Collaboration

We at joul city incubator we believe in new creations this is what we talking about when we speak of collaboration just have a look at this photo then you will have an idea of what is collaboration.
this photo represent our incubator which is performer arts tell us what you think skaties

Freedom Day Concert 27th of April......City Hall Sessions......

City Hall Sessions is back on Saturday 27th April, with a Freedom Day special, headlined by Paul Hanmer and McCoy Mrubata, plus Moreira Chonguica. All three of these bandleaders have strong links with the mother city: Mrubata was born in Langa, Hanmer in Crawford, and Mozambican saxophonist Moreira Chonguica studied at the University of Cape Town’s College of Music.

Also featured is: Amarayoni, a five piece vocal group who are new to Cape Town audiences. Their style ranges from mbube to isicathamiya, and a repertoire which includes African classics. Members of Amarayoni have honed their skills over many years’ work as part of the bands of icons such as Miriam Makeba, Caiphus Semenya, Angelique Kidjo and Johnny Clegg. 
Mrubata and Hanmer have spent decades burning their mark on the national jazz and African music scene, and also sharing their Cape music inflections internationally. Their sextet will include trumpeter Feya Faku, drummer Ayanda Sikade, bassist Pete Sklair and trombonist Jabu Magubane

Moreira Chonguica, who spends much of his time in his native Maputo, has lived and worked most of his professional life in Cape Town. This duality echoes in his compositions and voicings, and will be reinforced again on Freedom Day, when he takes to the stage with ‘The Moreira Project’, comprising a band drawn from ‘both’ of his hometowns.
This is the seventh concert in the City Hall Sessions series which began in 2011 and has brought a dynamic and diverse range of musical collaborations to Cape Town’s historic City Hall. 

How are you going  to be celebrating your FRE'EDOM this coming weekend?is this celebrations still relevant......just a thought!!!!!

Poetic vibes

Hi there,

I thought I would give you some poetry today.
One of the reasons why I am  giving you this poetic offering  today is that
I am missing Athi  Patra- Ruga our benign facilitator who  went to Berlin
 to do much needed work ( It's such a hard life  being  fabulous)

On my first day at   Joule City Athi asked each one of us  to do a performance as
a way of introducing ourselves: 
I then   performed this poem which I think defines a little bit of what I am about.
It is also a poem that I do to ground myself when I open my poetry shows.
this poem  has travelled inside me and came out in many stages, cafes, libraries and
its last rendition was here at Joule City so enjoy

 

Truth

 

If in this world of haste and half-baked stories

We can tell our truth,

It is therefore a right that I am proclaiming

to draw this conclusion that

We have more integrity than we are credited for

We are not the down trodden victim that is often portrayed

In the images of those who wish to define us,

 

If you choose to look at us with uncontaminated eyes

It is then that you shall remember

That we are of the same earth,

We plant our feet in the same soil

We dance to the same rhythms

A community of different shades and colours,

Yet our beauty is as hypnotising as the shapes of our landscapes.

It is ancient as the ocean yet as new as the sun rises every morning

It is as pure as eyes of children and as genuine as the handshakes of the gods

 

We Africans are not a distorted chapter in the history of mankind

When you open your mind to our intelligence,

It is then you shall realize that we are not only

a place of painters and poets

do not define me only by my dance

Listen to my words; understand the language I speak,

Then maybe you will find more,

 

 

The essence of our people is as infinite as the steps of our ancestry,

We have always been the global citizens

Create a space to re- read our story

We are not misinterpretation of evolution,

 

 

Africa is not just a pitiful victim

Our strength does not only lie in pictures we paint

In the songs we sing but it goes deeper,

Into our minds, our integrity, our magnificence

We are a vast community with different shades and colour

but we are of the same earth, raised in the same land

And only when you give us a chance,

not only to dance,

Not only to paint, not only to speak poetry but to participate in the trading, in the driving, in the planning, in the shaping and mending

 

 

So my truth lies in the essence of my being,

It is as infinite as the steps of my ancestry,

My story did not begin at the arrival of false civilianization

It is as ancient as the oceans yet as new as the sun rises every morning,

It is not the words of those of who wish to define me,

It is often distorted even in the history books

 

I am more than my dancing feet,

I am more that my poetic rhymes

My story is not hidden in the stereotypical definitions,

To understand my truth is to understand what makes me beat

It is understand what make me dance

It is to understand what makes me laugh

It is to allow me to occupy this

Space with you and know that we are

of the same earth, we plant our feet in the

same soil

We breathe the same air,

we quench our thirst with the same water

and my truth is as infinite as the steps

of my ancestry.

 

@Primrose Mrwebi

Street Sm(ART)

I recently attended the opening of Robin Rhode's first solo exhibition in South Africa in over a decade... at the Stevenson Gallery in Woodstock, Cape Town. Besides being incredibly impressed the work as a whole, I was drawn to two pieces in particular (my passion being hair and identities) and the symbolism was profound.

Images via http://ex-chamber-memo5.seesaa.net/article/314202759.html

Rhode is a Cape Town born, Jo'burg raised, Berlin based artist who uses accessible material such as charcoal, chalk and paint to create simplistic shapes that form narratives as an interrogation of urban youth culture and arguably the many sub-cultures that have influenced him from graffitti to hip hop. Fusing mediums of performance, movement, street art, animation, sculpture and photography, he creates evolving images that question identity, space, power and play in an abstract illusionist form.

Image via http://www.lehmannmaupin.com

Through his work, Rhode transforms public spaces into dreamlike works of art: 

"there is this new democracy that allows 

individuals to see and understand public space and

the self differently"

In his latest exhibition, he questions space and the ability for art to interact with its participants and issues of accessibility within art.  He worked with the Lalela Project and asked a group of children to use oversized crayons to draw and colour shapes he'd constructed on the gallery wall.  

His work Paries Pictus is on at the Stevenson Gallery until 1 June 2013

Shades of Kwaai: Umlilo's EP Launch

Last week Friday (18 April) was Umlilo (Siya Ngcobo's) EP launch for Shades of Kwaai.

On the Facebook event Siya described the night as;

"This is not another party; this is a Ball, an O P U L E N T extravaganza. Express yourself, Pop your booty, Throw Deep Shade. U BETTER WERQUE."

Click here for a link to his soundcloud and here for more photos from the event on Skattie What Are You Wearing.

Image from http://skattiewhatareyouwearing.blogspot.com/

Kwaai/ Kawaii

LegoLoop CD Launch Tour,Cape Town

It's friday vibes guys.....tonite i'm checking out  the Italian Inditronica Duo made of Francesca Krnjak and Riccardo Moretti,this duo combine eclectic fusion of electronic,jazz and house with some edgy tribal sounds,add a few quirky toys and a looping machine and you've got LEGOLOOP.....tonite they are launching their CD at Tagore's Observatory @22:00,Tagores is situated @ 42 Trill Road Observatory.

Will mos def  keep you updated about tonite's gig and where to see them next(LegolooP)......their CD is being launched around the CITY........keep you POSTED!!!!


Enjoy the FRIDAY VIBES..............................

By:Mazwendoda Mahlase