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Category: PASS

FOREST NOTEBOOKS LAUNCH OF THE ECHO-LOGIES SERIES

Thursday, 08 May from 8pm

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SONGS FOR WINNIE – LAUNCH OF THE CHRONIC WITH A SEMBLANCE

Chimurenga presents the launch of the latest edition of The Chronic – Brandfort: Liberation Capital with a special performance by A Semblance, 24 April from 7pm

LISTEN: MBIZO! – a gathering for Johnny Dyani

Performed LIVE at CONSTELLATION, Chicago

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LISTEN: SOCIAL BREATH – Asher Gamedze and THE BLACK LUNGS

In commemoration of the fighting spirit of 16 June ’76, PASS presents a live recording of a once-off performance of SOCIAL BREATH by ASHER GAMEDZE and the BLACK LUNGS

Chimurenga & Septober Energy presents BACKBREAKANOMICS!

Friday, 21 February from 6pm

KEENAN AHRENDS LIVE WITH BENJAMIN JEPHTA & JONNO SWEETMAN

Saturday 15 Feb from 8pm at Chimurenga Factory, 157 Victoria road, Woodstock

THIS WAY I SALUTE YOU – a gathering for Keorapetse Kgositsile

The launch of two long-awaited books on our dearly departed teacher. Thursday, Jan 30 from 6pm at Chimurenga Factory, 157 Victoria Road, Woodstock, Cape Town.

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Live Broadcast – Water No Get Enemy

In honour of the almighty water we present a day-long broadcast on flows and unflows, tidalectics and water babies, cities and cemeteries, mosi-oa-tunya and motla le pula, drexciya, hendrixian merman and mami wata, ngondo and orin o’lomi, puddles, poem-maps and the rivers in our bellies, nkrumah’s and nehru’s big man dams, saline consciousness and the incessant fear of a wet planet.

A Night with a Elephant – a live reading

We are delighted to present a live reading of “Night with the Elephant”, as rehearsal for a radio play, and to launch “The Revolutionary Thoughts of Kwame Nkrumah”, a new collection published by Inkani Books (Jhb) and edited by Efemia Chela and Vijay Prashad – Efemia will present this new collection before the reading.

MSAFIRI KAFIRI – a conversation and listening Session on the roots and routes of Tanzanian hip hop with Seth Markle

Thursday, 01 August, broadcasting live from 6pm. Tune in at www.panafricanspacestation.org.za

IZIMPABANGA ZOMHLABA – Ukulalela ukufundwa kwesiqephu noNombuso Mathibela

Thursday 22 August 2024, 6pm
Chimurenga Factroy
www.panafricanspacestation.org.za

SANKOFA – A Conversation and Listening Session with King Tha

Monday 22 July, from 6pm. Tune in at www.panafricanspacestation.org.za

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Breather’s Night

I love you,
I put my hands over your eyes
I bind you
to my blood

LAUNCHING THE BREATHERS – THE LATEST IN THE CHIMURENGANYANA SERIES

We are pleased to be launching the latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series, The Breathers, a collaborative long poem by Daniel Borzutzky and Stacy Hardy.

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

We are pleased to host veteran guitarist, composer and mbaqanga jazz revivalist Bheki Khoza at the Chimurenga Factory.

Friday, 26 April 2024 – 7pm
Chimurenga factory

LISTEN: A TRIBUTE TO KELAN PHIL COHRAN

In honour of the late Kelan Phil Cohran we present, below, a tribute mix, compiled by Guilty, covering the sound journey of Kelan Phil Cohran – from his time with Sun Ra’s Solar-Myth Arkestra.

Compiled by Guilty, covering the breadth of Kelan Phil Cohran’s musical journey

Heliacal Rising of Sothis – a celebration of Kelan Phil Cohran

Chimurenga proudly presents “Heliacal Rising of Sothis”, a celebration of the late great musician and educator Kelan Phil Cohran on his birthday 8 May 2024, also the 59th anniversary of the founding of AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians).

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

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

Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival plays host to the following exhibitors and participants over 16-18 February 2024.

UBUHLE BENDALO

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
Tune in at panafricanspacestation.org.za

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

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)

decomposed, an-arranged, and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe

FIELD RECORDINGS WITH SHABAKA HUTCHINGS

FIELD RECORDINGS
WED, 22 FEB 2023 from 6PM

A RADIO PROGRAMME ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI

Live on PASS – 14 February 2023, from 6pm

GROUNATION – a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

“Grounation Day” marks the landing of Emperor Selassie I in Jamaica on April 21, 1966.

Chimurenga presents GROUNATION

a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

LIBERATION RADIO: TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC

The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa series

MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI

We shall open this new cycle of programming with a month-long tribute to the almighty Mystic Revelation of Rastafari.

LIBERATION RADIO

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

PASS LANDING IN DAR-ES-SALAAM

From 10 – 14 August 2022, we presented another edition of “Liberation Radio”, an ongoing research conducted primarily through broadcasting practice

LIBERATION RADIO: MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM

The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa series, now available

MALCOLM JIYANE’S TREE-O

Live at Chimurenga Factory – Fri, 28 October 2022

TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC

Live at Chimurenga Factory – Sat, 22 Oct 2022

The Music Mind of Greg Tate: Sonic Syllabus for a Patternmaster

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

We’re proud to present a new edition of “Liberation Radio”

SOUNDGARDEN

a live reading for Bessie Head’s 85th
13 July 2022 from 6pm

MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM

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

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

Selected and mixed by Robert Machiri

DIALECTIC SOUL

Friday, 08 April 2022 – 7pm
@ Chimurenga Factory

iPhupho L’ka Biko – live at the Chimurenga Factory

Thursday, 31 March 2022
7pm

Liberation Radio: Cape Town – 15-18 March 2022

Live on PASS: 15th-18th March 2022, 3-6pm

The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts

Worldwide premiere live on PASS – 09-11 February 2022

PASS LANDING IN LISBON

Chimurenga and Hangar presented Radio MAC , a program curated by Sonia Vaz Borges and Monica de Miranda – live on PASS 14-21 June 2021.

PASS LANDING AT KUNSTNERNES HUS, OSLO

From Wednesday, 17 – Saturday, 20 February, 2021, Pan African Space Station (PASS) broadcast a daily session, produced for ‘Actions of Art and Solidarity’, a group exhibition curated by Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) in Oslo and organised with Kunstnernes Hus.

THE BROTHER MOVES ON RETURNS

Chimurenga Factory
Saturday, 06 November 2021

ALL DAY PHAROAH

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

NEW STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA

PASS presents: Salim Washington, Dalisu Ndlazi, Asher Gamedze in conversation

CHIMURENGA SESSION: THE AFRO EURASIAN ECLIPSE

Bebson de la Rue & Tryonix – LIVE at PASS

Bibi Tanga – LIVE at PASS

Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band – LIVE at Assembly, Cape Town

BLK JKS -LIVE at Assembly, Cape Town

Funsho Ogundipe & Ayetoro – LIVE at PASS

Cindy Blackman Quartet – LIVE at Slave Church, Cape Town

Madala ‘Bafo’ Kunene – LIVE at Slave Church, Cape Town

Toumani Diabate – LIVE at Slave Church, Cape Town (2009)

Studios Kabako presents ‘moremoremore…FUTURE’ – LIVE at City Hall, Cape Town

SONGS FOR BIKO and other stomps, screams and prayers

SALIM WASHINGTON, DALISU NDLAZI, ASHER GAMEDZE… IN CONVERSATION

QAMATA PULA — an ancestral invocation

PASS LANDING AT LAVOIR MODERNE PARISIEN, PARIS

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

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

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)

QAMATA PULA, an ancestral invocation

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

A TRIBUTE TO DON CHERRY’S ORGANIC MUSIC SOCIETY (1967 – 1978)

The 12th Annual Abdullah Ibrahim Festival

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

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.

PASS LANDING AT THE NEW SCHOOL, NEW YORK

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

In 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.

Denderah Rising with Georgia Anne Muldrow + Thandi Ntuli Quartet + The Monkey Nuts

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – LIVE at Centre for The Book, 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

Dr Philip Tabane & Malombo LIVE at St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town

Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime LIVE at Guga S’thebe, Langa

Imperial Tiger Orchestra – LIVE at Albert Hall, Cape Town

Kyle Shepherd – LIVE at St Georges Cathedral, Cape Town

Theo Parrish – LIVE at Albert Hall, Cape Town

Brice Wassy LIVE at Albert Hall

Nothembi Mkhwebane – LIVE from Centre for the Book, Cape Town

Udaba ft. Kgafela oa Mogogodi – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town

Franck Biyong – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town

Cultural Musical Club – LIVE at St Georges Cathedral

‘War Chorale’ by Bheki Khoza – LIVE at St Georges Cathedral

The Shebeen as College of Music

Netsayi & Black Pressure live at Slave Church, Cape Town

The Forest and The Zoo Lives On

Thath’i Cover Okestra LIVE at Guga S’thebe

PASS presents: FOKN Bois (LIVE at Greatmore Studios)

Floating Points LIVE at Gugu S’thebe Theatre

Pass Me the Microphone: Phoebe Boswell

Stories and sounds from the Swahili coast… sampling Binyavanga Wainaina’s How to Write about Africa.

PASS LANDING AT MUMA, MELBOURNE

From 11-13 April 2019, the Pan African Space Station landed in the stolen and occupied land of the Boonwurrung (of the Kulin nation),

PASS is going to Australia!

Neo Muyanga – The Sex For Money No Power Mixtape

Revisit moments from the PASS landing in Amsterdam

Udaba with Kgafela oa Mogogodi – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town (2009)

Denderah Rising with Georgia Anne Muldrow + Thandi Ntuli Quartet + The Monkey Nuts

P.A.S.S. HARARE

Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound

PAN AFRICAN SPACE STATION –  THOMAS SANKARA 31 YEARS ON

PASS LANDING AT LA COLONIE, PARIS

Chimurenga returned to Paris for a 5-day intervention and installation at La Colonie. From December 13 – 17, 2017,

PASS LANDING AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF ZIMBABWE, HARARE

From 9 – 12 November, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) landed in The National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) in the centre of Harare.

PASS LANDING AT MUSEO TAMAYO, MEXICO CITY

From 4 October – 26 November 2017, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) broadcast LIVE from Museo Tamayo, Mexico City.

STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA – Ingoma Yomzabalazo with Iphupho Lka Biko

Recorded live at Chimurenga HQ, Cape Town, in February 2017

PASS LANDING AT CIC LIBRARY, CAIRO

From 17 -19 February 2017, the Pan African Space Station landed in the library of Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) in downtown Cairo.

PASS LANDING AT OBA CENTRAL LIBRARY, AMSTERDAM

From 11 -15 December 2016, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) landed in Amsterdam, transmitting live from the OBA Central Library.

PASS LANDING AT FREEDOM PARK, LAGOS

From 23 – 26 June 2016, PASS descended on Freedom Park in Lagos, as part of Goethe Institute’s Lagos_Live 2016 festival.

PASS LANDING AT KALLIO LIBRARY, HELSINKI

Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative? In April and May 2016,

PASS LANDING AT PERFORMA 15 HUB, NEW YORK

From 11 to 15 November 2015, the Chimurenga Library hosted PASS with a live broadcasting programme of music, interviews,

PASS LANDING AT THE SHOWROOM, LONDON

In the first week of October 2015, PASS presented a live broadcasting programme of music, interviews and events with Chimurenga collaborators in London including musicians, journalists, writers, curators and filmmakers.

The Chimurenga Library at The Showroom, London.

PASS LANDING AT FOUNDATION CARTIER, PARIS

From 17 – 19 September 2015 , the Pan African Space Station (PASS) installed our pop-up inside the gallery of Fondation Cartier,

Call for an Archive of AfroSonics

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.

DJ SPOOKY AKA THAT SUBLIMINAL KID

On 15 December 2008, Chimurenga hosted DJ Spooky (a.k.a. That Subliminal Kid) at Distrix Cafe, Cape Town

CHIMURENGA SESSION: AFRICAN SPACE PROGRAM

A Chimurenga Session to launch Chimurenga Magazine Issue 12/13 – Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber

CHIMURENGA SESSION: FELASOPHY

On 2 December 2005, Chimurenga hosted Felasophy for the launch of Chimurenga 08: We’re All Nigerian, at Shivava Cafe in Newtown, Johannesburg.

CHIMURENGA SESSION: KAAPSTAD! (AND JOZI, THE NIGHT MOSES DIED)

A Chimurenga Session to launch Chimurenga Magazine Issue 7 – Kaapstad! (And Jozi, The NIght Moses Died)

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