Ananias Léki Dago @ joburg art fair
Invitation / Reminder
Shebeen Blues Photo Exhibition by Ananias Léki Dago
26th March – 22nd May, Goethe-Institut Johannesburg
Special event in Soweto
Photo projection and casual gathering
When: 4pm, 5th April 2009
Where: Shakame M Market Madzena St crn Phandamashango Rd, Chiawelo
One of the places Léki Dago photographed is the Shakame M Market. The shebeen is a “tshisa nyama” (eating and drinking place) located in Chiawelo, Soweto. Shakame M Market this year celebrates its 20th anniversary as an important meeting place of the area. You can buy and grill meat on the spot, as well as get pap and drinks. The juke box installed against a dark red wall offers music that inspires dancing in the haze of smoke. It’s a place where under the corrugated roof the day turns into a foggy twilight, and workers in their boiler suits intermingle with young people hanging around, and families having lunch. And it is a perfect spot to gather and view Léki Dago´s works on a late Sunday afternoon. We hope you will be able to join us for the opening of the exhibition at the Goethe-Institut as well as at the Shakame M Market at the last day of the Johannesburg Art Fair for a bit of Shebeen Blues.
Bus shuttle: There will be a shuttle-bus from the Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood to Soweto on Sun 5th April at 3pm. Leaving back to Parkwood by 7pm. Please RSVP by 3nd April, seats are limited: dpt@johannesburg.goethe.org
Contact: Dagmar Wittek pr@johannesburg.goethe.org / tel. 011 – 442 3232
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