Goethe-Découverte 2024
Sound: 2B Francky
Surname: Aurly Franck Ombede
Artist name: 2B Francky
Residence: Yaounde
Concert date: 25. 10.2024
Venue: Centre culturel Ubuntu (Yaounde-Quartier Fouda)
Contact: samuelrammzy@gmail.com
2B Francky presents itself as an intergenerational link, seeking to perpetuate the immense cultural heritage of the Fang Beti by highlighting the "mvet", an ancestral instrument of this people. He attempts to fuse this instrument with more modern sounds, accompanied by lyrics inspired by the Eton language and Beti legends.
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Dance: Fortune
Surname: Fortune Rose Gweha Nyambe
Artist name: Fortune
Residence: Yaounde
Show : 20.09.2024
Venue: MACBY(Maison de la Culture Bandjoun de Yaounde)
Contact: deathfortune0@gmail.com
Passionate about the fusion of urban and contemporary dance, she shares her culture and is committed to the development of dance in Cameroon. She has taken part in several contemporary dance shows, including "Ici Ailleurs" with Bouba Landrille Tchouda. She teaches hip-hop to the very young while taking part in innovative artistic projects at the Cabane de la Danse, a space dedicated to urban dance in the heart of Yaoundé. A talented, creative, and dynamic dancer, Fortune is always looking to improve and innovate.
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Theatre: Enow Bismack– Randy M.Ndam-Stephan Dipita- Noella Ngunyam- Bertille Ayoung
Surname: Bertille Ayong, Stephan Dipita, Enow Bismack, Randy Ndam.
Residence: Yaoundé-Douala-Buea-Bamenda
Residence date: From 12.08.2024 to 04.09.2024
Venue: OTHNI-Laboratoire de Théâtre de Yaoundé
Contacts: thereseayoung2@gmail.com, valeurdebomono@gmail.com, enowbismack2@gmail.com, menkemndirandy@gmail.com,
As part of the Goethe-Découverte theatre residency programme, four young Cameroonian theatre artists benefited from a four-week training from August 12 to September 4, 2024, led by renowned theatre practitioners and technicians (Alioum Moussa, Emelda Ngufor Samba, Hermine Yollo, Jean Marc Cedot, Kouam Tawa, Martin Ambara, and Matthias Gehrt) at the OTHNI space (Yaoundé, Essos). The training focused on theatre history and theory, acting and directing, text analysis and dramaturgy, costume and scenography, as well as sound and lighting management.
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Visual Arts: Dieudonné D. Kamgang
Surname: Dieudonné D. Kamgang
Artist name: Djiela K
Residence: Douala
Opening date: 06.12.2024
Venue: Comptoir des Arts, Yaoundé.
Contact: dieudonnedjielakamgang@gmail.com
Dieudonné Djiela Kamgang holds a postgraduate diploma in plastic arts from the Institut des Beaux-Arts at the University of Douala in Nkongsamba. Influenced by the work of Afro-American artist Kehinde Willey, and Cameroonian artists Hervé Youmbi and Jean David Nkot, he puts children at the centre of his creations, sublimating their facial expressions, attitudes and bodily gestures. He has taken part in various group exhibitions and fairs, including Art X Lagos in Nigeria and Artco Lisboa in Portugal.
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Voice: Kroon
Surname: Praise Kroon Joshua Agbor
Artist name: Kroon
Residence: Buea
Concert date: 23.08.2024
Venue: MACBY (Maison de la Culture Bandjoun de Yaoundé)
Contact: Kroonjoshua35@gmail.com
Praise Kroon comes from Buea in south-west Cameroon and was interested in music from an early age. Inspired by his parents, who were also passionate about this art, he loves extraordinary voices and poignant lyrics. With his voice and his sensitivity, he effortlessly transports the audience into his world during his live performances. He lives in his hometown of Buea and wants to enrich his creativity through the music of the various and numerous Cameroonian cultural areas.
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Word-Based Performances: Relindis Wai Kum
Surname: Relindis Wai Kum
Artist name: Donn Wai
Style: Slam
Residence: Yaoundé
Show Date: 12.07.2024
Venue: Ubuntu Creative Hub (Yaounde-Montée du parc)
Contact: waikum8@gmail.com
Real name Relindis Wai Kum, Donn Wai's artistic journey is one of unrivalled passion and resilience. In poetry and storytelling, she has found healing and a reason to live. Through her writing, she weaves lives and the world with the same words that have knitted her life together. As a self-taught artist, her writing is free and creative, and her sensitivity can make it both strong and gentle. Now living in Yaoundé, a long way from her native region in north-west Cameroon, which she had to flee for security reasons, Donn Wai finds the strength to resist through the words she puts to the evils.
