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pened on March 4 this year, THREAD will offer residencies for visiting
international artists, alongside a diverse range of programs that will
provide the people of Sinthian and the surrounding region with the
opportunity to discover new forms of creativity and cultivate their skills.
A venue for markets, education, performances and meetings, the centre
will be a hub for the local community and a place where the resident
artists can have a truly meaningful experience of Sinthian society.
Visual artists, writers, choreographers, musicians and dancers will be
invited to live and work at THREAD. With this rarely-visited area of
the world as their muse, they can inspire a greater international appreciation for this
part of West Africa. The first steps towards this spirit of cultural exchange were made
in 2013, when gifted dancers from Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance ran a series of
workshops in Sinthian.
Acclaimed New York-based architect Toshiko Mori has worked on this project pro-bono,
designing a building that has already won an AIA New York Chapter award and was
selected for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. The building is constructed using
local materials and local builders have shared their sophisticated knowledge of working
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