Loyola University Chicago’s Black Europe Symposium: Closing Event
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, March 24th
Heaven Gallery is excited to announce that we will be hosting the closing event for Loyola University Chicago’s Black Europe Symposium on Friday, March 24, 6-8PM!
The event is organized by the Department of Modern Languages at Loyola University and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago (@iicchicago); hosted by Heaven Gallery.
On March 23-24, The Black Europe Symposium at Loyola University Chicago is a series of lectures with writers and artists of African descent who have contributed significantly to today’s European cultural life through different media. It highlights the complex processes that forge a new Europe through cross-cultural encounters and identity formation, while emphasizing the importance of the arts and foreign languages and cultures in a world that is also changing through migration.
This closing event will feature a performance by Anna Maria Gehnyei (aka Karima 2G) accompanied by a DJ set. Anna Maria Gehnyei (aka Karima 2G), is a Liberian Italian singer, rapper, dancer, writer, activist, and beats-maker. In her music, she combines electronic elements, urban bass music, and grime with Afro influences, incorporating English and pidgin English, her mother tongue, in her singing and rapping.
In her solo debut album (2G, 2014) she brings out the values of her culture of origin in an Italian perspective, focusing on anti-Blackness and the integration of second-generation Europeans.
Karima 2G will represent Italy at Black Europe Symposium, a series of lectures with writers and artists of African descent who have contributed significantly to today’s European cultural life through different media.
The event is organized by the Department of Modern Languages at Loyola University and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago; hosted by Haven Gallery
The event is free and open to the public.
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