This fall, we welcome again musician Ezé Wendtoin, accompanied by Aristide Nikiema, an equally skilled Burkinabé keyboard artists and president of the APECA (Association pour la Promotion de l’Education, de la Culture et de l’Artisanat) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Come join us for our roundtables, class visits and performances on and off-campus! (event list will be continue to be updated – stay tuned!)
Save the dates for:
Sept 16, 4.20-5.30pm, DB 0080, “Racism and Privilege: Experiences and Findings of Being Burkinabé in Germany, and of Being German in Burkina Faso” (Roundtable Discussion and Musical Performance)
Visiting Artists Ezé Wendtoin and Aristide Nikiema are visiting Ohio State campus to talk about how the term „privilege” is experienced and understood in Burkina Faso, and re-interpreted in and through the exchange with Germany. In conversation with GLL PhD Candidate Carolin Müller and members of Banda Internationale they discuss the work of APECA (Association pour la Promotion de l’Education, de la Culture et de l’Artisanat) in Burkina Faso and their different collaborations with Europe. APECA’s current president Aristide Nikiema will speak on the foundation’s efforts and challenges working in collaboration with Germany. We will further present APECA’s Joint project with the German musician collective Banda Internationale in October 2018 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and discuss to what extent the musical exchange can address the social issues that lie at the root of experienced inequality.
The discussion will conclude with a small concert by our visiting musicians during which they will make palpable how the cross-border exchange has influenced their work.
Sept 17, 7-9pm, FREE OFF-CAMPUS CONCERT, Wild Goose Creative, Clintonville
Sept 18, 3.30- 5pm, Stillman Hall 100, “Seg-taaba // Meeting Others Through Music‘: Migration, Mobility and Music, A Collaboration between Columbus, Ohio and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (Musical Performance and Discussion of Educational Strategies for fostering Cross-border Music Education)
Visiting Burkinabé artists Ezé Wendtoin and Aristike Nikiema will discuss their project ‘Seg-taaba // Meeting Others Through Music,‘ a workshop series that connected students from Columbus, Ohio with students in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The workshop posed the questions: How do young adults understand contemporary migration and mobility? And, in what ways can music be a space in which different experiences can be shared and evaluated?
Columbus students learned to compose, listen and communicate about these questions through music with their workshop partners in the artists‘ homeland Burkina Faso.
This event will provide the Ohio State and the broader Columbus community an overview of the project and its results, the artists‘ educational approach and also address challenges in the process. Participating students at the Thiossane Institute in Columbus and APECA in Ouagadougou will speak on and present their musical contributions. Ezé and Aristide will conclude the event with a musical performance.
This event is open to all. Refreshments will be served.
The program is made possible due to the generous support from the:
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Migration Studies Working Group
EMIC: Graduate Student Interest Group for Expressive Culture
Upper Arlington High School
Upper Arlington Middle School
ASC Tech
Department of French and Italian Studies
Dresden Sister City Inc.
Department of Comparative Studies
Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures
APECA