Hewa Rwanda mit Dorcy Rugamba und Majnun

In the organizer's words:

"How can one grasp the full dimension of an event that wiped out more than a million people, where the death of my brother [...] is almost an anecdote, a case of a million others - a fraction whose mathematical value is close to zero?"

31 years have passed since the genocide in Rwanda, but the book Hewa Rwanda by Rwandan actor and director Dorcy Rugamba, published in 2024, appears today as one of the most authentic accounts to understand what happened. In this moving musical reading, Dorcy Rugamba describes the life of his family, which was wiped out on the morning of April 7, 1994, and his life afterwards. Hewa Rwanda is a story of rare power about family, culture and spirituality - and an antidote to the "impulses of death" that continue to dominate our time.

DIRECTOR, PERFORMANCE: Dorcy Rugamba

MUSIC: Majnun

PARTICIPANTS

Dorcy Rugamba is a writer, actor, dancer and director. He lives and works in Brussels and Kigali. In 2012, he founded the Rwanda Arts Initiative in Kigali, an arts center aimed at cultural entrepreneurs. On March 13, 2024, he published his book "Hewa Rwanda une lettre aux absents" (Hewa Rwanda, a letter to the absent), a story about his family.

Majnun is a Senegalese musician, multi-instrumentalist and performer. His stage name - "the crazy one" - stands for the creative space in which he explores the depths of his soul. Growing up in an art-influenced environment, he developed a nomadic, cross-genre style between Afrobeat, jazz, funk, trance and Latin. He released his first album in 2015. In 2019, a tour of West Africa with his band The Black-Magic Sofas Sofas took him to Benin, Mali and Senegal, where he also recorded his decolonial album Mandigo's Fight. Majnun first took to the stage of the Festival d'Avignon in 2021 with the play Liberté j'aurai habité ton rêve jusqu'au dernier soir and subsequently toured internationally. Further roles followed, including in La vie comme elle vient.

- Price: 16,00 EUR / 8,00 EUR. Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the foyer.

- from 12 years

- Language: German, English, French

- Room 2, ground floor

- Belongs to: Conceal or tell?