• CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | ASSISTANT CURATOR
  • AT THE CENTRE
    • ABOUT
    • COLLATION 5 | BETWEEN GHOSTS & SHADOWS (2026)
    • 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)
    • SEASON ARCHIVE (2017 – 2025)
  • SO Academy
    • ABOUT
    • SO | ACADEMY BOOKINGS
    • TÊTE-À-TÊTE | ARTISTS TO PRODUCERS (2026)
    • SO | PRACTICE & TÊTE-À-TÊTE
    • THINKING IN (2020 – 2026)
    • IN CONVERSATION (2017 – 2025)
    • HOW | Showing the Making (2022 – 2026)
    • THE OPEN MOMENT (2024 – 2026)
    • SO ACADEMY ARCHIVE (2021 – 2024)
  • 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)
  • Tickets
  • 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

  • CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | ASSISTANT CURATOR
  • AT THE CENTRE
    • ABOUT
    • COLLATION 5 | BETWEEN GHOSTS & SHADOWS (2026)
    • 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)
    • SEASON ARCHIVE (2017 – 2025)
  • SO Academy
    • ABOUT
    • SO | ACADEMY BOOKINGS
    • TÊTE-À-TÊTE | ARTISTS TO PRODUCERS (2026)
    • SO | PRACTICE & TÊTE-À-TÊTE
    • THINKING IN (2020 – 2026)
    • IN CONVERSATION (2017 – 2025)
    • HOW | Showing the Making (2022 – 2026)
    • THE OPEN MOMENT (2024 – 2026)
    • SO ACADEMY ARCHIVE (2021 – 2024)
  • 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)
  • Tickets
  • THE TEAM
  • FRIENDS OF THE LESS GOOD IDEA
  • About

SEASON ARCHIVE (2017 – 2025)

Since its inception, The Centre has used its Seasons as moments to share, test, and explore publicly, the ideas it has been working towards in collaboration with a team of artists, musicians, writers, dancers, theatremakers and more.

To date, The Centre has produced 11 Seasons – short festivals of newly incubated work – each curated by a different individual, collective, or by The Centre team itself.

Each Season is available to browse and explore in full at the links below.

SEASON 11 | CURATED BY NEO MUYANGA & BRONWYN LACE (NOVEMBER 2025)

SEASON 10 | CURATED BY THE CENTRE TEAM (OCTOBER 2023)

SEASON 9 | CURATED BY ATHENA MAZARAKIS & MANDLA MBOTHWE (OCTOBER 2022)

SEASON 8 | CURATED BY BONGILE GORATA LECOGE-ZULU (OCTOBER 2021)

SEASON 7 | CURATED BY WILLIAM KENTRIDGE & PHALA OOKEDITSE PHALA (APRIL 2020 / SEPTEMBER 2021)

SEASON 6 | CURATED BY SELLO PESA & THIRESHEN GOVENDER (OCTOBER 2019)

SEASON 5 | CURATED BY DAVID APRIL & PHALA OOKEDITSE PHALA (APRIL 2019)

SEASON 4 | CURATED BY JANE TAYLOR (OCTOBER 2018)

SEASON 3 | CURATED BY BETTINA MALCOMESS, LINDIWE MATSHIKIZA & BHAVISHA PANCHIA (APRIL 2018)

SEASON 2 | CURATED BY NHLANHLA MAHLANGU, TEGAN BRISTOW & JAMAL NXEDLANA (OCTOBER 2017)‍

SEASON 1 | CURATED BY BRONWYN LACE & WILLIAM KENTRIDGE (MARCH 2017)

  SEASON 11 (NOVEMBER 2025)      SEASON 10 (OCTOBER 2023)      SEASON 9 (OCTOBER 2022)       SEASON 8 (OCTOBER 2021)      SEASON 7 (APRIL 2020 / SEPTEMBER 2021)      SEASON 6 (OCTOBER 2019)      SEASON 5 (APRIL 2019)       SEASON 4 (OCTOBER 2018)