BASHA UHURU CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF CREATIVE FREEDOM
BASHA UHURU CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF CREATIVE FREEDOM
CONSTITUTION HILL BASHA UHURU FREEDOM FESTIVAL
Johannesburg’s most anticipated creative festival, Constitution Hill’s Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival, will offer a jam-packed line-up at the Sounds of Freedom Music Festival, creative immersions, and art filled experiences for its 2024 edition from the 27th to the 29th of June.
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Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival has become one of Gauteng’s biggest YOUTH ARTS events attracting thousands of youth from diverse cultural backgrounds to Constitution Hill to commemorate Youth Month together in a safe and critically engaging environment.
The theme of the 2024 edition is ‘30 Years of Creative Freedom’ – the festival will highlight the role of young people and their participation in creative and social movements.
In true Basha style, the festival culminates on 29th of June with the Sounds of Freedom Music Festival. Curated to provide space for up-and-coming artists and new talent, the music festival this year is headlined by local mega stars. The music festival opens at 10h00, and festival goers can enjoy a full day at the Curated Market with live music and performances; activations; food stalls and bars.
The festival is an opportunity to learn and be inspired, share skills and nurture talent, network and collaborate, and create and monetize whilst driving important conversations affecting the creative sector.
This year’s festival brings local stars and legends to the main stage! Festival goers can look forward to headliners Kabza De Small | MÖRDA | Sjava | Amagugu Ezwe | Nadia Nakai | FKA Mash | Kujenga |Holly Rey and local favourites, Solo Ntsizwa ka Mthimkhulu | ByLwansta | PONACOLADA X NKLY | Symatics | Castro x Doda x Boisanza; Gbedu Nights | Thabo Housecatz | Jussbanks | Nikita | Bomzi | Black Villain | Jab A Jaw | Coppashot x Bobotikal | YUASKINGME
Party goers can also look forward to a guest performance from this year’s Basha Uhuru Music Legacy Award winner – Alaska.
“Basha Uhuru forms part of an ongoing ecosystem at Constitution Hill of creative spaces and communities – within this signature festival we celebrate artistic expression in all its forms. All the curated components of the festival will reflect and showcase the multi-faceted journeys of South African Creatives. Basha Uhuru aims to showcase and celebrate underrepresented creative communities.” Londi Modiko, manager of the Creative Uprising Hub
This year the festival welcomes back Ms Gaisang Sathekge whose commitment to development in the creative world founded the concept of Basha Uhuru as a member of the Conhill team in 2012.
Gaisang is now the Chief Curator at the James Hall Museum of Transport and has been invited to curate one of two visual arts exhibitions that form part of the Basha Uhuru festival. The exhibition, The New Black: A Rainbow Deferred is a reimagining of blackness and reclaiming artistic agency within the dynamic and constantly changing notion of an African identity.
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