Live Events
SONGS FOR WINNIE – LAUNCH OF THE LATEST CHRONIC WITH A SEMBLANCE
Chimurenga presents the launch of the latest edition The Chronic – Brandfort: Liberation Capital with a special performance by A Semblance
To celebrate the launch of a special edition of a Chimurenga Chronic – Brandfort: Liberation Capital (1977-86) we are proud to present a live performance by A Semblance, an experimental band headed by Cape Town based musician and historian Asher Gamedze. Through improvisation, A Semblance will perform a tribute to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s cultural work during the period of her banishment in Brandfort from 1977-86, as a form of expanding on the rich legacy of musical tributes to her during the Brandfort years.
Banished to Brandfort in 1977, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela noted that this act, carried out by the apartheid authorities, was intended “to bury me forever.” However, it was her presence that ultimately repositioned the small rural town in the Free State as a centre for black radicalism.
Thursday, 24 April 2024 from 7pm
Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria Road, Woodstock, Cape Town)
R200 at quicket here.
R250 at the door.
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Tags: Asher Gamedze, winnie madikizela-mandela
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WATER NO GET ENEMY – a day-long broadcast on PASS
In honour of the almighty water we present a day-long broadcast on flows and unflows, tidalectics and water babies, cities and cemeteries, mosi-oa-tunya and motla le pula, drexciya, hendrixian merman and mami wata, ngondo and orin o’lomi, puddles, poem-maps and the rivers in our bellies, nkrumah’s and nehru’s big man dams, saline consciousness and the incessant fear of a wet planet. Contributors: Lamin Fofana, Christina Peake, Listening at Pungwe, Manthia Diawara, Ola Balogun, Otolith Group, Dikongue Pipa, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Sorana …
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Launching The Breathers – THE LATEST IN THE CHIMURENGANYANA SERIES
We are pleased to be launching the latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series, The Breathers, a collaborative long poem by Daniel Borzutzky and Stacy Hardy. The Breathers is an attempt to experiment with ways to document both the suppression of breath caused by capitalism, and the liberation of breath, or, the mere act of breathing as a form of political resistance to those forces that confront our bodies with what cannot be said, what cannot be seen, and what cannot be …
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Tags: Bongani Kona, Daniel Borzutzky, Fred Schmalz, Stacy Hardy, The Breathers
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Heliacal Rising of Sothis – a celebration of Kelan Phil Cohran
Chimurenga proudly presents “Heliacal Rising of Sothis“, a celebration of the late great musician and educator Kelan Phil Cohran on his birthday 8 May 2024, also the 59th anniversary of the founding of AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). Cohran was a co-founder of AACM as well as the founder of the Afro Arts Theatre. His seminal group the Artistic Heritage Ensemble generated numerous recordings and offshoots, including groups such as Earth, Wind and Fire and The Pharaohs. …
BHEKI KHOZA TRIO
We are pleased to host veteran guitarist, composer and mbaqanga jazz revivalist Bheki Khoza at the Chimurenga Factory. Bheki is a graduate of the legendary collective African Jazz Pioneers and has played with masters like Victor Ntoni, Winston Mankunku, Barney Rachabane, and more. He also wrote the music for Zola Maseko’s award winning film Drum (2004). For this session, he is accompanied by Allistair Gibbs (bass) and Nicholas Dlakavu (drums). Friday, 26 April 2024, 7pm Chimurenga Factory – 157 …
AFRICAN DAY – a listening session with Tete Mbambisa
We are delighted to host our elder, the pianist and composer Tete Mbambisa at the Chimurenga Factory on 27 March 2024 from 7pm, to celebrate the arrival of African Day, his latest LP. The album was recorded during the heyday of the As-Shams label in 1976, but never released. It features the cream of South African jazz, including: Sipho Gumede (bass), Gilbert Matthews (drums), Dennis Mpale (trumpet), Duke Makasi, Basil Coetzee, and Barney Rachabane (reeds). Bra Tete’s musical journey began …
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Tags: African Day, As-Shams, Barney Rachabane, Basil Coetzee, Dennis Mpale, Duke Makasi, Gilbert Matthews, Sipho Gumede, Tete Mbambisa
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Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival
We are proud to announce the 2nd edition of Ubuhle Bendalo,“the beauty of creation/nature”,an annual community arts festival organised by multi-disciplinary artist Breeze Yoko in collaboration with pan-African arts platform Chimurenga from 16 – 18 February 2024. Consisting of exhibitions, talks, workshops, performances and more, this year’s edition aims to bring our arts community together by providing a platform for engagement, collaboration and play. It features some of the country’s leading radical creators, including Mzwandile Buthelezi, Loyiso Mkhize, The Ninevites, …
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Tags: Breeze Yoko, Community Arts Festival, Ubuhle Bendalo
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A LIVE BROADCAST WITH DAMOLA OLOWADE
We’re delighted to host a listening with Lagos born, Pitori based rapper/producer Damola Owolade on PASS, Friday, 24 November from 7pm. Damola is one-half of the celebrated Pan Africanist prog-rap-folk duo Deep Dive Set, who harness the archaeological function of the hip-hop art form: excavating samples like fossils, fragments of forgotten history resurrected and immortalized by the very act of their discovery. The raw materials of Damola’s production come from sakara, apala, juju, fuji, highlife and other sounds in the …
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Tags: apala, Damola Olowade, fuji, highlife, juju, sakara
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HOPHUIS: A SITE OF DANCE AND SOLIDARITY
The film and pumplet publication Hophuis (both directed by Ilze Wolff) document a series of journeys and activations at the Steinkopf Community Centre in Namaqualand in the Northern Cape. The town of Steinkopf is situated in what was declared a “Coloured Reserve” by the apartheid government in 1948 – previously Kookfontein, it was renamed by German missionaries who settled there in the 18th century. Along with a new name, the missionaries brought what James Baldwin referred to as “theological terror”, …
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Tags: Carmen Cloete, hophuis, Ilze Wolff, Letitia Pandohe, Nicholae Young, ǂhoab Soreb
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