A class and gotten up all the way to hollywood. Find out how this modern dance group has more leave than just entertaining the audience. And later, how to turn a skeptic into our super mall with this delicacy and us. I mean, its a and this is that re max . Oh, oh. The council is stacy called at for theater, is and is taking hold all over the continent. We visit the latest in feta for his new form of art. In the art of cyrus could bureau, discarded technology is given new life. Abandoned radios becomes space, age communication devices, or wrapping fear bicycles called white mothers are turned into sculptures that could have been left to her by an alien civilization. The series of eye glasses called c standards mate, keep you famous. Constructed from trash collected on his travels. There are mash up of different cultural traditions for me after that is that for future late gets upon by National Different culture. Different material will differ from like global but to have something new currently in the be a little more awfully. Can they look more is you know, its more awful. Pizza kind of canyon photographer osborne materia, reimagined, kenyas. Legendary mal mouth independence fighters as high tech opticians, who helped over throw colonialism from a korea afro futurism is about reimagining an african past either stolen or forgotten with all the african countries apart from the thought kill colonized and then people didnt get to settle. See that history or see themselves in the history or a lot of that history was, was more to documented or was ill type these heroic images to find the mostly negative view of africa seen in western media. This will have our issues, but our issues dont, dont have to revolve around, pull the tv from my disease, no war, this tories that we can tell that sort of keep a different perspectives. My walk with owners bold hold, feel confident. The message of financial is a, be a boys perception of africa across the continent in a poo, john nigeria, afro futurism is also taking root. A new generation of african artists is looking at their own culture from a new angle of a book artist a you to g ma, kinda credits, black panther applicable for now has been known to be probably a thud would call tree. And then black point that brings each 2. 00 to 4. 00 phone as a war to power. That is completely loaded with technology. It was miner blurry africans everywhere with wow, black panther might have brought afro futurism to the mainstream. But my kinda believes the next wave of story telling will be home grown. That way we talk about appropriate choices. It is like up into fiction or for quite think Technology Science fiction is shed african, the tallest african traditions and african culture. The culture denito, ologies are more or we do not follow 20 from yet because we are more connected with whether in comics, movies, music, or design, the art of afro futurism combined tradition with imagination. The vision, a Brighter Future for africa and the world. Ah. Ah, franklin temporary african design to practical application. Its our yards is a commercial have and social development projects. This precinct appreciates nature. People modern design and attention to detail transforming what was a derelict industrial space into a trendy functional hat is a what happens at victoria . Ok, its hard to do it in just a little bit, but ill do my best. Its. Theres actually a lot of layers to victoria, you know we, we have Meaningful Community engagement skills transfer and for food sustainability. But one of the main things about victoria that we really like to boast about is our gardens. Okay, so all of our gardens organic and we produce a lot of greenville leverage things like that in the community actually coming and are able to buy it from us at obviously hugely reduced prices. So we work with the tenants to make sure that they employ people from the community when they can to give them meaningful employment, gainful employment, and also to transfer skills to them. So besides all of that is also things like we have events that we see that we have on a monthly basis and we have a market that we have on a monthly basis. So its a huge hybrid kind of thing of Community Members from the outside. But then also the victorians community that works really closely together. What influence the decision to face and yeah, well the buildings have always been. So basically we, we became involved in 2016 and when i say we the, the Company Victoria arms with 4 been so the original sort of part of it was it for to be a community way. People could work with each other and sort of have an understanding that they could create something by working together. Tell me a little bit about the support that deter you as if hands the japan years. So thats, its really important question because people around lorenzo, i mean its, you know, its become a quite a depressed area in terms of Economic Opportunity for people in the area. So we live very closely with some of the n g o that we, that we house at victoria yards. Theyve got a podcast room. Theyve got very fast internet. And so young people can come in and obviously use the internet for research and it, but they do it under the guidance of makers, valleys, to teach them entrepreneurial skills and also boost the ideas that they have and try and make it from, you know, theory into practical use, i think one of the Biggest Challenges with getting people buy in to become tenants here. I think because a lot of them came here or few people came here in the beginning and looked at what was here. So nothing that you see in terms of the gardens of the pathways was here. It was just all you know, eroded soil and everything. So getting people to come in was was interesting. What can people take away when they leave the career yard at the moment when people visit victoria yards they, i think the 1st thing that they will probably be inspired by the gardens because its a very visual thing that i see. And a lot of people engage with us to say, how can we do that . How can we do that . Can you teach us about because she, which is a so we will culture that enriches the soil. Some people have said to me, you know, they really like the sense of community that they feel it. People who want to be kind of come here. And they like, i cant be here and im like, i dont have face at the moment, you know, but well put you on the list. We looking at expanding victoria on to the property that we own next door. And thats why were excited about the Development Across the river because to be able to open that up to everybody else. So yeah, i think people walk away here with the same. So feeling like theyve been the community for a few hours. Thats important. Ah. The think goes another day in africa and that, that done. But hong landon and his troop, the finest dance goes much deeper than just entertainment. Lets see what lies beneath those down smooth without don, i dont know why i would be right now. I think its important for you to not means youre not new. Youre good. Somewhere along the line, you will need to show people where you come from. Thats what makes you original. Thats what will make me different if im dancing in the africa is the continent that is rich in colleges and traditions and central to this is the vibrant tradition of dime as in other parts of the world. Traditional don storing renown so that we can car younger and performer. Tom langdon had used his talent to few traditional buns, and it was our don form creating a unique and richly cultured contemporary guns. Busy when we started to finance doesnt 7. I love my dad. And while i was, you know, getting over, trying to find a coping mechanism with raising my father. I live then lost my mother in 2008. African johns is centered dances give themselves to the rhythmic pulses of theyve done, interpreting the protective patches of the music through their post of judges and deb funds or allies, you know, its a very fast paced top or something that we call the pedal power. So basically its a way of how they came, all the changes. So the same have a pen and Paper Movement is how they should be done when they should be done thing as fun. So are you said from the township of good there for the long and dead on its own kind of gave birth to sports because when you look at it, its not fast paced yet its very technical by the majority of the technique or how we move in and you see this one and then now lukias piano. So when you watch piano, you see all the, just basically like a generation of dances. Its more like a marriage now, you know, be somehow becoming one. So they all, you know, things that to be literally relate to another country. So a button down still tells us that i think it all depends on who you are, as the choreographer and how in touch you are with us. I think that very important. I mean, when you look at how dances now, you know it now being very huge on tick tock, social media, and so forth. It becomes very difficult for the old hands to i just because these are things that the young generation are a little pdx feeling very well and you know, thats down for i think its idp of the all generations go. So i teach the young, you know, the basics of what done, you know, i think once a tons have gone to bed, its interesting because a lot of times initially we didnt even need music fading issues, you know, only either with or trying to or banging one because on the floor, so thats how we make noise and you, the avail ive been to connect, you know, some people might call it connecting with how we come together and you never find that anywhere else for 15 effort. So i just didnt, like i said, so its very important to keep a old guys a window where does it come from . Is say, so it would be it would tub with in many traditional culture. Music and johns is as much a part of everyday life as the thing and thing, john has been one of many forms of expression, storytelling and enjoyment across the kind when it is said that the present only contains the pie. And today, african cultural dime has grown, evolved and spread throughout the world. Ah, dinah, i see that she is or not for his signature, in spite design pieces, which provide bold and unique accessories to touch up says move. Check this out. In the line to write the star, it will always glorify the hand. So until we are able to tell are almost always in a way that we knew it wont be had in a way that the shoes. Now every used to be legal, tender, and so was very valuable. The way to design, modernize the still i will tell you, blew me away. Its so beautiful. Ah, governor is well known for its rich cultural heritage. Not only displaced with vibrancy of cities like a class, but also your Creative Work of many who live here. Ah, one such person as if she, well known for her way, necesary designer book creates wearable art. 70 roots at an african tradition. Yeah, lots of africans are on the old who are trying to connect back to the arrows in Different Countries, not just africa. So combining different african pieces from Different Countries to help project and then the connected if it, if youre not gone in and you get a piece, you know, this piece is coming from my view. Yeah. Yeah. Able to connect to the has bit of africa that projects the image of africa and a design that we need for the past 10 years. Has money to turn out creative pieces that tend to redefine what more designs look like. Ah, these are some of the sheets of print accessories. Ah, ah, i see. And made International Headlines when had designs were featured in the hollywood blockbuster coming to america. Coming to america, i received a meal, introduce themselves and what they wanted to do with the pieces i 1st i taught for this come because our thing, dana and i was not all that moon after sending the design, there was no communication. So i was like, ok, maybe i lost, maybe i didnt, i was just lazy and then where the movie was out. My name was our so excited about the whole thing and how 5 designs had gone the African Fashion and artifacts. We use our lots, expose the new way that is supposed to be in adapt to sustain the facts, recreate new designs because they dont get time. What is useful will be useful, something you will come by when they incorporate that in the fashion is because their lifestyle and it continues whos affect, gets ready with the latest collection known as i am africa, which features at several exhibitions. And one way in dubai. And europe, africa, collection, thats where, thats african ism and power as the african in us. We are descendants of greece, people, and we need to know who we are and accept. We, wherever you go, wherever you travel around the world, you go as an individual, but you are an african. Wherever you find yourself, you represent the all africa. Ah, a few small but Creative Team before they go out to shoot her shows for peace from i am africa in the streets of our car. I know you kill this so less clear. Make africa proud. Ah, my hawkins, that the rest of the world appreciate more the African Fashion and the african as we do have, ah, a few suitable and style designs big from the traditional poll . Well connected to the modern pulse of africa. Ah, the to see for myself how one initiative is supporting visual artists by creating a space equipment and training this out. What are the main aim of the space . We have many and i think the main aim is to facilitate a strong sense of visual and collective responsibility towards our presentation. Given the colonial history photography in africa, and also a desire to contribute in a meaningful way to african photography, as well as the lives of local youth. Why do we need these types of initiative . I think thats in the age of social media and information technology, official literacy and Critical Thinking skills form a very, very integral part of an increasingly valuable school fit which is an essential way to navigate the massive images between count on a daily basis. I think that now more than ever, we need of a photography that sensitize is us to each other, to unique ways of seeing the world in the diverse weights of expediency. We ran photography courses all the way from kennesaw at 5 level as well as online mentorships in person and online. Hes usually one and one for people who cant be in a class setting like this. We also also really try to create opportunities for our photographers thinks that they work in the spaces as a means to being transferred to their practice and also to prepare them for the demands of the professional history. Give us a snapshot of a day in the studio. Well, a day in here involves a lot of thinking and discussing and looking at images of classes and workshops, a very dialogue based. So its not a thing of a teacher standing up in front of class. Its really about engaging everybodys opinion and really think critically together about photography. So through a system of assignments, close personal mentorship and critical feedback. We work with our photographers for the development of a larger narrative body of work thats heaven is on. As says already he, the queen of snails is, is kind of very magic for transport. Gets sick into a regular customer that has been referred to as a queen. Of snail, i feel like even a character i feel like something where they get time. Oh boy. So theyre always moving fully. He never saw me. Ah. Have you ever wondered why your smells never really paid like warm a restaurant mill . Well, today well reveal that secret about the fish market. Well be meeting up the shuttle be picked through the road about really interesting delicacy. Im not someone who i think you really good out of my way to look for. Lets talk about looking for the best. How do you get people like me to understand that its me something you should look . I feel like wow, preference of course. I mean its like, it looks like much like something where i mean you might have tried to like do it, but im pretty choice. You have it, we have it as you own. So when you come into markets that you like, we are here today. What you look up for when you want to pick up until you run it by refreshing. Of course, before i find any restaurant, what intrigue . So this is very intriguing, this is beautiful. Its about the shadow ridge. This is in the show, the show here about water was bit one call. Its really big and fun. Its quite common. Hes now how do you know the right one to buy, smell like anything else . Its time to head to the restaurant where the humble fail will be transform easily, mouth watering this and ill find out if i can because i did love the food tricia proteins. Im very curious to see how sample base signature is prepared and what she can offer on the how to get this dish own kitchen. Im not the biggest fan of sales, but who knows . She might just call me at the end of the day, the walk, the whole of the free experience. The market must be willing to be back in your space. Okay, ill definitely control it that way. So what this dish hold exactly that its not line. And now well set it up with a bit of camera live onion and im a bit of a why did you choose nails as you arabic . Because they are surprised at what smells like in my hand. So again, could you take a look through the process . So this now when we get it, we actually get them with the show. We cook, cook them for a while, for while we move them from the cell and then well, put them and everything and then come again last week them and then we got them really, really small. So that we can put them in the show because he actually said them in detail. 5 you want them to be really small, like almost like the melting your mouth with the cream sauce. Know is actually cooking a. Got a cream sauce after all the processing they have to go through. And they are talk a bit of the lights, we can and, and until the oil, how to the oil actually and some oil. Okay, so what makes it take different from what it has to try. I mean, this experience you need to understand that it fails locally here. I feel like why are seals are not as our hero dish . Because we dont understand the, the complexity of the, of the ingredient to start with. You know, sales do have that be much for me, you know, texture flavor. And then you cook them with a bit of cream and it kind of elevates it. It gives it the spot that he needed, and thats why stands out a little bit chilly and the bills are obviously, the still is the delicate that were looking at today. What are the other things you need locally here . Everything we actually do in the menus look with the niger in menus and german, whereas im one night during kitchen. So were trying to take local dishes and flavors and elevating them sanders, so anyone can have them and enjoy them. And even, i mean our, our other africans ex