Banco BAI is holding today, at the Universidade Lusíada de Angola, from 6pm, in the “Auditório António Martins da Cruz” the screening of the film by Louis Malle “Fim de Semana no Ascensor”, with a soundtrack by the quintet of trumpeter Miles Davis , to promote Jazz music.
This exhibition aims to encourage a taste for jazz culture, get to know its actors, support young Angolan musicians, Jazz lovers, nationals and foreigners, as well as providing them with greater visibility and greater artistic exchange.
The event will also feature a performance by the band “Etokeko Jazz”, with Nino Jazz (piano) and Mário Gomes (guitar).
The wind will repeat itself again on June 1st at the BAI Academy in Talatona, at 5:30 pm, where the documentary by Raoul Peck, Haitian filmmaker, “I am not your black person” will be shown.
It is a documentary that portrays racial issues in America, based on a text by the novelist, essayist, poet, playwright and civic rights activist, James Baldwin (1924- 1987), the documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” it is also an iconographic history of America.
There will also be a photographic exhibition called “Jazz and the complicity of the gaze”, by Portuguese photographer Rosa Reis, followed by a presentation by guitarist Carlos Praia and Cuban bassist Pedro Aguilar.
“Na Cidade, Jazz” is a free entry event, and has the support of Banco BAI, which has dedicated particular attention to art and culture, aiming to promote artistic diversity and new talents, because it considers that safeguarding cultural heritage plays an essential role in its sustainable development and that of its surroundings.