Photo Workshop Vuyo Giba Steve Biko Centre Claude Gauwe Zwelitsha Retsi Pule Slowfoot Brothers Temperance Hotel King Williams Town 2024 … thank you
16th December 2023 at Steve Biko Arts Centre in Ginsberg Location, Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
One thing of course, that is right at hand is to conduct oral histories with the individuals who have played such an important role in the establishment of the movement.
Audio technology or video technology could build a small oral history archive around Jazz as a movement for change.
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Since the early 1960s South African jazz musicians in exile together with their international counterparts have used the freedom of South African jazz to not only strongly influence European jazz music but also fight the struggle against apartheid. Their sacrifices made a significant contribution to the freedom and opportunities we…
Exile Heritage Exhibition is a living heritage communicating the significance and meaning of our exile heritage to current and future generations through education and raising awareness.
APPROVAL FOR 3-YEAR SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENT FOR JAZZ AGAINST APARTHEID FESTIVAL IN THE EASTERN CAPE
Jazz Fought the struggle and won: the inspiring story of the jazz freedom fighters in exile lead by the magician of the ostinato – Johnny Mbizo Dyani.
BEYOND EXILE and the international commitment and dedication to human excellence and progress.
Jazz Fought the struggle and won: the inspiring story of the jazz freedom fighters in exile lead by the magician of the ostinato – Johnny Mbizo Dyani.
Poet Vusi “Macingwane” Mchunu told who was at the inaugural event and went on to record the life and passing of Johnny Dyani in the journal African Cultural-Literary Journal AWA – FINNABA that he co-produced and edited in West Berlin in 1984 – 1987. He performed poetry at a number of the JAA events
JAA is first of all a series of concerts organized by both musicians and
political/cultural activists. It is searching for allies and supporters and
remains a free association of people dedicated to the cause of freedom and individual and social solidarity and responsibility.
What has changed are the musicians – because of the deaths of all
but one of the original members of Johnny Dyani´s band in 1986. What remains the same is the music and its message: of liberation,
of the possibility of individual and collective freedom, of the necessity of political struggle while retaining one´s…
The bassist and composer Johnny Mbizo Dyani, along with the drummer Makaya Ntshoko, were some of the first to go into exile in Europe and, with a strong commitment, embodied the struggle for South Africa’s cultural memory. Both of them, as representatives of others, taught us that the sources of jazz are African. And both…
Jazz Against Apartheid: “Beyond Exile” contributes to this knowledge within South Africa of South African music and musicians and what they continue to stand for.