Koffee headlines Manifesto festival
MANIFESTO CANADA and Manifesto Jamaica have teamed up for an historic 12-hour live-stream multidisciplinary music, arts and culture festival on August 29 under the theme ‘New World’.
The virtual festival will be headlined by Grammy-winning Jamaican artiste Koffee, who will be streaming her full concert set live from Kingston. Toronto-based, Nigerian-Canadian soul singer and rapper TOBi will be supporting Koffee, streaming live from Toronto’s Great Hall. This special evening of live music will also feature local Toronto talents LU KALA, Dijah SB, and Osé. Manifesto’s 14th annual festival will be hosted by plus-size social media influencer Sashagai Ruddock.
In addition to a full series of live music concerts, Manifesto will also stage a strong multidisciplinary arts line-up that includes dance, comedy and visual arts showcases, film screenings, cyphers/spoken word performances, and mindful movement/yoga sessions.
ARTISTIC OUTPUT
Manifesto has partnered with an impressive array of leading Toronto arts and culture organisations which programmed and curated their own artistic output, including Manifesto Jamaica, Indigeneyez, Honey Jam, The UnObscured, RISE, Afrowave, Urban Arts, Jane Street Speaks, NIA Centre for the Arts, The Remix Project, Anasimone Show and New Leaf Yoga.
Wrapping up this year’s festival will be the highpower after-party that features leading local DJ’s spinning sizzling sets, including Nino Brown,
Dre Ngozi, Junia-T, and Young Teesh.
Manifesto creates spaces – both physical and digital – that inspire, develop and amplify diverse communities of young people through arts, culture and media. This year’s 2020 digital festival is centred around the influence art has on culture, and how we can use this voice to recreate the new world. The time is now to reimagine, dismantle and evoke change via the arts. Founded in 2007, the awardwinning annual Manifesto Festival of Community & Culture is known globally for leaving a positive social and economic impact and supporting emerging youth culture and creativity.