Season 11 is coming to The Centre for the Less Good Idea from 26 to 30 November 2025! 

Curated by The Centre’s impresario, Neo Muyanga, and supported by The Centre’s core team, Season 11 focuses on work made by and in collaboration with Johannesburg’s many artists, theatremakers, musicians, writers, filmmakers, and thinkers.

MOVEMENT AND MARK-MAKING

Opening Season 11 is a new programme pairing prominent visual artists and dancers towards a series of responsive, interdisciplinary experiments in movement and mark-making. Artists and dancers include William Kentridge, Vincent Mantsoe, Penny Siopis, Shannel Winlock-Pailman, Mary Sibande, Nandipha Mntambo, and more. 

CONTINUED COLLATIONS

For five days, our spaces in downtown Johannesburg will be home to a multifaceted programme of newly incubated, interdisciplinary work, as well as continued explorations of compelling works from the first three Collations series – Visual Radio Plays, Sounding Pictures, and The Unexpected City.

SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCES & INSTALLATIONS

Downtown Johannesburg remains a vital site and source of inspiration, informing how we situate works both inside and outside of The Centre. An ongoing component of the Season is a series of performances and public light installations in and around Fox Street and Arts on Main, curated by Marcus Neustetter.

THREE NEW PLAYS FROM THE SO ACADEMY

The Season will also feature three newly incubated works of theatre from our interrelated series of mentorship programmes – Thinking In Writing, Thinking In Directing, Thinking In Lighting, and Thinking In Staging – curated by SO | The Academy for the Less Good Idea. 

GUEST PERFORMANCES, TALKS & ACTIVATIONS

A number of invited works will form part of Season 11, by local and international artists alike, including Mallika Taneja (India), Dele Oljede (Nigeria), Vincent Mantsoe (France/South Africa), Marcus Neustetter (Austria/South Africa), Phala Ookeditse Phala, Shanell Winlock-Pailman, Sello Pesa and more.

These visiting artists will present talks, public processions, and solo performances. The full Season 11 programme will be made available and bookings will go live in mid-October. Keep in touch with The Centre at the link below.