Get Bewitched by Likwid Tongues
Whether you’re a poet and you know it or not, if you love words and the way they flow, make sure to get to the LIKWID TONGUES event this Saturday 25 August at 3pm at Horror Cafe featuring the juiciest of our poetic talent… Click on the flyer and see below for the low down. R40 gets you in but if you donate old clothes or dress in 60s gear it’s the grand sum of R20:
It is not magic or a miracle its just pure talent mixed with dedication to the perfection of skill that this five member collective is so bewitching whenever they take onto stage. Audience members would think the stage is possessed by some performance genie, by the way it comes vibrantly alive.
Likwid Tongue members have a surge of energy that flows through them like never seen or felt before in the poetry performance stages.
From the way words slide of their sleek tongues, to their swift killer instinct of improvisation and their sundial timing of delivery and punch lining, one will not be far from the truth if they have to label that as pure genius, and audience members who filled Horror Café to the brim on June 16, will testify to the immaculate writings and performance of Likwid Tongue. Following the extremely successful show Likwid Tongue has decided to honour all that is gentle, all that is kind, caring, strong, loving and all that is women, with a lovely show.
In celebration of women Likwid Tongue has teamed up with a number of their friends for this memorable occasion:
Mmakgari Dabutha : is as a soft-spoken, gentle-hitting wordsmith with a lasting eternal touch. This angel of word largely performs at corporate events. She has performed for dignitaries and left them lapping from her poetic hands.
Myesha Jenkins: needs no introduction, this chocolate-tone Goddess from the United States found a home in South Africa with us and has been mesmerizing poetry lovers for a while. From the legendary Feel A Sista poetry collective; to a published poet to a magical performer,there is no stopping this enchanting sista.
Napo Masheane : Theatre director, poet, actress, woman activist, these are some of the titles under her belt. She most-famous for her one-woman show, My Bum is Genetic so deal with it, dealing with black women and identity.
Portia:A legendary performer at the Windybrow Theatre and Constitutional Hill poetry sessions with her fine-tuned art of writing and presentation. A chartered accountant by profession she broadly describes her poetry by saying:
Feelings in motions
Transforming a thought
In a Play full of words
Expressed in every beautiful pattern
That tells Life’s story.
Mac Manaka: Publisher of the poetry anthology, If only and currentlybusy with his second book and his debut album. Mac is a slam poet whose subject matter deals with critical social issues.
Kojo Baffoe: Kojo is greatly known as a love poet. He published two books, They say black men don’t write love poems and Voices in my Head. Fascinated with the world behind the words, Kojo’spoetry embraces the spectrum of human experience and brings together a range of emotions and thoughts in free flowing verse.Uninhibited by boundaries, he is constantly learning and stretching his craft… “on a quest to find the perfect poem, a gentle balance between word, rhythm and thought … a poem that sends the moon and sun dancing over the skyline hand in hand”. His poetry is a passionate journal detailing a life still finding its truth, a life that is neither ordinary nor extraordinary, a life that is representative of us all.
Chantel: Born & raised in Berlin, Germany. This sister of the word has various awards for her poetry, these include the 16th Hattinger Foerderpreis in 2006. She is a proud founder of the collective Blaque ReinneCarnation that showed its very successful choreo poem in Berlin in 2007. she is also the MC of the annual spoken word event “Outspoken. Voices Versus Voicelessness.” since 2005. Besides being the youngest contributor to the anthology “May Ayim Award” in 2004, she performs all over Germany as well as in Austria, France & the Netherlands and now she came to share with us her great works in celebration of women’s month.
This is merely a taste of the immense talent to be enjoyed at the show. Another poet featured is the highly talented Thabo Pie from Bloemfontein.
They shall also be a variety of soulful sounds provided by the following songbirds: Nombongo, Nobantu, Ken-I, Lengolo and Mzwakhe. Preparing the audience to get down and funky for the night will the amazing sounds of the vocal percussionists (beat boxers) Blast, Prototype, Caz and Tame One. Then to lighten the even for the dance floor shall be the hilarious comedians Sbotho and Mevalous, And then the night is carried away by DJ Kenzero, DJ Blaq Tee, DJ
Medicine and DJ Pee.
LIKWID TONGUE knows the value of women and the plight of the disadvantaged that is why they held back no punches in inviting such a brilliant array of artist for this celebration. Patrons who come dressed up in sixties/seventies style clothing or donate clothes and non perishable goods will get in to this event for half price.Clothing and food collected at the show will be donated to Kids for Life in Lenasia and the Intuthuko Fondation in Newtown. House Of Hemp has kindly came on board to sponsor the artist with hampers and do a give away on the day.
The show will start at 15:00 until people decide to go home, however the performances will start at 15:00 and end at 20:00, and after that is booging down the whole night, with the selection of DJ’s.
For enquiries contact:
likwidtongue@gmail.com
084 435 9995
073 598 8391
072 749 3701
079 775 5151
