Final 2016 Infecting The City Session WHAT WILL WE TELL FREEDOM? to Take Place in Langa on Youth Day

The Africa Centre, in collaboration with the Institute of Creative Arts, is gearing up to present the last instalment of the Infecting the City Sessions for 2016. Curated by the very talented Khanyisile Mbongwa, this session will take place on Youth Day and will carry the title WHAT WILL WE TELL FREEDOM?

WHAT WILL WE TELL FREEDOM? will feature silencing installations as well as exuberant performances - and everything else in between. Some of the work and artists that will be featured include: Themba Mbuli, who will bring Owen Manamela-Mogane's works to life in a daring performance piece that interrogates masculinity; the Langa-based African Dance Theatre, who will enthral audiences with their dance performance, Pantsula San; The Portrait, by the iQhiya collective, which will explore the roles of gender and tradition within contemporary South Africa; and iLanga'libalele, who will call upon their ancestors using rhythm and rhyme to reimagine the present as well as the future.

Mbongwa comments on the programme:

We tease out our curatorial practice, in this instance, from the spirit of Langalibalele; that is we attempt REIGN-MAKING premised on memory, lived experiences and educated hope in the quest to cultivate the art of living [not dying]. We hope to unlock a system of knowledge, representations, and practices that imagine, direct and act upon bodies, spaces and flows.

WHAT WILL WE TELL FREEDOM? takes place in Langa on 16 June, starting at 12:00 in Washington Street between Mendi Avenue and Jungle Walk and will run until 16:00. Infecting The City Sessions 2016 is made possible with the generous support from the City of Cape Town, Africa Centre, Spier, and ICA. For more information about the session, go to the Infecting the City website or email Linda Kaoma.