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LUANDA DAR ES SALAAM GABARONE ZANZIBAR Updated 20 Jan 2017 Pro Helvetia Johannesburg supports studio residencies (between 1 and 3 months) and research residencies (between 1 and 4 weeks) in both directions (SADC artists to Switzerland and Swiss artists to the SADC region). Studio residencies provide artists with substantial time and space to explore new directions in their work through immersion in a new context. Research residencies enable artists, curators and arts managers to develop new relationships and networks that support the realisation of new works and/or exchange projects between Switzerland and Southern .

With finance from the SADC regional office of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), our office also supports exploratory residencies for artists and cultural operators from SADC to visit other countries within the SADC region, strengthening collaborative networks that support the production and circulation of work in the region. PRO HELVETIA | PROGRAMME 2017 P2

SADC >> CH

Niren Tolsi Mitchell Messina Nico Krebs Literature | Johannesburg to Switzerland Visual Arts | Cape Town to Basel | July - Photography | Zurich to Johannesburg | | January | Conmag and Reportagen September | Atelier Mondial April - June | Ansteys Building Tolsi will develop a piece about insularity, Messina’s work is focused on “conveying Krebs proposes to “bring the tools that I movement and dark matter in Switzerland conceptual and performative modalities know how to work with (large format to be published in Reportagen, a quarterly through comedic tropes, framing physical photographic camera, 16mm film camera, Swiss journal of long form journalism, in gags as endurance performances and sound recorder, 2 hands) and a very open the context of an exchange programme observational humour as conceptual art”. mind to record and process.” across Pro Helvetia’s international For his residency he has “no specific network of offices. sense of the work I want to make, but I Siegfried Kutterer promise that I will make work, and I’ll make Music | Switzerland to | Azu Nwagbogu a lot of work, and some of it will be good.” September Visual Arts | to Winterthur | Composer Kutterer brings a deep January | Fotomuseum Winterthur James Webb engagement with the music of other Founder and director of LagosPhoto, Visual Arts/Sound Art | Cape Town to cultures to bear on the development of a Nwagbogu will participate in Plat(t)form Basel | September | Atelier Mondial new work merging European and African 2017 – Forum for New European Cross-disciplinary artist Webb will be musical concepts and structures. Photography, as well as allocate time for investigating themes relating to general network development in uncertainty, the voice in public space, and Denise Bertschi Switzerland. the creative and spiritual uses of Visual Arts | Geneva to Johannesburg, disorientation. Cape Town, | September - Georgina Maxim November | Ansteys Building Visual Arts| Harare to Geneva | April - Fana Tshabalala Bertschi explores the micro-histories of June| Embassy of Foreign Artists Dance | Johannesburg to Geneva | the “leisure time activities” of Swiss Maxim explores social history and the September - October | Embassy of politicians and business people in South position of women in society through the Foreign of Artists Africa during the period. medium of clothing and the mining of oral Tshabalala continues his investigation into traditions. She will use her time in bewilderment and the role of men in Christian Pahud Switzerland to work towards a solo show contemporary society. He looks to produce Music | Zurich to Johannesburg | in 2017/8. work and have initial showings in Geneva September - November and possibly after his residency. Pahud will study possible interactions Miranda Moss between music and plastic arts within the Visual Arts | Cape Town to Zurich | April - CH >> SADC local context with intent to complete a June | Artists in Labs multifaceted project encompassing both Léonard de Muralt and Simon Acevedo cultures and mediums. Moss will undertake research on the Music | Lausanne to Johannesburg | proliferation of the South African ragwort February - March plant in Switzerland, hosted by the Federal Jeremy Nedd de Muralt and Acevedo will be working Dance | Basel to Johannesburg | October Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape towards their second album as Research and the Artists in Labs - December | Atelier Mondial and Theatre ChâteauGhetto, in collaboration with ROXY Birsfelden programme at the Zurich University of the Johannesburg based artists Gilles Arts (ZHDK). Her project explores Nedd is interested in exploring the Furtwangler (CH) and Robert Machiri relationship between audience and resonances between the fields of botany (), among others. and ecology on the one hand and performer as well as communal acts of contemporary questions of migrancy, art making and practising, with a Leila Scherer particular focus on Pantsula dance. globalisation and geopolitics on the other. Design | Basel to Cape Town and Johannesburg | February - March | Design Studios Kabako residency Albert Silindokhule Ibokwe Khoza Indaba Dance | Johannesburg to Geneva | May - Interdisciplinary | Switzerland to Scherer will be attending the Design June | Embassy of Foreign of Artists | November - December | Indaba and developing new connections in Khoza aims to develop a work outside of Studios Kabako the craft and design field in South Africa A revisioned residency framework, the performance space from which he towards the development of new calls on audience receptiveness from the conceived and produced by Studios directions for her own work in fashion Kabako. The Swiss Artist in residence will five senses and inviting the audience to design. take a journey of nostalgic healing. be selected via an application process in the first quarter of 2017. Christof Oeschger Emma Durden, Dadivo Jose Combane, Photography / Publishing | Zurich to Daniel Maposa Johannesburg | February - March | Theatre | Durban, Harare, Maputo, to Ansteys Building Switzerland | July | Twist Projects, Savanna Oeschger’s project explores the complex Trust, Mahamba Theatre Company historical, political and economic threads Durden, Maposa and Combane all have an that connect Switzerland to the ‘ of artistic or performance background, all Gold’ through the medium of the precious manage theatre companies in their metal. respective countries, and all have theatre festival programming experience. They look to continue to build and work within their Southern African network, as well as links with Swiss artists, organisations and networks. PRO HELVETIA | PROGRAMME 2017 P3

SADC >> SADC Steven Biko Mutsaurwa Chisuvi Felix Mula Music | Harare to Cape Town and Arusha | Visual Arts | Maputo to Johannesburg | May January - February | ROOM Gallery Chisuvi collaborates with hip hop artists ROOM hosts the Maputo based artist Felix and activists in three in the region, Mula, as part of its Artist in Residency working with Njelele Art Station, Soundz of Programme. The project will entail the South, and United African Alliance research into the artist’s family and Community Centre, towards the personal history of labour migration to development of an EP linking the three South Africa. The artist himself, immediate contexts. and extended family members were employed in the mining and farming Meghan Judge sectors in the country, which formed part Animation | Johannesburg to of the unrecorded and illegal migrants Antananarivo | Is’Art Galerie / La whose labour supported the country’s Teinturerie economic engine. Judge will be undertaking research towards an animated film that makes Ariry Andriamoratsiresy visible the silenced historical narratives of Dance | Antananarivo to Louis | the WISA gong fu spiritual school of January - April | Jean Renat Anamah Antananarivo. Building on a long term relationship with Mauritian artist Jean Renat Anamah, Krishna Luchoomun Andriamoratsiresy travels to to Visual Arts | to Antananarivo | present his work and consider work from Is’Art Galerie that context for his platform Dihy Soratra Krishna Luchoomun spends time in Antananarivo. developing networks and possibilities for exchange between and Sixte Paluku Kakinda Mauritius, as well as a revolving Biennale Visual Arts/Literature | Lubumbashi to connecting a wider network. Johannesburg | February | Donkey Child Projects Nyanga Tshabalala Sixte works towards the development of a Puppetry | Cape Town to Antananarivo | graphic novel inspired by the dense Love Your Neighbor Madagascar complexity of Yeoville, an inner city suburb Tshabalala will explore the possibilities of of Johannesburg. a puppetry skills transfer project with Love Your Neighbour Madagascar, in Tawanda Takura Antananarivo. Visual Arts | Harare to Port Louis | March - May | Village Unhu and pARTage Tawanda Takura spends a month in Mauritius making new work in the context of Village Unhu in Harare and pARTage in Mauritius exploring an ongoing residency exchange.

Julia Raynham and Matchume Zango Interdisciplinary | Cape Town to Maputo and villages around Mueda | April | Vintani Nafassi and Paolo Israel Zango and Raynham explore the politics of the language of performance and ritual through their engagement with the living culture of Mapiko masquerade in the villages around Mueda, .

Sabelo Mlangeni Photography | Johannesburg to Lubumbashi | March – April | Waza Art Centre Photographer Sabelo Mlangeni returns to Lubumbashi to enagage with the lived reality of Lushois mineworkers from the Kamalondo neighbourhood. Central to Pro Helvetia’s facilitation and promotion of Swiss contemporary art practice is project support, enabling artistic exchange and collaboration between Switzerland and other parts of the world in areas of common interest and relevance. Projects often emerge from networks and relationships generated through residencies, and often develop over a period of time. Through investment from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Pro Helvetia Johannesburg additionally supports artists and organisations within the Southern African region to collaborate with one another across national borders. We do this both through multi-year investment in a small number of organisations that already play a key role in enabling transnational collaboration, as well as through the ANT micro grant funding programme, targeted at more punctual projects. PRO HELVETIA | PROGRAMME 2017 P5

MEDIUM / LONG TERM INITIATIVES

Theatrum Botanicum | January onwards Redefining... Homework | April - June Regional Strategic Partners | Uriel Orlow’s Theatrum Botanicum This Floating Outfit Project and Studios throughout 2017 emerged from several trips to South Kabako group residency project was Through our SDC financed programme we Africa between 2014 and 2016. Orlow initiated in 2014 (supported through an currently support a number of key looks to the botanical world as a stage for SDC strategic partnership grant). organisations and projects that are politics at large through film, photography, Between April and June 2017, in presently playing an important role in installation and sound. The project partnership with Atelier Mondial and building and connecting the cultural field considers plants as both witnesses and Theatre ROXY Birsfelden (Basel), Tegan at a regional level. Our support enables actors in history, and as dynamic agents – Peacock (Pietermaritzburg), Jeannot them to extend and amplify existing linking nature and , rural and Kumbonyeki (Kinshasa), Papy Ebotani and activities within the region, acting also as cosmopolitan , tradition and Michel Kiyombo (Kisangani), work with mediators and points of interface with our modernity – across different geographies, each other, and at moments with Boyzie Swiss programming. These partners histories and systems of knowledge, with Cekwana and Faustin Linyekula identifying, include: a variety of curative, spiritual and (re)defining and naming home while on • Chimurenga (Cape Town, economic powers. After a major residency in Basel. There will be a South Africa) presentation of the project at the presentation of work at Theatre ROXY • Fakugezi Digital Art Festival Showroom in in 2016, Orlow Birsfelden in Basel in May. (Johannesburg, South Africa) explores the question of a public • La Teinturerie/Festival d’Art Urbain presentation in the South African context 21 - Memories of Growing up | May - July (Antananarivo, Madagascar) in 2017. Using sound and film to create intimate • Floating Outfit Project (Durban, video portraits, 21 collects the memories South Africa) Undevelopment | January onwards of how people experienced their transition • Keleketla/Another Roadmap Swiss artist Nicolas Field spends time in to adulthood between the years 1939 and (Johannesburg, South Africa) Harare in January completing work on 2016. The stories reflect the shared • KINANI - International Platform for Undevelopment (working title), a experiences of a generation while also Contemporary Dance (Maputo, collaborative, multi-media production with registering the most private and distinct ) Zimbabwean musician Netsayi experiences. Realised in Germany, the UK, • Santuri Safari (Dar Es Salaam, Chigwendere and Bosnian photographer Switzerland, the South African edition of and , ) Ziyah Gafic, initiated in 2015. The work 21 tours Cape Town, Johannesburg and • Space for Pan African Research and meditates on and explores ideas around Durban. A long term international project Knowledge - SPARCK (Cape Town, development, modernity and conceptualised by Mats Staub South Africa) socio-economic change in the ‘developing’ (Zurich/), with the South African • Studios Kabako (Kisangani, DRC) world. iteration in collaboration with Maia Marie • Waza Art Centre (Lubumbashi, DRC and Nomonde Mbusi with participants Chimurenga in | February from Johannesburg and Durban. The Ntone Edjabe of Cape Town based prospects for a DRC edition of the project publishing collective and cultural-critical will also be explored during the course of think tank Chimurenga collaborates with 2017. Swiss curator Andrea Thal and the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo, in !Mediengruppe Bitnik in Johannesburg | staging an edition of the Pan African September Space Station (PASS) alongside Photo Swiss digital artists and activists, Cairo in February. The project is !Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf conceptualised as a stepping stone, and Domagoj Smoljo), will be presenting mapping possibilities for further existing work in the context of the triangular exchange between Switzerland, Fakugezi Digital Arts Festival taking place and South Africa. in Johannesburg. They will be in residence for a month, exploring prospects for wildwuchs/Unmute Exchange | April - May future projects/actions rooted in the During April and May, three Unmute Johannesburg/South Africa context. At company members travel from Cape Town the same time, they will also interact with to participate in the reciprocal the residency programme of digital artists UnmuteArtsAbility (Cape Town) / from the SADC region, supported through wildwuchs (Basel) group residency our SDC financed programme. exchange, initiated in 2015. The goal is to establish long-term relationships for discussion on ‘intercultural’, ‘diverse’ and ‘inclusive’ arts, within a growing global network. There will be presentation of work at the IntegArt festival network across Switzerland in May. PRO HELVETIA | PROGRAMME 2017 P6

ANT PROJECTS: PRODUCTION AND COLLABORATION

Modjadji The Rain Queen | January - February Interdisciplinary performance | Johannesburg and Cape Town to Maputo Afrikan Freedom Principle Composers A collaborative bilingual theatre project Workshop | May directed by Carla Fonseca with Mandla Music | and Maputo Mbothwe, Phumzile Sitole, Iman Isaacs and to Johannesburg Spoek Mathambo,which examines the The Composers’ Workshop invites Cara complexities of a generation in the face of Stacey and Matchume Zango in residency crisis/drought in need of to explore various roles including transformation/water. composing, performing and facilitating workshops aimed at promoting quality Busara Promotions: Stage Management music in new formats with Johannesburg Afro Luso | June - October and Design training | January - February based musicians. Skills sharing | DRC, Tanzania, South Skills sharing | Harare to Zanzibar Africa, Zimbabwe to Lusaka Veteran production manager Carine Espiritualidade na rota de Xenofobia | Modzi Education presents Afro Luso, a Tredgold from Harare International May five-day workshop to bring together Festival of the Arts provides stage Theatre | Maputo and Durban artists from visual, music, dance and management training for fifteen technical Working with issues of migration and performance backgrounds to interact, crew from the Sauti za Busara festival in spiritual identity, theatre director Dadivo learn, and experiment in the Modzi Arts Zanzibar. Combane, proposes a theatre piece Space. departing from the question “Do we heal I Make Africa | January - June by remembering or forgetting?”, to be In the Key of Marimba | June - July Visual Arts | Eshowe to Harare presented at the Music | Harare and Cape Town to Maputo Simphiwe Xulu and Vuyi Chaza make visible University and Wushini Cultural Heritage A series of artistic and professional and celebrate the lives of ordinary Centre. exchanges, creation workshops and residents of Harare through the performances for Michael Sabanda and innovative use of digital media. Colagem Co! | May - June Keketso Bolofo in residency at the home Music/Visual Arts | Maputo studio of Matchume Zango in Maputo. Project 00243 | February Colagem Co! (Volume 1) is a collaborative Performance | Kinshasa and Lubumbashi series created by Tavares Belarmino Madagascar to South Africa Jazz to Lusaka and Johannesburg Cebola and Andrew Aitchison (Black Major) Collaborations | June - August Collectif d’Art-d’Art’s Michael Disanka and to showcase, begin conversation and Music | Antananarivo to Johannesburg Christian Tabaro travel to Lusaka and encourage cross border collaboration The POOL curatorial collective brings Johannesburg to find like-minded around interdisciplinary practices within Malagasy musicians Silo “Elektradam” creators. They say that project 00243’s . Andrian and Naree Sam to Johannesburg objective “is not to make a theater or to collaborate with established South dance performance, let alone an Southern Africa Theatre Development African jazz musicians, with performances installation or performance, but rather to Camp | July - September at The Orbit and Afrikan Freedom Station. make a show with a lack of theater where Theatre | , Mozambique and audacity mixes different mediums to South Africa to Harare Sang Couleur | September reveal a language beyond the Language…” Savanna Trust’s Theatre Development Visual Arts | Kinshasa to Antananarivo Camp will bring together ten young Art critic Jean Kamba and artist Geraldine Recours in City | February - March theatre artists from Botswana, Tobe explore the particularities of race and Visual Art | Lubumbashi to Harare Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe identity in the Malagasy/Indian Ocean Performance artist Tresor Malaya to undergo an intensive two-week theatre context. collaborates with Gresham Nyaude of making and performance master classes Chinembiri Studios in Harare on a project covering scriptwriting, theatre directing, Ongiini Namsa Performance Exchange | exploring culture in urban development. acting, arts entrepreneurship and October management. Interdisciplinary performance | Cape Compagnie Marabout Théâtre | Town and Windhoek March - November Southern African Festivals Development A collaborative exchange between four Theatre | Kinshasa and Project | June - July cross disciplinary artists towards a Nzey van Musala with Pinto Nsimba and Knowledge Exchange | Lake performance in Windhoek in partnership other artists and musicians of Ndokweno /Chintheche, Harare and Zanzibar, with the National Art Gallery of Artes, the National Theater School of to Grahamstown and Any Body Zine. Luanda and the Compagnie Marabout Arterial Network South Africa will bring Théâtre, Kollectif Arkenciel and the representatives from Lake of Stars, Comum | October - November National Federation of Theater propose to Harare International Festival of the Arts, Dance | Antananarivo to Maputo create a theatre work which crosses the and Sauti za Busara to be hosted at the The project is a continuation of Horácio divides of language. 2017 National Arts Festival, with the aim Macuácua's “Comum” piece created in to explore possibilities for collaboration Maputo in 2007, which in 2016 he and knowledge exchange. developed in Madagascar. In 2017 Malagasy dancers Géraldine Leong Sang and Njara Rasamiarison Nantenaina travel to Maputo to work under Macuacua’s direction with Mozambican dancers Janet Mulapha, Matanyane and Ídio Chichava. Pro Helvetia Johannesburg supports studio residencies (between 1 and 3 months) and research residencies (between 1 and 4 weeks) in both directions (SADC artists to Switzerland and Swiss artists to the SADC region). Studio residencies provide artists with substantial time and space to explore new directions in their work through immersion in a new context. Research residencies enable artists, curators and arts managers to develop new relationships and networks that support the realisation of new works and/or exchange projects between Switzerland and Southern Africa.

With finance from the SADC regional office of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), our office also supports exploratory residencies for artists and cultural operators from SADC to visit other countries within the SADC region, strengthening collaborative networks that support the production and circulation of work in the region. PRO HELVETIA | PROGRAMME 2017 P8

PRO HELVETIA REGIONAL TOURS

Han Jonkers and the Casal Quartet Usakos: Photographs Beyond Ruins Cie Philippe Saire: NEONS and Vacuum Music | , Harare, Johannesburg, Photography / Social History | Maputo| Contemporary Dance | Grahamstown, Knysna| January – February March to April Cape Town, Maputo and Antananarivo | Han Jonkers together with the Casal The exhibition Usakos – Photographs June - July Quartet embark on a five concert tour, Beyond Ruins, presents the social history Two works tour Southern Africa from with a number of workshops and of the small Namibian railway town Lausanne based choreographer Saire: masterclasses in South Africa and through the lens of the photographic Never Ever, Oh! Noisy Shadows (NEONS), Zimbabwe. The Casal Quartet, made archives of four of the town's most senior deals with intimacy and separation while up of Felix Froschhammer (violin), Rachel women from the , collected Vacuum is an interplay of bodies Späth (violin), Markus Fleck (viola) and before the period of forced removals. appearing and disappearing between black Andreas Fleck (cello), join Jonkers for a Previously shown in , Basel, Cape holes and dazzling lights. The tour opens programme of classic and modern Town and Johannesburg, the exhibition with both works at the National Arts masterpieces for chamber ensembles. now moves to Maputo. The Maputo Festival and Vacuum extending to Maputo opening is accompanied by the workshop and Antananarivo. Rudi van der Merwe: Trophy Imagining Southern Africa Through Contemporary Dance | Cape Town and Photography, with the intention to bring Hildegard Learns to Fly Johannesburg | February artists, photographers and visual Music | Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, Trophy is a site-specific performance on historians in conversation about methods, Cape Town & Johannesburg | June - July the themes of hunting, conquest and approaches and practices relating to Andreas Schaerer, Matthias Wenger, military tradition, from Swiss/South photography, aesthetics and archives, and Andreas Tschopp, Benedikt Reising, Marco African choreographer van der Merwe. It promoting future innovative work on Müller, and Christoph Steiner together explores man’s relationship with his photographic archives in both the comprise the Swiss Sextet, Hildegard environment as well as with himself, the academic and the artistic field. Learns to Fly. Compositions by Andreas need to demarcate, possess, tame and Schaerer sees a musical exploration exploit. The work will be presented at Swiss and SADC presence: ASSITEJ combining influences from jazz, classical Live Arts Festival Cape Town, and Dance Cradle of Creativity music, rock, avant-garde to free Umbrella Johannesburg. Theatre | Switzerland and SADC to Cape improvisation. The band will feature at the Town | May Jazz Festival in Foofwa d’Imobilité: Dancewalk The Cradle of Creativity is the 19th Grahamstown, as well as venues in Port Contemporary Dance | Cape Town and ASSITEJ (International Association of Elizabeth, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Johannesburg | February Theatre for Children and Young People) The Institute for Creative Arts hosts World Congress and Performing Arts Mogorosi / Motuba / Braff: Sanctum Geneva-based choreographer Foofwa in Festival. It will run from 16-27 May 2017, Sanctorium Cape Town to presents Talk.Dancewalk at at venues across Cape Town, South Africa. Music | South Africa, Mauritius, Tanzania, the Live Arts Festival. After Cape Town, Held triennially, and for the first time on Botswana and Kenya| June - July Foofwa heads to Johannesburg for the African continent, our office supports Tumi Mogorosi, Gabi Motuba, Malcolm further performances. the presence of practitioners and Braff, Daniel Pezotti, and Sebastian companies from both Switzerland the the Schuster tour their project, Sanctum Duo Interzones: Christof and Franziska rest of the SADC region in the General Sanctorium, recorded during the studio Baumann Assembly and the Next Generation residency of Mogorosi and Motuba with Music | Cape Town, Johannesburg, Alice, programme. Additionally, we support the Braff in Bern in 2015. The project will Stellenbosch | February - March performances Zick Zack Puff by Mafalda feature at the Standard Bank Jazz Festival Experimental music duo Christoph (Switzerland); Panali Panali by Tsungai in Grahamstown, as part of a SADC tour Baumann and Franziska Baumann Garise () and My Strength, My including concerts in Mauritius, Tanzania introduce their new CD, Duo Interzones, Culture, My identity by Chipawo Trust and Kenya. and collaborate with composer Zimbabwe. Pierre-Henri Wicomb, bass player Carlo Mombelli and the Xhosa singers Bongeka Rootsword: Julio Mwansa Nkowane and the Qhanga, Nomapostile Nyiki and Zinzi Block Notes Nogavu during their 2017 tour. Concerts Music | Mbabane, Johannesburg, Lusaka | will take place at the Purpur Festival in May - June Cape Town, the Orbit in Johannesburg, American born, Swiss/Zambian “world with lectures at the University of Fort citizen rapper”, Julio Mwansa Nkowane, Hare, the University of Cape Town and the a.k.a Rootwords, with his band The Block University of Stellenbosch. Notes, will be touring the SADC region. His rich urban sound, infused with hip-hop, soul and , has seen him tour to wide acclaim in the US, and the Caribbean. PRO HELVETIA | PROGRAMME 2017 P9

ANT PROJECTS: PRESENTATION AND CIRCULATION

Rehema Chachaga: Sura Ya Kwanza Visual Arts | Dar es Salaam to Harare | January - June Chachaga is developing a new body of video, performance, and installation work which explores rituals and performances that women in her lineage used as mediums for molding, resisting and subverting the status quo. She plans to exhibit in Harare.

Institute for Creative Arts: Live Arts Festival First Solo Project participation Visual Arts| Harare | First Floor Gallery | Performance | Maputo and /London March - April to Cape Town | February First Floor Gallery will host an emerging Panaibra Gabriel Canda presents Time and artist from a neighbouring country to hold Space: The Solos, and Samson a solo exhibition, peer review session and Kambalu presents Last Judgment at the Live an artist talk. Arts Festival. BakTu Music: Kgalagadi Soul Tour Texito Langa/Vukazithathe: Maskandi Simba & Milton Gulli: Music | South Africa, Namibia and South Meets Marrabenta Sauti za Busara Festival Africa | March - December Music | Durban, Mbabane, Maputo, Music | Maputo to Zanzibar| February Kgalagadi Soul will be on tour across Johannesburg | May - June The Mozambican rap duo Simba & Milton Gulli various festivals and venues as well as Tour and collaboration between South combine traditional African rhythms with running workshops in Namibia, Botswana, African multi-instrumentalist Bhekisenzo contemporary jazz. They will perform at the Swaziland, Mozambique and South Africa. Cele aka Vukazithathe and Mozambican Sauti za Busara Festival. percussionist and drummer, Texito Langa. FITI XIV Festival Internacional Will be accompanied by workshops and Kgafela oa Magogodi and Jacques Teatro de Inverno content generation for the production of Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja: Theatre | Luanda, Durban, Mbabane and an EP of collaboration and tour. Collabonations II & Tschuku Tschuku Maputo | April - July Music and Performance | Johannesburg FITI involves the participation of 20 Joel Karabo Elliott & Roots Grown Deep: and Windhoek | February - May theater groups across Mozambique, Roots Grown Deep in Mozambique Collabonations II follows on the collaboration , South Africa and Swaziland, Music | Cape Town to Maputo | May - June between musicians, writers and theatre through performance, training sessions, South African musicians will collaborate makers Kgafela oa Magogodi and Jacques workshops and exchange activities in and exchange cultural knowledge with Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, Maputo. Up to two theatre groups from Maputo, - and -based Collabonations, initiated in 2013, is a series FITI are selected to participate in FESTECA musical and dance artists. of travelling performances which fuse live - International Festival of Cazenga, Luanda music, storytelling and performance poetry. and Musho Festival, Durban. Being and Becoming: Gender Politics, Race and Identity in the Creative Space Dwayne Kapula: iamgule – the Great Dance Agathon Mapemba: Misambwa Visual Arts | Johannesburg and Luanda | of the Ancestors Visual Arts | Moba to Dar es Salaam | May May - September Multi-disciplinary | Harare, Johannesburg An exhibition by Congolese/Lushois artist !Kauru Contemporary Art continues the and Cape Town | February - September Agxon (Agathon Kakusa) staged at Nafasi conversation generated from the 2016 iamGule ‘The Great Dance of the Ancestors’ Art Space in Dar Es Salaam, accompanied edition of Being and Becoming, with a new is a multimedia installation from Kapula’s by a workshop and artist talk. selection of regional artists and curators, ongoing research into the underlying and exhibitions in Johannesburg and conceptual structures of rituals and masks. Institute for Creative Arts: 3rd Space / Luanda. Symposium II Multi –disciplinary | SADC to Cape Town | May Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness, Artistic participation in ICA Symposium, Malawi Tour which will be drawn from an open-call, and Music | Johannesburg to Malawi | selected by a panel of academics, artists September - October and student representatives. The South African Afro-psychedelic outfit participants will engage in the context of Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness the symposium platform – with an tours Malawi starting at the Lake of Stars emphasis on performative modes of Festival and building relationships with the interaction. local music scene along the way.

Kudzanai Chiurai / PASS: We Live in Silence Sound Installation | Cape Town to Harare | November Kudzanai Chiurai invites Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station (PASS) to stage a didactic music discography in the context of his project We Live in Silence, which explores the social and political history of Zimbabwe. PRO HELVETIA | PROGRAMME 2017 P10

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On an annual basis, the office of Pro Helvetia Johannesburg works with a designer and an artist collective from within the SADC region, to generate the visual identity used in communicating our annual programme. For 2017, we work with Mzwandile Buthelezi of Satta Design (Johannesburg) and Kin ArtStudio (Kinshasa). Kin ArtStudio is a network comprised of both professional and aspiring artists, driven by artist and organiser Vitshois Mwilambwe. The network allows for the support and exchange of information and ideas and the promotion of participating artists’ work locally and internationally.

Pro Helvetia Johannesburg is one of five international nodes of the Swiss Arts Council, present in the Southern African (SADC) region since 1998. Our office covers 15 countries, facilitating the presentation of work, exchange and collaboration between artists, projects and organisations in Southern Africa and Switzerland, through residencies, tours and collaborative projects between the two contexts.

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