AT THE FEET OF A LIVING ARCHIVE: Batjunjiwe

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“At The Feet of a Living Archive” 

Part 1: Batyunjiwe: An intergenerational conversation between Mam’ uMadosini, Msaki and Mtha and Thandeka. 

At The Feet of a Living Archive is a collaborative effort between Oneshushuday Artistry and Youngblood Arts and Culture Development. The idea of this is to create an on-going platform that honours, engages with and learns from our cultural icons and holders of rare and valuable knowledge about ourselves.

It is also a space where we take a close look at new musical conversations forming in the current and next generation of music-makers and cultural workers, citing these elders as influences. The aim is to have a rich and fluid conversation, that will stretch through time and make space for others to also drink from this well. 

For this first episode “Batyunjiwe” we will be hosting Madosini Latozi Mphehleni. Madosini is a national treasure and one of the few remaining artists, known for playing indigenous instruments such as the Uhadi, Umrhumbe and Isitolotolo. Having travelled the world as a member of the band Amampondo and collaborated with many artists, Madosini has gathered a vast amount of knowledge that she would like to share and pass down to the next generation of artists.

Her album “Power to The Women”, which as released in 1998, was very positively received as it stirred up many different emotions in the listeners, local and abroad. Not only has her music been used in many films and documentaries, she was also the first person to be recorded and documented for the WOMAD festival’s Musical Elders Archives Project.

Sitting and engaging with Madosini about the music will be artists Thandeka Mfinyongo, a graduate in African music from UCT, as well as writer, singer/songwriter and Ethnomusicology masters candidate Nomthawelanga Ndyoko.

Date & Time: 4 November 15:00 – 18:30

Venue: Youngblood Gallery, 70 – 74 Bree Street, Cape Town

Tickets: R100 available at the door

Bookings: 021 424 0074 / [email protected] 

ABOUT | Youngblood Arts & Culture Development

Youngblood. An artist Hub. A platform for artists.

The Youngblood Foundation, which won a BASA (Business and Arts South Africa) award, was created in January 2010. Youngblood is an arts & culture development that aims to be a platform for artists from all genres to start off from or to continue from in order to become self-sustainable.

Youngblood’s founder, Roger Jungblut, is the CEO of Universal Africa Lines Shipping (UAL), a leading shipping company that has been connecting Africa’s oil and gas industry with the US and Europe for over 40 years. Through Youngblood, he entered another, uniquely different but equally challenging sector: the creative one

Roger Jungblut, realised that there was a need in the Arts and Culture sector in South Africa. The need for capital and exposure, through Youngblood these needs could be met. It remains his priority to support progress within that creative sector through Youngblood. This way, many promising artists are newly motivated: they are given the chance, and of course the means, to reach their full potential.

Youngblood further gains support via the corporate and private-sector, and through other companies with CSI programmes, where Youngblood itself has its origins.

Youngblood is based in a three storey gallery, with the uniquely designed open plan, the space caters for a range of exhibitions, performances, rehearsals and functions of all sizes. By hosting private/corporate functions, clients are also supporting arts and culture development, as all profits go directly towards Youngblood’s projects within this sector.

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