Peeling Shadows – Freeky-Deeky Mambo-Jumbo Voodoo Mystic Vibes

Special Correspondent Culture 2020-10-20 03:32:04

Peeling Shadows is the latest theatrical experience from KWASHA! This endearing play is about a detective named Pamela, on a quest to solve an investigation regarding three missing fraudsters. As the case turns cold, she encounters a mysterious young girl named Boang, wandering the streets alone. Little does Pamela know that Boang may just be the key she needs to crack the case.

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Planet Afropunk 2020: Past, Present & Future Is Black

Special Correspondent Culture 2020-10-10 03:23:10

Through PLANET AFROPUNK, a space that has been curated for the global Black community to explore and celebrate the depth and breadth of what it means to be Black on this planet. As the engine room of the Black experience, PLANET AFROPUNK is a fluid, digital space designed to embrace the plurality of black stories and individualities that are experienced through Black music, art, conversation and activism, across borders and continents.

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Recipients of The Bag Factory Young Womxn Studio Bursary

Special Correspondent Culture 2020-10-02 07:25:06

The Bag Factory is delighted to announce that Cheriese Dilrajh and Hemali Khoosal have been selected as joint recipients of the annual Young Womxn Studio Bursary, funded by Bag Factory alumni artist Sam Nhlengethwa. They will share a fully funded studio bursary at the Bag Factory for twelve months from October 2020 to September 2021.

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Xivoni Xi Komba Swi Kandza Swo Hambana: Ku Anakanya Na Mambe Matimba Ya Ndhavuko

Special Correspondent Culture 2020-09-23 07:20:01

Ntirho lowuntshwa wa Sifiso Mkhabela wa swifaniso swo dirowiwa no pendiwa ari kari a tirhisa swo hambanahambana ku endla ntirho lowu, wu nghenelela ngopfu eku hlumusela maendlelo ya ku tlhaveriwa(Ukugcatjwa) – Kunga kona kunga tsemeleriwaka hi xi rezani hi na’nga.

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The Nonrepresentational

Special Correspondent Culture 2020-09-15 03:54:31

In art criticism ‘nonrepresentational’ is a synonym for ‘abstract’. Used here, it draws attention to the fact that we do not represent the artists in the show, and it echoes the term ‘invitational’, an Americanism that describes a sports tournament open by invitation only.

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Slow Down Tiger

Special Correspondent Culture 2020-09-15 03:39:33

The universal tropes that the artist explores in these seven works are so immense, so all-encompassing and so in urgent need of addressing that we are encouraged to pause here, to slow down, tiger, and to take in the erratic year that has been both the longest and the shortest time.

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Bra Hugh’s Thuma Mina calls to We, The People of South Africa

Special Correspondent Culture

In the song Thuma Mina (Send Me), Hugh Masekela pens the lyrics “I wanna be there when the people start to turn it around”, which rings true to the very first words in South Africa’s Constitution, “We, the People”.

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Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South

Special Correspondent Culture 2020-09-01 03:47:23

The exhibition is divided into three areas or worlds. The first is configured around the Fall, a realm where the natural and human worlds meet. The animal-human hybrid figures represent the second world of the exhibition. Hybridity refers to the mingling of species, races or cultures, a crossing of one thing with another.

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