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LAUNCHING THE BREATHERS – THE LATEST IN THE CHIMURENGANYANA SERIES
By Chimurenga on 22 May 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenganyana, Healing & bodies, Live Events, PASS
Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at Chimurenga Factory from 6pm
LISTEN: ‘WAR CHORALE’ BY BHEKI KHOZA
‘War Chorale’, composed and directed by Bheki Khoza is a musical exploration into the slipperiness of history, love and memory, and the nearly invisible line that separates fiction from reality.
BHEKI KHOZA TRIO
Friday, 26 April 2024 – 7pm
Chimurenga factory
LISTEN: A TRIBUTE TO KELAN PHIL COHRAN
Compiled by Guilty, covering the breadth of Kelan Phil Cohran’s musical journey
Heliacal Rising of Sothis – a celebration of Kelan Phil Cohran
Wednesday, 08 May 2024 from 8pm
Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock)
AFRICAN DAY – a listening session with Tete Mbambisa
Wednesday, 27 March 2024 from 7pm
Chimurenga Factory
Calabash Afrobeat Poems
By Chimurenga on 8 March 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Systems of Governance, Video
Dike Okoro interviews Ikwunga Wonodi
SESASEDI SA TSODIO / SA KOŠA KE LEROLE: a screening of two film-essays
a screening of two-film essays
Friday, 15 March 2024 from 7pm
Chimurenga Factory
MoRa: Mogorosi meets Rampolokeng with ensemble live recording
22 March 2024
6pm
Chiesa Dipazzo Lupi, Melville
EXHIBITORS AND PARTICIPANTS
By Chimurenga on 13 February 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Comics, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival plays host to the following exhibitors and participants over 16-18 February 2024.
UBUHLE BENDALO
By Chimurenga on 9 January 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Live Events, PASS
16 – 18 February 2024
Chimurenga Factory
A Phyllis Hyman Selection, 1976-1982
by Pierre Crépon
A LIVE BROADCAST WITH DAMOLA OLOWADE
Friday, 24 November
7pm
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LIBERATION RADIO: MEDU ARTS ENSEMBLE
The music unit of Medu Arts Ensemble consisted of two bands, Shakawe and Kalahari
LIBERATION RADIO: BOKANI DYER’S RADIO SECHABA
Chimurenga Factory
30 September
7pm
EPISTROPHIES
By Chimurenga on 5 September 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS
Saturday, 16 September 2023 from 6pm
Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock)
You Ain’t Gonna Know Me ‘Cos You Think You Know Me
a gathering ‘n broadcast for our dearly departed brother Malesela Joey Modiba (1986-2023)
AZANIA EP LISTENING SESSION
Chimurenga Factory – Fri, 07 July 2023 from 6pm
CHIMURENGA PRESENTS SOCIAL BREATH
a collective improvisation
16 June 2023
La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror (tracklisting)
By Chimurenga on 14 March 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Research, Systems of Governance
decomposed, an-arranged, and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe
FIELD RECORDINGS WITH SHABAKA HUTCHINGS
By Chimurenga on 21 February 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS, Research
FIELD RECORDINGS
WED, 22 FEB 2023 from 6PM
A RADIO PROGRAMME ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI
By Chimurenga on 10 February 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Research
Live on PASS – 14 February 2023, from 6pm
GROUNATION – a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
By Chimurenga on 25 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS, Research
“Grounation Day” marks the landing of Emperor Selassie I in Jamaica on April 21, 1966.
Chimurenga presents GROUNATION
By Chimurenga on 25 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS, Research
a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
LIBERATION RADIO: TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC
By Chimurenga on 16 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa series
MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI
By Chimurenga on 10 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS
We shall open this new cycle of programming with a month-long tribute to the almighty Mystic Revelation of Rastafari.
LIBERATION RADIO
By Chimurenga on 15 November 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
an ongoing query on knowledge production via African sound worlds, and long-term research on broadcasting and cultural initiatives by liberation movements across the continent
LIBERATION RADIO: MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM
By Chimurenga on 26 October 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa series, now available
MALCOLM JIYANE’S TREE-O
By Chimurenga on 24 October 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
Live at Chimurenga Factory – Fri, 28 October 2022
TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC
By Chimurenga on 17 October 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
Live at Chimurenga Factory – Sat, 22 Oct 2022
The Music Mind of Greg Tate: Sonic Syllabus for a Patternmaster
By Chimurenga on 11 October 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, PASS
A 5-hour music selection in memory of Greg Tate on his arrival day, October 14 – live on the Pan African Space Station from 6pm SA time
LIBERATION MUSIC AT THE CHIMURENGA FACTORY – OCTOBER 2022
Tumi Mogorosi’s Group Theory:Black Music and Malcolm Jiyane’s Tree-O
Euredice Zaituna Kala’s JE SUIS L’ARCHIVE / I, THE ARCHIVE
Live on PASS – 13 Sep 2022 from 6pm
LIBERATION RADIO
By Chimurenga on 8 August 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, PASS Pop Up, Systems of Governance
We’re proud to present a new edition of “Liberation Radio”
SOUNDGARDEN
By Chimurenga on 13 July 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, PASS
a live reading for Bessie Head’s 85th
13 July 2022 from 6pm
MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM
By Chimurenga on 28 June 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
Live at the Chimurenga Factory
CHIMURENGA@20: MONDAY BLUES FOR SANDILE DIKENI
The most recent episode of Stories About Music in Africa is Monday Blues for Sandile Dikeni
LIBERATION RADIO: PEOPLE WHO THINK TOGETHER, DANCE TOGETHER #7
By Chimurenga on 23 May 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
Conversations with Christian Nyampeta, featuring Hannah Black, Sasha Bonét, Natacha Nsabimana, Olu Oguibe and Emmanuel Olunkwa.
Live on PASS – 24-26 May 2022 – from 6pm
LIBERATION RADIO: PUNGWE 1
By Chimurenga on 19 April 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Systems of Governance
Selected and mixed by Robert Machiri
DIALECTIC SOUL
Friday, 08 April 2022 – 7pm
@ Chimurenga Factory
iPhupho L’ka Biko – live at the Chimurenga Factory
By Chimurenga on 24 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Systems of Governance
Thursday, 31 March 2022
7pm
Liberation Radio: Cape Town – 15-18 March 2022
By Chimurenga on 10 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
Live on PASS: 15th-18th March 2022, 3-6pm
The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts
By Chimurenga on 7 February 2022 in Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
Worldwide premiere live on PASS – 09-11 February 2022
THE BROTHER MOVES ON RETURNS
Chimurenga Factory
Saturday, 06 November 2021
NEW STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA
PASS presents: Salim Washington, Dalisu Ndlazi, Asher Gamedze in conversation
OF WOUNDS, OF HANDS – live on PASS – 08 July 2021
a word/sound documentary by the Insurrections Ensemble, with an introduction by Ari Sitas
SALIM WASHINGTON, DALISU NDLAZI, ASHER GAMEDZE… IN CONVERSATION
Thursday, 24 June 2021 – 6pm
RADIO MAC ON PASS – 14-21 June
By Chimurenga on 11 June 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Research, Systems of Governance
Chimurenga and Hangar (Lisbon) present Radio MAC live on PASS 14-21 June 2021, 6pm.
BLACK SUNLIGHT – A broadcast for Dambudzo Marechera on his 69th
By Chimurenga on 4 June 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, PASS
Imagi-nation nwar – a PASS session in Paris
From 5-9 May 2021, Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station (PASS) will land at Lavoir Moderne Parisien in Goutte d’or, Paris, to imagine, re-examine and re-circulate sonic archives of black radicalism in the francophone world.
PASS in Oslo (17 – 20 February 2021)
On Wednesday 17 February through to Saturday 20 February, Pan African Space Station […]
QAMATA PULA, an ancestral invocation
By Chimurenga on 26 November 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
iPhupho L’ka Biko and Pan African Space Station present QAMATA PULA, an ancestral invocation collapsing past, present and future, over three days at the Chimurenga Factory
THE POETRY OF ABBEY LINCOLN
Live from 5pm
Friday 21 August 2020
panafricanspacestation.org.za
Abbey Lincoln’s Scream: Poetic Improvisation as a Way of Life
By Chimurenga on 18 August 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
We are standing under a glaring spotlight screaming at the tops of our lungs, from the backs of our throats which we grind together to access black blues unwords, thymus against heart, blue in green meridian, that aquamarine plexus that water and sky correct and regulate in us.
Monday Blues for Sandile Dikeni
Join us in celebrating the life and work of our dearly departed brother and comrade, the poet, journalist and griot of liberation struggles.
FESTAC ’77 Celebration in New York City – 23 – 25 October 2019
From 23 – 25 October 2019, Chimurenga will install its Pan African Space Station (PASS) at The New School’s Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York City.
Stories About Music in Africa
Recorded in the darkness and unpredictability of load shedding, Dumama & Kechou invited Madala ‘Bafo’ Kunene, along with Madosini, for an intimate performance at the Chimurenga Factory.
No Pass, But Nine Passports
n her 30 years of exile, Miriam Makeba redefined pan Africanism. She was a woman with nine passports and honorary citizenship in 10 countries.
A Comet is Coming: Shabaka Hutchings & The Brother Moves On
This installment of Stories about Music in Africa features Shabaka Hutchings and The Brother Moves On, recorded at the Chimurenga headquarters in Cape Town.
The Invention of Africa by Franco & T.P.OK Jazz
The output of Luambo Makiadi aka Franco, from the legendary record collection of “Jumbo” Donald Vanrenen
Pass Me the Microphone: Phoebe Boswell
By Chimurenga on 25 May 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, PASS, PASS Pop Up
Stories and sounds from the Swahili coast… sampling Binyavanga Wainaina’s How to Write about Africa.
PASS is going to Australia!
By Chimurenga on 6 March 2019 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
From 11 -13 April, as part of an exhibition hosted by Monash […]
Neo Muyanga – The Sex For Money No Power Mixtape
By Chimurenga on 9 December 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
PASS founder, a composer and musician Neo Muyanga highlights the currents and […]
Revisit moments from the PASS landing in Amsterdam
From 11 -15 December 2016, the Pan African Space Station transmitted live […]
Udaba with Kgafela oa Mogogodi – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town (2009)
On 1 October 2009, Pan African Space Station hosted Udaba at The […]
Denderah Rising with Georgia Anne Muldrow + Thandi Ntuli Quartet + The Monkey Nuts
In April 2018, PASS welcomed back Georgia Anne Muldrow and her […]
P.A.S.S. HARARE
From 9 – 12 November, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) landed […]
Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound
“Dislocation” is how Congolese rumba historians describe the incessant splinterings that are […]
PAN AFRICAN SPACE STATION – THOMAS SANKARA 31 YEARS ON
On October 15, 1987, Burkinabe revolutionary idealist and Pan-Africanist, Thomas Sankara was […]
STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA – Ingoma Yomzabalazo with Iphupho Lka Biko
By Chimurenga on 28 February 2017 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS, Video
Recorded live at Chimurenga HQ, Cape Town, in February 2017
The Chimurenga Library at The Showroom, London.
For our first UK presentation, Chimurenga will infiltrate The Showroom’s building in […]
Call for an Archive of AfroSonics
By Chimurenga on 13 April 2013 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
The collective improvisations of black America – and their profound impact on poetry and sound – are near impossible to find in the annals of US academe. In fact, their absence is as stark as the control of archiving is white, writes Harmony Holiday.
CHE IN THE CONGO, ELECTRIC GUITARS AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA
Featuring solos by Franco Luambo Makiadi, Pepe Felly Manuaku, Bansimba Baroza, Diblo Dibala, Dally Kimoko, Flamme Kapaya, Sarah Solo, Japonais Maladi and Kimbangu Solo; and commentary by Ray Lema