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THE SUNDAY SPENDS KHAYELITSHA
Sunday 4 and Sunday 11 September 2005
Look Out Hill, Spine Road, Khayelitsha
R10 entrance. Begins at 3pm.

Produced by Eric Salman and Coffee Beans Routes
With Radio Zibonele 98.2FM
Funded by Pro-Helvetia and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
With the support of Look Out Hill and the Khayelitsha Development Forum

The forthcoming Sunday Spends is the franchising of the Guguletu Sunday Spends into Khayelitsha. The Spends were conceived in 2003 by Joe Mthimka, a music promoter and soccer coach operating out of Gugs, as a platform for exposing Cape Town music talent in Guguletu. 

With the move into Khayelitsha, the Sunday Spends evolves into a mini-festival event, featuring music, film and poetry. Poets and bands from all over the city, as well as Tanzania, will feature, together with short films shot by independent directors such as Akin Omotoso and Thabo Mvuvu.   

The Khayelitsha Spends are a teaser for the 2005 Awesome Africa Festival, Khayelitsha, scheduled to happen in the last quarter of this year as the Cape Town expansion of the Awesome Africa Festival, Durban, produced by Kubo Events.

LINEUP

SUNDAY 4 SEPTEMBER           

3pm Film screenings:             
Akin Omotoso’s Rifle Road (11min)
Thabo Mvuvu’s What goes around comes around (25min)
Matthew Kalil's Laptop (20min)

4pm Poetry:              
Mzwandile Matiwane & Samkelo

430pm Music:
Suga from Ghetto Maffin
Mac McKenzie and the Goema Captains of Cape Town

SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER

3pm Film screenings:           
Akin Omotoso’s Rifle Road (11min)
A teaser for Tim Greene's forthcoming A Boy Called Twist
Selections from AFDA and the Amarebella Film Collective

4pm Poetry:              
Jethro Louw the plakkerskamp poet & Abakhaya

430pm Music:
Adeson Nchimbe and Slehe Abdalah from Tanzania
Maveric

The Goema Captains of Cape Town is Cape Town's premier band, lead by the composer lauriate of Cape Town Mr Mac McKenzie, and for this concert, featuring Hilton Schilder on keys and bow, Yotam Sandak on sitar, Jonathon Rubain on bass and Keith de Bruyn on drums, Mac McKenzie on guitar and vocals..

This is the band's last Cape Town performance before leaving on the 11th of September for Reunion to perform at the Indian Ocean Jazz Festival. On return to Johannesburg later in the month, they perform three shows before returning to Cape Town.

For sound samples and more on the band click here

Mac McKenzie is also one of the hosts of the Cape Town Jazz! Safari, evenings in the company of Cape Town jazz legends. For more on this initiative click here

Maveric is a combination of Mavo and Eric - Maverick, the names of the two men behind the group. It's a little juvenile in origin, but right on the money in meaning. Maverick is `maverick' in the true spirit of that word - outside of the parameters, doing things on their own terms, not governed by or concerned with the preconceptions of others. Free agents. This is fresh, intelligent pop music in isiXhosa. 

For more on Maveric, click here

Jethro is thin, wears short dreadlocks and torn clothing, and is missing his top front teeth. The police assume he is a two bit felon and constantly harass him.

In fact Jethro is a poet and a former Western Province athlete. He writes and performs in English and Afrikaans. Most recently he headlined the Wordfest at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival. 

For the last few years he has been performing both solo and as part of the Khoi Khollektif. The Khollektif is a group of musicians and poets gathered under their Khoisan heritage and desire to rewrite the disturbed representation of the Bushmen people and their culture. The Khollektif includes Garth Erasmus, Loit Sôls, Leslie Javan and Monica Botha.

For more on Jethro click here

Mzwandile Matiwana is a poet from PE who lost his poem and published a book. He performed at the Grahamstown Wordfest in July to launch his book, published by Deep South, and has been performing at poetry events around Cape Town. He lives in Taiwan, section D, Khayelitsha.

Suga in the middle with Dillinger on the right.

Suga is from Ghetto Maffin, who released an album with Warrick Sony called Paralyser that featured the hits Gangsta and Paralyster. For the last few months Suga has been developing his solo material and will be performing solo with guitar and voice, singing in Xhosa.

Akin Omotoso is a young film-maker, originally from Nigeria, and since the early 1990s living in South Africa. His debut feature film, God is African, screened commercially in 2002. He is a partner in the Johannesburg based TOM Productions, producers of the hit TV film Gums and Noses.

His short film Rifle Road, which will be screened at the Spends, was nominated for a Cannes Award this year.

Read Akin's regular column online, The Devil Writes Back Again here


Adeson Nchimbe was born on boxing day 1966 in Tingi Village, Rubuma, Southern Tanzania. He started singing in a school choir at age of 6 years and joined the church choir at 7 years. He started his first band in Songea, 'Orchestra Vuma Vuma' in 1985, and played with 'Tembo Jive' whilst in the army. He moved to Dar-e-Salam in 1985 when he was 16 years old, performing with 'New Survivors', a reggae band in 1990 and 1991. Then he performed with 'Munasa Band', between 1991 and 1996. He left to go to Zimbabwe for 1 year, and went back to start 'Kolelo Cultural Music Power' in Dar-e-Salam. He travelled with Kolelo to play in Malawi in 1997, and left Malawi for South Africa in June 1998. He has been living in Cape Town since 1998 and performs as soloist singer/guitarist. Since 2003 has been playing with the African Switch Project (ASP).

Slehe Abdalah was born on the 2nd February 1969 in Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania. He performed with 'Munasa Band' between 1991 and 1996, and has worked with Adeson in 'Kolelo Cultural Music Power' in Dar-e-Salam and Malawi. He left Malawi for South Africa in June 1998 and has been living in Cape Town working various jobs, including fire-fighting in the Cape Peninsula National Park.