Resonance Archive Festival presents: Tumi & Gabi - Freedom Now Remembrance

Resonance Archive Film Festival & Untitled Basement present

Freedom Now Remembrance

Tumi Mogorosi & Gabi Motuba

Mindful Joy and Celebrations

Featuring:

Bubbles The DJ

Mam Thug

Maria Mc Cloy

Untitled Basement

31st August 2025, 6pm

Tickets R300 at Quicket.co.za

About the Artist and this performance

Tumi and Gabi: Freedom Now Remembrance

This South African iteration of the Freedom Now Suite will be co-led by the award winning Gabi Motuba (S.A Vocalist) and Tumi Mogorosi (S.A drummer). This improvised music quintet will be dealing with the Music of Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach in conjunction with some of the quintessential visual narratives of Black subjectivity, struggle and liberation globally. The quintet will provide a sonic interpretation of the films a sonic response to films ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ and ‘Dilemma’ and response to some critical moments within the historiography of Black expression as political. This improvised music quintet within this framing of the political functions to position itself not only as improvised music, but takes form in this iteration as a thought premised on Black freedom which could be read as Black Music.

Band Personnel:

Tumi Mogorosi -Drum

Gabi Motuba -Voice

Lebo Komane -Trumpet

Maxwell Baloyi -Piano

Nhlanhla Radebe -Bass

About Resonance Archive Festival

The Resonance Archive Festival, taking place in Johannesburg from August 27-31, 2025, is an event that explores the power of archives as tools for resistance, culture, and identity. It brings together filmmakers, artists, academics, and cultural practitioners to reflect on the past, question the present, and shape future memory. The festival's theme this year is "The pulse of memory, the power of story".

The festival features a variety of events including: Film screenings: Including a screening of "How Long?" (1976), a film banned under apartheid.

Symposiums: Engaging discussions on memory, archives, and their role in society.

Exhibitions: Showcasing visual and artistic interpretations of the archive.

Music events: Including sonic lectures on South African music history and performances.

Sonic lectures: Exploring South African music history.

Venues include The Bioscope, Eyethu Heritage Hall, The Market Photo Workshop, The Forge, Untitled Basement, The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember, and Ster-Kinekor Rosebank. The festival is presented by Anaphora Films in association with The South Festival of Memory.

R350 at the door.