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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
    • COLLATION ARCHIVE (2024 - 2026)
    • 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)
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    • 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)
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  THE OPEN MOMENT | PORTRAITS OF MABONENG

South African mural artist and curator Nonka Mbonambi, along with a team of local artists, was invited to design a large-scale mural adorning a wall on Main street, just outside the Arts on Main building that The Centre for the Less Good Idea calls home. During The Unexpected City programme, there were also two interactive, ‘mobile’ walls – one in The Atrium and one situated between Fox Street and the Arts on Main Courtyard that encouraged the public to leave their mark, and their thoughts on the needs of the city.

On Saturday 29 March, Mbonambi led an Open Moment in the form of a walkabout along Fox Street and Main Street, pointing out murals by local street artists and graffiti writers, ending at the mural she worked on with local artists.

CREDITS

CURATOR & MURALIST | Nonka Mbonambi
MOMENTEUR FOR THE SO ACADEMY | Athena Mazarakis