Semaine Folle (Crazy week) Africa2020 Focus

SciencesPo Reims and the ESAD of Reims are joining forces to develop a multidisciplinary educational programme combining artistic creation and the humanities and social sciences. Fifteen workshops facilitated by African creators (music, dance, video, plastic arts and design), in partnership with teachers from both schools, will address the political, artistic and cultural dimensions of a project. The various workshops, intended for 300 students from both schools, will be set up as part of Semaine folle (“Crazy Week”s), a joint annual programme. The objective will be the cross-fertilisation of skills between African professionals and French teachers, between artistic creation and a conceptual approach. The workshops will be presented every evening and will end with a full day of public presentations : www.esad-reims.fr.

Speakers from Sciences Po: Géraldine BLANCHE - Law and fashion management, Romain BONNET - History, Matthieu BOURRETTE - Law, Louis DUBOST - Law, Liliane EHRHART - French literature, Jeff HAWKINS - Politics, Vincent HUGEUX - Journalism, Pooja JAIN - French literature, Alexandre KOUCHNER - Journalism, Álvaro Luna-Dubois - French and American literature, Laurence OUDIN-ARNOULT - French as a foreign language, Jean POUCH - Law and political science, Brigitte ROLLET - Gender studies and cinema, Giuseppe Saponaro - Languages and civilisations, Amirpasha TAVAKKOLI - History, Ophélie WANG - Law and body art.

Artists participating in the Semaine Folle (Crazy week): Chedly ATALLAH - Installation (Tunisia), Lina ATTALAH - Writer (Egypt), Zineb BENJELLOUN - Drawing (Morocco), Youssef CHEBBI - Director (Tunisia), Agathe DJOKAM TAMO - Dance (Cameroon), Françoise DO - Dramatic writing, Vhan Olsen DOMBO - Performance - slam (Congo Brazzaville), Kokouvi Dzifa GALLEY - Dramatic writing (Togo), Rebecca KABUO - Dance, Gabrielle MANGLOU - Installation (Reunion), Riason NAIDOO - Curator (South Africa), Yacob NEGERA - Installation, performance, video (Ethiopia), Ousmane OUEDRAOGO - Fashion designer (Burkina Faso), Sara OUHADDOU - Installation (Morocco / France), Malek SAIED - Animation film-illustrator (Tunisia / France), Lerato SHADI - Performance (South Africa), Buhlebezwe Kamohelo SIWANI - Performance (South Africa), Claudia TENNANT - Painting (South Africa), Duncan WYLIE - Painting (Zimbabwe)