Program Berlin, 20 years …
Third Annual WZB Conference on Migration and Diversity
National Identity in Motion The conference aims to discuss national identity at different levels, for example how individuals of immigrant and non-immigrant background negotiate and express national identity (e.g., in implicit and explicit attitudes or behaviors), how national identity is reproduced by public institutions such as schools, how states define national identity through their constitutions …
Polyglot is a new scripted web series from Rwandan-German visual artist and self-taught filmmaker Amelia Umuhire
Hat tip: Babz Rawls Source: okayafrica.com Polyglot is a new scripted web series from Rwandan-German visual artist and self-taught filmmaker Amelia Umuhire that explores the multi-hyphenate identities of young creatives of color in Berlin. The show’s first episode, which premiered in April, introduced viewers to Babiche Papaya, a rapper and poet played by Umuhire’s sister, Amanda Mukasonga. …
Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe V Conference in Münster
The English Seminar and the Chair of English, Postcolonial and Media Studies are proud to host the fifth African European Studies conference, which is being held in Münster for the first time (16-19 September 2015). An interdisciplinary conference with papers covering literature, history, music, theatre, art, translation, politics, immigration, youth culture and European policies, Afroeuropeans …
Akila Richards and Ink On My Lips
Akila Richards is a writer and spoken word artist of German and Liberian ancestry. Akila immigrated to the UK in 1984 and performed in theatre, collaboratively and solo in the UK. Akila has been published in three anthologies with her short story ‘Eleven Years’ by Penguin in The Map Of Me in 2008, her poem …