Sifiso is a Producer/Director for Anaphora Films. He has worked as writer and content producer on SABC shows such as Imagine Afrika, Zooming In on Men, Talk SA and Hatch. After studying, Khanyile directed Spiderman and Romeo(2008), a ground breaking short documentary about the thrills and dangers of train surfing on the notorious Metrorail Soweto line. In his masterclass learn about the cross pollination between documentary film making and music, […]
Sosela is a legal advisory and licensing strategy consulting firm that supports practitioners in the creative industries on the development and execution of their value-creating strategies. They assist creators and users of copyright-based assets to strategically and sustainably maximise licensing arrangements, commercial value and partnerships in the creative industries. Their masterclass touches on intellectual property in the realm of Jazz/independent music , especially in the wake of digital platforms, as […]
Atiyyah Khan is a journalist, researcher, selector, crate-digger, event organiser and archivist from Johannesburg, based in Cape Town. She is also the co-founder of music collective Future Nostalgia, which hosts listening session around Cape Town celebrating the culture of records. Khan has also experimented with self-publishing; her latest zine titled Bismillah references Islam and music in Africa. She also hosts and curates a show on the internet radio platform World […]
Khaya Mahlangu was born 1954 in Soweto, Johannesburg. Influenced by his father´s music collection of local and international artists, he played the bugle in the Boys Scouts and later picked up the trumpet under Phineas Molefe Phetho in a program for township youth run by Professor Khabi Mngoma. This masterclass touches on the teacher as a student when grooming young talent.
Ntombizikhona Valela is a historian and writer. Born and raised in King Williams Town (eQonce), Valela completed her Master of Arts in History at Rhodes University. Her writing has featured in various publications including New Frame, Mail and Guardian and Daily Maverick, and on a range of topics in history and popular culture. This masterclass talks about the importance of multi-pronged methodologies in writing about history, Jazz and 'overlooked histories'. […]