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23 August 2019 1 Page 5 Editor’S Note 12 August – 23 August 2019 1 Page 5 Editor’s Note Page 6 Award Winning Script No Easter Sunday For Queers To Make Its Debut At The Market Theatre Page 8 Koleka Putuma Season Page 10 Remembering Legends Who Have Passed But Whose Spirit Lives On Page 12 Ukugrumba An Exhibition By 2018 Tierney Fellow Tshepiso Mabula Ka Ndongeni Page 14 The Young Artist And His Crea(C)Tive Voice Page 16 The Market Theatre Bids Farewell To One Of Its Longest Serving Employees, Reuben Myanga Page 20 2019 Tierney Fellow And 12Th Recipient Of Tierney Fellowship At The Market Photo Workshop Page 22 PROFILES In This Edition, Buzz Sharpens The Lens On Three Photographers Who Are Associated With The Tierney Fellowship At The Market Photo Workshop 2 MARKET BUZZ Volume 3 No 05 12 August – 23 August 2019 1 Page 24 International Exchange THE MARKET BUZZ Inspires Windybrow Arts TEAM Centre Art of pARTnership WRITERS: Page 26 Anthony Ezeoke (Audience Development) Page 28 Market Photo Workship Busi Letwaba Hold Training Programme In (Receptionist and Tour Guide) Clara Vaughan Zimbabwe (Market Laboratory Head) Ismail Mahomed Page 29 Daniele Tamagni Grant (Market Theatre Foundation CEO) For Higher Photography Keitu Gwangwa (Windybrow Arts Centre Head) Education Khona Dlamini (Programmes and Project Manager) Page 30 EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu Up Close And Personal (Senior Publicist) With Lebeisa Molapo (Stage Zama Sweetness Buthelezi (Brand and Communications Manager) Manager) Zodwa Shongwe (Producer) Page 32 WHAT’S ON AT THE MARKET THEATRE Market Theatre Foundation FOUNDATION STORY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: The is an agency of the Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu (Senior Publicist) Page 39 Scene at the Market Theatre Department of Arts & Culture COMPILATION AND PICTURES: Thato Kobile (Digital Communications Officer) EDITORS: Zama Sweetness Buthelezi (Brand and Communications Manager) Ismail Mahomed (Market Theatre Foundation CEO) LAYOUT AND DESIGN: THE Ryan Lloyd (Graphic Designer) MARKET PHOTOGRAPHERS: T HEATRE Michael Phasha Ngoma Ka Mpahlele OUNDATION Thandazile Zwelibanzi Whitney Peters THE THE THE MARKET MARKET THE MARKET WINDYBROW T HEATRE T HEATRE PHOTO ARTS CENTRE LABORATORY WORKSHOP Cover image © MphoMokgadi 2 MARKET BUZZ Volume 3 No 05 12 August – 23 August 2019 3 appy Women’s by Tshepiso Mabula Ka Editor’s month! In this Ndonegeni, work explores the issue of Market trauma as a result of activism Buzz, we during South Africa’s struggle Note celebrateH women, starting days. The exhibition opens on with Koleka Putuma whose the 21 August and members - Zama Sweetness Buthelezi debut script, No Easter of the public can view the work (Brand and Communications Manager) Sunday for Queers, has won between 09:00 to 17:00 during the Distell National Playwright the week at 138 Lillian Ngoyi Competition. street Newtown, entrance is free. No Easter Sunday for Queers, directed by Mwenya At the end of July 2019, the Kabwe, premieres at the Market Theatre Foundation bid Market Theatre during farewell to one of its longest Women’s month touching on serving employees, Reuben very pertinent issues women Myanga, who retired after forty- face and more specifically two years of service. queer women. Also look out for Koleka Putuma as she Look out for information directs another important work about the Daniele Tamagni Venus vs Modenity: the story grant for higher photography of Saartjie Baartman written by education on page 29. the poet Lebohang Mashile. We look forward to seeing Later this month, the you at the Market Theatre. exhibition Ukugrumba 4 MARKET BUZZ Volume 3 No 05 12 August – 23 August 2019 5 Award “Koleka is an award-winning Winning poet, playwright and theatre Script No director. Her bestselling not protect or recognise queer lives. The play also debut collection of poems aims to highlight the complexities of hate crimes Easter and other forms of violence within our most Collective Amnesia took intimate relationships; our families and religious communities, and how those relationships are the South African literary Sunday For sometimes the leading causes of hate crimes and the lens through which broader South African scene by storm since its society sees and persecutes queer love. The publication in April 2017.” Queers To play emphasises how the lives of queer people are often in danger in so-called sacred and safe spaces, and it asks the church and religious Diane Flacks and Johannesburg based, Zambian Make Its communities to examine their complicity in the theatre maker and scholar, Mwenya Kabwe. The perpetuation of hate crimes and the persecution play was further developed as part of the Imbewu of queer lives. Trust playwrighting award in 2018. It has recently Debut At won the 2019 Distell Playwrighting Award and will The play was first developed in 2017 under make its debut at the Market Theatre in August the CASA Award, (a collaboration between the 2019. An excerpt of No Easter Sunday For Queers, The Market Playwrights Guild of Canada Women’s Caucus directed by British Nigerian theatre maker, Femi and the African Women Playwrights Network), Elufowoju Jr. will be staged at the Roundhouse under the mentorship of Canadian playwright in London as part of the Global Black Voices; Theatre excerpts of plays by black writers from around the globe in August 2019. The play will also be - Lusanda Zokufa published by Junkets later this year. No Easter Sunday For Queers will premier at O EASTER SUNDAY FOR QUEERS The play explores the relationship between the Market Theatre for a limited season 20 – 25 the play, is a continuation and Napo and her Father, Pastor Nkosi and Napo’s August at the Mannie Manim; and it is presented adaptation of a poem by the same lover, Mimi. At the beginning of the play the in co-operation between the Market Theatre name published in Collective two lovers are deceased and return, through the Foundation and the National Arts Festival and is AmnesiaN (2017), an award winning collection subconscious of the father, on the anniversary of supported by Distell. of poems by Koleka Putuma. The poem is their death which coincides with Easter Sunday. addressed to Putuma’s father who is a preacher The lovers return to recount their death in their and orthodox Christian. The letter, which is in own words and to insist that the church and father the form of a poem, asks him, the father, if he do not forget how and why they died. would preach about her, if she were murdered and crucified like Jesus Christ. It asks if he would The play aims to name and emphasise the preach about her death with the same passion murder of queer people, specifically lesbians, as and commitment he exhibits when he preaches hate crimes. The statistic of hate crimes in South about Jesus Christ, someone he has never met, Africa is outrageously high and most of them let alone raised. go unrecorded and unaccounted for, and they are often recorded as just deaths or crimes and not categorised as a result of hate for LGBTQI communities or crimes justified by religious beliefs endorsed by a justice system that does 6 MARKET BUZZ Volume 3 No 05 12 August – 23 August 2019 7 THE THE MARKET WINDYBROW T HEATRE ARTS CENTRE OUNDATION “Venus VS Modernity tackles issues clearly in Venus VS Modernity tackles issues clearly in need of being elevated in today’s current need of being elevated in framework of hyper visibility within the arts industry, but more importantly I feel, it gives today’s current framework Saartjie Baartman a voice never heard before. It Koleka brings to the fore the importance of documenting of hyper visibility within the stories from spaces previously monopolized the arts industry, but more by anthropologists and historians with often Putuma inaccurate perspectives or rather, one sided importantly I feel, it gives interpretations of certain situations. We speak to Lebogang Mashile and how she captured this Saartjie Baartman a voice Season immense persona and what coils unravelled within never heard before.” - Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu her in an effort to create an accurate depiction of Lebohang Mashile this historical icon. oleka Putuma has written the award Saartjie Baartman was buried on the 9th of Performance poet, Koleka Putuma, is based winning script No Easter Sunday August in South Africa in 2002. in Cape Town and currently pursuing a degree for Queers and will direct Venus vs in Theatre and Performance at the University of Modernity. Cape Town. She facilitates and hosts a writing K and dialogue workshops at schools, community Venus VS Modernity, a didactic ensemble of A life space of about 10 years depicting her projects and interfaith programmes in and around the summarized life events of Saartjie Baartman. journey to Europe with the promise of a new life of Cape Town. Documented previously as the victim of firstly fame and glory, this story taps into the misogynistic adverse conditions as a slave in the Cape slave tangles she was captured in and what she made of She has headlined at SliPnet’s Inzync Poetry sex camps that existed on the coast and then later her situation. A story told from the perspective of Sessions, JamThat Session and at Off The Wall. as a human freak show in Paris France in the early the victim who may perhaps not have seen herself She is a resident poet of the collective Lingua 1800’s due to her ample posterior. as such in certain circumstances. The life of Saartjie Franca. In 2012 she took second place in the Cape Baartman on a hyper visible platform, where Town leg of the Drama for Life Lover + Another extreme exploitation became her norm, mimics National Performance Poetry Slam Competition in many ways the objectification experienced by and represented the city at the national finals.
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