Malawi, we embark on a journey to uncover the captivating story behind the traditional getting megan or royal umbrellas. And we tackle gender stereotypes. With mondays biggest up and coming female hip hop artist, me, youre a window. I am pamela. Im trying to get and youre watching for you max. The creativity is a pro, he says that a nice imagination at 1st original mazda pieces of fuel create to that heart is south african, born from gun new mishal mach hulu. Whos breaking boundaries in more than one way . The, i dont say design up boom dining they saw mike hulu is making a name for himself in the creative circles of cape town and also on social media. When up cycled alt, what he created from shopping bags went viral. Some cold me had them and kind of because i live a double lives during the day. Im a professional done so, and im a co, its by night i draw inspiration from everything are on the, from, from, from books nature, creativity lives within me, and its tailored through my dancing, my passion design, my interior design and my photography, the amazon. So its a coupon city valet, and ive been dancing with and company for about 2 years to neo. We have about 6 productions and our if it goes through contemporary and your testicle. And by late on saying as dances, we are actors. And each role requires something different, so one role will require you to be in touch with your feminine side. And one role required to be in touch with you masculine side. What part of do you have to be one into the be this one . Its easy when does a great connection and so our job as the male counterpart is seeing the and her body how she wants to be home, like on the waste, on the left, you know, because they run is different. And i think he always tries to push himself to the limits to say, okay, lets do more peer with next jump higher. And he isnt afraid to ask other peoples opinions, which i think is helping him a lot to, to grow as an artist. I love like having so much control of my buddy. Thats why we train to be able to stand and one foot and balance you must to is all its not training. You go back to spend one. Its so easy for, for your, for your body to forget. So its that does depend that you have to have like a common misconception that was file is conrad so soft and its so so feminine. But we literally treat it as hard as drugs because you were hosting the whole day and then by the time 7 or co kids, then you have to perform and stage get home at 11, youre tired, and then you have to repeat it already gave the phone dani grew up in civil king when to the National Scale of awesome johanna. His big and fun, raised the fees for you 1st. Yeah. At the cape academy of performing arts by hosting a session. So all these designs suddenly concurs at the age of 16. And i still watch a lot of action tv, that in spite needs to actually create mountain collections. And ever since ive just been on the road when im sketch, shame or designing, i never think of like where they since for female or male, i just literally just think the human body is my convers, cuz i love came around with and drawn jeanine for love that just the position between an oversized and um, very tight and heavy light. Do i have con, trusting like giving me a tools like as you can see, like i have mentors the basic fuel. My pieces are like being like, looking very safely, but also like strong and theres also an idea of like a warrior in my head, but also like sy fy into galactic, you know, cuz i love sy fy movies the with regard to me of cycling handles funded during covent, when we couldnt go to the shops and buy materials, i looked around the house, and it was like a grocery bags go in and sees them as prototypes to see what the actual codes would look like. I really like the way they load. I just decided to put that on my socials and then one day like to be up on social media. And then i was like, i mean just keep on making more. I really enjoy recycling. So it makes me feel good because then im contributing to the environment and being environmentally conscious. I recently just got into a new odd form, which is called punch needling. Essentially it is in void. Your, your tool by recently exhibited my work at young about gallery, and essentially the narrative requests to explore what it is that makes me a black south africans today. I gave black south africans today. I think a pain are on with like the pride colors. I cant even think straight another narrative and was the concept of what if so what if the avatar which has been lost, even though is a black zillow . Boy, what if large since then was a post a little mix, it just twisting and coming narratives and turning them into african narrative. What inspired one of my recent took back collections. Um was the agenda based filings as a man. I wanted to be the voice to help and to, to bring awareness of the violence thats been happening in south africa. Well, actually, all over the world, we dont have to protect our daughters. If weve educated on sundays and business. Beautiful african women. Right . Yeah. You know, chosing eyes being like, yep, i play, im beautiful and i hear you on gummy showcases, he designs as boom out, which is derived from the 1st the levels of hes 1st name and surname. Easy to and i post on the social media. The reception is really positive, so i guess then like inspires me to create more content page on the form brings about a different side of lee and i will keep on expanding them because i love exploring my create ot testing my limits. I just know that like, im destined for greatness. Thats something that id like an friends and need and im hoping that my work takes me where im going to be a party for stanley is ms. The rising gym off to. Hi miss vague. Thanks to a sandy courtyards age all could take to dining or vintage shopping and living experiences. I was brian green. The grains behind this project was going to tell us a bit more about this isnt a wasted brian. You have a growing wonderland in johannesburg. Backyard telling me how have you q rated 44 stanley to be the bustling house that it is today. 44 stanley avenue east concert, a long time ago. 2003. And ive had no Prior Experience in uh and property. Ive come from this world, its television, these buildings were empty. Theyd been bought it up. And all i had was the dream. It is evident that you have a key, a vision when it comes to this place. Can you let us in, on any exclusive plans that you have in the future . So theres nothing really, thats kind of exclusive for that. Im focusing on the big what, what i do constantly do is you never drop football. You never kind of take your higher whats happening, how you can exploit the property more how you can open up a little cavity and turned it into a shop. So youre always looking for new opportunity within the space, and i think weve created something that people really appreciate, that sort of fancy. Its real and it just keeps getting better. Thank you, ryan, for welcoming us into this space. While i wonder this warren of delights, lets say it over to malawi, to find out more about a growing delicacy evolving out of a low cost staple. Go tweets. Going up with my mother. I will tell you definitely should are equal because they smell every time its phone. Oh it smells, oh no, it smells jesus. The only one i me have to convince. I mean hes but yes, hes a tough one. When i was young, i think it was bad, very bad. And i just do it myself. This time i think good to me to say, you know, that comes back and shift please. I am hungry as im an hour and shift that has made it his mission to change peoples appreciation of complete. Theres a lot more that we can do is go to manage what is we already . And so ive also been trying to get some smoke, smoke goat out there because i know definitely be smoked. Almost everything is out there. 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And so the oil is that and Everything Else im going to put into, into this car, you just want to have the space is the main need for everything. Just all works out to be on the show scientist has prepared good lead to this along with food festival. So ive tasted everything, but im happy with it. Ive got no problems with it. People come in and you just open because its unfortunate and just start a little later and then i would have liked sofa. What is going really well hasnt been to collapse for almost out. Okay. That was actually, lets do people a little skeptical about what is real. But yeah, im pretty sure that once one present tries be at this wont leave the car you. Yeah. And what goes out the issue of setup to a lot of the dont know is that good news is actually good. Good me to doesnt have a little of diseases. So if you want me to go to the store, i do good every day on my car. Im just a casual, intelligent thing. Go to is okay, but i dont think is the special but the story behind me made great. Come up with go this way. I might change my mind the give us that 15 because you move it is 3000 which is 2000. Its not box 6. You get to this one. I think a bad smell easy. Didnt always motivate like any. I tried to even get another b c because i can trace and that smell yeah. Why is it may be because this is more, i dont know exam to does that got a book with the identify the smell, but at least one is quite unique. It was really good, like you can see the fact that its gods need, like i dont think if they hadnt told me, i wouldnt be able to just didnt go to the defense. I wouldnt just the seen the piece. So no matter how you cut it, wed wind the, theres so much to do you around. Yeah, so i thought i could use some company see how long ago the property manager is joining the, how my eyes are drawn towards everything around. Yes. Tell me how do you make it so accommodating for those who wants to spend the day around . Yeah. Versus a place way. You can shop wireless to what wireless do sit on the bustling or leave cheese buses. Quite a nice scenery. Weve got a Business People working from home, they using our office space is they using our cassies . So this is all in one. Weve got activities like your 1st birthday where withdrawal people from uh outside corporate 12 people from uh, tories attractions they base. So looking forward to come to the place so we can eat shop from flowers, supple, odd shuffle, clothes, and so much more. Thank you so much for me. Think time for us and i cannot wait to take the rest of the place out. Go on. That is a treasure trove of ancient cultures. Lets go find out more about the hidden histories woven in the royal umbrellas. A key people of an umbrella is to shoot a pest and from harsh weather conditions. But in gunnar, using an umbrella for a king or queen in a Traditional Space, goes beyond that function. So theres many stories that held the importance of wide umbrellas came or already settled in gonna um, many of our teams and clean mother is already used to umbrellas. But during the early 1700, the umbrella for gifted by the dutch. But they all have different imagery, different sizes, different colors and fabrications. With that, when that venison was born to gaming in parents and grew up in the united states, she late to relocate to, to grandma and set up the cc me foundation. That offers the platform where demi is coming to rest with a historical past to present day. So say honey and my connection to the royal umbrellas were away from me. So be reconnected to my call to a heritage and to also to my teeth and see legacy that my parents you to tell me about when i was younger. I mean, as far but my grandfather and being able to see that a lot of his information wasnt assessable and gonna, and even to our family. It may be realized. A lot of individuals like myself, who are in gonna, or even outside, are dealing with the same thing where they know about their lives. They know about this history, but they dont have any photos or artifacts to bring it back or reconnected. Rick to inbox on for our journey from the capital city across to meet one of the royal umbrella mikas income i see in the ocean to region as i go for the people. So we asked the mission to region oper dominantly umbrella, make it the one who thoughts me this craft is cold. We have to supplement his knowledge. The number of the key is defined. For me, this craft provides the means to look off to my funding. In making the umbrella, you fits dry, the bumble in the sun. As this prevents effects infestation, then use triple attempting to sizable pieces. We subsequently apply some kind of calls from the bumble strips to present them. We then measure them those chips according to the preferred size of the umbrella. These trips then arranged in a group of 8 for the long one, and 6 for the short pieces. Then you preferred close to the trip and then run the long trip to fuck them them together. Other people. After that, you run another thread to Different Solutions along the edges and then tighten and notes. So thats trips spread out, keeping the when you ok, we live if im big over the umbrella framework and talk them family with needle tread along the edges to complete the umbrella making process. Done a lot to know what the guys are doing to one of the dodge during the colonial era, treating gunner the noun as good, close present to the best umbrella. So what i sent the chief in 17 o 8 as a gift and has things been used up in the Traditional Space up until now to pick this thing. Tools and staff us and identify the, the umbrellas there used to be an identical tater for a lot of the individuals that are coming towards the ceremonies and festivals. Many times i choose to have multiple umbrellas, even if its large or small, but theyre never gonna have the same design. And even when the, maybe the ashanti king is in front of other kings or like sub sieves, his umbrella will always be the largest or hold surrounded by multiple umbrellas. Not just one or many of the subsidies will be under maybe a medium sized umbrella to sell that at the end of the day. The shots that king is the king of all of the other chiefs. When there is a white umbrella, it might not have any design, it would just be a plain white umbrella. The sole cases that a chief has some religious context, or he is represented by a church. But usually that means no for special events, or maybe for that special ceremony that you will see a white umbrella. Before my residency started, i was part of the Group Exhibition that was curated by my ones. I can, it was a great opportunity for me to so case my umbrellas and a gallery space. Usually my umbrellas, ive seen and the museum exhibitions. But it was the 1st time for me to really see how a new audience will interact with my work. And also to be able to re introduce myself and a new light where now im bringing the historical archives and the importance of the roy umbrellas in a gallery space is surely who we are. Ive gotten in and africans at flies is 6. Move down memory lead. When i see this ray actually fax only on festival cases, where its ive done a very good job and i wish it all the best and all had done that you were based in lubbock, named johannes. Big lie, the move of the form is 10. Yeah, 10 years in mobile name. We picked up and learn to lot in 10 years and it was a chance to to, to redo that. Whats the meaning is a very loud and vibrant neighborhood. 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