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Black History Month

The month of February is known as Black History Month (BHM). 2022, the Goethe-Institut Kigali is contributing to the global project for the first time.

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Sustainable Together

The regional project Subsahara Africa: Sustainable together aims to initiate and support projects to increase the visibility of sustainability and achieve improvements in life quality of life through environmental progress, including local actors of civil society, artists, scientists and people of any other profession.

Learning feminism from Rwanda

Feminisms instead cropped Goethe Institut What experiences of female self-determination and equal rights can be found on the continent? What civil society commitments are activists and artists focusing on? "Learning Feminisms" explores these questions in a variety of local and national formats.

Boosting Shoots #2

Boosting Shoots #2 - square Goethe Institut The Goethe-Institut Kigali launches a second call for the *Boosting Shoots* grants!
We were very happy that the 10 projects created following the first call were diverse and audacious. And we were super excited to receive so many reactions from our online audience!

Decolonize the Internet

Wikipedia Competition cropped Goethe Institut If you want to learn how to write, edit and publish articles on Wikipedia, then this is for you!

Residency - Digital arts and environment

Artwork Sarah Wenzinger und Alla Popp Alla Popp/Sarah Wenzinger The two artists Sarah Wenzinger und Alla popp have been invited by Goethe Institut Kigali in cooperation with Rwanda Arts Initiative to stay in Kigali for an artist residency of two months.

The Burden of Memory

The Burden of Richard Kandt_reformatiert © Goethe-Institut We are happy to announce that the project „More about Richard Kandt (MARK)” by Kivumbi King has been selected for the Burden of Memory Project Fund.

Boosting Shoots

Boosting Shoots 983x427 Goethe Institut Artists have been suffering from not being able to produce and share work since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic. Their income is reduced to 0 for many of them. The Boosting Shoots grants were aimed at supporting digital mini productions by artists based in Rwanda.

KigaliLit - Keturah Kendrick

Keturah Kendrick & Marianne Mesfin Asfaw Emmanuel Rurangwa On the 20th of February 2020, the 10th edition of KigaliLit took place at the Kigali Public Library. In Cooperation with Huza Press and the Sistah Circle Collective, the US-American writer Keturah Kendrick was invited to read from her book "No Thanks. Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone". She spoke about her life and, together with the audience and the evening's moderator Marianne Mesfin Asfaw, she discussed themes as feminism and self-determination.

Science Film Festival 2020 Rwanda Edition

Science Film Festival banner_formatiert © Goethe-Institut Rwanda will host the Science Film Festival from 1st October till end October. The main partner for Rwanda is the National Council of Science and Technology (NCST) through its outreach program that aims to reach young people to encourage them to love STEM in order to par sure such careers in the future.

Power in Constraints - Premiere of two Rwandan short films

Still - Breaking Ground - formatiert © Ines Girihirwe In cooperation with the Swiss Cooperation and the Rwanda Arts Initiative, two Rwandan Shorts were premiered at the Goethe-Institut Kigali on 28th January 2020. The movies were produced in the film-workshop "Power in Constraints" by the awarded Rwandan filmmakers Samuel Ishimwe and Philbert Aimé Mbabazi.

Power in Constraints workshop - Remove all the rules

Power in Constraints workshop Goethe Institut Samuel Ishimwe and Philbert Aimé Mbabazi are currently mentoring eight young Rwandan scriptwriters in a film-workshop named “Power in Constraints” from 13.01-28.01.2020 at the Goethe-Institut Kigali, in which they are working on the possibilities of Independent Filmmaking.

Outline of a head. Inside the head many colourful segments with English writing in them like Togetherness, Solidarity, Social Distancing.

Day-Afterthoughts

A virus is showing us how globally networked and yet how fragile our public life is. What does the pandemic mean to and for each of us and for society as a whole?

Here are some responses from intellectuals and artists around the world with regard to our present predicament and what lies in store for us afterwards.

The title Kulturama.digital is shown against a blue-white-orange background including the following objects: glasses, an eye and a mouth.

Kulturama.digital

Kulturama brings international culture into your living room: house concerts live from Buenos Aires, puppet theatre from the kitchen or live acts from the Berlin club scene. Organisers enter their events and open them to international audiences. Spectators can find dates and support artists with donations.

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