🇲🇿 Based in Mozambique
VASIKATE
- 2022
Afro-atlantic trails
The project “VASIKATE: afro-atlantic trails” is a musical exchange program between Portuguese-speaking countries through the production of artistic residencies, live performances, workshops and digital tours with the participation of women artists from Brazil, Guinea-Bissau and Angola, being the Nzango Artist Residency its catalyst platform in Mozambique.
Vasikate is a word of Mozambican origin from the Chope culture, which means woman; the term was chosen to highlight the female role during all editions of the project. Both the international artists and the young Mozambican artists selected are primarily women who develop gender empowerment in their artwork, as well as identification with the fusion of traditional African instruments with modern Western instruments.
The project “VASIKATE: afro-atlantic trails” is a musical exchange program between Portuguese-speaking countries through the production of artistic residencies, live performances, workshops and digital tours with the participation of women artists from Brazil, Guinea-Bissau and Angola, being the Nzango Artist Residency its catalyst platform in Mozambique. In addition, Vasikate is a term that geographically and culturally places Mozambique as the central point of the musical tracks that will be created. The invited countries are all located in the Atlantic Ocean and have historically exchanged their cultures between the continents of Africa, America and Europe. The term Afro-Atlantic also suggests another key point of the project, since most of the participating countries are located in PALOP Africa, therefore, the Portuguese language and African identity are our guiding principles.
Em 2022 participaram, juntamente com as artistas Josyara (BR) e Lenna Bahule (MZ), a banda Timbila Muzimba (MZ); a direção artística é de Matchume Zango e a produção executiva de Laís Volpe (BR).
The VASIKATE project: afro-atlantic trails is a production of Associação Cultural Warethwa in partnership with Nzango Artist Residency, contemplated by the PROCULTURA program, financed by the European Union, co-financed and managed by Camões, I.P. and co-financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, to support Centers for Contemporary Artistic Creation in the PALOP and Timor-Leste.
