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QAMATA PULA, an ancestral invocation
By Chimurenga on November 26, 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
A TRIBUTE TO DON CHERRY’S ORGANIC MUSIC SOCIETY (1967 – 1978)
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The 12th Annual Abdullah Ibrahim Festival
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THE POETRY OF ABBEY LINCOLN
Live from 5pm
Friday 21 August 2020
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Abbey Lincoln’s Scream: Poetic Improvisation as a Way of Life
By Chimurenga on August 18, 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.
PASS is going to Australia!
By Chimurenga on March 6, 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 December 9, 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 […]
The Invention of Africa by Franco & T.P.OK Jazz
– Ntone Edjabe A few years ago, while researching the political history […]
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 […]
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 April 13, 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.
Calabash Afrobeat Poems
By Chimurenga on October 15, 2010 in Arts & Pedagogy, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Systems of Governance, Video
by Dike Okoro Ikwunga Wonodi is not a new face among Afrobeat […]