Last week Thursday — October 14th 2021 — saw the kickoff of this year’s Faku’gesi digital arts festival, a hybrid event taking place via a virtual platform in Braamfontein, Tshimologong Precinct. Framed under the descriptor, phygital experience, the festival will feature an array of renowned African artists from across the continent and, under the curatorial…
Last year, the COVID-19 outbreak halted a number of tours, festivals and events, pushing the music industry to find new methods of engaging with fans. Artists took the appropriate precautions and postponed their concerts, while others had to cancel their performances and shows entirely due to the safety of crew members and fans. While live…
A large portion of top-charting sports podcasts in the world are predictably hosted by white male podcasters. But the likes of Jemele Hill, Mina Kimes and Sarah Spain are helping to change the podcasting demographic. More and more black women occupying the space with high charting podcasts like Black Girls Talk Sports hosted by Rekaya Gibson…
From the 14th to 15th October, African Crossroads is hosting a hybrid event — Ecoexistence: A Collective Manifesto — that seeks to co-create content with Africans that thoroughly explores the ways in which individuals, and their environment, can interact to restore a mutually beneficial relationship between the two. The event acts as a platform for…
“A bold and contemporary London Dry Gin. BULLDOG knows what it takes to stay true to your authentic-self and embrace a new bold beginning in your own way.” BULLDOG London Dry Gin In a world where predetermined routines and expectations are constantly present, our innate drive and entrepreneurial curiosity risks being left unheard. Born out…
“We create a safe space where girls, particularly POC women/non-binary [people], are spotlighted, loved and made to flourish. We help girls take up space in any industry. It’s an open forum where judgement does not exist.” 4 My Girls (2021) More and more, over recent weeks, the stories of upcoming local creatives have managed to…
The Waiting Room is an extremely significant venue in the CPT nightlife space for me, as I have always seen it as a space for BIPOC to have carefree nights. It was a place where I had some of the best nights of my life when I started clubbing and I’m happy to be providing…
Simply defined as the pursuit of pleasure and sensual self-indulgence, hedonism has not had a positive reading in our collective imagination. It conjures up images of excess and a heap of insatiable desire. Despite this, many philosophers and theorists point to pleasure as not only a motivating factor for deciding how to live but one…
On a Sunday evening in March 2020, a national address was broadcast across the country that shifted the way in which we celebrated, worked and interacted, completely. That Sunday evening plays vividly in the minds of South Africans as we reflect on it some 18 months later. That single moment ushered in a new phase…
As an emerging creative, few things are as important as having the correct support needed to navigate creative spaces. As I have previously expressed, “Through the national lockdown, the closing of learning institutions and the cancellation of many events across the creative industry, a lack of communication between creatives has arisen and created a gap…
We cannot deny that our social lives are gradually, but steadily, evolving. Some may say that we are on the verge of returning to normalcy. Regardless, Flying Fish, as a brand, has remained involved and fully dedicated to supporting responsible drinking in entertaining and innovative ways throughout the phases of our social change. Many South…
In the West-Rand of Johannesburg, South Africa, in a large mountainous region, is a town named Krugersdorp. The quiet, remote and underdeveloped area has gained notoriety as the site of several horrendous cult related murders. In a country with some of the highest violent crime, murder and GBV related statistics in the world, the Krugersdorp…
