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Invitation to the Exhibition Opening

Freedom Road!

colonial street names and post-colonial cultures of remembrance and growing

Touring exhibition project

Opening on Friday, August 27, 2010 7 pm
gallery of the Kurt-Schumacher-house
August Bebel Institut
Müllerstrae 163
Berlin-Wedding, Germany

Exhibition 8/28 - 10/3/2010
Opening hours: Mo - Fr 14 - 18 p.m.
free admission

Invitation to participate

We cordially invite to the Exhibition Opening of freedom roads! - colonial street names / postcolonial cultures of remembrance in Berlin.

Vestiges of the colonial past are deeply engraved in the European urban landscapes. Even today, street names commemorate conquered countries and honour colonial protagonists.

For postcolonial cultures of remembrance focusing on German and European colonial history, the years 2010 - 2012 are of special interest:

- 125 years ago, in 1884-1885, the infamous Berlin Africa Conference took place, a key event which resulted in the imperial 'Scramble for Africa' and in the arbitrary annexation of the African continent by the Great Powers as well as in Germany's entry into colonial politics

- 50 years ago, in the 'African Year' 1960, 17 African countries, among them the former German colonies Cameroon and Togo, declared their independence. They will be celebrating anniversary events in 2010. In 2011 commemoration jubilees will take place in Tanzania (former 'German East Africa'). Namibia, once the colony 'German Southwest Africa' gained its independence twenty years ago.

Recently a growing number of NGOs has been critically researching the origins of the colonial street names in their cities in Germany. At the 125th anniversary of the Berlin Africa Conference in 2009/2010, a nationwide network of more than 70 NGOs, churches, educational institutions, trade unions and parties called for the "removal of street names honouring colonial protagonists or including racist connotations" and suggested to give them "names of leading African figures who have fought in anticolonial resistance movements".

In February this year, the network succeeded in renaming Grbenufer, honouring Otto Friedrich von der Groeben, the founder of the slave fort "Gro-Friedrichsburg" at the coast of Ghana (Princess Town). The street name now remembers May Ayim, the African-German researcher, poet and activist.

Inspired by this, the Social Democratic Party, governing in the district Berlin-Mitte, has meanwhile passed a resolution for "an extensive commemoration concept" in the so-called 'Afrikanisches Viertel' ('African Quarter') in Berlin-Wedding. The three street names there - Petersallee, Lderitzstrae and Nachtigalplatz - still honouring founders and stakeholders of the German colonisation, shall be renamed after African personalities, especially women, who have been active in anti-colonial resistance movements.

For the exhibition freedom roads! we are working together with African, African-German and German historians, artists and activists. Everybody interested - neighbours, school classes, communities, people from around the world - is invited to debate, participate and send ideas for possible new name givers. Please find the site of our coming debate forum here: www.freedom-roads.de/efrrd/edebat.htm (from August 27 on online).

Please find here more information about the participative transfer exhibition project freedom roads!: www.freedom-roads.de/frrd/ewelcome.htm

For information in German language: www.freedom-roads.de ((biographies of the colonial protagonists and personalities in anticolonial resistance, overview of the colonial street names in German cities as well as of NGOs which have been engaged for street renamings, et al.).

The first freedom roads! exhibition opens its doors from 8/28 - 10/3/2010 in Berlin. The exhibition will be transferred into other German cities during 2011 - 2012. On its way the exhibition will constantly grow with local street name issues and participations. In 2012, the 'grown' freedom roads! exhibition will return to Berlin and present an overall view of all the topics, urban spaces and positions. An international meeting will follow.

We would be happy to welcome you in the exhibition opening as well as to read your postings in the debate forum.

With best wishes

the curators

HMJokinen, visual artist . project afrika-hamburg.de . art@freedom-roads.de
Christian Kopp, historian . Berlin Postkolonial e.V. . info@freedom-roads.de

the team

Katja Kellerer
Mike parade Nevsky
Marius Krohn
Vincent Lebrun

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The Children's Shop Maimouna can now look back on 25 years of living diversity in Altona Altstadt. It all started in 1985 in Building 3 in the Hospitalstr. Where in the African-German communication center Sokoni matured the idea of establishing a children's store for children with racism experience.
1991, the International Children's Shop in the Blücherstr. opened, three years later moved the offshoot "Maimouna eV" in the Lawaetzweg. driven by speculators, the children moved in 2005 in the shop Maimouna Holstenstr. directly to the green belt. There are 36 children between 3 months and 6 years supervised.
The original idea has remained: a day care center where they are taken with children, parents and staff immigrant welcome and serious. The six teachers who manage Maimouna together as educators initiative and organized look proudly back on the past years, during which there has to overcome several crises. "In particular, the adoption of discriminatory Kita-coupon system of the district, which sent many children home and they only paid no day care place," says Comfort Zarp that knows their Ghanaian Comunity in many cases. In an international team working educators equal footing, learn to appreciate and recognize the different training and experience. In kindergarten the children they live everyday intercultural communication and discussion before with contradictions: diversity as a strength!
"It is not important to be able to specify the number of nationalities" are serviced under one roof ". More important is the openness to diversity and professional management of it, "says Elke Straub, co-founder of the kindergarten.
The Children's Shop Maimouna understood as a political project that demands the Immigration Society, and the emphasis on the education system. At every opportunity, the right to education from the start will be collected for children without documents that exist for policy and youth services and for which there is not even in most schools is still no clear recording. "No child should be made illegal and excluded from education, that is a scandal", stated Barry Gadirou. The educational concept has the potential for self-education of the children wide latitude to design their world, without self-denial, and cultural pressure to conform. The multilingual support contributes significantly to: mother tongue, yes please! In addition to the areas of education movement, music, role play, building and construction, and natural and cultural environment, the area of creative work, "a high priority in the education of the children's store. Creative work is a form of post-thinking experience. Gestaltendes thinking allows the child to his inner images, which has won it from concrete action experience felt in various ways to creatively by - an important step on the way for abstract thinking, as is provided in the school. Accordingly find the children in the studio material that challenges them to express themselves artistically.
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