for him, it's all about transcending borders and taking on challenges f re max next, d w. ah, what people have to say matters to us. m. that's why we listen to their stories. reporter, every weekend upon d. w. today is truly a special day a day of exploring. cultural roots spoke here. it's a hand as big as around africa, and we're coming to you about employee pool standby and eva, growing cultural, have that makes this is them an sophistication in the heart of the city. joined me on this exciting adventure. we explored the ever evolving color

experiences that good me to has to offer. in malawi, we embark on a journey to uncover the captivating story behind the traditional canadian, a royal umbrellas and we tackle gender stereotypes. was molly's biggest up and coming female hip hop, artist, ami, uria wolf. i am pamela tango and your watching at re max. oh, oh. creativity is the pros says that ignite imagination, adverse original masterpieces of fuel create to that hot as south african born born gun new luke was breaking boundaries in more than one way.

ah, dylan said designer boom gone. michel mac, hulu is making a name for himself in the created circles of cape town and also on social media. went up cycled alford, he created from shopping bags, went viral. some cold me had him in town because i live a double life. during the day, i'm a professional dancer, and i'm a code by night i draw inspiration from everything on me, from phone, from book nature, creativity lives with me, and it's tailored through my dancing, my fashion design line carried design and my photography. ah, ah, i'm a don, so they keep on city valley and i've been dancing with and company for about 2 years to neo. we have about 6 productions. and our

a goes through contemporary classical and valid on saying i as don says 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 your masculine side was putting you have to be one entity to leave is one. it's easier when does a great connection. and so our job as the male counterpart as her body, how she wants to be home, like on the ways on the left because the run is different. i think he always tries to push himself to the limit to say ok, let's do more. peer was let's jump higher and he isn't afraid of other people's opinions, which i think is helping him a lot to grow as an artist. a love like having so much concern of my buddy. that's

why we train to be able to stand on one foot and balance. you missed 2 days of not training. you go back to square one. it's so easy for, for your, for your body to forget. so it's the discipline that you have to have, like a common misconception, always ballets that are noted, so soft and so, so feminine. but we literally train as hard as the rug repairs who were hosting the whole day. and in, by the time 7 o'clock kids, then you have to perform on stage. you get home at 11, you're tired, and then you have to repeat it again. ah, phone gunny grew up in stable king, went to the national scale of anson johanna, big and find ways the fees for his 1st year at the cape academy of performing arts by hosting a fashion show abby's designs or i thought we can code at the age of 15 and i to watch a lot of fashion tv that inspired me to actually create my own collections. and

ever since i've just been on our old one, i'm sketchy, or designing. i never think of like where there fits for female or male. i just literally just think the human body is my canvas. i love playing around with dr. jenny, i love the just the position between oversized and very tight and heavy light bill of contrasting like heavy metals. like, as you can see, like i have metals in base to kill my pieces. like being like looking very safety, but also like strong. and there's also an idea of like a warrior in my head, but also like sy fy intergalactic, you know, sell sci fi movies with, through god to me, up cycling, and all started during covent, when we couldn't go to the shops and buy materials. i looked around the house and then i was like our grocery bags go on and see them as prototypes to see what the actual codes would look like. i really like the way they load it. i just decided to post them on my social's and then one day like social media. and then i'll just

like a, let me just keep on making more. i really enjoy recycling raise to feel good because then i'm contributing to the environment and being environmentally conscious. i recently just got into a new odd form which is called punch nibbling. essentially, it is embroidery with wool by recently exhibited my work at young blood gallery and essentially bernard tow requests to explore what it is that makes me a black south africans to day. i gay black south africans today had been gay, playing around with like the pride colors. i can't even think straight another narrative and was the concept of what if so what if the avatar, which is the last a been there, was a black zulu boy? what if marge simpson was a postal woman? so just trusting the common narratives and turning them into african narrative, what inspired one of my recent towed by collections. i'm was on the agenda based violence as a man, i wanted to be the voice to help and to,

to bring awareness of the violence that's been happening in south africa, all actual, all over the world. we don't know how to protect our daughters. if we've educated our sons and business, beautiful african woman raja, in closing her eyes being like yep i'm i slay, i'm beautiful and i hear you bungle showcases. he's designs as boom out, which is derived from the 1st the levels of his 1st name and surname. usually when i posed on social media, the reception is really positive. so i guess that like, inspires me to create more content page art form brings the bought a different side of me and i'll keep on expanding them because i love exploring my creativity testing my limits. i just know that like, i'm destined for greatness. that's something that i'd like it burns in me, and mom hoping that my work takes me we are meant to be ah, $44.00 stanley is amazing. arising gym of johannesburg,

thanks to a shady courtyards. h architecture dining, authentic shopping and living experiences. i'm with brian green, the grains behind this project was going to tell us a bit more about this. urban away says, brian, you have a growing one to land in johannesburg, backyard. tell me how have you curated $44.00 stanley, to be the bustling? how that it is today. 44 stanley avenue started a long time ago. 2003. and i had no prior experience in property. i come from this world of television. these buildings were empty, they had been boarded up. and i, all i had was the dream. it is evident that you have a key of vision when it comes to this place. can you let us in, on any exclusive plans that you have in the future? so there's nothing really,

that's kind of exclusive or that i'm focusing on. but what, what are do constantly, do you never drop for ball? you never kind of take your eye off what's happening, how you can exploit the property more how you can open up a little cavity and turned it into a shop. so you're always looking for new opportunity within the space. and i think we've created something that people really appreciate this not fancy. it's real, and it just keeps getting better. thank you, brian, for welcoming us into the space. while i wonder this warren of delight, let's say it over to allow you to find out more about a growing delicacy evolving out of the local staple. go to weeks i and going up with my mother. i will tell you definitely should are equal because with this well, every time it's all noise smells, all noise is the only one i'm here to come in. thanks bye me. but yes, he is a tough one. when i was young, i think it was bad,

really bad. and i just thrown myself, let alone his name might be good to me. he sank no. that comes back and shift praise i am a handle is i'm allowing chest that has made it his mission to change people's appreciation of complete. there's a lot more that we can do with goldman. what is we already an sway? i've also been trying to get some small so small got out there because i know definitely smoked, almost everything is out there. i don't think i've ever heard of smoke called go bleat is low in saturated fat and cholesterol and high and i and then the african staples of beef pork and chicken this me said the healthy alternative most of the got ever experienced. this is either the, your much or my wishes, a brave or you will be a good sure. and in the good shoe, you rarely find people. ashley experimenting in it. it's normally just as you make

a new and almost you resist the god itself. audience to me. tours. louis. he's in the unit him. well, 1st in the spells and you kind of get sore throat and ethan is and if it's open law gets hard. so it's like you ethan robin. so it just depends with me. so this is my pre preparation for my goal cri before. usually what i do old go to the market selectable, to have it killed. really at the market go to malawi, i usually left to forage. returning home in the evenings for water, which means they're better for the environment and more sustainable in terms of farming than most cattle. we dre rob the meat after we can get it. basically, like with the gory, a dry rubbed with some pre, some to marry. normally the spaces you news in a, in a curry,

basically way i do what i do with spacing beforehand is to try and eliminate the scent of the gold as much as possible because even like, great. now as i'm handling the meat right now, you, you don't smell of the court. you just smell the spaces in, you know, the to worry you snow the paprika, the rosemary in the air, the mix herbs. i put in there. yes for done by this time 24 hours. yeah, everything is descent is gone. normally people inquiries the would start with the burning of the onions. but i'll go with a meet 1st because i want to add the little color to it. the brownish of the meat down. and then because i've really pre, may needed it by phrasing it 1st, i'm also bringing out the spaces and saw the oil them everything else i want to put

into into this. i'm gary is want to have spaces. there may need to be everything just all works altogether. josiah took his prepared goat lead to that along with food festival. so i've tasted everything, but i'm happy with it. now i've got no qualms with it. people are coming and yet just open because it's unfortunate. i just started a little later than i would have liked so far. what is going really well has been the caps, but we're almost out. ok, babs, actually is still people a little skeptical about what is there. but yeah, i'm pretty sure that once one person tries me at the smoke meet the carried. yeah. and the what goes out. they issued several to a lot of the don't know that good smith is actually good. good me. it doesn't have a lot of diseases. so if you want self mixed, it it's gotten so i do good every day like her. i'm just a casual indulgence. thank god is okay,

but i don't think as the special but the story behind me made great kabobs with goat. that's where my changed my mind from the camera. i was a 15 bakery. oh boy, it is 3000, which is 2000 was my back. if you get to this one, i think that smell is hidden, always mud where they're gonna actually even dig another b c because they can't trace and that smell, yeah. why is it maybe because it's a small, i don't know if i am to does that got a book where there would identify the smell, but this one is quite unique. it was really good. like you can see the fact that it's good me like i don't think if they hadn't told me, i wouldn't be able to distinguish the difference. i would have just assumed that the people so no matter how you cut it, go meet, wins. there. so my city around here,

so i thought i could use some company see how long the property manager is joining me to how my eyes are drawn towards everything around here. tell me how do you make it so accommodating for those who want to spend a day around here versus a place where you can shop twilio to work that way and if you sit under our bustling olive trees. but there's quite a nice scenery. we've got a business people waking from home, they using our office space as they're using our cafes saw this is all in one. we've got activities like your 1st birthday, where we draw people from outside corporate weld people from tories attractions they saw and looking forward to come to the us place. so we can eat shop with flowers, shop for our shop for clothes and so much more. thank you so much for making time for us, and i cannot wait to take the rest of the place out. ganna is

a treasure trove of ancient cultures. let's go find out more about the hidden histories woven in the royal umbrellas. a key purpose of an umbrella is to shoot a peasant from hot weather conditions. but in gonna use an umbrella for a king or queen in a traditional space goes beyond that function. so there's many stories that hold the importance on why the umbrellas came already settled in gonna, many of our chiefs and clean mothers already used the 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. richter mo, when benson was born to gunning in parents and grew up in the united states, she later relocated to ghana and set up the see him the foundation that offers the platform. when done, the ins can interact with our historical past till present day. sophie henny,

and my connection to the royal umbrellas were away from me. so be reconnected to my cultural heritage and to also to my cheapest legacy that my parents used to tell me about when i was younger. i've been inspired by my grandfather and been able to see that a lot of his information wasn't assessable and gonna, and even to our family. it may be realised a lot of individuals like myself, who are in ghana or even outside are dealing with the same thing where they know about their lives. they know about this history, but they don't have any photos or artifacts to bring it back or reconnected a rita and backs on for our journey from the capital city across to meet one of the royal umbrella makers in kumasi in the ocean to region area for people most we are the machine to region are predominantly umbrella,

make us the one who thought to me this craft is called crap, who supple, his knowledge in umbrella became as divine for me. this craft provides the means to look after my family in making the umbrella you, 5th, drive the bumble in the sun as this prevents insect infestation. then you strip them into sizable pieces. we subsequently applied some chemicals on the bumble strips to preserve them. we then measure the bamboos trips according to the prepared size of the umbrella. these trips are then arranged in a group of gates for the long ones and 6 for the short pieces. then you prefer it home to those trips and then run, then i long threads to fasten them together. other people. after that, you run another thread through their professions along the edges and then tighten and knobs so that strips spread out evenly. when you open, we leave the fabric over the umbrella framework and tucked them family with needle

thread along the edges to complete the umbrella making process on lot one on one progress, we're them to one over the dash go in the colonial era treat in ghana, then known as gold coast present for the fest umbrella to what i sent to achieve in 1708 as a gift and has since been used up in the traditional space up until now to depict status and serve as an identifying a right umbrellas. there used to be an identical her for a lot of the individuals are coming to see ceremonies and festivals. many times a kid can have multiple umbrellas, even it is large or small, but they're never going to have the same design. and even when the, maybe the shante king is in front of other kings, are like sub chiefs. his umbrella will always be the largest or a hold me, ron, to buy multiple umbrellas, not just one or many of the sub. she will be under maybe

a medium sized umbrella to show that at the end of the day, the shante king is the king of all the other chiefs. when there is a white umbrella, it might not have any design. and what is to be a plain white umbrella there? so cases that achieve has some religious context, or he is represented by a church by usually don't leave the special events or maybe for that special ceremony that you will see a white umbrella. before my residency started, i was part of their group exhibition that was curated by my ones. like him. it was a great opportunity for me to sell case my umbrellas and a gallery space. usually my umbrellas. i seen in 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 i'm bringing the historical archives and the importance of the royal umbrellas in a gallery space who's truly who we are. i've gotten in an african

lodge, it fixed me down memory lead. when i see this re fax only on festival cation, bruce, i've done a very good job, and i will show all their best in all hand. div is the younger generation like me get to have a few of our rich cold shock and also out of thin sick african traditional active back. i am able to re imagine and reclaim occupancy archives, to photos, artifacts, videos. but then within my artist presses, i'm able to uphold the roy umbrellas, which was a historical object, but now being able to use it as a way to tell our traditional stories and a more modern way. ah, part of the cultural have that is 40 stanley is the vice go the independent cinema

. it is known for showing a diverse range of films that are not typically shown in mainstream cinemas. i'm catching up with founder russell grant is going to tell us about the magical world of independent cinema. but i thought i understand that you were based in margaret named johannesburg. why that moved? after almost 10 years, 10 years in melbourne? ng. we picked up and learn to lighten 10 years and it was a chance to to, to redo that for her. my name is a very loud and vibrant neighborhood and it was maybe just getting a bit too loud for us to successfully execute cinema with a fill the school and studios right around the corner. how does this establishment celebrate and promote local full makers? so much of our screenings are local cinema. we've always wanted to give those not only a run, with lots of members of the public can come and watch,

but also people can hire the cinema. so for me, because can hire to premier their forms and that could be anyone from a 1st time full maker to a big fancy premier of a netflix form for example. but we have tried to just always be there to champion local content in every way that we can. thank you so much. i can hear the passion in which you speak and when it comes to your work and i can't wait to seek some of the folk come down. and now we'll meet out with a me year, a boiler, a female here, pop artist, fall mileage was using her success to help above all the men who want to pursue a career in music. take it out. i mean that are done. your quote, also known as i mean there is world, is molly's 1st and most famous female rock up between 9 year old from, by my school book into a scene that is still very much males dominique's. it rather just waited till

monday. the hobby, of course, either donuts was wrapped in our society, is seen as something that is not for children who have a good education money because junkie represented something that has not respected up on to glassy and when you're a woman. because even worse, a on police coffee and from a lawless down coffee. and i'll speak and woman is not easily accepted. i'm his own family, would have rather seen him married and tried to pressure her into and in her music . carry out what debbie just i would highly want, but at some point i couldn't hide any more fully. there was so many things aside. you can't do this. he caught it at the battle that you fit, but i thought it wasn't compatible with the artist life. i wanted to have a levy duct is that that's why i left so sure. but yet my nobody eligible to do with me started her korea in 2010. she wants to make songs about issues. people can relate to me that jake is in homes with the so who is only casual up when i wrap, i try to talk about all the difficulties i went through and about all the things my society that influenced me. the problems lady,

when i speak about children's rights of violence against women, for example, holiday, i speak about those maryan realities around me, which are often also african realities monkey. so she didn't really, dicky bit african i with her 3rd album coming out soon. amira will loose building an international following, and now she wants to encourage other young women to take control of the mike gentlemen. so these girls, a, me is a role model. and rob is a way of building yourself confidence, what's more, it's a way of express and younger, frustrations and joyce in life, ah, i'm in one call herself an activist by her work is changed in the image of rob in molly, and inspiring women to make their voices het ah, thank you for joining us today and don't forget to check us out on

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