We are happy to share that our fellow Rehema Chachage is participating in a When the Jackal Leaves the Sun Public programme, happening from 30 May to 7 June at Flutgraben Berlin.
Rehema will participate in a talk Global Folklore and Collective Thinking at 3pm, together with Renée Akitelek Mboya, Memory Biwa, Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Jennifer Kamau, Michael Bader & Suza Husse, and have a zine release/talk/performance A Home I Will Create For You With Exit Pathways at 6pm, together with esse Gerard Mpango, Liberatha Alibalio, Mihayo Kallaye & Turakella Editha Gyindo.
Running during Bino’s weaving session, Global Folklore and Collective Thinking will explore the folktale of the Jackal and the Sun, examining how its interpretation and significance have evolved over time. We’ll discuss how different periods and circumstances have reshaped this story and reflect on the power of storytelling as a mode of resistance and world making. Join us to delve into the dynamic nature of folktales and their enduring impact on communities.
Nitakujengea Kinyumba Na Vikuta Vya Kupitia / A Home For You I Will Create With Exit Pathways (2023), curated by Rehema Chachage in collaboration with SOMA, was a collective intervention in Bagamoyo, the once designated capital of German-occupied East Africa. This chapter interrogated colonial cartography through the process of building a home with exit pathways for preservation, conversation, nurturing, communion, and for tracing and planting oneself within a geography. It also engaged with themes of togetherness and community building as means of survival and resistance against colonial impositions.
For the gathering and zine publication release at Flutgraben, the involved artists and thinkers created a performative space with transmissions, prompts, materials, and voices resonating from the ecosystem and collective efforts in Mapinga/Bagamoyo.
When the Jackal Leaves the Sun is a decolonial infrastructure for artistic research and pedagogies in Cape Town, Windhoek, Nairobi, Kigali, Dar es Salaam, Bagamoyo, Dakar, Sinne Saloum, Joal-Fadiouth Berlin & online.
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