Tonal: Liberation Movements

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Artists

Kaylin Paterson – Programme Director and Speaker

Oyena Sixaba and friends – Jazz Muscians / Performer

Laura Twagirayezu – Film Curator

Asanda Miya – DJ & Cultural Activist

Ronn Mapwata – Dancer & Speaker

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For the celebration of Black history month, Tonal showcases a rendition of “The Sound of Liberation” to demonstrate the power of jazz and dance towards the mobalilisation of Liberation Movements.

Jazz is soulful, a sound of rebellion and a sound of change. used as a key instrunent of liberation  from the Civil Rights movement to the liberation struggles of South Africa’s Apartheird regime.

This showcase will take you on a journey of how self examination and self expression through the arts were creative means of mobalisation and community building. A means for hope, cultural preservation and dignity. For all humans to know that as a Humanity we feel all want to be free to Exist. Move. For all to acknowledge the most basic human right to life, liberty and dignity.

“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free – he has set himself free – for higher dreams, for greater privileges.”

― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows my Name

The programme is set with Live music performances on “The Sound of Liberation” from alternative jazz sets, to a demonstration of protest songs and movement to spoken word. Showcasing how the arts is a powerful instrument for liberation of self and of others.

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