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BOZAR NEWSLETTER

Etienne Davignon and Paul Dujardin

Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director-General of the

Centre for Fine Arts

Guido Gryseels

Director of the

Royal Museum for Central Africa

David Adjaye

Artistic Director of the festival and director of

Adjaye Associates

and

Bart Canfyn

Director of

SUM Research

invite you to the press conference

for the festival

?Visionary Africa?

Monday 10 May 2010 – at 11.15 am

At the Centre for Fine Arts ? Bertouille Rotunda

In the presence of

Yves Leterme

Prime Minister of Belgium

and of

Andris Piebalgs

European Commissioner for Development

The press conference will be followed by a reception.

Please confirm your presence and send any requests for information by e-mail to annelien.mallems@bozar.be before Thursday 6 May 2010.

Visionary Africa

Centre for Fine Arts ? 30 May to 26 September 2010

This summer the Centre for Fine Arts and the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) present “Visionary Africa”. This festival, which highlights African culture, past and present, will also serve as the starting point for a long-term vision of how to present Africa’s cultural heritage and African culture, both in Africa and in Europe.

Concretely, to mark the 50th anniversary of the independence of the Congo and of 16 other African countries, the Centre for Fine Arts presents, in collaboration with the RMCA, four exhibitions, including GEO-Graphics, as well as the cream of African music, literature, and performing arts, including committed artists such as Rokia Traoré, Angélique Kidjo, Didier Awadi, Papa Wemba, and Germaine Acogny.

The links between Belgium and the Congo, moreover, will be celebrated by special festivities under the label CONGO@BOZAR. These will culminate in a grand concert, “50 Years of Congolese Music”, whose sole European performance will be in Brussels!

A little extra spice will be offered by a public itinerary that will lead visitors to the great Horta Hall in the Centre for Fine Arts, which will be specially adapted to host broadcasts of matches from the 19th Football World Cup in South Africa, as well as concerts, screenings, activities, food and drink tasting, and more.

Via the “Visionary Africa” platform, over and above the organisation of anniversary festivities, BOZAR and the Royal Museum for Central Africa are putting forward a new vision of our relations with Africa. While the Tervuren Museum is being renovated, accordingly, a new collaborative project will be launched at the Centre for Fine Arts, starting in 2012.

An original and varied programme ? not to be missed!

Information and tickets: www.bozar.be ; +32 (0) 2 507 82 00 – 23 rue Ravensteinstraat, 1000 Brussels

Contact: Annelien Mallems, press officer: +32 (0)2 507 84 48 ? annelien.mallems@bozar.be

Press kit available on request from 10 May.

Photos: Click on “More information” to reach our press site, where you will find the photographs available (directly downloadable) at the foot of the page on each event.