ZCCD
ZIMBABWE CULTURAL CENTRE IN DETROIT’Smission is to educate, archive, & promote the arts & culture of Zimbabwe. We continuously strive to encourage strong ties between culture-producers & residents in Zimbabwe, Detroit, & abroad, acting as catalysts for critical artistic production as well as cultural exchange between communities.
OUR PROJECTS
JIT EXCHANGE
The Jit Exchange is a project based on Zimbabwe Jit & Detroit Jit (dance music).
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WISH YOU WERE HERE
Wish you were here is a postcard project through a partnership with the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Mutare, Zimbabwe. Two border cities that exist as immigrant cities looks at how postcards are seen as a memory of a space, and in this case, a fantasy of a space.
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CALL + RESPONSE
This is an ongoing curated project on zccd.org based on the premise of a “call and response” between artists in Detroit and Zimbabwe.
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SKYPE+MIX
This is an exploration of space, time and music as the artists attempt to produce a DJ set using skype to set up a live feed whilst the DJ’s play and mix music together in real time.
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RESEARCH REsidence
In partnership with other artist run organizations and institutional support such as the Knights Foundation, we have been able bring to Detroit and take to Zimbabwe critical cultural practitioners for research.
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DETZIM
Educational research exchange between artists in Detroit and in Zimbabwe. The first exchange in 2016 was between Chinhoyi University of Technology and the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.
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Writers
exchange
Since 2013 ZCCD had had literary exchanges between writers in Zimbabwe and the USA. We actually have one exchange published through Good Good productions based in Flint, Michigan.
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