Cara Stacey’s latest work as the Standard Bank Young Artist 2021 aims to traverse across stylistic boundaries and is rooted in different musical approaches. For the National Arts Festival 2022, Stacey presents new music that draws on her interests in indigenous southern African musics, contemporary scored composition, jazz and experimental music. In these new compositions,... Read More
12 Labours is an interdisciplinary performance project, comprised of twelve individual performative acts and public community interventions. The project reimagines the toxicity of conventional understandings of ‘heroism’ and ‘masculinity’ through the localising, adapting and queering of the classic Greek tale of “The Twelve Labours of Hercules”. 12 Labours features a group of queer artists-come-garden-gnomes, in... Read More
Vuma Levin, suggested the Mail & Guardian, “is destined to be one of South African Jazz’s greatest musicians”. Levin is a guitarist, composer and lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand and winner of this year’s Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz. After music studies in Pretoria he graduated with a Master’s degree cum... Read More
Our History at times defines us, it shapes who we are or who we will be. Ngqawuse seeks to question the decisions we have been led to believe we made in the past, and explores how those decisions affect us in the present. Borrowing aesthetics from African ritual, music, songs and dance, it is a... Read More
Our bodies are tied to the lands, oceans and waters where we are born. Our spirit connects to the land and waters and mostly to the plants. This work describes the flora of Southern Africa, how it is used in traditional medicines, rituals, daily life and sustenance. The plants and the people of this land... Read More
Purgatory- “a working title” noun 1. (in Catholic doctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven. "all her sins were forgiven and she would not need to go to Purgatory" In a time when uncertainty rules, a country somewhere…nowhere finds itself... Read More
