• AT THE CENTRE
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    • COLLATION 4 | THE MASKANDALIFICATION OF OPERA (2026)
    • COLLATION 3 | THE UNEXPECTED CITY (2025)
    • COLLATION 2 | SOUNDING PICTURES: LIVE SCORES TO SHORT SILENT FILMS (2024)
    • COLLATION 1 | ON AIR: VISUAL RADIO PLAYS (2024)
  • SO Academy
    • ABOUT
    • TÊTE-À-TÊTE | ARTISTS TO PRODUCERS (2026)
    • SO | PRACTICE & TÊTE-À-TÊTE
    • THINKING IN (2020 - 2026)
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    • HOW | Showing the Making (2022 - 2026)
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    • DR JAMES BARRY WORKSHOPS (2024)
    • THE HEAD & THE LOAD | ACTIVATIONS (2023)
    • MOTLHANA KALANA INCUBATOR (2023)
    • A GATHERING IN A BETTER WORLD (2023)
    • The Centre of Somewhere (2022 - 2023)
    • 2ndary REVISIONS (2022)
    • WOVEN WITH BROWN THREAD (2021)
  • THE CENTRE OUTSIDE THE CENTRE
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    • 2026
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    • CFLGI x FONDATION CARTIER (2024)
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  • FOR ONCE
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    • FOR ONCE ARCHIVE (2017 - 2024)
    • A KAFKA MOMENT (2021)
    • A CONSIDERED 3 MINUTES (2020/2021)
    • THE POETRY MINUTE (2021)
    • A GODOT MOMENT (2020)
    • ODD PORTRAITS OF THIS PLACE (2021)
    • THE HIGHWAY NOTICE PROJECT (2020/2021)
    • THE LONG MINUTE (2020)
  • Season Archive
    • SEASON 11 | NOVEMBER 2025
    • SEASON 10 | OCTOBER 2023
    • SEASON 09 | October 2022
    • SEASON 08 | October 2021
    • Season 07 | April 2020 / September 2021
    • Season 06 | October 2019
    • Season 05 | April 2019
    • Season 04 | October 2018
    • Season 03 | April 2018
    • Season 02 | October 2017
    • Season 01 | March 2017
  • Tickets
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  • THE TEAM
  • FRIENDS OF THE LESS GOOD IDEA
  • About

The Centre for the Less Good Idea is an interdisciplinary incubator space for the arts based in Maboneng, Johannesburg

  • AT THE CENTRE
    • ABOUT
    • COLLATION 4 | THE MASKANDALIFICATION OF OPERA (2026)
    • COLLATION 3 | THE UNEXPECTED CITY (2025)
    • COLLATION 2 | SOUNDING PICTURES: LIVE SCORES TO SHORT SILENT FILMS (2024)
    • COLLATION 1 | ON AIR: VISUAL RADIO PLAYS (2024)
  • SO Academy
    • ABOUT
    • TÊTE-À-TÊTE | ARTISTS TO PRODUCERS (2026)
    • SO | PRACTICE & TÊTE-À-TÊTE
    • THINKING IN (2020 - 2026)
    • IN CONVERSATION ARCHIVE (2017 – 2025)
    • HOW | Showing the Making (2022 - 2026)
    • THE OPEN MOMENT (2024 - 2026)
    • DR JAMES BARRY WORKSHOPS (2024)
    • THE HEAD & THE LOAD | ACTIVATIONS (2023)
    • MOTLHANA KALANA INCUBATOR (2023)
    • A GATHERING IN A BETTER WORLD (2023)
    • The Centre of Somewhere (2022 - 2023)
    • 2ndary REVISIONS (2022)
    • WOVEN WITH BROWN THREAD (2021)
  • THE CENTRE OUTSIDE THE CENTRE
    • ABOUT
    • 2026
    • 2025
    • CFLGI x FONDATION CARTIER (2024)
    • 2024
    • 2023
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
  • FOR ONCE
    • ABOUT
    • FOR ONCE ARCHIVE (2017 - 2024)
    • A KAFKA MOMENT (2021)
    • A CONSIDERED 3 MINUTES (2020/2021)
    • THE POETRY MINUTE (2021)
    • A GODOT MOMENT (2020)
    • ODD PORTRAITS OF THIS PLACE (2021)
    • THE HIGHWAY NOTICE PROJECT (2020/2021)
    • THE LONG MINUTE (2020)
  • Season Archive
    • SEASON 11 | NOVEMBER 2025
    • SEASON 10 | OCTOBER 2023
    • SEASON 09 | October 2022
    • SEASON 08 | October 2021
    • Season 07 | April 2020 / September 2021
    • Season 06 | October 2019
    • Season 05 | April 2019
    • Season 04 | October 2018
    • Season 03 | April 2018
    • Season 02 | October 2017
    • Season 01 | March 2017
  • Tickets
  • SO | ACADEMY BOOKINGS
  • THE TEAM
  • FRIENDS OF THE LESS GOOD IDEA
  • About

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