The association of all of the tour you here performing awesome find us come together in an exciting way for macs, in the sense that collaboration is at the core of creative expression. And with that, in case of attitude, we bring it today, show, kicking off with the wall loan, some a foot with the flip flop the functional, colorful, and cheat. Perhaps that is why 3 put in event a made every year. Sadly, these flip flops. Finally, away into oceans or 2 ways and im side in the thousands. A group of autism is a narrow be, however, on a mission to turn trash into tricia. We shadow top shift, maurice echo as he re ships the coloring landscape with his unique fusion with africa meets japan and later in malawi, how about the hyundai shows . How sing . True to your creates a vision is a road to success, to i am she decides in this need to and you are watching out for max. The we are reading you today show from a contemporary art gallery that has been in existence for 75 years. The association of us pretoria has during this impressive life spent initiates as the most of africans, most prestigious competitions, including settling you 6 inches before we meet with the jury to beat the fleming tetra. But lets move to the beats of polite need. A singer songwriter and story time a. She was the crowds in johannesburg. My main campus is the story. And then music is a pain by colors that story the and the reason why music is a powerful tool in helping us, you know, kind of that story is that it houses, you know, sounds that are happening at houses, stories that he named set it, all of the people to unpack a message, unpack themselves. So you know, find themselves p menu who is an Award Winning seamless on right to whose social voice has been heard in concepts. And 1st of all, across the globe. She calls himself the intelligible story teller, a title that highlights her mandate, not just to make music that she uses the put to bring influence the power of storytelling, indelible. Not able to be forgotten, and that is the power of her sound. The, when i started my journey and kind of pursuing my passions, i found growth in corporate and studied like no and marketing. And there came a time in my life where i realize that creativity really is the power of transformation in the world. Creative consciousness is about the idea that we as people are all creative and will co create as of life. And that gives us the accountability that we have of what we contribution to the world. Theres a story about a crowd that broke sideways and crap, the whole ways moving sideways because were not Going Forward to it. Never walking straight. Any. Tell me anybody who wants to try to and theyre Going Forward 10 years as a self funded independence musicologist culminated in the in know role for clue festival, founded by providing housing. October 2022. This was a vibrant celebration of African Culture Community and heritage. The 1st of its kind in the country, the music that were performing at the football festival is music that was inspired by time and a place i spent in the tron sky when i was paying a political, being in close proximity with the village learning traditional folk songs and remembering how fun it was to sing in my language how fun it was to sing. And thats kind of music which is really inherent of the bundle people, the. 0 the every voice is a bit that vibrates at a particular, you know, kind of level timber. And so, you know, some motive, someone who gave me a lot of freedom in my voice. And uh, you know, the likes of ella fitzgerald, you know, gave me the freedom of sort of motion and music kind of t and phrasing in jazz as i, as i googled and started loving jazz. My miram, i care about, you know, always an influence in the space, particularly fusing no global genres with all traditional folk music and taking it to the world. The when i traveled and kind of told her on the world, people would always look at me as that woman. You know, women who comes from south africa. What does that mean . What is your story . Are you telling the story of your people . Are you sharing enough of the music of your people and thats how focus have to on this path. And essentially how photo festival was best is this idea thatd be old carrying this thing that forms a part of identity, but that needs to be preserved and captured and using sort of music as a technology to do that. Because if it wasnt, i guess for my miriam, would i ever have learnt the folk song for more time the so i think language and having, you know, singles and other holders of sort of indigenous content like me. And my case has been absolutely christian and essential and inferential in my career as well, particularly at this moment where i feel like i have this purpose, a sense of purpose in driving for an agenda to keep in business. Got assistance, but also to house. I was stories as African People in music. The smoking is about a woman who stepped an old man, pulled him by the bid, and spect, i mean, shes agreed and i then wrote the med, the song, my goal is to describe why is this woman upset and is this conversation were constantly having about domestic issues in south africa, its modern social context, but its also still the cost so and you trace back the culture. How do we find ourselves here . The history of broken black families understanding of how do we arrive at a woman, gives birth to a lineage of children, which is a woman. But them is also ill treated when she is actually at the cool is the incubate childs life for families. So that song was kind of extending that idea of guns, disgruntled women, whose flat, big and old man, why if shes so angry because shes a muscle in the family which is a bride. And potentially she feels like the environment is. So i think abusive because shes required to do a lot to prove herself as if it were not enough that cheapest kids the now back to today as we meet with the director of the association of aust vittoria, the space is incredible. We have a wonderful exhibition. Yeah. Its cool. 50 parts for 50 years, and this is only thing preventable that and this has to participate in this specific exhibition being part of such an impressive gallery with an amazing trick. They could a space for the people. Why is this so important, especially for the off this association both established in 1947 and except the farm is. Its a place where all the lovers and octaves and visions come together to show our, to everybody and standing here. I see the grand piano. Im assuming that its not just a decrease to a very good friend of mine whos also his phone. Sort of this gallery, the time you one day me to meet both you really on thing shit. And one of these does, you still have a dream before the part is gather nice, uniform just i would like still has the physical performance and the visual arts. Yeah. And if you need what, what do you need from us . The dream appear, and lets talk a bit about the assessment and you signature competition. We must keep a platform for john and thats coming off to me on is a part of who we are. I think its a foundation of the main characteristics as of who we as africans. But at the same time, i feel like that isnt enough supports you know, but if you think of how mean artist one does competition, you know, they, they, they would naturally plains, you know, often the competition may even internationally. I mean theres people this octave who exhibits right through the world and, and they should talk that they could react with the cell phone. Do you think you just saw this is absolutely absolutely amazing. Before explore the wonderful ceramic setup part of this current exhibitions. List travel to the brief ton of central pain powers for more spectral fuses japanese, an applicant disease, much to the delight of his clientele. Becky then is actually typically japanese, but top french chef maury. Psycho is turning it into an international dish. With influence is from all over the world. He wants to bring new taste experiences to french cuisine weve uh, dealt with joe, we have something here that is part japanese, part african for example, the course with homeless and so with chick peas. It is, it brings to mind the middle east. I want to go on a colon every journey from one bye to another. We quickly go from asia to the middle east to africa, just. Thats what im trying to do here in central pay. Since june, 2020 to maurice echo has been busy in san to pay to the city on the french cortez who is known as a playground for the rich and faith this here, the sheriff has opened his 2nd restaurant in cooperation with luxury brand, louise, the tall like were seeing is largely influenced by my background and my passion. I bring it all together and create something unique in french cuisine. And i get one of these, especially include japanese and african influence is which characterize the meals. At his restaurants, maurice stucco grew up with his parents of molly and senegalese origin, near paris. In addition to his classical training as a shift, he was also influenced by the food he knew from his childhood. Because if you live when i opened my restaurant in paris, i was looking for all these traditional recipes. I asked my mother, how do you do this . How do you do that . I learned a lot in the process. Yeah. I used to eat whatever she cooked, but not actually care about how she prepared it. If it has montgomery living, maurice that goes to success is validation for his concept because this is false to the secret to my success, i think is that i am so passionate about what i do. Im going to the guests noticed that i really try to do what i know and what i feel im on and do it as honestly as possible. If i maintain the sincerity, nothing should go wrong things. Yeah, that i said, okay. Yeah. So the best ones for more, a soco creating new dishes and flavor combinations is always an emotional process that comes from the heart. Hes no fan of strict rules. But whats the most important thing is to be free to have the freedom to play with different inspirations and ingredients that you find and want to use to be able to compose freely to enjoy yourself and have fun in the limo. I think that if you have join your work is then the guests will notice and will enjoy the flu. His eccentric creations and willingness to experiment had made maurice echo one of the most popular shifts in france. And shes now dreaming of also opening a restaurant in africa and the country auto is often seen as a means of attracting tourist and teller at the hyundai whos changing the shape of our appreciation. Im allowing we went to see what shes all about. I absolutely feel like tourist art is like it kills concepts it kills it, kills our experiences, tourist artist just for stifled art. The in a country where most artists mass produce paintings for a tourist market. One artist has gained International Recognition with her approach to address issues pertaining to identity, empowerment and so forth. Malawi and bore and makes media artist throughout the hyundai is a creature extraordinarily, shes constantly refining her work and redefining the ways in which our to creativity seeps into every aspect of it. Has a lot of pressure. Now i think of social media when we see a lot of artist coffee and clinical case, and this is african aesthetic now, no, you can, you can create your own aesthetic. And if you really refinance, it will be great dialing. There is no shame and steering down a fork road and choosing to say, i am an architectural technologist by education. I have a bachelors degree in the architecture. So im also a designer. I do interior design work in malawi. I. Im a Communications Officer full time for our grant making organization. I am a visual artist that is, i think, something that ive been my whole life. Um, and im also the co founder of a collective called winner connective and also in arts connective which should slides on the lived experiences of women. Im a creator, but i also am a very passionate about life experiences. And i think as ive gotten older, ive been more passionate about womens experiences and not only my own, but the ones that i have observed to my mantra is that im an artist with a purpose greater than myself. I gave him on a lease and grades. I turned term blue into an avatar and took her to make my law. Busy and then here i was exploring african print material, which im not really a big fan of these days cuz is i think its less representative spaces. This is one of my most favorite pieces. Essentially. When i created this piece, i had just finished my bachelors degree. I was in this in a space where i was looking for work and i wasnt really finding work, so i decided that in order to find work, i needed to delve into my purpose. They needed to delve into what i think i can do well, which is painting. And i really decided that this is going to be the best painting ive ever done with. Your unique voice directors managed to stand out in a difficult on scene in malawi. What is the recipe for success . I have always been putting myself out there, even though i, i think i appear to be a shy person or a quiet attention or an individual person. I will share my work and i, i have one people to see my work before they see me and i will create work and share it. Thats. Thats something that i think in this generation is making create a strive glass with a work. The rental also wants to inspire fellow creatives across the continent. I would love to see more african artist, be authentic. Be offensive. Be true to themselves. The more i focused on i my arts, and the more i put myself out, the more i was brave allotment of myself out there. The more money i made, the more deals i got. I remember the 1st god god. When i became a freelance artist and animator or whatever was a gig from the netherlands and i was asking them how they found me and they said from your social media. And then i got a gig from uganda and from south africa. And then america arts has been 2nd nature for me in my life. I think its a way of being, its a way of living. And for me i think the most important thing is leaving, and i guess the alex you started out and have fun. And the loves started to go in every time when you make a choice, its a, its a new design. And so you experiment when i started teaching, i wanted the kids to feed how i feel when im, when im creating that, you know, when you do add you as more like feeding the soul. And, and they that feeling that you have during that time peacefully, you know, you have, you would have peace of mind. And then you wouldnt think of anything that, that happening, something you. So when did they transfer that feeling to that your work as so vibrant color for them, so beautiful. But i know that was to remix our toilet lease. When i was growing up. There wasnt always that way. Can you please explain the change that has taken place and in this, in this medium defense . Because were not like these as well. You, you can tell when you paint, how does it gonna come up until its been fired and then later on and as the technology imageries. So we end up having the new colors where you can be able to see how its going to come up. Alex, thank you so much for joining us here today. If you so much time to travel north to can you, when another group, a lot attaining a problem into a solution to the this is how we are taking this from our oceans and making it for something beautiful. Francis mccoy is one of almost 100 of the artisans in kenya, who produced animals sketches of all shapes and sizes, many of which are life sized. Together, the purpose, almost a 1000000 flip flops each year into a thing of beauty. In their own little way, they are working to make our world a better place. First, i would have tough. Then all of us friends, school cameos, joins that people hot informed us about a hot, and then we hadnt got to join them. And they would have company came to us to that was time when the government sponsor cutting office logs. Then we had knowing of trees to do the coffee. And then when we had to find an alternative, some of us was going back to the homes and then lucky enough we had up over there. People thought part is some of the thing because its not so hard to like move on, its soft and not to, to tie off for like it was a person its, im both going rings and put them in because when these people soft on hand, well, hours a day jobs they questions, so when they are collected, our phones are clean refund, side clean policy is not clear. So which is also most of the people thrown in our lease to dump sites, then they are cut it into our what always leave us then the leave us dump them into the oceans of the oceans 15 bucks inside the killing, our ocean live. So, shockingly, they are above 11000000. 00 metric tons of trash that end up in the ocean. And i mean that you and estimates that in 2027, theyll be more plastic in the ocean, the fish. So thats will give everybody something to think about. The journey to a finished product is one taken by several members of the team. The collect is bringing more than one ton of flip flops each week. Once, wait, its time for them to get a good. Why . This is a place where the c plus a plus when did right say a to so just sick them from here is that the process of causing the next process will be that by cuts machine, the bypass basically the stuff, the engraving of the animals that this meant to become of so we get the die cut. The ascended the ascending process basically makes the cycle what so that the sun is really causing after the sand it the put into blocks in form of a block using a blue i said the blocks have the made the access to an eva, cause the more or less the blocks in the store to be used laser for causing well the most popular pieces would be the draw ela funds on the titles. And if you look at these 3 animals, their own endangered light is where we get inspiration from which we we, we met ox to tell a story about these animals so that you can help get them to help them. And once people do not, you know where they go and thats a phi that the elephant is indigent for. The giraffe isnt the injured or the title a dying because of eating plastic. So we make these up to tell the story of these animals to draw attention to them to the big and was we use the material for shipping, which is known as part of the whole state. Apple. Were putting it together using the windows menu called the size of the more useful files. Then ive gone to move down more bit on the got the peoples pieces so not to who may make the same rich the color, the flip flops, sculptures find their way to clients all over the world in homes, museums, sous and parks. The proceeds of this are channel to educational and environmental initiatives. This has been a wonderful day filled with our design and your experiences till next time. 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