14/06/2022
Jol’inkomo! Makeba’s artistic truth against the pandemic and social ills
“Arts Nature and Spiritual Healing”
Dates 23 June till 1 July 2022 National Arts Festival Black Power Station, Makhanda
Jol’inkomo! Makeba’s artistic truth against the social ills speaks to how Arts can be used to seek Freedom and Spiritual Healing.
This year marks 90 years since the birth of the late great Mam’ Zenzile Miriam Makeba, anicon of African music. A singer and activist that lent her voice to the anti-apartheid and anti-colonial movements to advocate for Freedom and Pan-Africanism. It is this spirit of Freedom and Pan-Africanism that we seek to invoke in our program as The Black Power Station in this year's National Arts Festival (23 June – 1 July) to remember Mam’ Makeba, while we also remember ourselves from the hardships of Covid-19.
As many may know, the two years of the Covid-19 lockdown limited our ability to fellowship around socially transformative artistic practices and discourses. This impacted our mental health. To contribute to the mental health discourse, visual artists, writers, and other relevant artists will be presenting works and readings that address or reflect the relationship between Arts, Nature, and Spiritual Healing.
As a point to echo, The Black Power Station program is naturally designed to be multi-disciplinary and rooted in Ubuntu, with presentations taking the form of musical performance, visual art workshops murals, live poetry, and theatre. Let’s all come through to remember Mam’ Makeba, A Luta Continua!
