Festivals and Films
Cairo What's on
27 November-17 December 2010. This exhibition brings together a series of colourful paintings by the Egyptian artist Samir Fouad entitled Flesh.
Fouad portrays the anxiety of modern man through th...
Cape Town What's on
27 November 2010-30 April 2011. This exhibition brings together textiles and other adornment items from Iziko
Nairobi What's on
Drawing East Africa: Early Maps from 1860 to 1890
30 November 2010-15 January 2011. This exhibition is part of the Hispanic-Kenyan Cultural forum held at the Spanish embassy. On display are ancient African maps from 1869 to 1890, which take visitors...
Cairo What's on
Mecca and Medina: A Photographic Journey by Faruk Aksoy
23 November-23 December 2010. On the occasion of the annual Islamic pilgrimage, the Photographic Gallery of the American University of Cairo dedicates this exhibition to the Turkish veteran photograph...
Cape Town What's on
Made in Translation-Images from and of the Landscape
21 November 2010-21 November 2011. This exhibition displays a diverse range of translations, including the works of copyist, which have been made from and of the landscape since 1850 and throughout th...
Addis Ababa What's on
7-9 December 2010. The Goethe Instituts around sub Saharian Africa organise the third encounter between ten African and Ethiopian photographers, who will meet five famous curators for intensive one-on...
Addis Ababa What's on
23 November-3 December 2010. This annual World Music Festival, which takes place between the two Ethiopian cities of Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa, foresees a rich programme of concerts by local and inter...
Addis Ababa What's on
Double Photographic Exhibition
9 December 2010-9 January 2011. The first exhibition displays a new series of photographs by the famous Berlin-based Nigerian artist Akinbode Akinbiyi. Akinbiyi is one of the founding members of the U...
Cape Town What's on
6 November 2010-16 January 2011. This exhibition displays the most recent series of theatrical images, entitled Boarding House, by the American photographer Roger Ballen. In Ballen
Cairo What's on
Citizen, Participant Exhibition at Darb
6 November-10 December 2010. This exhibition, entitled Citizen, Participant, brings together the works by seven women artists from the same generation coming from four countries in North and South Ame...
Accra What's on
Witches Camps reported at British Council
3 November-3 December 2010. This photographic exhibition, organized by the British Council in Accra in collaboration with non-governmental organization, Southern Sector Youth and Women's Empowerment N...
Cairo What's on
Contemporary Visions on the Human Body
1-18 November 2010. This vast, collective exhibition brings together the paintings, prints, etchings, drawings, sculptures and photographs of the human body by 110 Egyptian artists, such as Hany Rashe...
Cairo What's on
Black and White Dialogue by Isaak Azmy
1-19 November 2010. This exhibition displays the designs and paintings by the Cairene designer Isaak Azmy. Among the many commitments, Azmy has campaigned for the preservation of ancient Cairo. From h...
Cairo What's on
31 October-11 November 2010. This exhibition, entitled Three Contemporary Visions, displays the paintings and sculptures by three famous Egyptian artists such as Assem Sharaf and Sherif Abdel-Badie an...
Nairobi What's on
5 November 2010. This dance performance, entitled Mikasi, was conceived by the organization Kuruka Maisha Foundation, which is involved in projects to improve the standard and conditions of life and e...
Nairobi What's on
Retrospective by James Muriuki
19 November-9 December 2010. This retrospective pays homage to one of Kenya
Cape Town What's on
11 October-21 November 2010. An exhibition at Iziko South African Museum launched in conjunction with the festival entitled Save our Seabirds (SoS), organised by Birdlife South African during the nat...
Nairobi What's on
18 December 2010-15 January 2011.This exhibition, entitled Woppow, is part of a larger project by the German artists collective Uebermorgen.com, which has produced many provocative works on sensitive,...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Photographic Exhibition Kusi na Kaskazi
13 November-6 December 2010. This exhibition entitled Kusi na Kaskazi, which means South and North, displays the black and white images by the Swiss photographer Beat Presser. In a sort of reportage P...
Cape Town What's on
26 October 2010-30 January 2011. For the first time this photographic exhibition, entitled Borders, travels to South Africa and presents a selection of works on the African diaspora that were displaye...
