Medicine Seeds of Indigenous Music

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‘Medicine Sound of Indigenous Music’

Indigenous instrumentalism is medicine, in a very literal sense.

Join us as we delve deeper into the ways that traditional Southern Afrikan music can teach us about old healing practices, forms of meditation, and forms of growth; a journey that locates the identity and the body of the Afrikan through musical heritage and gives voice to overlooked h'stories and knowledge systems in Southern Afrika. 

This is a journey of empowerment, for as people learn more about their culture, they understand more about themselves and their potential. Socially it heals, educates and gives voice to the Afrikan people.

 ‘Sound is in other words umnombo – a recitation of the genealogy of the universe’.

Umnombo is our spiritual umbilical cord, it is the extension of Inkaba which is the physical umbilical cord that connects us to the earth. Umnombo is the culmination of lives, contemporary and ancestral, that make us who we are today. It is our culture, our heritage, the families that united to make our existing clan names, houses, identity and the non-physical power that connects Bantu Afrika.

As I have ruminated on why I am here and what I was sent to do with isingqi (Rhythm/Sound) and izixhobo zomnculo (Musical Instruments), I have come to understand that this is a larger call to connect all those Afrikan across the globe. I use sound and movement vibrations to show us that our spiritual umbilical cords crisscross and tell us that we are all family, being called home. 

‘Sound thus is a frequency of memory, it allows us to connect those parts of ourselves that we have forgotten’.

Camagwini

Over the 3 year period of my PhD at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for African Studies Gallery and the Institute for Creative Arts, I will be facilitating various pop-up workshop spaces/ portals in which to share my personal knowledge and experience of indigenous technologies and their many possibilities. These spaces are to engage and embody the experience of indigenous sound and healing, for the question remains: Is it indeed true that sound heals? Come and share your thoughts, let us dig/journey into this together!

This portal is titled: ‘Medicine Seeds of Indigenous Music’

This will be an awaking session, where we journey through the body by means of various indigenous technologies of sound. Thereafter I will discuss what these technologies are, their birthplaces, movements and innate potentials in their indigenous knowledge systems. Later we will openly discuss, engage and debate the truth and existence of these indigenous modalities of healing, in relation to their Eastern and Western counterparts. 

This is a moment for us to really dig into the ‘what and why’ of these claims, so come ready to engage!

Date: Saturday 14th March

Time: 6:30pm for 7pm 

Venue: The Book Shoppe, 14&15 Tokai Junction , Corner of Main and Tokai roads, Tokai 7945

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Cost – R100 - Includes an indigenous instrumentation performance session, followed by a presentation of the study of indigenous sound’s innate healing properties. We then open the floor to engagement and public conversation/debate on these topics.

The night will end with traditional cuisine and traditionally brewed beverages.

Bring along a cushion, mat or something comfortable to sit on

Tickets available from Quicket – advance booking essential.

More details on UMnomo Institute bellow

UMnombo Institute Profile:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18gCnNZQ-__-HHPcIsPe9ZHFqGVAmURt6/view?usp=sharing