October 23 at 18.00 – October 25 at 14.00
Rooiboslove is a DJ, writer, and curator from Cape Town and has been active as a selector in the city since 2018. He founded Word of Mouth in 2023, which focuses on the accessibility of South African jazz through events, research, and online content. As a DJ, his sets often feature his favourite composers and producers: Abdullah Ibrahim, Thandi Ntuli, Philip Tabane, Nick Drake, and Kaidi Tatham, among others.
Athenkosi “Athi Maq” Maqubela is a Cape Town–based Landscape Architecture researcher and DJ. She has hosted a number of concept-driven radio shows exploring sound, culture, and environment — including GMF (A11 Agency, 2020), a gentle pandemic-era series of artists in conversation and uplifting mixes; Aspects (Hamshack Radio, 2021–2022), where guests reflected on urban ecology through jazz and liberation focused soundscapes and Ingoma (Other Radio, 2023–2024) which traced underground and historical music lineages across regions and eras through archival storytelling and deep listening.
Athi Maq will guide a listening session bridging cool-jazz clarity and cosmic exploration — uncovering the spirit of improvisation, atmosphere, and social reflection, noting how these astral curiosities echo through the postmodern and networked age of production.
Lindokuhle Nkosi is a South African writer and interdisciplinary practitioner whose textual interventions often extend beyond the page, merging with installation and performance to explore the spatial, material, and performative dimensions of language. The Founding Editor of the first dedicated arts pages on South Africa’s largest mainstream news platform, Nkosi has contributed to a wide range of local and international publications.
Her expansive body of work and curatorial practices, which traverses journalistic, reflective, and experimental modes of writing, are marked by a sensitivity to texture – both linguistic and material – and an engagement with lived realities. “Poetry, first of all, was and still must be a musical form. It is speech musicked.” – Amiri Baracka
This session listens for the places where lyric meets rhythm, where the beat completes the sentence, where voice becomes drum. It is a celebration of the songwriter as theorist and
conjurer; the one who translates emotion into meter, who turns memory into melody, who understands that composition is also cosmology.
Where: Tonic Showroom, 87 Kloof Street, Cape Town
When: Thursday, 23 October from 18:00 – 22:00, Friday, 24 October from 18:00 – 22:00 and Saturday, 25 October from 10:00 – 14:00
Bookings:
Thursday listening session, register your spot here.
Friday listening session, register your spot here.
Saturday listening session, register your spot here.