Soweto Night Out - Before You Kill Us exhibition and audio experience
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Thu Dec 7, 18:00 - Thu Dec 7, 22:00
Just Badela Orlando West
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The Soweto Night Out Before You Kill Us night walk exhibits artwork across the heritage sites along the walking night tour. The artworks are either from female visual artists or showcase women existing in the world without the threat of violence. The walk is called #BeforeYouKill us to humanize the many faces of femicide. Artworks are sourced and artists are also invited to submit applications to be exhibited. Artworks are exhibited and are also available for sale.
The exhibition also has a curated sound experience. Mothers are invited to submit voicenotes from their children which is curated with music and poetry.
The ticket includes
- Night Tour
- Dinner
- Drinks
- Special guest
- Special performance
#FunkItImWalking aims to make it safe for a woman to walk at any time in any condition. Founded circa. 2014, #FunkItImWalking began as an alternative form of protest against insecurity and general lack of safety for women in South Africa. Having experience the stark differences in community safety worldwide, #FunkItImWalking founder Nomsa Mazwai aka Nomisupasta declared, 'amidst all of this fear, #FunkItImWalking". Nomsa recognised the benefits of walking from health to community safety to economic prosperity and environmental sustainability.
In 2020, #FunkItImWlaking launched night walks in an effort to reclaim the streets in order to enable safety. Having been part of the International Class at the East Side Institute in New York Nomsa was exposed to the idea of transformative performance (see Fred Newman and Lois Holzman, Dan Friedman). Having also completed an Ma in International Political Economy and Development at Fordham University and on the ground experience in the Eastern Cape, Nomsa began to imagine how the performance of safety could enable safety in a community, and how safety impacts economic development and the environment needed for economic opportunity.
These night walks evolved into what is now a night tourism product which employs at least 10 people and pumps no less than R2500 into a local restaurant. Soweto is a tourism destination with over 300 000 annual visitors, very few of whom spend the night or even stay beyond sunset. This while Soweto enjoys its best weather in the evenings and has heritage sites across its entire geography.
Working closely with Community Policing Forums, the night walks have performed well to its audience and community members are becoming more aware of the tangible economic value fo safety.