Panel Discussion Accessing Heritage

Digital Interventions through Art and Archives in Rwanda

As a source of identity, heritage is a valuable factor for empowering local communities and enabling vulnerable groups to participate fully in social and cultural life. Accessing it, however, is not always easy. Especially in postcolonial times, tangible and intangible heritage might be lost, forgotten, or stored in museums on other continents.

We are therefore pleased to invite you to our workshop and panel discussion Accessing Heritage - Digital Interventions through Art and Archives in Rwanda.

UCLA Ph.D. Candidate Talia Lieber, the founders of Milele Museum Melissa Kurkut and Canda Niyonkuru (Kuuru Art Space) as well as the artists Alex Niragira and Bingo Regis will present their works in progress in research and artistic practice. Together with Assumpta Mugiraneza (Iriba Center for Multimedia Heritage), they will then discuss the accessibility of archives, the creation of a virtual museum for relocated artifacts, pre-colonial hairstyles, and cultural heritage that is still to be found within Rwanda.

The discussion will take place on the 1st of December at 6 pm. The workshop will start on the 2nd of December at 9:30 am. Please register for the workshop by sending an e-mail to intern-kigali@goethe.de
If you want to take part in either the panel discussion or the workshop online via Zoom, please also send an e-mail to the address mentioned above, so we can send you the link.

We are looking forward to discussing with you!

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