This public event (Dutch only) focuses on stories (spoken word, a play and a documentary) that have stood in the shadows for too long. They are hardly known to a wider audience. At the same time, stories are needed to make history alive for those who have not experienced it. This programme focuses on stories of Papuans in Papua and in the diaspora. In addition, there are Dutch people who have a past with Papua. In all stories, the impact of colonial history in the present can be felt.
About the play 'Pineas waar ben je?' by theater group TGBagage (Fako Kluiving and Frank Irving):
‘Pineas, waar ben je?’ looks back at the special friendship between two boys, one from Amsterdam, the other from Manokwari, where they play almost daily in the jungle of West Papua. The two lose sight of each other when the Dutch boy returns to the Netherlands with his parents - from what was then still called Dutch New Guinea - at the end of the colonial era. When the Dutch boy reconstructs his memories sixty years later and goes in search of his old friend Pineas, a painfully withheld history surfaces. The search for Pineas paints a disconcerting picture of what happened in West Papua.
About the film/documentary:
Muman Minggil (Road to the Ancestors) is a unique documentary that focuses on the work of anthropologist Arnold Ap, the museum where he worked and the music group Mambesak in Papua.
This film shows how art was used as a medium for education and activism in Papua in the 1970s and how relevant this is to the current state of society. The film is the result of a collaboration between the Yoikatra Association in Timika and the Cenderawasih University Cultural Museum in Jayapura.
Includes short introduction by Nancy Jouwe.
Directed by Mahardika Yudha and Yonri Revolt - Japyapura, Papua, 2023 - Language: Bahasa Malayu, English subtitles
Duration: 149 minutes
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