Goethe-Institute presents Club cultures in Africa and Europe

Ten cities, two continents, three disciplines: The project TEN CITIES teams up about 50 DJs, producers and musicians from Berlin, Bristol, Johannesburg, Cairo, Kiev, Lagos, Lisbon, Luanda, Nairobi and Naples, enabling them to produce music together and exchange their knowledge about the club scenes in their countries. At the same time, a research project will use the perspective of club cultures to explore and investigate the concept of public sphere: 23 researchers will work on essays and studies about those partly unknown music scenes and their sub cultures; ten photographers will capture the same at an artistic level. The final result of the project will include: the new tracks compiled in music albums. Results of the research project will lead towards a conference and a publication, which examines the topics public sphere and urban space, telling the history of club music in those ten cities. The photographic documentation will be presented in form of an exhibition in Berlin, accompanied by a final concert. The Lagos phase is organized by Goethe-Institut Nigeria and Afrologic. Lagos participants Adegboyega Oyedele (Afrologic) (Lagos) Duro Ikujenyo (Age Of Aquarius) (Lagos) Jah Device (Lagos) Pinch (Bristol) Rob Smith (Bristol) Temi Wura Samba (Lagos) The music productions are curated by: Mother Perera (Berlin) Project Dates and expected participants: November/December 2012 in Luanda January 2013 in Lagos February 2013 in Johannesburg March/April 2013 in Cairo May 2013 in Nairobi Further Information www.ten-cities.com www.facebook.com/tencities.social

Contact Project Management Nairobi Office: Goethe-Institut Kenya, Tel: +254 20 2245115/ 22 11 381/ 2612541/2, 10CITIES@nairobi.goethe.org, www.ten-cities.com, www.goethe.de/kenya Berlin Office: Adaptr.org Berlin, Gerriet@adapter-berlin.org, Andi@adapter-berlin.org, Hannes@adapter-berlin.org, www.adaptr.org TEN CITIES is a project of the Goethe-Institutes in sub-Saharan Africa, organized by Goethe-Institut Kenya, and the Berlin collective Adaptr.org in cooperation with the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at the University of Naples, and the Photo Gallery C/O Berlin.