by editorExhibition
October 6, 2023 (6:30 pm) – October 15, 2023 (8:00 pm)
Carturesti Carousel (55, Lipscani Street)
Victor Dragonetti – Brasil
Free entrance
by editorBook release
October 6, 2023 (6:30 pm) – October 15, 2023 (8:00 pm)
Amzei Market (17, Amzei Market Street)
Collective – Romania
Free entrance
by editorThe Mountain Kingdom – High above the clouds in a magical place where mountains pierce the heavens there is a place so remote and breathtakingly beautiful known as The Mountain Kingdom. The Maloti mountains is a place where gods and mythical beasts roam and men are kings cloaked in heavy colourful blankets telling stories of the land. Known as the Kingdom in the Sky, Lesotho is a high-altitude, landlocked country encircled by South Africa and affectionately known as The Roof of Africa. Most areas are so remote and can only be reached on foot or horseback. Here young shepherds roam the mountains, living semi nomadic lives tending to their cattle in the rural mountainsides. Most of the Basotho shepherds are often accompanied by dogs which help them in their shepherding and to protect their livestock from predators. Racing in the mist, Lesotho’s mountain jockeys form part of a century old tradition of horse racing in the mountains. The horse first came to Lesotho with European settlers in the 19th century and the local pride, the “Basuto pony”, is the result of crossbreeding over time. Don’t be fooled by it’s name the ponies are of medium size and known for their endurance, making excellent race horses. Locals still use them to herd sheep and goats or for everyday transport as some villages are accessible only on horseback. Shrouded in myth and mystery, these mountains are home to a unique community and filled with stories rich in tradition and history.
October 6, 2023 (6:30 pm) – October 15, 2023 (8:00 pm)
Carturesti Carousel (55, Lipscani Street)
Lee-Ann Olwage is a visual storyteller from South Africa who uses collaborative storytelling to explore themes relating to gender and identity. She is interested in using the medium of photography as a mode of co- creation and celebration. With her long term projects, she aims to create a space where people she collaborates with can play an active part in the creation of images they feel tells their stories in a way that is affirming and celebratory. Notable awards include a World Press Photo Award, 2020 & 2023, Sony World Photography Awards, 2023, Winner of This Is Gender, 2021, Pride Photo Award, 2021, CAP Prize winner, 2022, Marilyn Stafford Fotoreportage Award shortlist, 2021+2022, International Photography Awards Honorable Mention, 2020 and selected for The New York Times Portfolio Review 2022.
Free entrance
by editorExhibition – For thousands of years, Vancouver Island, an island 1/3 the length of Canada’s Pacific coast, was the home of the Tla-o-qui-aht. They controlled who lived there and who was a citizen. Their laws dictated who could launch boats from the islands, who could cut down their conifers, who could fish for salmon and where. From the 18th century, European invaders sought to strip away that control. The Tla-o-qui-aht, resisted fiercely and constantly, for decades. By many important measures, they succeeded. Today, central Vancouver Island is again under Tla-o-qui-aht control. More remarkable still, scores of other Native societies across North America, also known as Turtle Island, are following in Tla-o-qui-aht footsteps. In legal terms, all of these groups have been, and continue to fight for the sovereignty promised to them in the hundreds of treaties the United States and Canada signed with their original inhabitants. To Indigenous people the word ‘sovereignty’ means more than self-rule. It is shorthand for a vision of Native societies as autonomous cultures, controlling the environment around them, part of the modern world but fully rooted in their own long- standing values, working as equal partners with local, state, and federal governments. All of this is happening now. From BC to Texas, Indigenous peoples are co-managing national forests, forcing governments to pull down huge dams, blocking pipelines, taking charge of fisheries, and rebuilding prairie ecosystems. At the same time, Indigenous nations are rebuilding in all the other dimensions of sovereignty. Some have created billion-dollar businesses. Some have built alternative hospital networks and sports leagues. Some have reacquired large chunks of the land that was taken from them. All the while, Native artists and craftspeople have joined new technology and ancient values to create distinctive, entirely contemporary forms of architecture, painting, weaving, and writing. The vision of sovereignty is one in which the important shared priorities among different communities can create an American continent with a better life for all.
October 6, 2023 (6:30 pm) – October 15, 2023 (8:00 pm)
Amzei Market (17, Amzei Market Street)
Kiliii Yuyan – Photographer Kiliii Yuyan tells the stories of lives bound to the land and sea. Informed by ancestry that is both Nanai/Hèzhé (East Asian Indigenous) and Chinese, he searches for human insight through different cultural perspectives. On assignment, he has survived a stalking polar bear, escaped pounding waves diving with sea otters, and found kinship at the edges of the world. Kiliii makes photographic stories for the pages of National Geographic Magazine, TIME, and other major publications.
Free entrance
by editorCollective Exhibition
October 6, 2023 (6:30 pm) – October 15, 2023 (8:00 pm)
Deschis Gastrobar (160, Splaiul Unirii)
In partnership with Wipplay, France.
Free entrance