Live Events

We are proud to welcome back to Cape Town, the legendary Theo Parrish, pioneering DJ and producer, and founder of the Sound Signature label. For his first appearance in Cape Town since 2010, Theo Parrish will perform a typical marathon-DJ set in an ALL-NIGHT event organised by Chimurenga in collaboration with Vinyl Digz and Sho-Sho Comunications.

Theo Parrish’s biography forges an allegiance between two of the great American house dynasties. He was raised in Chicago but settled in Detroit. So Chicago’s murky, atmospheric soulfulness shares space with the fierce intellectualism of Detroit-vintage techno.

But for Theo Parrish, techno is a global music, a cross-generic tradition of expansive composition that defines the ritualistically confining house template. Playing vinyl like a self-contained instrument, dissolving the borders between machine music and free form expression, he’s as likely to break out in a deep slamming soul or to skitter-dance across outer-orbit beats as he is to swing or testify Coltrane-style. Like Trane his music strains the bounds of convention, seeking new territories and different sounds. Like Sun Ra he confronts technology and attempts to humanise it, to explore inner as well as outer space. Through a continuous refusal of creative confinement Theo Parrish has set a tone for Black experimental music for many generations to come.

Book now! For a unique opportunity to experience Theo Parrish LIVE and get entry to a full day extravaganza with music, food, discussion and furious dancing.

Date: 04 December 2026, from 4pm
Venue: Chimurenga Factory, 157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town
Tickets available via quicket

We’re proud to present a rare Cape Town screening of MARIO, Billy Woodberry’s long-awaited film on the Angolan-born, Pan Africanist thinker and revolutionary Mario Pinto de Andrade. Along with Amilcar Cabral, Agostinho Neto and Marcelino dos Santos, Mario de Andrade was part of the pioneering quartet of poet-scholars who founded the Centro de Estudos Africanos (CEA) in Lisbon and planted seeds for nationalist struggle in Portuguese colonies across the continent – respectively, they co-founded PAIGC, MPLA and Frelimo.   An early …  ( continue reading

We present ‘My Country, Tonight’ a radio broadcast of responses from writers and artists to the 30 June deadline set by xenophobic groups for undocumented migrants to leave South Africa. We invited friends and comrades, poets and writers, South Africans, to sit with us on 30th June 2026 and share thoughts, feelings, queries, readings, on the national democratic revolution and its limits. The session was moderated by Bongani Kona, and broadcast live from the Chimurenga Factory. Thanks to contributors and BK …  ( continue reading