Category: Culture

Culture

African culture is so rich and diverse! Enjoy the music and go and see for yourself the wonderful installations of a young girl in Sea Point:

Music & Dance in South Africa

The South African Movers: 60′s African instrumental soul music

South Africa National Anthem Water Crystal

United Khayelitsha Black Mamabazo

Freshlyground (musicians)

South Africa Dance Compilation

Spokes Mashiyane – Meva – South African Pennywhistler

Teaspoon Slide Guitar

The South African Gospel Singers

South Africa – Jabu – There Is a Race – Gospel

Phuzekhemisi – Ngiyathokoza (Traditional)

South Africa – Chimora – Mayibuyi Africa

Art

Sculptures of 18 girls on the Sea Point Promenade

Learn

Music training for youth in Cape Town

Cape Town stories

Success story: From South Africa’s townships to the opera house

Watch how Capoeira is empowering kids in Cape Town and read more about the Capoiera Educational Youth Association (CEYA)

This project was born when Nicole-Marie Iresch discovered an artists’ studio in Khayelitsha township. Impressed by what she saw there she granted these artists the opportunity to showcase their work on a new and functional platform: the natural shopping bag.

The theme for this Art in the Street project was to show how the (shopping) bag is perceived and used in African culture.

Township Patterns reproduced six of the paintings onto bags, creating a limited edition of natural and ethical bags that raised the ecological awareness of saying “no to plastic bags”.

In partnership with Cape Town Routes Unlimited, an exhibition of these art bags, took place at the Cape Town Tourism Gateway Centre at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town in December 2008 and March 2009.

Artists from Khayelitsha who took part in this project are: Samantha Douw, Patrick Holo, Lindile Magunya, Siyabonga Mateke, Luthando Lupuwana, Ron Poole and Gerald Tabata.