Majaw Njaay
ArtXaleYi
Dakar, Senegal · Performing Arts
Majaw Njaay (Senegal) is a performance artist whose work fuses his experiences in theater, circus, film and slam through performances in public spaces. His work is about societal transformation and themes related to youth, often evoking childhood.
ArtXaleYi is an organization for social welfare for children through art based in Dakar. The project consists of orchestrating a series of performance-readings in several spaces with the purpose of providing children with a wide range of tools for the future; and to create new forms of learning and exchange through artistic interventions.
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