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live in accra jazz festival

workshops and masterclasses

15 - 22 apr brass masterclass with nicolas genest p.5

22 - 26 apr sound & light workshop p.6

26 april poetry & jazz with nii ayikwei parkes p.6

30 april sound recording with colter harper p.7

1st may a whole day of jazz with dr. royal p.7 hartigan and jazz ensemble

1st may tune up your performance by jazz p.7 tone productions

3 may ghanaian music & jazz with colter harper P.8

concerts & events

25 april nicolas genest (concert) p.8

26 april poetry & jazz with nii ayikwei parkes p.9

27 april apero jazz with kyekyeku & tommi quinci p.10

30 april la paillote takpekpe by ehalakasa p.10

30 april great women of jazz p.11

1 may 252 jazz band / dela botri & hewale sounds / sound factory & guests p.11

2 may Jazz Fusion presented by live Djs & live band p.11

3 may franco na biso! p.12

8 - 9 may workshop beatboxing with p.16 under kontrol

10 may concert under kontrol P.16

24 may concert villy & the xtreme volumes p.17

28 may la paillote by new morning art cafe p.18 takpekpe theatre & creative centre - of God’s men, the switch

7 june concert la 33 (salsa) p.19

21 june concert fete de la musique p.20 akwaaba sound system

25 june la paillote by accra theatre workshop p.21 takpekpe

nos partenaires / our partners:

live in accra partners:

film screenings

28 april el milagro de candeal p.13

2 may michel petrucciani p.13

exhibition / visual arts

25 april larry otoo (paintings) p.14

WORKSHOPS &

Brass Masterclass with trumpeter Nicolas Genest

Tuesday 15th and Tuesday 22nd April9am-1pmVenue: Alliance Française Accra - Exhibition Hall Rate: Free – Selected participants only

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Workshop for brass musicians wishing to learn or improve their skills in controlling the air column pressure (breathing, diaphragm, abdo-minal  belt...), singing, sounds spun, «buzz», «mask», double sounds, note pedals, etc... There will be a thorough study of the modes and major and minor scales and arpeggios, diminished scales, and altered and enhanced scales. Singers and instrumentalists who wish to deepen their knowledge of breath control are welcome.To register, email culturel@afaccra.com or call 0501287811

Dear friends,

From Friday 25th April to Saturday 3rd May 2014, Alliance Francaise Accra and its partners present Live in Accra! For this first edition, we invite you to enjoy 10 days of celebration with live music and Jazz as well as workshops, visual art exhibitions, movie screenings, conferences... In the 60s, the Jazz scene in Ghana was bustling with live music all over the city almost every night. We hope to rekindle a small part of this and bring Jazz back to Accra. We are also delighted to welcome in the next couple of months Villy, the sensation from Nigeria, the amazing King Ayisoba, beatboxing world champion Under Kontrol, the phenomenal salsa band from Colombia La 33. Our usual Paillote Takpekpe every last Wednesday of the month will also continue to be the platform for emerging ar-tists and many more!Let’s enjoy Accra together!

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Every Wed - 7pm / chaque mer - 19h00Rate: adults 2 ghc, AF students & cultural members 1 ghc7 May : Camille redouble (Camille rewinds) Noémie lvovsky - France - drama - 201214 May: FoxfireLaurent Cantet - Canada/France - drama - 201321 May: Le sac de farine (The bag of flour)Kadija Leclere - Belgium/France/Morocco - drama- 20144 June: Pauline detectiveMarc Fitoussi - France - comedy - 201211 June : Poupoupidou (nobody else but you)Gerald Hustache Mathieu - France - action - 201118 June: La pirogue (The canoe)Moussa Touré - france / senegal - drama - 2012

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Objectives: To provide the basics of sound (concerts ext /int, confe-rence ...), lighting (live performances, preparation and during performances) as well as rules of expertise and know how to be inherent in the techniques of performance and provide basic main-tenance of equipment. It includes 4/5 days of training and practice during 2 live events. Participants should be available the whole duration of the workshop.To register, email culturel@afaccra.com or call 050 12 87 811

Workshop by recording engineer, guitarist, and University of Ghana lec-turer Colter Harper (www.colterharper.com). Content: recording engi-neering and production techniques. To register send a short email about yourself to colterharper@gmail.com.

Explore the history of Jazz through discussion, listening, viewing & the per-formance of essential styles in the history of dynamic art form with Prof. Hartigan. To register email culturel@afaccra.com or call 050 12 87 811

Learn the skills that can help you deliver great performances with confi-dence with Toni Manieson. To register email culturel@afaccra.com or call 050 12 87 811

As a performance art, poetry has a lot in common with jazz - both dependent on a combination of subtle elements to deliver the ultimate experience. In this workshop, Nii Ayikwei Parkes explores how these commonalities - variances in tone and volume, the use of silences and repetition - can be leveraged to deliver better poetry in performance.

Sound & Light for live events - workshop for technicians with Christophe Laforêt

Tue 22nd - Sat 26th April 9am-5pm + 25th & 26th evening Venue: Alliance Française Accra - Exhibition Hall Rate: Free – Selected participants only

Studio sound recording workshop

Wednesday 30th April11am-4pmVenue: Vivivi Studio West Legon Rate: Free – Selected participants only (10 places)

Poetry workshop with Nii Ayikwei Parkes

Saturday 26th April - 10 am - 1 pmVenue:New Morning Art Cafe Theatre & Creative CentreRate: Free

A whole day of Jazz with Dr. Royal Hartigan & Jazz Ensemble

Thu 1st May - 10 am - 7 pmVenue: Best Western Hotel Airport Residential AreaRate: Free

Tune up your performance by Jazz Tone ProductionThu 1st May - 4 pm - 7 pmVenue: Best Western Airport Residential Rate: 100 GHC (in advance) / 150 GHC (on the day)

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To open this first edition of the Live in Accra festival, we welcome Nicolas Genest and the Sobedo Project. Sobedo musicians are from the young generation of jazz in Cotonou. Like Nicolas Genest, they are passionate about jazz and have the knowledge of traditional music that allows them to easily navigate between these two worlds. Sobedo will have as guest the talented Ghanaian pianist Victor Dey and a group of children from various schools in Accra including Ecole Jacques Prévert, Anani School and the Wonderful Street Academy .

Pour l’’ouverture de cette 1ère édition du festival Live in Accra, nous accueillons Nicolas Genest et le projet Sodebo. Les musiciens de Sobe-do sont les musiciens de la génération montante du jazz de Cotonou. Comme Nicolas Genest ils sont passionnés par le jazz et possèdent cette connaissance des musiques traditionnelles qui leur permet d’évoluer de manière aussi aisée, dans, et entre ces deux univers. Sodebo aura comme invité d’honneur le talentueux pianiste ghanéen Victor Drey et un groupe d’enfants de différentes écoles d’Accra dont l’école Jacques Prévert, Anani School et la Wonderful Street Academy

Sobedo’s guest: the talented Ghanainan pianist Victor Dey Nicolas Genest : Trumpet, song (France/Benin)Manu Falla : Bass (Benin)Bona Didolanvi : Percus-sions, song (Benin)Josaphat Hounnou : Drums, song (Benin)

Guitarist and University of Ghana lecturer Colter Harper (www.colte-rharper.com) presents a workshop on incorporating Ghanaian musi-cal structures into jazz and popular music compositions. Participants should bring their instruments, as concepts will be performed by those present. 

Lecture: Ghanaian music and jazzSaturday 3rd May - 6 pmVenue: Alliance Française Accra - Exhibition Hall Rate: Free

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CONCERTS & EVENTS

Nicolas Genest - Sobedo project & guestsFri 25th April - 7.30 pmVenue : Alliance Française Accra - Exhibition Hall Rate : 10GHC, 5GHC for AF students and members

Poetry and Jazz with Nii Ayikwei ParkesSat 26 April - 7 pm Venue: New Morning Art Cafe Theatre & Creative CentreRate: Free

Come and enjoy a special performance de-dicated to Jazz and poetry with Nii Ayikwei Parkes, award winning Ghanaian author of Tail of the Blue Bird (Winner of 2014 Prix Mahogany - France, Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize 2010, A Die Welt Top 10 Crime Book 2010 in Germany), jazz lover and poet. The Ghanaian writer accompanied by other poets will present a freshly made creation revealing the spirit of jazz and poetry

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Apéro Jazz with Kyekyeku & Tommi QuinciSun 27th April - 6 pm Venue: The Republic Bar & Grill, OsuRate: Free

La Paillote Takpekpe: CadenceWed 30th April - 7.30 pm Venue: Alliance Française AccraRate: 2GHC, 1GHC for AF students and members

Great Women of JazzWed 30th April - 10 pm Venue: +233 Bar & GrillRate: 20 GHC

Jazz 2 SoulJazz Fusion presented by live Djs & live bandFri 2nd May - 9 pm Venue: +233 Bar & GrillRate: 40 GHC

252 Jazz Band / Dela Botri & Hewale Sounds Thu 1st May - 8 pm Venue: +233 Bar & GrillRate: 20 GHC

Tommi Quinci’s (Sicily) Balkan-Gypsy flavoured Clarinet sits with Kyekyeku’s (Ghana) Afro and spanish tinge guitars that together explore the environs of jazz.

Join us celebrate International Jazz Day as +233 Bar & Grill and Onyx Management group present ‘Great Women of Jazz’ in honor of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson and Nina Simone, presented by four amazing vocalists:Ofie Kodjoe, Brenda Joyce, Sandra Hudson and Michelle McKin-ney-Hammond, featuring the amazing Sound Factree.

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Alliance Francaise in collaboration with Ehalakasa presents CADENCE. The concept fuses spoken word lyricism with live band instrumentation. Poets perform spoken word accompanied by complementary Jazz and experimen-tal traditional folk music to extend the effect of their performance. The event features Kwame Write, Lauren Goodwin, Chieff Moomen and Dzyadzorm backed by an ensemble to deliver spoken word over Jazz music.

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FRANCO NA BISO ! Tribute to the great Franco LuamboSat 3rd May - 8 pmVenue: Alliance Française Accra Rate: 10GHC, 5GHC for AF students and members

Franco Na Biso! is a Franco-Congolese quintet that pays tribute to the great guitarist and singer Franco Luambo, father of the Congolese Rumba. This project combines the best musical tradi-tions of Zaire to contemporary European jazz music. Musicians will play masterpieces made of rumba rythm and saxophone im-provisations. Special focus is placed on vocals (lead and choir) to faithfully recreate Franco Luambo’s musical atmosphere. Inno-vative rumba and improvisation: two musical fields, two musical traditions, two continents for a great meeting.

Quintet Franco-Congolais, Franco Na Biso ! rend hommage au grand Franco Luambo, guitariste et chanteur de République Démo-cratique du Congo, père de la rumba congolaise.

Sax and vocals: Jean-Rémy Guédon and Kojack Guitar and vocal: Kossakamvwe, Alberto MapotoDrums: Christian Kamba Electric bass: Guy

El Milagro de CandealMon 28th April - 8 pm Venue: + 233 Bar & GrillRate: Free

Michel PetruccianiFri 2nd May - 7 pm Venue: Goethe InstituteRate: Free

Bebo Valdés, the great Cuban pianist, travels to Salvador de Bahia (Brazil) in search of his ancestors’ cultural inheri-tance. Using music as a force for every type of initiative, the people there have gotten over the misery, regained their self-esteem and hope thanks to drums, afro music and dance.

FILM SCREENINGS

British filmmaker Michael Radford (The Postman) felt Petrucciani (1963-1999) had an amazing talent, to which this do-cumentary  pays tribute. The film about this great jazz pianist was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Gyedu Blay Ambolley at Jazz à Ouaga 2014Sat 26 April - 8 pmVenue: Institut Francais of Ouagadougou

Alliance Francaise Accra is supporting the participation of the Highlife legend with his band, The Sekondi Band, at Ouaga Jazz 2014.

One of the most renowned painters in Ghana today, Larry Otoo likes to refer to himself as a ‘contemporary traditionalist’. His vibrant, abstract paintings in oil and acrylic capture the rhythm and beat of daily life. The pieces exhibited here focus on his love for jazz and music.

Larry Otoo (Paintings) Launch & Cocktail Friday 25th April, 6pm Exhibition open till 18th May (Opening hours 9am-9pm every day except for classes and other activities)Venue: Alliance Française Accra Rate: FREE

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ARTISTS EXCHANGE WITH OTHER FESTIVALS

VISUAL ARTS

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Under Kontrol is a French combo made up of 4 beatboxers who met in 2007, named MicFlow, Mr Lips, Tiko and Fayabraz. French Champion in 2008, Beatbox Team World Champions in 2009 and discovery artist of Printemps de Bourges 2011, this vocal quartet received praises from the international music scene and realeased an album, 100% Beatbox, in 2011 entitled ‘1’ [Full Rhizome / L’Autre Distribution]. Their music is inspired by hip-hop, electro, jazz and funk producing melodies, rhythms and bass that will leave the listener speechless.Under Kontrol est né en 2007 de la rencontre entre Tiko, Fayabraz, Micflow et Mr Lips, quatre beatboxers français. Champion de France en 2008, Cham-pion du Monde en 2009 par équipe et révélations du Printemps de Bourges 2011, ce quatuor vocal reconnu sur la scène musicale internationale crée une musique empreinte de hip-hop, d’électro, de jazz et de funk.

The UNCOLONISED Concert is going to be a visual art / musical protest in its own right, using music and arts to fight African leaders. Nigerian Afro-Fusion International Sensation, VILLY & The Xtreme Volumes will tear down the stage with Xtreme Music, Xtreme Entertainment, Xtreme Expression, Xtreme confrontation of Africa’s present state, a complete Musical Fusion of Afrobeat, Rock, Soul, Highlife and more. .

They will be joined by King Ayisoba as Guest Artist, a hiplife performer and Kologo, guitarist, player from Upper East Region of Ghana whose kologo sounds are both melodic and percussive. Together with his produ-cer, Panji Anoff (Pidgin musician), he changed the Accra music scene by using traditional instruments with hip life (a style that emerged in Ghana in the mid-90s and contains hip hop and dancehall elements) beats, bleeps and bass.

beatboxing workshop with under kontrolthu 8 & fri 9 may / jeu 8 et ven 9 mairate: Free. selected applicants only

concert under kontrol opening act: jahwibeatboxing - france / ghanasat 10 may - 8pm / sam 10 mai - 20hrate: 10GHC, 5GHC for AF students and members

A one day workshop for professionals with the members of Under Kontrol (beatboxing world champion 2009) and an extra day for beginners and the younger ones. Registration: culturel@afaccra.com - 050 12 87 811 villy and the Xtreme volumes

king ayisobanigeria / ghanasat 24 may - 8 pm / sam 24 mai - 20hrate: 10GHC, 5GHC for af students and members

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of god’s men, the switchdirected by new morning art cafe theatre & creative centre theatre - musical - ghanawed 28 may - 7.30 pm / mer 28 mai - 19h30rate: adults 2GHC / students & cultural members 1GHC

la 33salsa - columbiaSat 7 June - 8 pm / sam 7 juin - 20 hrate: 10GHC, 5GHC for AF students and membersvenue: trade fair – round pavilion

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In the country of Mantain, corruption and vice have found solace. There are leaders and Citizens, but you can hardly tell them apart, as a result of the rottenness of their collective behaviours. The gods who are watching are now tired of it. Do they step in, wipe Mantein out, or offer them the opportunity of a fresh start?Script by Golda Addo, adaptation by New Morning

With 60 thousand albums sold and nearly 2,000 different presentations in five continents over a decade, La-33 has become one of the most influential Colombian salsa orches-tras on the international scene.La-33 began in 2001 when bro-thers, Sergio and Santiago Mejia, assembled a group of musicians to form a salsa band. Interestingly, those who answered the call were not salsa performers, their inspi-ration was more of urban rhythms like rock, jazz and reggae. The band is also inspired by the New York 70’s style, which combines the rough and dirty sounds of the city with Caribbean rhythms, thereby retaining a classically trained per-

cussion, while introducing winds such as those of the orchestras from New York, as well as that dry sound of the saxophone. For more than a decade, the band has been experimenting and reinventing their music, and giving the public all their energy. This concert is sponsored by the Colombian Embassy in Ghana and will take place in a magical location, the Round Pavilion at the International Trade Fair Centre.

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Akwaaba Sound System carries the spirit of the Fête de la musique, as it mashes together DJing, visuals and choreography into a spicy pan-African stew, to create a truly stimulating party experience. DJs bbrave, Just-Ice & Mineral will pair up with MC Steloo, live percussionists and acrobatic dancers, to run the gamut from highlife to zouglou, ndombolo and afro-house.

The Fete de la musique will start early for the little ones: join us from 2pm for lots of activities and music workshops for children.

international music day/fete de la musique akwaaba sound systemdjing - performancessat 21 june - 7 pm / sam 1er juin - 19 h rate: free

Alliance Française’s multimedia library provides access to a broad range of res-sources, services and information with the mission to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge and entertainment.

To deliver on this promise, the multimedia library provides a welcoming and supportive environment for adults and kids, with materials to learn French lan-guage and culture, keep oneself updated with daily news broadcasts and benefit from a great offer of cultural and entertaining activities.

WHAT’S NEW?Video Games Corner

The Multimedia Library offers its members a new space dedicated to video games! Children, adolescents and adults are invited to take the knobs to play games in French and English: sports games, games of skill, knowledge, fighting games etc.

Enjoy our new tablets!

Come and discover our tablets to enjoy e-magazines, webTV and webradios, learn French, play games etc. Children are not forgotten with dedicated tablets(the leapfrog) to learn and dis-cover whilst having fun!

Contact: dci@afaccra.com - 05 01 28 78 15

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SOME GOOD REASONS TO JOIN THE MULTIMEDIA LIBRARY

petanquetous les jeudis a 16h - gratuitevery thursday at 4 pm - freeOuvert à toutes et à tous, nous vous fournissons le matériel! Bonne ambiance assurée!Open to everybody, equipment is provided!Fun guaranteed!

cours de danse afro / afro dance classestous les lundis a 18h30every monday at 6.30 pm

cours de capoeiracapoeira classestous les mardis 19h et samedis 10hevery tuesday 7pm & saturday 10 am

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theatre workshop for kids atelier theatre pour enfantsfacilitated by kyskeya / anime par kis keyaevery sat of may and june - 2 pm - free tous les sam de mai et juin - 14 h - gratuit

En passant par la préparation d’un spectacle, ce stage sera une vraie expérience pratique du travail de groupe et de la scène. Les enfants vont pouvoir réaliser comment raconter une histoire ensemble et comment l’offrir au public. Pour cela, ils vont pouvoir s’amuser avec le texte, le mouvement et la musique.

lunch-time cine club tous les mercredis au hall d’exposition - 12h - gratuitevery wednesday in the exhibition hall - 12 pm - free

Films en français sous-titrés / movies in French with English subtitles may 7th D’amour et d’eau fraiche (drama) may 14th Camille Rewinds (comedy) may 31st 17 girls (drama) may 28th Le collier du Makoko (comedy) june 4th The women on the 6th floor (dramatic comedy) June 11th The other son (drama)

Contact: dci@afaccra.com - 05 01 28 78 15

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