Already, eMzantsi Carnival artists from communities in Ocean View, Masiphumelele and Fish Hoek are rehearsing with established DJs from Cape Town with the mandate of creating something new and exciting.
There will be gumboot dancers dressed up like neon ninjas, adding the licks off their boots to the beats of live Afro house. A traditional African harmony group adding their deep vocals to a tribal techno rhythm. Caring clowns, fire performers, video art installations, inventive puppets, and a class act of fun, improvisational local bands and DJs doing Balkan, electro, African, folk, techno and reggae performances.
Artists performing will be: Toby2Shoes, Regan, Nomadic Orchestra, The Time Flies, Spektra vs Marhosi (gumboot troop), Fletcher vs Van Die Bokke, Jan Lohfeldt, The Rivertones, and Jezza vs Cape Velvet.
The belief is that through starting a conversation through artistic expression, we can embrace our diversity while creating a shared vision for the future.
Ubuntu Mash Up will be a year-long process of musical, which culminates at the Afrika Burns creative arts festival. Here these various community groups will come together and transform the canvas of the Karoo desert into a powerful symbol of ubuntu and joint African creativity. At the annual festival, groups manifest creative visions in the spirit of radical self expression, self-sufficiency and community building. The divisions of race, class and age all fall away as people blend into a symphony of colour, movement and sound.
Entry costs R40 if you dress up, R50 if not. There will be prizes for the best dressed.
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