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LIBERATION MUSIC AT THE CHIMURENGA FACTORY – OCTOBER 2022
We are proud to present two ensemble performances at the Chimurenga Factory this October – Tumi Mogorosi’s Group Theory:Black Music and Malcolm Jiyane’s Tree-O.
Group Theory:Black Music is the latest contribution from drummer Tumi Mogorosi. It continues the exploration into South Africa’s longstanding chorale tradition from Mogorosi’s debut album Project Elo. Mogorosi is joined by vocalist Themba Maseko, who directs the voices of Busisiwe Phetoe, Forunate Jwara and Brenda Thulo, as well as Andile Yenana (piano), Reza Khota (guitar), Dalisu Ndlazi (bass), Mthunzi Mvubu (alto sax) and Tumi Pheko (trumpet).
Multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Jiyane’s Tree-O continues the sonic tradition set by two of his mentors, Johnny Mekoa and Jonas Gwangwa. His debut album, Umdali, was released in 2021. He will be accompanied by Lungile Kunene (drums), Gontse Makhene (percussion), Nkosinathi Mthunjwa (keys), Ayanda Zalekile (bass).
Performances as follows:
TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC
[This event is produced in collaboration with Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC)]
Saturday, 22 October 2022 – Doors open 7pm
R200 pre-booked at https://qkt.io/EmEtTz
R250 at the door
MALCOLM JIYANE’S TREE-O
Friday, 28 October 2022 – Doors open 7pm
R160 pre-booked at https://qkt.io/wMzl7w
R220 at the door
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MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM – LIVE AT THE CHIMURENGA FACTORY
We are proud to present a once-off performance of Masello Motana’s Vocal Museum at the Chimurenga Factory on 8 July 2022. The Vocal Museum is a sonic documentary, a journey into collective memory, an activation of the Azanian songbook by singer-satirist, actress and performance artist Masello Motana, backed by a live band. This foray into the South African Black Ark follows Masello’s earlier musical experiments through projects such as the kwaito revivalist outfit Thath’i Cover Okestra, or the out-soundings of …
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LIBERATION RADIO: PEOPLE WHO THINK TOGETHER, DANCE TOGETHER #7
We are pleased to present People Who Think Together, Dance Together #7, a series of conversations with Christian Nyampeta, recorded for radio (and video) rooted not in discipline, professionalism and scholarship but in friendship, love and affiliation. The series will be broadcast live from 6pm and features:– 24 May 2022: Olu Oguibe– 25 May 2022: Sasha Bonét and Hannah Black– 26 May 2022: Natacha Nsabimana and Emmanuel Olunkwa The conversations revolve around a new understanding of the diasporic as a …
LIBERATION RADIO: PUNGWE 1
Selected and mixed by Robert Machiri This piece presents various operators of the liberation struggle, across countries and movements, through a mix that brings together speech, music and struggle song. Maybe an attempt at presenting a cacophony of political vocalisations. Reproducing the sound of the liberation struggle in southern Africa as a totality of voices and music produced by militants across the region and beyond. As an attempt to expand on the “struggle song” beyond the chronological markers of political …
LIBERATION RADIO: La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror*
DIALECTIC SOUL – live at the Chimurenga Factory
iPHUPHO L’KA BIKO – live at the Chimurenga Factory
Pan African Space Station is pleased to announce the return of iPhupho L’ka Biko to the Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town). Thursday, 31 March 2022 Doors open from 7pm, with limited capacity. R150 presale (bookings here) R180 at the door For further information: info@chimurenga.co.za | +27 21 447 1119
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LIBERATION RADIO: CAPE TOWN – 18 March 2022 – 3pm: Fugitive Archives
In the final broadcast, we discuss methods of recovering, curating, re-presenting and conserving black collective and fugitive practice. With Uhuru Phalafala, Sinazo Mtshemla, Lerato Kuzwayo, Kgomotso Ramushu. Dr Uhuru Phalafala is a scholar, an artist and lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. She is author of the upcoming monograph on Keorapetse Kgositsile titled Black Radical Traditions from the South: Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Black Arts Movement. She heads a project that repatriates and republishes apartheid-era cultural production. Sinazo Mtshemla is a …
LIBERATION RADIO: CAPE TOWN – 17 March 2022 – 3pm: Visual Arts and Liberation Music
We move from visual representations of the music (LP-art, posters, photographs) to cross-disciplinary (or an-disciplined) work by artists operating across media. With Percy Mabandu, Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa, Judy Seidman and Athi Mongezeleli Joja. Percy Mabandu is an artist and writer interested in poetics and portraiture, monuments, and symbolic meaning. He is the author of the book, Yakhal’inkomo – Portrait of a Jazz Classic, a monograph that studies the history and impact of the landmark South African jazz album. Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa has played a …
LIBERATION RADIO: CAPE TOWN – 16 March 2022 – 3pm: Liberation Movement as Cultural Producers
Today’s session explores the legacies of PAC’s Mafube Arts Commune and band; ANC’s Amandla Cultural Ensemble and MEDU Art Ensemble, as well as outfits such as Malopoets and Dashiki, which were associated with BCM. With historians of these projects such as Gwen Ansell, Percy Mabandu, Ali Hlongwane and Steve Dyer. Percy Mabandu is an artist and writer interested in poetics and portraiture, monuments, and symbolic meaning. He is the author of the book, Yakhal’inkomo – Portrait of a Jazz Classic, …