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A real time documentation of key protagonists in arts culture and heritage communicate wisdom, knowledge and healing through joy. An engaging edu-doccie style combining archives, interviews, live music that embraces cultural heritage and returns it to the community. Heavily insightful new interviews and recordings combine with audio visual music and heritage archives to reveal the education from African oral history and heritage. Compositions, repertoire and approaches, both ancient and futuristic enlighten seekers to a new form of music learning in South Africa.

iMbizo yamaKhono is a gathering to extend the legacy of South African musical excellence beyond limitations. The preservation and promotion new sounds, styles and approaches to self-expression is a multiplied through gatherings of the arts. iMbizo's bring people. In South Africa interdependence, coming together is an ancient way of life described in the philosophy of ubuntu.

In this expansive Afrocentric quality free music education Web Series, short music education documentaries profile star performers, composers and wisdom keepers. Each education documentary is accompanied with a Pre-Task and Post-Task worksheet engaging the student in further research and musical learning beyond the documentary. A bonus question facilitates knowledge and skills to be shared in an inspired, collaborative and innovative way. iMbizo yamaKhono is perfectly suited to South African syllabus grades 10-12, bridging course to university and as resources for national libraries and archives.

Key themes are agency and action in the creative process. Insight to philosophy, economy, spiritual practice, indigenous knowledge systems, music, healing, cultural memory, general knowledge, creative economy and cultural activism is outcomes based both to syllabus and career.

Oral history and heritage, creations and best practices, both ancient and futuristic enlighten seekers to a new form of music learning in South Africa.

Season 4, uBuntu profiles five unique wisdom keepers of South African musical culture and heritage.

Episode One Afrikan Safari Follows the journey of Morri Natti a Maasai boy from Kenya. Morri takes his listeners on a journey through different kinds of music using his own compositions and the many folk songs he has learned on his travels.

Episode Two: Tsoseletso / Enlightenment Mosoeu Ketlele travels all over South Africa learning from Madosini in the Eastern Cape and the grandmothers of eSwatini.

Episode Three: Marabi Melodies Moss Mogale is together with a unique intergenerational community project preserves a living archive of two great jazz stories of the North - Marabi and Malombo.

Episode Four: Music Saved My Life Guillaume Rossouw aka Gill Gap is a musical rebel. An unlikely hero, and founder of a new style called Provolution.

Episode Five: When there is a will there is a way A self - branded professional, Retsi Michael Pule has perpetuated a longevity that infuses and inculcates in the minds of the youth a different approach to singing jazz music.

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Season One Attunement (2020) documents 8 protagonists and their actions in music and liberation heritage in this country. A digital and innovation award winner, the impact created by this opening season exposed the dire need for Afrocentric music resources and opened the doorways to culture and learning.

Pan African syllabus based music education, relevant to IEB and CAP (grades 10 -12) curriculum, bridging course to university and young professionals.
A sustainable solution in the music sector for authentic career growth for musicians, creative artists, and industry practitioners.Digital Innovation through an online education hub. Learning beyond the classroom. Permanent access for students to e-learning modules and further educational resources. Imbizo yamaKhono is about learning music, culture and heritage in a smarter way through the ever-improving internet and online technologies. Attunement is to hone in on your creative instincts.

“Teaching and opening the minds of the young and old is a big contribution to the human race. We appreciate your generosity, expertise and humility.” Tu Nokwe



An innovative approach to introducing and training the target market to learn music, culture and heritage in a smarter way through the ever-improving internet and online technologies. Through mentorship knowledge and skills exchange we are holistically off-setting the losses in education of historical legacies in South Africa. Our music educational resources are a sustainable solution in the music sector for authentic career growth for musicians, creative artists, and industry practitioners and quality free resources for students and teachers alike.

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Season Two Assimilation (2021) expands to include Live Music Performances in a Workshop setting. In partnership with AMPD studios, Season Two, elevates learning in new directions of self-expression and sustainable practices through brilliant protagonists of diverse music genres and practices. Evoking the warm embracive space of the community centre, the coffee shop, the backstage or playground, where knowledge and skills are shared in an inspired, collaborative and innovative approach, the iMbizois a gathering of the arts.

Creative students, scholars, emerging artists, master musicians, performers and wisdom keepers come together to share, learn and grow together. A real time documentation combined with heavily insightful heritage archives reveals new compositions, repertoire and approaches to music in South Africa. An online education hub provides for learning beyond the classroom and providing permanent access to e-learning modules and further educational resources year-round.

"iMbizo yamaKhono – Gathering of the Arts” is a living inspiration for our creatives of tomorrow. May this be the pathway to mentorship in creativity know-how. These are the techniques and narratives on SA approaches to making music and on the history, heritage and spirituality that is a way-shower towards professional acumen.”

In each episode is a mentor tasked with sharing the techniques, narratives, general knowledge and know-how on South African approaches. The holistic approach engages key themes philosophy, economy, spiritual practice, indigenous knowledge systems, music, healing, cultural memory, creative economy and cultural activism.

Using an innovative multi-facetted approach to engaging audiences, iMbizo yamaKhono is high quality, fresh innovative and uplifting resources to address the gap in quality music and heritage education from Southern Africa.

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Season Three Afrika Year (2022) provides further expansion of learning even deeper into the reaches of indigenous and Pan African arts and culture. Titled Afrika Year, the broadening of approach to popular and traditional cultures and music including sound, maskandi and reggae finds a joyful and resonant space in music education

THE well-researched production of documentation of South African living treasures in the fields of philosophy, spirituality, development practices, indigenous knowledge systems, music, healing, cultural memory, creative economy and cultural activism. Living Treasures: Impart lifetime knowledge through edited and released AV interviews

A b roadening of the genres, Afrika Year provides an exciting introduction to the Afro-Futuristic Content from South Africa. We are on a mission to create new and exciting multi-media resources to share the the uniquely South African philosophy of uBuntu (togetherness). Activism, archives and legacies of Africa as experienced through pioneers and legends, memory and tradition are resurrected through beautiful and compelling short documentaries. Restoring the cultural roots, reviving the unsung heroes and telling uplifting South African stories is filling the gap in Afrocentric education and empowerment.



By providing quality Afrocentric music learning resources, our future generations of leaders, artists, performers and musicians in a target group 14 – 27 can be given the tools and resources required to further their opportunities, know-how and output.



Recorded live in studio providing three levels of activation for participants across multiple target groups. Activations include music education, music incubation and know-how for career stimulation.

Topics covered include S.A Jazz, Rhythm Workshops, Spirituality and Freedom in music, South African music vernaculars, poetry and jazz and shared the tools of organisation, promotion and philosophy. Music Learning resources include a broadening on the music genres, in a quest to cater for all kinds of S.A. music and Pan Africanism, Decolonisation, AfroCentricity and African Humanity as pillars for making African music that endures and looks ahead.

An engaging education documentary style combines the heavily insightful heritage archives and interviews together with the vivid excitement of live recording, oral history and audio-visual documentation. A well-researched production of documentation of South African living treasures in the fields of philosophy, spirituality, development practices, indigenous knowledge systems, music, healing, cultural memory, creative economy and cultural activism. The work is relevant to audiences of all ages. It is targeted to the specific engagement of university students, scholars, community centres, academies, entrepreneurs and young professionals aged 18 – 35.

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