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FOREST NOTEBOOKS LAUNCH OF THE ECHO-LOGIES SERIES
We are proud to present Forest Notebooks by Mario Lewis, the first publication in the ‘Black Echologies’ series, an ongoing collaborative project between Chimurenga and Nyabinghi Lab, a Berlin based independent arts collective. The ‘Black Echologies’ series challenges mainstream ecological discourse—its coloniality and exclusion of indigenous knowledge. Forest Notebooks brings together a (mostly) unfiltered interpretation of Lewis’ year-long journey working in the forests of Trinidad through striking illustrations and elementary notes.
Join us to celebrate the launch of the Black Echologies Series on May 8 on panafricanspace station.org streaming live from HKW in Berlin Chimurenga will be in conversation with Nyabinghi Lab, Mario Lewis and forthcoming contributor Moses Mars.
Thursday, 08 May 2025 from 7pm
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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
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Tags: Asher Gamedze, winnie madikizela-mandela
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MBIZO! – a gathering for Johnny Dyani [8 March 2025 LIVE @ Constellation, Chicago]
On 8 March 2025, Chimurenga presents ‘MBIZO! a gathering for Johnny Dyani’, a LIVE concert performance at CONSTELLATION (3111 N Western Ave, Chicago) from 8:30pm (CST) / 4:30 (SAST). Conducted by Ben LaMar Gay and Adam Zanolini Featuring Dee Alexander (voice); Nicole Mitchell (flute, electronics); Adam Zanolini (woodwinds, bass); Fred Jackson and Ernest Dawkins (woodwinds); Ben LaMar Gay (cornet, electronics); Matthew Davis (trombone); Sharon Udoh (piano); Ivan Taylor (bass); Jovia Armstrong (percussion); Naydja Bruton (drums) TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE or tune …
CHIMURENGA X SEPTOBER presents – BACKBREAKNOMICS! FRIDAY 21 Feb at Chimurenga Factory
Chimurenga and Septober Energy presents: “BACKBREAKANOMICS!” FRIDAY 21 Feb at CHIMURENGA FACTORY (157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock Cape Town) 18:00 til late The Joburg-based DJ/collector ensemble SEPTOBER ENERGY joins forces with kindred spirits CHIMURENGA in the name of all things groove! This collaboration brings together a massive B2B lineup of your favourite selektors from JHB & CPT in sonic conversation. All vinyl, no rules, no genre. Featuring: Dj Bubbles Riki Jenks Hypocrite Sound of Xee El Corazon Soul Br_th_r Gadaffi the …
KEENAN AHRENDS TRIO – LIVE at Chimurenga Factory
Join us on Saturday 15 February 2025 (from 20:00 – 22:00) for a live performance with Keenan Ahrends Trio – Keenan Ahrends (guitar), Benjamin Jephta (bass) and Jonno Sweetman (drums). Pre-sale tickets available for R150 via Quicket and R200 on the night. After a successful tour in New York, Keenan Ahrends is set to tour South Africa in February. With his trio, he returns home for his second stop at Chimurenga Factory, Cape Town. The performance features compositions from his …
THIS WAY I SALUTE YOU – a gathering for Keorapetse Kgositsile
“When the clouds clear / We shall know the colour of the sky.” On Thursday 30 January 2025, we are proud to host the launch of two long-awaited books on our dearly departed teacher Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Works, 1969–2018, from the Broadside and Third World Press days to Beyond Words, a near 50-year journey of word-sound-power, edited by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers and Uhuru Portia Phalafala; and Uhuru’s own pathbreaking study, Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement. Join us at …
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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A live reading of A NIGHT WITH THE ELEPHANT and launch of “The Revolutionary Thoughts of Kwame Nkrumah”
Following the CIA-backed military coup of February 1966 in Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah makes a strategic retreat to Conakry, where the leader of the Guinean Revolution, Sekou Toure, appoints him “co-President”. Conakry is also home to Amilcar Cabral, leader of the PAIGC. The three leaders meet regularly at Nkrumah’s residence, Villa Sily, to plot the return of the Osagyefo to power in Ghana and reflect on the struggle vs apartheid, colonialism and neocolonialism. Also present at these reasonings are the likes …
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Tags: Amilcar Cabral, Efemia Chela, Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure, Vijay Prashad
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IZIMPABANGA ZOMHLABA – a listening session with Nombuso Mathibela
Early 20th century translation of Western texts into African languages by African writers for African readers was the invention of new worlds. Following the literary tradition established by the likes of Sol Plaatjie and Masizi Kunene, Makhosazana Xaba offers a conversion of Frantz Fanon’s classic ‘Wretched of the Earth’ into isiZulu. Thursday 22 August, 6pm, we host a close reading of Xaba’s text, Izimpabanga Zomhlaba, directed by Nombuso Mathibela LIVE in studio. Join us at the Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria …