The Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) opened the week-long Free State Arts Festival with a bang, ART STATE publisher Mpho Matsitle reports.
The Monastery: Mangaung’s Arts Mansion
For this instalment of State of Mangaung Arts, ART STATE publisher opts for a thought experiment rather than a reflection.
Poetry: A Love Potion
Bloemfontein’s hopeless romantics were fed a love potion of poetry and soul music, reports Mpho Matsitle.
INXEBA: A Wounded Love Affair
At the core of it, Inxeba is a beautiful albeit tragic story of unrequited – or more accurately, unrequittable love, writes ART STATE Publisher Mpho Matsitle.
Love, Crime and Music
Mpho Matsitle makes notes about Love, Crime and Johannesburg’s music director, Andile Qongqo.
BA RE E NE E LE LIT!
Ba Re E Ne Re Literature Festival was a festival of stimulating ideas around literature, writes ART STATE Publisher Mpho Matsitle.
Definitely Not A Fluke
On a cool Thursday evening Bloemfontein Comedy Club hosted CamCom for his one man stand-up show Not A Vloek at the lovely restaurant 59 Plenty.
Not Your Weekend Specials
ART STATE Publisher Mpho Matsitle calls out breakers of promises in the Mangaung art scene.
PREVIEW: This Is For Keeps
The Performing Arts Centre of the Free State (PACOFS) will kick off its 2018 season by kicking down the walls of secrecy engulfing domestic abuse with a presentation of the harrowing drama This Is For Keeps.
THE MISSING WORD: A Foreword
The Missing Word is a short story by Ace Moloi published by Art Fusion Literature. The foreword thereto by Mpho Matsitle is republished here.
