Mar 24th 2023

Heaven Gallery is excited to announce that we will be hosting the closing event for Loyola University Chicago’s Black Europe Symposium on Friday, March 24, 6-8PM! ⁠

The event is organized by the Department of Modern Languages at Loyola University and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago (@iicchicago); hosted by Heaven Gallery.

On March 23-24, The Black Europe Symposium at Loyola University Chicago is a series of lectures with writers and artists of African descent who have contributed significantly to today’s European cultural life through different media. It highlights the complex processes that forge a new Europe through cross-cultural encounters and identity formation, while emphasizing the importance of the arts and foreign languages and cultures in a world that is also changing through migration.⁠

This closing event will feature a performance by Anna Maria Gehnyei (aka Karima 2G) accompanied by a DJ set. Anna Maria Gehnyei (aka Karima 2G), is a Liberian Italian singer, rapper, dancer, writer, activist, and beats-maker. In her music, she combines electronic elements, urban bass music, and grime with Afro influences, incorporating English and pidgin English, her mother tongue, in her singing and rapping.⁠

In her solo debut album (2G, 2014) she brings out the values of her culture of origin in an Italian perspective, focusing on anti-Blackness and the integration of second-generation Europeans.⁠

Karima 2G will represent Italy at Black Europe Symposium, a series of lectures with writers and artists of African descent who have contributed significantly to today’s European cultural life through different media.⁠
The event is organized by the Department of Modern Languages at Loyola University and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago; hosted by Haven Gallery
The event is free and open to the public.

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