Live Events
THE CARETAKER
We are proud to present, in collaboration with Wolff Architects, the debut screening of The Caretaker. Situating us in a time between time, the film follows the memory of the man who tirelessly cared for the seaside cottage of the mining head Cecil John Rhodes whose imposed systems of extraction decimated local life. Faced with struggles of eviction and belonging The Caretaker calls to question, what do we want to remember, who do we want to care for it and how do we care for them. Join us Thursday 23rd April 2026 from 7pm for the debut screening and a conversation with Ilze Wolff, Malik Edjabe, Keegan Steenkamp and Masello Montana on the making of The Caretaker.
Thursday, 23 April 2026 from 7pm
Chimurenga Factory 157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock
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Tags: Ilze Wolff, Keegan Steenkamp, Malik Edjabe, Masello Montana
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BLACK STUDY – a conversation and performance by Dead Symbols, A Semblance and Operation Khataza
We’re delighted to host a study session in collaboration with three of Cape Town’s leading experimental music units, Dead Symbols, A Semblance and Operation Khataza. The session is conceived as a collective site of listening, reading, and discussion. Drawing on the long tradition of study as a political and artistic practice within Black radical thought, the gathering asks how music can function not only as aesthetic production, but as a method of inquiry, refusal, and world-ending. Saturday, 14 March 2026Chimurenga …
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L’ALMAMY SAMORY TOURE – ACT II, DAKAR – 13 DECEMBER 2025
Act II, L’Almamy Samori Touré – An Unmade Film by Ousmane Sembène, decomposed, disarranged and reproduced by Chimurenga, and hosted by RAW Material Company as part of the 14th edition of Partcours. The program today will run as follows Saturday December 13: on theatre, fashion and the arts in the production of history, the case of “l’École de Dakar” (The Dakar School) 3.30 p.m. | African history in theatre, cinema, and fashion — Lamine Seyba Traoré and Oumou SY with Madiaw …
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L’ALMAMY SAMORY TOURE – ACT II, DAKAR – 12 DECEMBER 2025
Act II, L’Almamy Samori Touré – An Unmade Film by Ousmane Sembène, decomposed, disarranged and reproduced by Chimurenga, and hosted by RAW Material Company as part of the 14th edition of Partcours. The program today will run as follows Friday December 12: The Guinean cultural socialist revolution and its discontents; African history as a problem 3.30 p.m. | On African historiography – Professor of Ancient History, Babacar Buuba Diop joins Ibrahima Wane, Professor of African Literature and Civilizations to discuss the …
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L’ALMAMY SAMORY TOURE – ACT II, DAKAR – 11 DECEMBER 2025
Act II, L’Almamy Samori Touré – An Unmade Film by Ousmane Sembène, decomposed, disarranged and reproduced by Chimurenga, and hosted by RAW Material Company as part of the 14th edition of Partcours. The program today will run as follows Thursday December 11: 5 p.m. | On his journey alongside Sembène, the preservation of his work and memory – Clarence Delgado who worked with Sembène at his production company, Filmi Doomireew, for 25 years on many projects including Camp de Thiaroye …
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L’ALMAMY SAMORY TOURE – ACT II, DAKAR – 10 DECEMBER 2025
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NGUGI WA THIONG’O – THE WRITER IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA with an introduction by Ari Sitas
Following the popular success of “Matigari ma Njiruungi” the Kikuyu version of Ngugi wa Thiongo’s 6th novel in 1986, word got to then-President Daniel Arap Moi that a revolutionary called Matigari was going around the country asking awkward questions about truth and justice in postcolonial Kenya. Moi promptly demanded this person be arrested. After the infamous Security Branch reported that Matigari was a character in a novel, Moi demanded they arrest the book! At the time Ngugi was in exile …
FATIMA AND THE DUST – a listening session with Leila Bencharnia
Moroccan artist and composer Leila Bencharnia presents ‘Fatima and the Dust’, a new sound piece, and music selections at the Chimurenga Factory on Friday 6 June, from 6.30pm. ‘Fatima and the Dust’ delves into the spiritual world of Gnawa, rooted in Sufism and other African spiritualities, where music and rituals are pathways between the earthly and the divine. The piece is a tribute to the silent yet essential role of women—guardians of ancestral heritage, keepers of rituals, and weavers of …