To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the Goethe-Institut Angola will hold, from June 15th to July 28th, the festival "O Futuro Já Era".
The festival will take place at Cine São Paulo and will bring together artists from Angola, Germany and the world.
The idea of this event – which will feature cinema, theater, dance, music, exhibitions, spoken word, stand-up comedy, performances, debates, etc. – goes through the analysis of the "architectural substance of Luanda: What architectural visions exist after the Portuguese colonial style, tropical modernism and the skyscrapers of the oil boom, which came to an abrupt end. Could it be that the future is over?".
The festival opens on the 15th of June, at 6pm, with photography exhibitions "Angola Cinemas" by Walter Fernandes, a live performance "Mujimbos" by the artist Mussunda N'Zombo, a concert by the band Conjunto Angola 70, ending with a performance by the DJ Lene Lee.
The following day, between 2pm and 4pm, the radio program 'Conversa a Sombra da Mulemba' will be broadcast live, broadcast every Sunday from Cine São Paulo during the festival. At 4pm, there will be a screening of the film "Assaltos em Luanda" by director Henrique Narciso "Dito".
The program will reopen on June 18th, with a creative puppetry workshop for children, which will be given by André Boneco and the opening of the exhibition "Relíquias da Cidade de Luanda" by Eltina Gaspar, which will also include a dialogue between the artist and curator Marcos Jingumba.
The program will have around 70 events, bringing together Angolan artists (Mussunda N'Zombo, Jamil Parasol Osmar, Eltina Gaspar, Isis Hembe, Nark Luenzi, Helder Mendes, Conjunto Angola 70, among many others), Germans (art teacher Anne Dukhee Jordan with students from the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, Benjamin Förster-Baldenius, co-founder of the architecture and art collective Raumlabor, choreographer Josep Caballero, professor of experimental music at the University of Arts Berlin Mathias Hinke and writer Ricoh Gerbel) and also from Abidjan (Ivory Coast) the dancer Jenny Mezile.
