With Agsila and Anouchka, help Tata Ndeye Diouf on her Christmas tour in the Houses of Detention and Correction for women and minors in Senegal.

The Christmas tour begins in Paris on December 7, 8 and 9 with a fundraiser with Agsila and Anouchka, and continues in Senegal from December 19 to 24, 2022 with Tata Ndeye where we will distribute the packages.

With the support of the Frédéric Roulette Gallery - Hors les Murs and the African Office of Arts and Techniques and A.C.I.



Every year, Tata Ndeye Diouf, organizer of the tours since 1987 with the support of ACI in the M.A.C. of Dakar, Rufisque, Thiés and Tivaouane, invites artists with the approval of the prison administration.

**These are days of solidarity, without judgment, where arrested or incarcerated people take part in concerts in the courtyards and receive hygiene and basic necessity products as gifts.

Support concerts in Paris:

Support concerts in Paris:

- Wednesday December 7 at 8:00 PM at the Lavoir Moderne Parisien, 35 rue Léon 75018 PARIS with Agsila (composition and vocals), Duplom on piano, the paintings of Anouchka Desseilles. Entrance €10.

- Thursday December 8 in youth worker hostels in PARIS

Special evening reserved for donors:

- Friday December 9 at Châteauform' RIO MONCEAU 4 Place Rio de Janeiro 75008 PARISwith an exhibition by Anouchka Desseilles, Frédéric Roulette gallery hors les murs, recital by Agsila accompanied on piano by Duplom. **

Reservation required with Agsila at: 06 82 63 70 49



Concerts in the Houses of Detention and Correction from December 19 to 24:

- Dakar

- Rufisque

- Tiouane

- Thiès



Anto from Saint Louis and his musicians with Agsila.



Out of a prison population of 17,000 prisoners in Senegal, 5% are women and minors. Half of the incarcerated are presumed innocent, awaiting trial for an average duration of 18 months.



Through the tour in Senegalese prisons we will try to provide assistance to 550 women and minors currently incarcerated.



Anoucka Desseilles, painter and teacher, accompanies the concerts and runs workshops with the detainees:

"Since 2005, my work as a visual artist is nourished by my regular trips to Senegal and my work is essentially focused on portrait and human representation. In 2011 my travel notebooks were presented at the Musée de la Poste during the exhibition “Carnets de voyage, le monde au bout du crayon”, as well as at the Clermont-Ferrand festival, “Il faut aller voir”. My work has been shown by several Parisian galleries as well as at the AKAA fair and during the Dakar Off Biennale (BAAT in Yene). I am today a permanent artist of the Frédéric Roulette Gallery in Paris and exhibit regularly in the provinces. In 2022 following my last trip to the Petite Côte of Dakar and my encounter with the fishermen of Yene and Toubab Dialow, I represented the daily life of this sea population. Having long experience working in the childhood and EHPAD sectors, close to people’s reality, my involvement in the project “Levez la Pénitence” goes without saying and fits naturally into my practice as a visual artist. I propose to accompany Agsila in her prison visits and to offer detained people who wish it their portrait and to give it to them, which would contribute to a redefinition of self-esteem and to go beyond the purely punitive dimension of their incarceration."

http://anouchkadesseilles.free.fr/



Agsila, Senegalese composer, has been singing for detainees since 2017:

"For me love is the only score we have a duty to play in music. I have always been drawn to people whose conscience is in pain. In 2010, I did an internship to validate my year of study in Thiès and I had the opportunity to accompany a great enthusiast of prison visits. I met detained minors and one of them particularly made me want to return to listen. Torn between lucidity and compassion, I eventually felt the need to sing to bring a sigh of relief. If only for one day. I therefore took part in several tours, with the very affectionate Tata Ndéye, and accompanied by the young Saint Louis group Anto and his musicians. The prison administration welcomes us very well but resources are lacking. We decided to launch a fundraiser so we can bring our help to all minors and all women incarcerated for this Christmas 2022."

http://s593189894.onlinehome.fr/index.php



The fundraiser allows financing of basic necessity products, hygiene products and the tour: each detainee receives a complete package, as well as a festive meal on the occasion of the concert.

With €20 per person you fund a package, the meal, the workshops and the concert.

Join us for the Christmas holidays, we look forward to sharing this moment with you:

Let’s lift the penitence together!