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/ 1 September 2006
Slam poetry used to have an element of hipness about it, but today I would rather be bludgeoned with a blunt object than be trapped in a crowded, dimly lit room being forced to clap to the garbage coming out of the microphone. But then there’s Odidi Mfenyana’s Rhythms Down My Spine – a one-man nu-cabaret that is currently doing the rounds in Cape Town, writes Fidel Mbhele.
Bedevilled by the increasing empty seats in its theatres, Cape Town’s Artscape has embarked on an audience education programme that’s beginning to bear fruit. The key, it seems, is to target school-going youth with arts education as a future investment in a society appreciative of its heritage. An incidental benefit is that children in impoverished […]