Subject: Partnership in International Cultural Cooperation
- Online meeting on 28.10 at 3:00 PM
- Language: English
- Registration required via Evenea
Participants: Lilian Hipolyte (Tanzania), Samba Yonga (Zambia), Panka Paskuj (Hungary), Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz (Poland)
Moderator: Harun Mwadena Muyesi
Harun Mwadena Muyesi has over nine years of experience in grassroots youth development, championing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), social accountability, climate justice, and policy analysis for marginalized communities in Kenya’s Kilifi, Mombasa, and Kwale counties. With expertise in project management, proposal development, stakeholder engagement, and social networking, Harun is dedicated to connecting changemakers and catalyzing collaborative approaches. Since 2020, he has united organizations, networks, and young leaders to co-create solutions, enhance resource-sharing, and champion localized SDG actions. He is particularly skilled in designing both virtual and in-person learning sessions that emphasize peer exchange, knowledge sharing, and meaningful collaborations, strengthening ties and empowering collective action within East Africa and beyond.
Harun is a member of Bosch Alumni Network.
Samba Yonga is an award winning journalist, communications specialist and cultural curator based in Lusaka Zambia. She is co-founder of the Women’s History Museum of Zambia, established in 2017 with the mandate to research and restore African indigenous narratives, knowledge and ‘living histories’ focused on women. Samba is also founder and managing partner of Ku-Atenga Media, a firm specialised in designing strategic communications for African landscapes that has expanded its client network across the African region and the globe. Samba has been recognised as 100 most influential Africans by Quartz, New York, and one of 40 most influential Africans. She is also a Google Podcast Creator, TEDx Lusaka speaker and is a Museum Lab Fellow for 2022. She has curated exhibitions, designed digital creative content and written papers focused on indigenous African knowledge systems and narratives in Zambia and Africa. The museum has collaborated with art spaces, museums and universities in Africa, Europe and the US such as National Musuems of World Cultures in Sweden, Museum of Women in Umea, Yale University in Boston,USA, Windybrow Art Centre in South Africa, Europeana in the Netherlands, University of Shangahai, China, International Council of Museums (ICOM) and many others. The museum has collaborated with international museums and cultural organisations to identify indigenous African cultural heritage of women from Zambia and the African continent and is working to create digital platforms and tools to transition and provide access of this heritage to African and global publics in collaboration with the source communities. The objective is to interrogate knowledge asymmetries created by colonialism and obscured experiences and to investigate transformative methods of how it can impact the future of knowledge production in the museum, creative and knowledge sectors. Her work with Ku-Atenga Media and The Women’s History Museum has established her work prominently on the African continent and globally. She is a graduate of the Evelyn Hone College School of Journalism and holds an MA in Transnational Communications and Global Media from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Dr Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz is an art historian and curator who focuses on inter-local perspectives in her research of socio-political contexts of contemporary art and the legacies of the east-central European post-war avant-gardes. She has graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA in Global Conceptualism with prof. Sarah Wilson and prof. Boris Groys, 2011; PhD with dr Klara Kemp-Welch, 2018). In her PhD thesis she analysed networked art of the 1970s, focusing in particular on mail art in Poland, through the ideas of political dissidence and social and geopolitical transformations. In her curatorial practice she works mostly with neo-avant-garde and contemporary video and photography. She was the Collections’ Curator at Wrocław Contemporary Museum (2017-2019) and has curated exhibitions and research programmes in Poland and abroad. As a writer and editor, she combines her curatorial and research practices also by organising research conferences. She is a recipient of AHRC grants and holds a postgraduate diploma in Management of Art and Culture from Warsaw School of Economics.
Panka Paskuj is a dramaturg working in both theatre and film, dedicated to advancing human rights and equality through her work. Passionate about artistic activism, she uses the arts to foster social change and advocate for marginalized communities. Alongside her presence in cultural management and activism, Panka serves as an associate producer at a film production company, contributing her talents to bring compelling stories to the screen. Through her work, she aims to inspire action and create a more just and equitable world.
Lilian Hipolyte is an experienced Creative Director and Brand Strategist with over fourteen years of experience in the creative industry. During the Social Scene meetings, she will participate as the Director of Nafasi Art Space.