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Movement architect: Litchi HOV (real name Lee-ché Janecke) has built a reputation for crafting visually striking, emotionally charged performances that move seamlessly between stage, film and global pop culture. Photo: Supplied

Litchi HOV on dance, inheritance and refusing to quit

A deeply personal portrait of Litchi HOV, the award-winning choreographer turning movement into a language of memory, resilience and generational change

Gabi Motuba Photo: Standard Bank

Gabi Motuba and the sound of sacred resistance

Gabi Motuba’s music stretches beyond jazz, transforming grief, memory and resistance into a spiritual sonic language rooted in black life and liberation

Take a bow: Siya Charles, winner of this year’s Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz performs on stage. Photo: Mark Wessels

Art, politics and integrity: The Standard Bank Young Artist Award then and now

Ahead of the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz, Kwanele Sosibo interviews this year’s music and jazz SBYA winners for their reflections on the history and meaning of the awards

Blowing them away: Cape Town-born, and educated at UCT and The Juilliard School in New York, this year’s Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz winner, trombonist Siya Charles, will perform at the Joy of Jazz Festival in Joburg later this month. Photo: Mark Wessels and Daniel Song

Musician Siya Charles is breaking brass ceilings

The 2025 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz reflects on her beginnings, her inspirations and her vision for South African jazz

My word: Modise Sekgothe has been given the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Poetry — the second recipient in four decades.

Modise Sekgothe’s poetry of transformation

In a quiet moment on an otherwise ordinary afternoon, Modise Sekgothe found out he had been selected as only the second poet to win the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for…

A journey beyond music, exploring art, justice and transformation with Msaki

KUTHI MANDITHETHE: Of Art & Justice is running until 31 January 2025 at the Standard Bank Art Gallery

Well versed: Artist and poet Lefifi Tladi will be at the festival.

Diary: Stephané Edith Conradie’s exhibition opens at the Standard Bank Gallery, Poetry Africa returns in October,  Fizzy B releases Abahlali

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Miles to go: (From top) Local trumpeter Darren English, who will be performing at the National Arts
Festival this weekend, says he is inspired by American jazz musicians Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis. Photos: Anthony Barboza/Getty Images

Jazz maestro Darren English to debut ‘The Birth’ at National Arts Festival

We chat to Darren English about his musical journey, inspiration and experience on stage

Lady Skollie has an ace in the hole

A workshop with the artist paves the way for healing, self-discovery and cultural education

Director Ava DuVernay and actor David Oyelowo.

The movement maverick: ​Mamela Nyamza

“I must deliver a work that not only speaks to me and the world but one that speaks to the issues that our country is facing".

Bandit: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is sure to deliver the goals and attention-grabbing antics at Arsenal

Into the abyss of bureaucracy

Thandazile Radebe’s commissioned dance piece Sabela darkly explores how identity can be used to exclude

SA Young Artist Award winners expand on their new work

With the euphoria of winning, the South African Young Artist Award winners ponder over their new works.

In Drug Den

Essop brothers’ exhibit probes stereotypes, violence and anonymity

The award-winning duo have put together a thought-provoking exhibition highlighting society’s tendency to perceive Muslim men as one and the same.

Sebokeng dancing star Luyanda Sidiya gets ‘recognised among giants’

Dancer and artistic director Luyanda Sidiya has expressed his joys at taking the 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year prize for dance.

Joanne and Chris Thorpe are challenging 50/50’s take on the row.

DON’T MISS THIS: Argentinian Cultural Week and CT fashion week

The Argentinian Cultural Week features a line-up of dance performances, theatre production, exhibitions and music collaborations.