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  • AT THE CENTRE
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    • TÊTE-À-TÊTE | ARTISTS TO PRODUCERS (2026)
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    • HOW | Showing the Making (2022 – 2026)
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  • 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 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)
    • 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 piano

Season 4 of The Centre for the Less Good Idea features a number of pianos in various states of disrepair, as well as a single, pristinely-kept Steinway grand piano. The season also features two of the country’s best pianists, Jill Richards and Kyle Shepherd. While Shepherd and Richards will engage with almost all of the pianos over the course of the Season, they will also make use of the Steinway in a spectacular double bill piano programme.

WRITING | Dave Mann
PHOTOGRAPHER | Zivanai Matangi

The piano