A Roundtable with Sifiso Khanyile, Tshego Molete-Khanyile (Resonance Archive Festival) & Vuyo McGlad (Kids Love Jazz)

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This November, Africa’s young people are being placed at the centre of the continent’s public imagination through Africa Youth Day on 1 November, the One Young World Summit in Cape Town from 3–6 November, and the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar from 31 October to 13 November. Alongside the language of leadership, competition and “the future,” The Jazz Standard asks a more searching question: what does it mean for a generation to inherit culture and to remake it?

In this special listening-led conversation, filmmaker and archive researcher Sifiso Khanyile, film professional and cultural force Tshego Khanyile, and Vuyo McGlad, founder of Kids Love Jazz, meet at the point where jazz, film, archives and the movement of Black cultural memory converge. Each guest brings a distinct way of thinking about cultural inheritance as something continually recovered, interpreted and made anew.
8 Nov English South Africa Music History · Music Commentary

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