Pilato To Perform In London, Joburg

POET and rapper Pilato is tonight performing at Club La Face VIP Room in London, United Kingdom at a show dubbed ‘A Night with Pilato’.
From there, Pilato, who is also an actor and film director, is expected to perform at the SANAA (Sejima And Nishizawa And Associates) Africa Festival 2014 to be held at Moyo, Zoo Lake in Johannesburg, South Africa from May 21 – 24.
SANAA Africa is a yearly four-day cultural festival recognised by the City of Joburg as the official Africa Day celebration.

In the spirit of celebration, Africa’s most talented performers and artistes will take to Moyo, Zoo Lake in Parkview for a vibrant, one-of-a-kind experience.
The idea behind the festivities is to create an event that exposes a cross section of the vastly multicultural continent, ranging from visual art, craft, song, story-telling and film.
Using global networks established over several years, Sanaa Africa Festival 2014 has invited the most creative out of African youths from Mozambique, Zambia, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, to South Africa, to collaborate with the most creative of that country’s ”Born – Free” Generation.
Performances include HHP, Uhuru, Teargas, Molemi, M.I (Nigeria), Fena (Kenya), Pilato (Zambia), Nhatty Man (Ethiopia) and Mimae (Mozambique).
In total, 10 artistes and eight poets will produce and present works from established and up-coming backgrounds. On the other hand, brand new theatre productions will make their presentations and the best of new African cinema will be put on screen for SANAA 2014 to further enhance the holistic scope that it takes when it comes to the continent, its people and the arts.
Apart from promoting awareness and appreciation of Africa’s arts and culture, SANAA also has a strong focus on ensuring the sustainability of the festival by entering into strategic partnerships with sponsors.
MTN is the major sponsor.
“The MTN SA Foundation is honoured to be a strategic partner for the SANAA Africa Arts Festival 2013. We support the development of the arts, including skills development initiatives offered by SANAA across all genres – targeting not only creativity but also business and entrepreneurial skills.
“Through our involvement, we hope to play a role in helping artists to showcase their work, but to also create wealth by stimulating sustainability through expression. We believe and support SANAA’s vision of establishing an artistic library for the future, to preserve indigenous knowledge and expression, and to also create a commercial benefit for all our communities,” says Kusile Mtunzi-Hairwadzi, the general manager of MTN South Africa Foundation.
Johannesburg has been the host city for the SANAA Africa Arts Festival since it was launched three years ago.

Posted by Editor on May 17, 2014. Filed under LIFE & STYLE, STYLE. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.