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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
    • ABOUT
    • SO | PRACTICE & TÊTE-À-TÊTE
    • 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)
  • THE CENTRE OUTSIDE THE CENTRE
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    • 2025
    • CFLGI x FONDATION CARTIER (2024)
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    • 2022
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    • 2019
  • FOR ONCE
    • ABOUT
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    • 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)
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    • SEASON 09 | October 2022
    • SEASON 08 | October 2021
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    • Season 01 | March 2017
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 SO | PRACTICE & TÊTE-À-TÊTE

In 2024, SO | The Academy for the Less Good Idea launches two new open programmes aimed at professional artists, PRACTICE & TÊTE-À-TÊTE. 

BOOKINGS AVAILABLE HERE

PRACTICE | MOVEMENT & VOICE

The first PRACTICE | MOVEMENT was led by Lulu Mlangeni.
Photographer | Zivanai Matangi

PRACTICE  is a series of FREE, open training sessions for professional artists looking to fine-tune or refine their practice, as well as develop new skills. 

There will be one Voice session and one Movement session per month, led by different industry professionals and educators working in the realms of performance and the broader fields of embodied practice. 

To date, PRACTICE | Voice facilitators have included Sbusiso Shozi, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, Fiona Ramsay, Bongile Gorata Lecoge-Zulu, Ziza Muftic, Anathi Conjwa, Dorothy Ann Gould, Sizwe Mondlane, Xolisile Bongwana, Neo Muyanga & Simphiwe Skhakhane.

PRACTICE | Movement facilitators have included Teresa Phuti Mojela, Thulani Chauke, Vusi Mdoyi, Sello Pesa, Roberto Pombo, Kyla Davis, Lulu Mlangeni and Smangaliso Ngwenya, Muzi Shili, Lucia Walker, Athena Mazarakis & Kamogelo Molobye.

The first PRACTICE | VOICE was led by Nhlanhla Mahlangu.
Photographer | Zivanai Matangi


TÊTE-À-TÊTE | CREATIVE CONSULTATIONS

The first TÊTE-À-TÊTE was hosted by Neo Muyanga.
Photographer | Zivanai Matangi

Aimed at practising artists across the disciplines of visual art, performance, literature and more, TÊTE-À-TÊTE offers a once-off, one-on-one engagement with industry professionals that allows artists to speak about their work and process, and get advice from leading artistic practitioners.

These free 30-minute sessions allow artists to gain fresh perspectives on their work, and to receive individual guidance or feedback on their ideas.

Those previously on the TÊTE-À-TÊTE couch include Gerard Bester, Neo Muyanga, Mamela Nyamza, Jefferson Tshabalala, Mary Sibande, Jill Richards, Shane Cooper, Dimakatso Motholo, Basak Senova & MoMo Matsunyane.


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