So much to do at Afropunk
JOHANNESBURG – The Constitution Hill backdrop should make for the most iconic Afropunk festival yet.
Constitution Hill, in association with Afropunk, is the only place to be in Joburg during the festive season with engaging exhibitions and a groundbreaking music festival to enjoy.
The festival, annually hosted in New York, Atlanta, London and Paris, is now coming to Joburg for the first time and will welcome renowned artists such as Solange Knowles, Anderson Paak and The Free Nationals, Laura Mvula, King Tha and many more.
The Constitution Hill backdrop will make for the most iconic Afropunk festival yet. Both Afropunk and Constitution Hill have been celebrated for providing a platform for activism and self-expression in their own rights and the partnership of these pioneering organisations will make for a unique and memorable new year’s eve celebration.
The partnership also includes a collaboration with the Amacreatives to host A New Black – a multimedia group exhibition and dialogue which will focus on the individual voices of seven upcoming contemporary artists and how they employ their artistic agency to engage with and interpret the colonial narrative which forms part of their history. It is a call for an artistic protest – a creative riot – to reimagine new definition(s) of blackness. It is a disruption of the status quo; a defiance of stereotypes which continue to shape and frame ideas around blackness. A New Black is the emergence of a unique calibre of black creatives aiming to shift perspectives on what it means to be a black artist in a constantly changing 21st Century Africa. Selected artists include Loyiso Mkize, Leeroy Jason, Zandi Tisani, Zac Modirapula, Sindiso Nyoni, Yolanda Mazwana and Zanele Mashinini.
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The partnership between Constitution Hill and Afropunk has given rise to a legacy project, IamJoburg – an online tourism portal managed by Travel Massive Africa. To give Afropunk guests a raw Johannesburg experience, tour operators in Alex, Soweto and the Joburg city centre are developing experiential products and making better use of digital marketing.
If Afropunk is the microphone of thought then Constitution Hill is the stage for action. Designed to restore power to the disempowered, to revive hope in the hopeless, Constitution Hill is the proud host of such a progressive festival of music, art and consciousness.
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