Day Programme
Subject to change
Wednesday 9 July 2025
12:00 pm
Registrations Open
Scaena Arts Café
4:00 pm
Meet and Greet / Word of Welcome / Opening Remarks
Scaena Theatre
5:00 pm
Blind Spot
Scaena Theatre
Ishyo Arts Centre
Rwanda
6:00 pm
PACE Opening Reception
Scaena Arts Café
7:30 pm
From Brighton to Bloem
Scaena Theatre
Culture ConneX (Brighton)
United Kingdom
8:30 pm
PACE Lounge
Scaena Arts Café
Thursday 10 July 2025
8:30 am
Registration / Breakfast
Scaena Arts Café
9:30 am
Operation Mzami
REP / Rehearsal Room
Operation Mzami
South Africa
10:15 am
Coffee Break
Scaena Arts Café
10:45 am
Panel Conversation “Researching the Arts”
Scaena Arts Café
Artistic Research & Practice - Can They Live Side-by-Side?
12:00 pm
Lunch Break
Kovsie Dining Hall / Awela Restaurant
1:30 pm
autoplay
Scaena Theatre
Darkroom Contemporary
South Africa
1:30 pm
Text Me When You Arrive
Scaena Arts Café
POPArt Johannesburg
South Africa
2:45 pm
The Journey at Lampeduza
AWO Theatre
YDC Theatre
Malawi
2:45 pm
Black Victorians
AWO Theatre
Jeanefer Jean-Charles & Associates
United Kingdom
2:45 pm
(elsewhere is forward)
AWO Theatre
Collective/Less
France / Botswana
2:45 pm
What is already here?
AWO Theatre
Majula Drammeh and Joseph K. Kasau Wa Mambwe
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) / The Gambia / Sweden
2:45 pm
Waterside
AWO Theatre
Kininso Koncepts Production
Nigeria
4:15 pm
Coffee Break
Scaena Arts Café
4:45 pm
Mmaotonafinyela
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Mosa Neema Rabannye
South Africa
4:45 pm
Women and Girls: A Journey in Sound System
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Seduction City Sound
United Kingdom
4:45 pm
LV/XI
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Leon Snyman
South Africa
4:45 pm
What remains through erosion and time
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Sonya Rademeyer
South Africa
4:45 pm
KiDDING
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Kamogelo Nong
South Africa
4:45 pm
AMUSA
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
African Entertainers
South Africa
6:15 pm
Dinner Break
Scaena Arts Café
8:00 pm
I AM: One of many many of One
Scaena Theatre
LULA.XYZ / OommoO
United Kingdom / Eritrea
9:00 pm
PACE Lounge
Scaena Arts Café
Friday 11 July 2025
8:30 am
Registration / Breakfast
Scaena Arts Café
9:30 am
Cornelius Olifant Live
Scaena Arts Café
Cornelius Olifant
South Africa
10:30 am
Coffee Break
Scaena Arts Café
11:00 am
The Spirits of the Black Meridian
Scaena Theatre
Dervish Productions
United Kingdom
12:15 pm
Echoes of the Soul
Scaena Arts Café
LIV Die / At Ahadi
South Africa / Kenya
1:00 pm
Lunch Break
Kovsie Dining Hall / Awela Restaurant
2:30 pm
MANEATER
AWO Theatre
NÜT Dance Company / Breaking Walls Festival(s)
Eygpt
2:30 pm
AFRONAUTS
AWO Theatre
Circus Zambia
Zambia
2:30 pm
Afrocartography
AWO Theatre
Nicola Pilkington
South Africa
2:30 pm
Trial by Media
AWO Theatre
Cape Town Opera
South Africa
2:30 pm
Sonder
AWO Theatre
Sibisi Studio
South Africa
4:00 pm
Coffee Break
Scaena Arts Café
4:30 pm
Workshop 1: Women and Girls: A Career in Sound System
REP / Rehearsal Room
Marilyn Dennis, aka Lady Banton
4:30 pm
Workshop 2: Becoming Other: A Playful Dive into Character
Scaena Theatre
Jane Mpholo-Mehlape
4:30 pm
Workshop 3: Green Art Can Make a Change
Scaena Main Entrance
Algy Chaná Alberto de Sá
6:00 pm
Dinner Break
Scaena Arts Café
7:30 pm
Kankantri
AWO Theatre
Gabri Christa Productions
Curaçao / Netherlands / United States of America
7:30 pm
Air de Temps
AWO Theatre
Alesandra Seutin
Senegal
9:00 pm
PACE Lounge
Scaena Arts Café
Saturday 12 July 2025
8:30 am
Registration / Breakfast
Scaena Arts Café
9:30 am
Self Eaters
AWO Theatre
La Part du pauvre Nana tribun
France
9:30 am
Men Shí
AWO Theatre
Armand Ntoungchi Kamtchoua
Cameroon
9:30 am
Reflets (Reflection)
AWO Theatre
Reflets (Reflection) Project
Madagascar / Senegal / Finland
9:30 am
The Residents
AWO Theatre
Hirut Getachew
Ethiopia
9:30 am
Tears by the River
AWO Theatre
Krystal Puppet Theatre
Kenya
11:00 am
Coffee Break
Scaena Arts Café
11:30 am
Moya Wa Mutwa
REP / Rehearsal Room
Mogale Sedibe
South Africa
12:30 pm
Lunch Break
Kovsie Dining Hall / Awela Restaurant
2:15 pm
Woza Wenties! And 3 Mense Phakathi
Scaena Theatre
Lorin Sookool
South Africa
2:15 pm
Back Streets
Scaena Theatre
Yusra Peters
South Africa
2:15 pm
This Is New Brighton: 100 Years
Scaena Theatre
flo creative (Formerly urbanflo creative) / Vian Roos
South Africa / United Kindom / Barbados
2:15 pm
A Love Supreme
Scaena Theatre
Rajae El Mouhandiz
The Netherlands / Morocco
2:15 pm
Night Community
Scaena Theatre
Napo Masheane
South Africa
3:45 pm
The Moor
REP / Rehearsal Room
Joel Adrian Valois
Sweden
4:30 pm
Coffee Break
Scaena Arts Café
5:00 pm
Colorism: A Global Phenomenon
AWO Theatre
Rogério M. Pinto - University of Michigan
United States of America / Brazil
5:00 pm
Loud
AWO Theatre
Kiana “KC” Cook - University of Michigan
United States of America
6:15 pm
University of Michigan Reception
Scaena Arts Café
8:00 pm
IZILO
Scaena Theatre
Cie Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe
France
9:00 pm
PACE Lounge
Scaena Arts Café
Sunday 13 July 2025
8:30 am
Registration / Breakfast
Scaena Arts Café
9:30 am
Long Table & Break-Out Session
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Moderated by Hassan Mahamdallie
11:00 am
Coffee Break
Scaena Arts Café
11:30 am
My Koek is Moeg
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Emela Films
South Africa
11:30 am
Green Art Can Make a Change
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Algy Chana Alberto de Sa
Mozambique
11:30 am
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Maynardville Theatre NPC
South Africa
11:30 am
Born Positive: Stories of Resilience
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Sistaboss Academy and Company
South Africa
11:30 am
Don’t Kill Me When I’m Dead
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Jukwaa Arts Productions
Kenya
11:30 am
Reimagination of Blackness
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Purculier
South Africa
11:30 am
Black Woman with a Mouth
EXR 3 (Exam Room 3)
Poeta Grace Consulting
South Africa
1:00 pm
Lunch Break
Kovsie Dining Hall / Awela Restaurant
2:30 pm
In Search of Our Humanity
Scaena Theatre
SboNdaba Dance
South Africa
3:30 pm
Coffee Break / Free Time
Scaena Arts Café
6:15 pm
First Nations Ceremony
Mooi Meisies Fountain
7:00 pm
First Nations Dinner
Scaena Arts Café
Shihaam Domingo Food Stories
8:30 pm
Unbreakable
Scaena Theatre
Soweto Skeleton Movers
South Africa / Netherlands / United Kingdom
9:30 pm
Closing Remarks / PACE Lounge
Scaena Arts Café
Online
ZAYO
Online
Esie Mensah Creations
Canada / Ghana
The Blood of all colours
Online
João Miguel Garcia Unip. Lda
Mozambique / Angola / Brazil / Portugal
Tales From The Virgo Multiverse
Online
Taylormade Studios
United Kingdom
The Gold Experience
Online
Asanda Mqiki / Art Viva Management
South Africa
Requiem for the Children of Lebone
Online
Léon Snyman
South Africa
TAP
Online
Percussive Platform
United Kingdom
Yin – Yang
Online
Nantea Dance Company
Tanzania
Le Mouton Noir
Online
Compagnie Ngor
Senegal
Failure Project
Online
Yolanda Mercy
United Kingdom
“Reign & Fire” an Afri-Sudanese Album Experience
Online
Jindi
United Arab Emirates / Sudan
Hard but Fragile
Online
Body Ability
South Africa
