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iPHUPHO L’KA BIKO – live at the Chimurenga Factory

Pan African Space Station is pleased to announce the return of iPhupho L’ka Biko to the Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town).

Thursday, 31 March 2022
Doors open from 7pm, with limited capacity.

R150 presale (bookings here)
R180 at the door

For further information: info@chimurenga.co.za | +27 21 447 1119

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LIBERATION RADIO: CAPE TOWN – 18 March 2022 – 3pm: Fugitive Archives

In the final broadcast, we discuss methods of recovering, curating, re-presenting and conserving black collective and fugitive practice. With Uhuru Phalafala, Sinazo Mtshemla, Lerato Kuzwayo, Kgomotso Ramushu. Dr Uhuru Phalafala is a scholar, an artist and lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. She is author of the upcoming monograph on Keorapetse Kgositsile titled Black Radical Traditions from the South: Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Black Arts Movement. She heads a project that repatriates and republishes apartheid-era cultural production. Sinazo Mtshemla is a …  ( continue reading

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LIBERATION RADIO: CAPE TOWN – 17 March 2022 – 3pm: Visual Arts and Liberation Music

We move from visual representations of the music (LP-art, posters, photographs) to cross-disciplinary (or an-disciplined) work by artists operating across media. With Percy Mabandu, Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa, Judy Seidman and Athi Mongezeleli Joja. Percy Mabandu is an artist and writer interested in poetics and portraiture, monuments, and symbolic meaning. He is the author of the book, Yakhal’inkomo – Portrait of a Jazz Classic, a monograph that studies the history and impact of the landmark South African jazz album. Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa has played a …  ( continue reading

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LIBERATION RADIO: CAPE TOWN – 16 March 2022 – 3pm: Liberation Movement as Cultural Producers

Today’s session explores the legacies of PAC’s Mafube Arts Commune and band; ANC’s Amandla Cultural Ensemble and MEDU Art Ensemble, as well as outfits such as Malopoets and Dashiki, which were associated with BCM. With historians of these projects such as Gwen Ansell, Percy Mabandu, Ali Hlongwane and Steve Dyer. Percy Mabandu is an artist and writer interested in poetics and portraiture, monuments, and symbolic meaning. He is the author of the book, Yakhal’inkomo – Portrait of a Jazz Classic, …  ( continue reading

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LIBERATION RADIO: CAPE TOWN – 15 March 2022 – 3pm: South African Liberation Songs

In our opening session we present a conversation between contemporary musicians who actively draw on the archive to directly inform their music and artist practice, along with audio pieces from each participant. With: Neo Muyanga, Asher Gamedze, Masello Montana and Nhlanhla Ngqaqu (iPhupho L’ka Biko). Neo Muyanga is a composer, theorist and activist who is engaged in a multi-focal exploration of protest music that spans from how protest songs played a key role in South Africa’s liberation to the role …  ( continue reading

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LIBERATION RADIO: CAPE TOWN – 15th-18th March 2022, 3-6pm

Liberation Radio is part of Chimurenga’s ongoing query on knowledge production via African sound worlds. Through this program we explore the possibilities of radio as a research platform and the sonic archives of cultural struggles, and the role of city-studios such as Cairo, Accra, Conakry, Algiers, Dar es Salaam, Lusaka and more, as revolutionary capitals which hosted and disseminated liberatory work through their national infrastructure. This edition, live from our Cape Town studio on the 15th -18th of March from …  ( continue reading

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RADIO MAC – 21 June 2021 – 6pm: War of the Reptile Men – Victor Gama

War of the reptile men War of the reptile men é uma composição criada pelo compositor e músico angolano Victor Gama enquanto vivia em Angola durante os anos do conflito. Ele explica como  a sintonização na rádio estática, durante o girar do botão, expandiu a sua compreensão das possibilidades da música e do som como um intermediário. Gama relembra memórias vívidas do período da independência no final dos anos 70, a transição no sistema educacional do país naquela época, e …  ( continue reading

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RADIO MAC – 20 June 2021 – 6pm: Sermos autores de nós próprios / Being our own authors – Carla Fernandes

Sermos autores de nós próprios Fundadora da Afrolis – Associação Cultural, organização que se dedica à promoção da expressão cultural e à construção de novas narrativas identitárias dos afrodescendentes. Carla Fernandes é jornalista, tradutora e produtora cultural. Em conjunto com Sónia Vaz Borges, ambas envolvem-se num diálogo que viaja entre o pessoal e profissional sobre as memórias, ambições e a criação de espaços africanos na capital portuguesa. Being our own authors Founder of Afrolis – Cultural Association, an organization dedicated …  ( continue reading

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RADIO MAC – 19 June 2021 – 6pm: Xee menino não falar politica / Xee boy, do not talk about politics – DJ Lucky

Xee menino não falar política  Lucky é um Dj angolano que vive em Lisboa. Ele nasceu em Kinshasa, como resultado do êxodo da guerra de Angola para o Congo, regressou após a independência com sua família para Luanda. Ele destaca a importância das rádios e explica como os angolanos no Congo podem estar ligados às notícias pela rádio. Assim, por meio do rádio, a sua família partilhou notícias sobre a independência e lançou o primeiro sinal de que era seguro …  ( continue reading

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RADIO MAC – 18 June 2021 – 6pm: Eu migro entre línguas e língua / I migrate between languages and tongues – Marinho Pina

Eu migro entre línguas e língua Geraldo Pina, conhecido por Marinho de Pina, é um artista performance e escritor, frequenta o programa de doutoramento do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL). Nesta conversa Marinho Pina irá partilhar o seu percurso migratório, tanto física como virtualmente, onde este quer ser considerado e reconhecido como  “Gente, e nada mais que gente” na escrita de a uma  “Querida Europa”, mas também para quem possa interessar. I migrate between languages and tongues Geraldo Pina, known …  ( continue reading

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