2012

MALI

5 January, Bamako…………………….Morning: Screening of the Growing into Music film on Cuba at the Conservatoire des Arts “Balla Fasseke Kouyaté” before an audience of students and teachers.

Afternoon: Concert by the protagonists of our Growing into Music Mali films and their families as part of the Jeudis Musicaux series at the National Museum of Mali.

6 January, Bamako…………………….Screening of two Growing into Music films on Mali and Cuba for an all-children audience at the National Museum of Mali.

11 January, Bamako…………………….Screening of the Growing into Music film on Mali at the Conservatoire des Arts “Balla Fasseke Kouyaté” before an audience of students and teachers.

13 January, Bamako…………………….Screening of the Growing into Music film on Mali at the Lycée Castor in Bamako.

CUBA

22 March, Havana……………………….Presentation of the research project and screening of the “Growing into Music” documentaries at the Conference of Musicology in the Casa de las Américas.

23 March, Havana……………………….Official inauguration of the Mali-Cuba project in the Casa de Africa.

24 March, Havana……………………….Musical exchange with the group La Colmenita and meeting with UNICEF.

25 March, Matanzas………………….Screening of the “Growing into Music” documentaries in the cinema Velasco of central Matanzas, followed by performances by the four Malian children, Lassana Diabaté and the group Moddeya y sus Raices.

29 March, Havana……………………..Screening of the “Growing into Music” documentaries and concert of Cuban and Malian children at UNEAC (Union of Cuban Writers and Artists).

30 March, Havana………………………Performance of Malian and Cuban children at the Arts Festival of the Instituto Superior de Arte.

31 March, Havana……………………..Presentation of the projects Growing into Music and Mali-Cuba: Music Across Generation at the Teatro Miramar. Screening of the “Growing into Music” documentaries and final concert of the Cuban and Malian children who took part in the project.