Afrovibes Festival 2023 | Liquid Traces

The 20th edition of Afrovibes Festival has a full programme at Frascati from 4 until 8 October with performances from Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ivory Coast and Senegal/Netherlands. 

Afrovibes Festival presents theatre, music, dance and spoken word by contemporary African makers and artists. They are creators and artists who, from an African perspective, give artistic shape to current questions and themes that also concern us and have their own idiosyncratic views on these. About who we are, what we want to be and how we are connected. Afrovibes stands out as a festival that brings together creators and artists from Africa and the African diaspora in the Netherlands. Makers who also respond to their social and political environment, whether it is about issues of social justice, the threat of climate change or about developing cities on the African continent. 

Liquid Traces 

2023 is marked in the Netherlands as a year of commemoration for the end of slavery by the Netherlands. The festival is putting this at the heart of the Liquid Traces theme with the oceans as protagonists. Stories around the history of colonisation and migration often bring to the fore the materiality of a country. However, one of the protagonists in this history are the oceans that were the main trade routes in the colonial past. 

The waters of the oceans harbour the memories and traces of colonial voyages, of water graves and traumas in the past and are connected to the countless migration attempts in the present. Our past is evoked by the oceans as ancient migratory routes, for trade and as transport routes for carrying people away from their territories. But the oceans also connect us, enable exchange between cultures and continents. Water also has a poetic function for understanding the human condition and the complexity of life in a post-colonial world. Water features in healing rituals, ceremonies and practices in many African cultures. With Liquid Traces Afrovibes brings an artistic response to the memory of our (colonial) past, the cultural and political debates on identity and decolonisation and our attempts to come to terms with our past. 

Discount by two or more productions

With the purchase of two or more tickets to a production of the Afrovibes Festival, you will receive a discount of 5 euros per ticket. This discount option will be added to the various ticket choices and you can select it yourself.

Program Afrovibes Festival 2023

The full program will be online in September 2023.