MIXTAPE/EGAZINI ART PARTY

The Mixtape/Egazini Art Party is a one-night art event (think of the old Public Eye Softserve parties) to be held at the Egazini Outreach Centre on June 25th. Following Mixtape’s mandates of collaboration, integration and community outreach, this event will see artists, musicians and performers from a diverse range of community backgrounds working (and playing) together.

Egazini Outreach Centre is an ex-Apartheid Detention Centre, and now serves as a dynamic workshop, retail, performance and exhibition space for artists, musicians, performers and crafters from Grahamstown’s communities. The Mixtape/Egazini Art Party will see the space transformed into a multicultural, multidisciplinary art space, dance floor (which is a reakky ra, big space) and party venue; with site – specific installations and video pieces from some of Cape Town’s top young artists as well as work in all media from the artists based at Egazini. As part of the preparation for the event there will be an installation workshop at Egazini Centre to introduce the artists working there to elements of contemporary art practice, while Egazini’s artists will give Mixtape members a printmaking workshop so that we can all work together on décor, marketing and collaborative art production.

There will also be a range of performance pieces, some of which will be choreographed specifically for this event.

Music will be as eclectic as we hope our audience to be, with everything ranging from hip hop and spoken word to Indie, rock and House music, so come with open ears and an open mind!

(There might also be Rave Craft - think Traditional Xhosa necklaces made in UV beads)