From October 6 to 12, the second Euro-Africa Biennial will be rolling out its program across Montpellier, notably at Tropisme, where the Rwandan collective will be presenting its documentary, a large-scale exhibition, and a highly anticipated live performance.
This October, +250 is coming to Montpellier! To mark the second Euro-Africa Biennale, +250 is sending six of its most illustrious ambassadors on a mission from October 6 to 12, for an unprecedented European event. This will be the collective’s first concert in France, which is also an opportunity for +250 to present a large-scale photography exhibition by Michiel Robberecht at the Tropisme.
An XXL concert, a documentary screening, and an extraordinary exhibition
Photographer and filmmaker Michiel is a privileged observer of the music scene in Kigali. For the +250 photographic series, he brought together the artists of the collective in the streets of the capital. The artist worked slowly, leaving enough space for “the unexpected and the accidental to creep into the images. The raw and explosive energy of this young scene continues to fascinate me,” says the photographer. It’s an intimate and radical perspective, which has been celebrated at the Chaillot – Théâtre National de la Danse, the Institut français in Kigali, and the Kigali Convention Center.
Also presented at the biennial is his documentary “B-Threy, Scars and Dreams of a Kigali” filmed within the heart of the Rwandan urban movement.
A collective born from Kigali’s urban scene
In Kinyarwanda, Rwanda’s telephone code – +250 – is pronounced “abiri nitanu.” Since last year, it has also come to represent a large collective of artists: composed of sixteen of Rwanda’s most iconic musicians, rappers, trap artists, super-producers, and singers. +250 will also be releasing its first musical manifesto at the end of 2025. Far beyond a supergroup and an album, it is an entire ultra-creative scene made up of artists born during or just after the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda that is expressing itself here, at an altitude of over 1,500 meters, in the heart of the country of a thousand hills. It’s a soundtrack composed by a new generation, now living in a country undergoing a renaissance in the highlands of the Great Lakes.
On Friday, October 10, starting at 7:30 p.m., join us in the belly of the Tropisme Hall alongside maverick Angell Mutoni, the ethereal lyricist Ice Nova, and singer Nikita Heaven. A group of leaders, masterfully led by the illustrious trap artist B-Threy. With his sticky, massive groove, “Threy” is one of the original leaders of the kinyatrap movement, a purely local trap style that mixes Kigali slang with 808 beats inherited from Atlanta’s bandos. The veteran Barick and multi-instrumentalist Aristide, producers and musicians who are pillars of the collective, will be at the controls for a brand new live version.
Together and with one voice, the all-star band will perform a few gems from their eponymous album, the first single of which is scheduled to be release on October 31.
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