Crossing the Line Festival 2021

The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) presents the 14^th edition of Crossing the Line, its critically acclaimed interdisciplinary showcase for avant-garde creative talents from around the world. This year’s program – curated by former FIAF artistic director Courtney Geraghty and French-Togolese-American journalist and Trace TV founder Claude Grunitzky – spotlights Africa’s cultural renaissance, and features works created by artists coming out of the continent and diaspora such as Nigerian-American performer Okwui Okpokwasili, Zimbabwe-born choreographer Nora Chipaumire, and Grammy-nominated singer Somi, who uses her songwriting to give voices to issues of social justice, transnationalism, womanhood, and global constructions of Blackness.