ZISKAKAN? KISKA FÉ KLER! »
The BU Droit-Lettres invites you to discover the exhibition “Ziskakan? Kizka fé kler”
This traveling and digital exhibition, imagined and loaned by the Departmental Library of Reunion Island, retraces the founding years of the Ziskakan cultural movement, which has today become one of the essential groups in Reunion music?
Ziskakan: a name that resonates in the heads of several generations of Reunion Islanders since 1979. While maloya is banned from the public square, banned from the airwaves of the only state radio or from concert stages, Gilbert Pounia and his legendary group advocate post-colonialism and impose the idea of a Creole culture freed from slavery with committed texts.
If today maloya is listed as UNESCO's intangible heritage, it took many battles for our music but also our language and our culture to be recognized.
This traveling and digital exhibition, imagined and loaned by the Departmental Library of Reunion, allows us to better understand how Ziskakan allowed Creole music and literature to take its place in the history of our country, where the emphasis is focused on the emergence of committed words and mixed music which have been able to promote Reunion beyond the oceans.
The exhibition is accompanied by a choice of works from our collections and highlighting Creole culture through its language and the diversity of its music.
(Re)discover it from October 01 to 30 at the Education BU – Bellepierre site
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