This day is organised by the MEG in co-production with the Licra-Geneva and in partnership with the Payot bookshop.
These events are supported by the Service de lutte contre le racisme, the Republic and Canton of Geneva (Cantonal Integration Programme), the City of Geneva (Department of Finance, Environment and Housing; Department of Social Cohesion; Agenda 21 Service), the Leenaards Foundation, Fonds culturel Sud. In co-production with the University of Geneva and in partnership with La librairie Payot.

As part of their visit to Geneva for a fortnight of meetings and exchanges around the book and play "Traces, discourses aux nations africaine", the MEG is honoured to receive Felwine Sarr, Senegalese economist and philosopher, and Simon Winsé, multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and singer, on 5 April 2022.

Their visit is part of the MEG's reflections on current societal and environmental issues.

Various meetings will be organised during the day in order to discuss the decolonisation process initiated by the MEG since 2020.

Programme :

12:30-13:30: Visit of the exhibition "Environmental Injustice - Indigenous Alternatives" by Felwine Sarr. Moderated by Julie Dorner, cultural and scientific mediator at MEG.

5-6pm: The Kora from yesterday to today.
Musical encounter between Simon Winsé and Madeleine Leclair, curator in charge of the ethnomusicological collections at MEG.
In the Music Room of the MEG. Broadcast live on the MEG's YouTube and Facebook channels.

7-8.30pm: Why decolonise museums?
Meeting between Felwine Sarr and Carine Ayélé Durand, Acting Director of MEG and Chief Curator, responsible for the collections unit.
Moderated by Romaine Jean, journalist and editor-in-chief at RTS.
In the MEG Auditorium. Live broadcast on MEG's YouTube and Facebook channels.

All events on this day are independent and free of charge, subject to availability.

In co-production with Licra Geneva.

Speakers :

Felwine Sarr: Felwine Sarr is a prominent voice in contemporary Africa that resonates throughout the world. Economist, philosopher, poet, musician, playwright, author, the Senegalese Felwine Sarr is a free thinker and one of the great intellectuals of his generation. Questioning the existing political and economic models, he is convinced that the African continent can be a driving force in the world, provided that it completes its decolonisation and proposes a new civilisation project. Since 2020, he has been teaching contemporary and diasporic African philosophy at Duke University in North Carolina. In 2020, the Times listed Mr. Sarr among the 100 most influential people in the world in the "Pioneer" category. Co-author with Benedicte Savoy of a world-renowned report on the restitution of African heritage "Restituer le patrimoine Africain" (Seuil, 2019), he has just published his latest book "Traces. Discourses aux Nations africaines' (Actes sud papiers, 2021). https://lesateliersdelapensee.wordpress.com/

Simon Winsé: Simon Winsé is a multi-instrumentalist musician (kora, n'goni, mouth bow, Peul flute), composer and singer. His musical universe is nourished by jazz fusion, blues, rock and traditional music from the San country in the north-west of Burkina Faso, where he is originally from. It was in his native village that Simon Winsé learned to play the mouthbow as a child. Simon Winsé is steeped in the traditional Samo culture, and ensures its survival. Aware of the richness of his ethnic group's musical heritage, Simon is determined to promote it and to rehabilitate the mouthbow. Resolutely turned towards interculturality and modernity, Simon reveals his poetic writing with texts that sound like philosophical tales. By resurrecting the heritage of the Samo culture with nobility, Simon demonstrates that traditional African instruments and modern music are not antinomic. https://simonwinse.blogspot.com/p/bio.html

This day is organised by the MEG in co-production with the Licra-Geneva and in partnership with the Payot bookshop.
These events are supported by the Service de lutte contre le racisme, the Republic and Canton of Geneva (Cantonal Integration Programme), the City of Geneva (Department of Finance, Environment and Housing; Department of Social Cohesion; Agenda 21 Service), the Leenaards Foundation, Fonds culturel Sud. In co-production with the University of Geneva and in partnership with La librairie Payot.