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Officially, weekends don’t start until Friday night but a PASS weekend starts any old time and this time around, the weekend is Nahw.

The Writers Stokvel continues where they left off, this week studying “Human Nature/Mother Nature.” He-Jin Kim this weeks host swears that this installment is devoted to all nature, “Whether we talk of orchid frogs or schadenfreude, the Stokkie folk are out to explore this theme whichever way the audience has in itself to contribute.” The Stokvel session is on tonight at 6-8pm and will be followed by Dean and Crew on the decks till the early hours.

On Friday
DJ Andy Williams hosts a Hip-Hop Symposium at 5pm, he asks what/where is Hip-Hop? Later the PASS Studio stage hosts Ciraj who’s ready to drop some Kaapse Abstract Ghoema from 9-10pm.

On Saturday

We vryf the Saturday stoeps with Khayelitsha’s Spouse on the decks from 10am-12pm. Cape Town’s own Odidiva travels the wormhole to bring us the Green Point/Sea Point Pink Strip in a session called “Queer City/Mother City” a celebration of 30 years of “I will survive” from 3-4pm.

At 6:15 Andy Williams speaks to Mutabaruka along with Poets Frank Chipasula, Barolong Seboni, Gcina Mhlophe and Mama C.

On Sunday
Fong Kong Bantu follows up on the Khoi Kollektiff’s promise of that second set. Get ready for more from Jethro Louw and Jitsvinger.
Ological Studies, a UCT music school duo (Phumlani Mtiti on alto saxophone and Sibusiso Dlamini piano) follows at 4pm.

Plan Be returns for a third Sunday Session from 7-8pm.
This weeks’ find is Tino La Musica a Congolese band based in Cape Town, who will share their music live from 8-9pm. We screen the film ‘Congo, My Foot’ after their set, the film tells the story of the bands’ displacement during the 2008 xenophobic attacks in the city and their journey to the present day, at PASS Central.

The wait for Passes is over. Computicket is now open for you to grab your PASS pass. On the Computicket site search for Pan African Space Station, this will lead you to our events dates and venues, select the show you want to see and purchase your ticket. Playing one night only Theo Parrish  at the Albert Hall, Woodstock on the 29th September and Studio Kabako plays at City Hall on the 28th September.  ( continue reading

In a double-take on the relationship between sound and spatiality, frequencies and territories, and in collaboration with Atlantic Studio, PASS extended its sonic territory to Limbe – a coastal town on the south west of Cameroon, on the much-contested border with Nigeria and the southern slopes of Mount Cameroon. Currently we broadcast daily (Mon-Fri, 4pm) content live from Atlantic Studio – which is primarily a recording studio but rejigged with the help of Blue Cow (who designed the PASS studio …  ( continue reading

Pictured below with a bandit backdrop, Funafuji is a veteran Dubstep DJ whose claim to fame does not crutch on her being one of the first females  in the genre but rather on her reputation for beat selection that draws the crowds from the exit back onto the dance floor. “Funafuji’s style is eclectic; from reggae and funk to dubstep and blues and just about anything with a fat warm bass line. You can find her playing at trance parties …  ( continue reading

Plantation Miners is artistic approach to the voice of the social ills of our society today, giving a voice that is honest and thought-provoking to the human dyanmics of existence through soundscapes, movement and spoken-word. This is an all-engaging musical concept which is something these young artists have spent time and heart putting together as they have a placed a piece of themselves in parts of this art. It also draws in the visual by showcasing videos of events or …  ( continue reading

She’s out in the city, today we finally received prints of PASS 2010 posters- when you see her please remember chivalry died. You are allowed to stop- point-shoot and MMS forward. Gawk- your oohs and aahhh are just what she expects, whistles are completely acceptable and are in fact the preferred space lingua franca.  ( continue reading