World Social Forum 2007, Nairobi
Moving People: Africa-Asia Interface on Migration/Refugee/Exile/Diaspora
Organisers: @Culture, India (a network of Majlis, Magic Lantern Foundation, Point of View and independent artists)  with  Focus on Global South; Centre for Creative Arts (UKZN), Durban; GoDown Arts Centre & Kwani Trust, Nairobi

Performances:

GoDown Arts Centre,Dunga Rd off Lusaka Rd, next to Giro Bank

19th Jan 7pm
Poetry Africa: poetic perspectives on migration
Performances by:  
Dennis Brutus (South Africa), Chiwoniso (Zimbabwe),
Susan Kiguli (Uganda),  Lebo Mashile (South Africa), Bantu Mwuara
(Kenya), Pitika Ntuli (South Africa), Shailja Patel (Kenya), Ari Sitas
(South Africa)

21st Jan 8pm
Return to Sender - Letters from Tentland  by Helena Waldmann and exiled Iranian women (produced by Festival Montpellier Danse,Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen, Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Goethe-Institut)

22nd  & 23rd Jan 7pm
Centaurs, performance of Heiner Muller text interspersed with Mahmood Mamdani’s Good Muslim Bad Muslim by Vivadi, India. Director Anuradha Kapur

24th Jan 7pm
Migritude by Shailja Patel, Nairobi

Conferences in English-French at WSF site
22nd Jan
Movement, Text and Identity: Writing in the era of Globalisation
Chair: Lebogang Mashile, South Africa; Speakers:  Dennis Brutus, South Africa; Mahmood Mamdani, Uganda; Kiran Nagarkar, India; Pitika Ntuli, South Africa; Yvonne Adihambo Ouwor, Kenya; Shailja Patel, Kenya
23rd Jan
Regulated Movement, Forced Movement and Traffic of People
Chair: Flavia Agnes, Majlis, India; Speakers: Walden Bello (Focus on Global South); Khoti Kamanga (International Association for Studies in Forced Migration, Tanzania); Aminata Traore (Le Forum pour L’ Autre Mali) and Fatou Sow (DAWN)
24th Jan
Right of Movement and Citizenship: Campaign and Strategies
Chair: Samir Amin, Senegal; Speakers: Ellen Sana (Migrant Forum in Asia), Hasan Sunmonu (Organisation of African Trade Union Unity), Paul Diwakar (National Centre for Dalit Human Rights, India) and Representative of Stop the Wall, Palestine

International Film Festivals at WSF Block L, near entrance 5
21st -24th Jan  11am to 5pm
Curated by Durban International Film Festival / CCA, Zanzibar International Film Festival and Magic Lantern Foundation, India
A special package from Palestine.
Performances at WSF Block L, near entrance 5

5pm to 7pm

21st Jan   Moving Bodies = Citizenship by Kunja Dance Theatre and Sarakasi Acrobats,                    facilitated by the GoDown Arts Centre
and others
22nd Jan  Kachumbari Africa-South Asia music band presented by  Awaaz, Nairobi
and others
23rd Jan Poetry Africa: poetic perspectives on migration
Peformances by: Dennis Brutus (South Africa), Chiwoniso (Zimbabwe),
Susan Kiguli (Uganda),  Lebo Mashile (South Africa), Bantu Mwuara
(Kenya), Pitika Ntuli (South Africa), Shailja Patel (Kenya), Ari Sitas
(South Africa).
24th Jan   Medieval Punditz Electronic fusion band from India
and others

Video And Art Installation at WSF Block L, near entrance 5
21st Jan.-24th Jan
Follow the Arrows: Investigating Movement, Multi-disciplinary art show on Caravan
Curated by Archana Hande and Mamta Murthy

INSTALLATIONS: Zarina Hashmi (India/USA), Trinity Session- Steven Hobbs, Marcus Neustetter (S Africa-Dakar), Marie Ange Bordas (Brazil-Kenya), Kyohei Sakaguchi (Japan), Vasudha Thozhur & Himmat, Surekha, Sheela Gowda, Indrapramit Roy, Sanchayan Ghosh & migrant carpenters, Shilpa Gupta (India), Mwenya Kabwe (Zambia/S Africa-pan Africa), Visible Collective/ Naeem Mohaiemen & Huq & Roy (Bangladesh-USA), Mimi Loraine Ng’ok (Kenya); PRINTS Arpita Singh, Shukla Sawant, Lavanya, Manu Chitrakar, Swarna Chitrakar, Atul Dodiya, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Shantamani (India), Archana Hande & Seeds with Afghani, Pakistani and Indian children, Dana Erekat, Zan Studio & Palestinian children (Palestine), Mikhael Subotzky(S Africa), Anne Marie Filaire (French-Asia/Africa) Sergio Caro-Nacho Para (Spain – Africa / EU border), Rwandan children at Imbabazi orphanage(Rwanda), Awaaz (Kenya); VIDEOS : Fatimah Tuggar(Nigeria/USA), Ismail Farouk, Doung Anwar Jahangeer, Tracey Roses, Simon Gush (S Africa), Surabhi Sharma, Gigi Scaria (India-Caribbean), Fumiko Kobayashi (Japan), Esra Ersen (Turkey-Africa/EU Border), Multiplicity (Italy-Mediterranean Sea), Kaya Behkalam (Germany-Iran), Jeannette Gaussi(Germany-Afghanistan), Khaled Hafez(Egypt), Amoung Kane Sy(Senegal), Muhsana Ali (USA/Sénégal), GAME : Majlis (India)

Closing Rally
25th Jan
Memories in Transit,  Collaborative Sculpture Tableaux
Curated by Tushar Joag
Participating Artists:
Dr. Kivubiro, Uganda; Aida Khalil, Egypt; Tony Mboyo, Kenya; Kyohei Sakaguchi, Japan; Suresh BV, Sukhdev Rathore and Shamsul Haque, India

Performance by Medieval Punditz, Electronic Fusion Band, India