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

  • WHAT'S ON AT THE CENTRE | APRIL - MAY 2025
  • AT THE CENTRE
    • COLLATION 1 | ON AIR: VISUAL RADIO PLAYS
    • COLLATION 2 | SOUNDING PICTURES: LIVE SCORES TO SHORT SILENT FILMS
  • SO Academy
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    • THINKING IN (2020 - 2025)
    • IN CONVERSATION ARCHIVE (2017 – 2024)
    • HOW | Showing the Making (2022 - 2024)
    • THE OPEN MOMENT
    • 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)
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    • THE POETRY MINUTE (2021)
    • A GODOT MOMENT (2020)
    • ODD PORTRAITS OF THIS PLACE (2021)
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    • THE LONG MINUTE (2020)
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SEASON 3 | DESERT GUESTS | VIDEO EXCERPT

In April 2018 The Centre for the Less Good Idea hosted Season 3.

We were privileged to have several international guest artists jon us for the season.

From Madagascar, Temandrota & Naty Kaly. Supported by an ANT Mobility Grant from Pro Helvetia Johannesburg financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Thanks to Meghan Judge for initiating to collaboration via the collective Africa|Nosy|Art|Echange (ANAE).

From Mexico, Javier Velázquez Cabrero. Supported by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) through the Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE), in the framework of the Mobility grants) and The Nirox Foundation.

From Scotland, Mele Broomes, invited by core curator Lindiwe Matshikiza.

These guests collaborated with Johannesburg based Season 3 artists to create prelude pieces to DESERT.

The programme was as follows:

Temandrota & Naty Kaly
LIA AN' EFITSE
https://vimeo.com/272772775
https://vimeo.com/272911678

Mele Broomes and Javier Velázquez Cabrero
UNTITLED
https://vimeo.com/272771061

and

João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga
PROCESS SCORES with Danger Gevaar Ingozi (Chad
Cordeiro & Nathaniel Sheppard III), Simnikiwe
Buhlungu, Temandrota, Naty Kaly, Mele Broomes,
Gretchen Blegen, Andrei van Wyk aka Healer Oran and
Lindiwe Matshikiza
https://vimeo.com/272768289

WRITER | Lindiwe Matshikiza
DIRECTOR | Mwenya Kabwe
PERFORMERS | Mncedisi Shabangu, Mele Broomes and Lindiwe Matshikiza
CINEMATOGRAPHER | Boitumelo Moroka
VISUAL LANDSCAPER | Alexia Webster
SHADOW PLAY AND ANIMATER | Meghan Judge
SOUND DESIGNER AND MUSICAL COMPOSER | João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga with Temandrota and Naty Kaly
INSTALLATION AND COSTUME CURATOR | Noluthando Lobese
ASSISTANT SET DESIGNER AND MINIATURE MAKER | Mmakhotso Lamola
LIGHTING DESIGNER | Mandla Mtshali
STAGE MANAGER | Cammie Behrens