MAME-FATOU NIANG: “Elegy for drowned dreams”

Join us on November 11th at 5:30 in the STUDIO for a research presentation and performance from new work Neoblast by Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang – Trustee Professor of Global French Studies, Director & Founder of the Center for Black European Studies & the Atlantic (CBESA).

“Elegy for drowned dreams” is a collective reading imagined by Mame-Fatou Niang around Neoblast, a choral poem woven between Dakar, Bahia and Rome. Fragments of the text will be scattered throughout the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. The audience will be invited to read these fragments aloud before gathering and replanting them within the space. Drawing on the memories of an undrowned woman in the Mediterranean Sea, “Elegy” approaches survival and repair as gestures that can only ever be collective”