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Free Radicals: Maputo Fast Forward 2022 kicks off
3:16 CAT | 20 Oct 2022
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The 7th edition of the Maputo Fast Forward festival (MFF-2022) is being launched today at 6 h30m p.m.at Maputo’s Camões Cultural Centre and takes place from October 20th to November 4th in various cultural spaces in the city.
The Festival is featuring events such as an international conference held in hybrid format, multidisciplinary exhibitions, concerts and workshops facilitating interaction between artists with diverse experience and knowledge.
The conference will be held at the Fernando Leite Couto Foundation on the 25th and 26th of October (with online transmission) and will address the multiple forms of dissidence and activism that have proliferated on the African continent against the growing authoritarianism (digital and otherwise). The conference features experts with extensive experience on the subjects from Mozambique, South Africa, Brazil, Cape Verde and Lebanon.
The diversity of origins of the various participants serves to underline that these issues have a global dimension, and that only through the establishment of transnational solidarity networks will it be possible to combat with resilience and imagination the challenges that are posed on a planetary scale.
This year’s edition is special because the festival’s creator and artistic director, Rui Trindade, passed away in July, and it will therefore be dedicated to him.
MFF-2022 will revolve around the theme “Free Radicals – Dissent and Activism”. The expression “free radicals” is a metaphor for the need to think and act in different and radical ways in relation to the multiple and converging crises that the world is facing.
A free radical can be defined as any molecular species capable of independent existence that contains an unpaired electron in an atomic orbital. The presence of an unpaired electron results in certain common properties that are shared by most radicals. Many radicals are unstable and highly reactive.
MFF-2022 is an initiative of 16NetO, sponsored by the Swiss Embassy in Mozambique, the European Union in Mozambique, the Spanish Embassy in Mozambique and Camões – Portuguese Cultural Centre in Maputo.
Source: Camões Maputo / Press Release
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