Throughout 2014 Chimurenga has been connecting with cutting-edge artists and music collectives from around the continent to prepare unique recordings for Pan African Space Station (PASS). On Thursday December 11, the first of these monthly broadcasts goes live bringing together Shabaka Hutchings and The Brother Moves On.
Chimurenga are participating in the Boda Boda Lounge Project from Friday November 21 – Sunday November 23. Goddy Leye films will be screening at chimurengachronic.co.za. A press release for the festival follows:
Writers Boot Camp, Cape Town: 24 – 29 November 2014 (press release) Writers’ Studio in conjunction with Cape Town Central Library present five days of writing workshops for emerging and established writers. Facilitated by acclaimed writers and teachers, and fueled by peer critique, the daily sessions are designed to help participants assess their own work objectively […]
We’ll be in Maseru next week to celebrate new and old writing from Lesotho and the region at the annual Ba re e ne re Literature Festival – an important platform initiated by our dear departed comrade and sister Liepollo Rantekoa. Via the Pan African Space Station (PASS), we’ll livestream selected sessions from the festival, […]
The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) present the 2nd Live Art Festival from 27 August to 6 September 2014. Chimurenga publications will be available at selected events. (more…)
To launch the new Chronic (a graphic issue), we’ll be having a special event this Friday 18 July at The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland Street, Cape Town: Swami Sitarama Dasa, the black guru formerly known as Zebulon Dread (of Hei Voetsek!), in conversation with Gael Reagon. Excerpts from the new edition of the Chronic can be […]
For the new issue of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic, the focus is on graphic stories; comic journalism. Blending illustrations, photography, written analysis, infographics, interviews, letters and more, visual narratives speak of everyday complexities in the Africa in which we live. (more…)
In 1977, thousands of artists, writers, and musicians from Africa and its diaspora descended on Lagos, Nigeria for the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC ’77). Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative? What is important here is not the reiteration of the actual past, […]
On Tuesday 29th April, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) partners with Pro Helvetia Johannesburg to digitally broadcast a live performance curated by Bokani Dyer and Sakhile Moleshe (Soul Housing Project). This live music stream opens a window into musical conversations and audio experimentation happening now-now in Cape Town. (more…)
1. About the Market Photo Workshop Located in Newtown, Johannesburg, the Market Photo Workshop strives to create an environment where students learn, not only the technical and conceptual aspects of photography, but also ways of critical thinking integral to the understanding of contemporary photographic practice. (more…)