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This movement brings different mediums of art together with their events. It’s where “all become one and strangers become family”, according to their Twitter account. The next event will be hosted by Ebenhaezer Dibakwane, the Newcomer award-winner at the Savanna Comic’s Choice Awards 2016. Details: October 1 from 1pm to 8pm, at the Railways Cafe, 2 Hack Road, Irene, Pretoria.
American artist Todd Gray, Michael Jackson’s photographer in the 1980s, will hold his first solo exhibition in South Africa. By remixing his iconographic pop culture images with photographs taken while in residency at the Nirox Foundation in the Cradle of Humankind in Gauteng, the exhibition questions the role played by photography in the transmission of history and cultural identity. Details: Gallery Momo at 52 Seventh Avenue, Parktown, Johannesburg, until October 7. Visit gallerymomo. com/exhibition/pluralities-of-being/
Umuzi Recruits are holding their fifth social fashion and art exhibition, which includes cocktails and music. The objective is to enable the budding designers to interact and to network with a potential market. Details: Open, Kruger Street, Maboneng, Jo’burg, on September 30. Visit open.co.za
The short film was made while Lhola Amira was on residency in Skövde, Sweden, earlier this year. Working with Swedish photographer Annie Hyrefeldt, Amira tracks the artist’s exploration of Sweden. The film refers to Sweden’s hidden role in the history of colonisation in Africa. Details: Smac Gallery, 145 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, Cape Town until October 7.
Tony Gum’s first solo exhibition explores the essence of what it means to be human, a woman, an African and a Xhosa woman. The exhibition is the narrative of transition and transformation in the intonjane journey, when a young girl is adorned in traditional beads and imbola (body clay) and becomes a woman. Gum is known for her playful, candid approach to life and art. In Ode to She Gum explores what it is to be a Xhosa woman in a modern world. Details: The exhibition is at the Christopher Moller Gallery, 7 Kloof Nek Road, Gardens, Cape Town, until November 3. Visit christophermollerart.co.za
This jazz extravaganza features kwela, marabi, avant-garde jazz, R&B, acid jazz and everything in between. The musicians include Branford Marsalis, the Clayton Brothers, Christian McBride and the Joshua Redman Quartet, Abdullah Ibrahim, Hugh Masekela, Caiphus Semenya and Jonas Gwangwa. Details: Until September 30 at the Sandton Convention Centre. Tickets are available at Computicket. Visit the joyofjazz.co.za
The first-ever gin festival in Soweto showcases local and international gin. Entertainment is provided by, among others, Sphectacula & DJ Naves, The Rhythm Sessions, 2kza DJ, Bilal, Zero and Big Sky. Details: Icon in Pimville Square, Modjaji Street, Pimville, on September 30 from 11am to 9pm. Tickets are available from TicketPro. We did not include a complete credit for the images used with the cover story about Morena Leraba in last week’s Friday. The correct credit is: Kgomotso Neto Tleane for Jameson INDIE Channel.
is a modern-day South African western shot in the Eastern Cape. A member of the Five Fingers gang returns to colonial Marseilles after escaping the town’s police aggression two decades before, only to find the town under a new threat. Gang member Tau kills two corrupt police officers in the shanty town and his life changes forever.
Fresh from its Toronto International Film
Festival debut, the modern western is heading to London.
Scriptwriter Sean Drummond is eager for the screening. “It’s easy to dismiss the film as maybe cowboys in Africa, but what we found is that audiences really respond to the deeper meaning in the story … how does this relate to South Africa today?” The film is due for release in South Africa next year.