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Death Metal Angola

March 18, 2016 @ 7:00 AM - 9:00 PM

| Free

Calvert 22 is delighted to partner with The Africa Centre to present a special film night that aims to explore counter-narratives and a subculture movement taking place in Angola’s second largest city, Huambo.

We hope you can join us to see the screening of Jeremy Xido’s Death Metal Angola.

Synopsis

Following nearly 40 years of unrelenting war – with every attendant horror – peace and reconstruction are slowly arriving to Angola. Damaged first by the war for independence from Portugal, Angola was then ripped apart by a devastating civil war that orphaned thousands of children. Huambo, Angola’s second largest city, finds 55 of these children in the Okutiuka orphanage under the care of Sonia Ferreira. Sonia’s boyfriend, Wilker Flores, is a death metal guitarist who uses the brutal sounds and rhythms of this hardcore music as a path to healing, or, as Sonia says, “to clear out the debris from all these years of war.”

Death Metal Angola tracks Wilker and Sonia’s dream – to stage Angola’s first-ever national rock concert, bringing together members from different strands of the Angolan hardcore scene from different provinces – as it unfolds in fits and starts against the bombed out and mined backdrop of the formerly stately Huambo. Rubble and deconstructed spaces provide scenic reminders of whyhardcore music has gained a foothold.

What initially looks like a Quixotic undertaking gains momentum, aided by social media and propelled by members of the various branches of the death metal hardcore underground, who join together to stage the event. Raucous and righteous, DMA’s look at a rock show off the grid is fulfilling, haunting, and real.

This event is open to all and free to attend but Eventbrite booking is essential.

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Date:
March 18, 2016
Time:
7:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Cost:
Free
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Website:
http://calvert22.org/events/death-metal-angola-2012-red-africa-season

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Calvert 22
22 Calvert Avenue London E2 GB United Kingdom + Google Map