Exhibitions
Color Bash
Opening: 10 Jul 2010 - 9:00am - 10:00am
Based of the historical role that the Wax industry has had in Africa the exhibition and Workshop will highlight the social and artistic use of the wax print in Africa. To African women the wax has always symbolised femininity, the body as a fashion accessory, but always as a means of an assertion of self and its expression. Furthermore, African women have always maintained a sharp understanding of femininity despite industrialization and evidence of this in fashion is everywhere you go, right before our eyes. Come see the House of Wonders bedecked in the “Kitenge cha Uholanzi” with over 35 pieces of the most beautiful wax prints displayed by THE PEOPLES AGENCY’s Mahelia de Randamie. The Exhibition will also include a workshop on the making and art of wax prints for women and the culmination will be a fashion show during the closing ceremony of ZIFF 2010.
Hopes in harmony
Opening: 11 Jul 2010 - 9:00am - 12:00pm
Opening: 11 Jul 2010 - 9:00am - 12:00pm
Carlo d’Este’s exhibition consists of forty pictures inspired by ZIFF’s 2010 theme, "Hopes in harmony". The photographer analyzes this universal theme exploring the fusion and exchange of cultures that have created Zanzibar as it is today… Carlo travels from Rajasthan in India to the Arab countries of Syria and Morocco, from sub-Saharan Africa to the slavery coast in Mali and Benin and finally to the rainforest of Cameroon, these images depict the scenes of everyday life, thousands of miles away, yet so close conceptually sometimes overlapping, becoming a tribute to the universality of the human soul. Carlo looks at the mundane…the everyday, work and school. But also the shocking, disturbing and challenging with subjects such as child exploitation, prison, unbridled globalization. "Hopes in harmony" is the theme of the exhibition, as if to celebrate the indomitable power of will and desire for justice.
Artwork from Iranian Women
Opening: 12 Jul 2010 - 9:00am - 10:00am
The founder of the Iranian Clothes Museum says no other country in the world has the variety and brilliance of Iran’s traditional outfits. Eshrat Badr, who established ‘The Hall of Traditional Iranian Clothing’ in a historical house preserved by the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, said, “ There are some 400 different designs on display in the museum which astonish all visitors.” She said the decorations on the outfits on display were the work of Iranian housewives, adding “Iranian women have never had idle hands and have always turned to needlework after finishing their daily chores.”