Jazz Against Apartheid
Beyond Exile
Frankfurt, Johannesburg Buffalo City
December 13 - 18, 2023

Jazz Against Apartheid
Beyond Exile
Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Buffalo City
December 13 - 18, 2023
Jazz Against Apartheid
Jazz Against Apartheid is an international music education and skills transfer co-operation built around the role of jazz music as an instrument of social and political change. It has longevity, sustainability and in its second year in South Africa it is bringing positive change to South Africa through cultural tourism and skills transfer (nachwuchsförderung).
Selected Events
JAA23 Beyond Exile @Biko Centre 17/12
JAA23 HYBRID EVENT @JHGC 13/12
Entrepreneurial Skills Transfer
30 Years of Democracy in South Africa
Jazz Against Apartheid : Beyond Exile
Uniting “old” fighters for elementary freedoms with new and future generations. Making an essential aspect of the buried cultural heritage accessible to a young generation of professional jazz musicians who have grown up in the post-Apartheid society. A profound cross-fertilization developed on a foundation of 60 years of exile history and 36 years of friendships formed in the struggle.
Jazz Festival 2023
Johannesburg Buffalo City
Countdown To JAA 2023
Festival Shedule
13th December 4Pm - 11PM
IDENTITY IN DEMOCRACY WORKSHOP
Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre / 11:00 am – 19:00 pm
Panel Discussion JHGC / 11:00 am
Exile Heritage JHGC / 11:00 am – 11:30am
Songbook / 12:00 am – 13:00 Pm
Performance JHGC Lunch soiree / 13:00 pm – 14:00 pm
Workshop Open Rehearsal / 14:00 pm 17:00 pm

14th December 11AM - 5PM
MUSIC FOR CHANGE
Nirox Arts Cradle / 11:00 – 21:00 pm
Music Workshop 11:00 am – 14:00 pm
Open Performances 14:00 pm – 17:00 pm
JAA Johannesburg Concert 17:00 pm – 19:00 pm
Collaborative performances Open Rehearsal / 17:00 pm – 19:00 pm

16th December 11AM - 5PM
LEGENDS OF DUNCAN VILLAGE
Gompo Centre / 10:00 – 18:00 pm
Life Skills Gompo Centre / 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Arts & Crafts showcase 10:00 am – 11:00 am
JAA Performances 11:00 am – 12:00 am
Open Workshop 12:00 am – 17:00 pm
Legends Showcase / 17:00 pm – 18:00 pm
Youth Showcase / 17:00 pm – 18:00 pm

17th December 4pm - 11pm
Liberation Heritage Concert
Steve Biko Centre / 11:00 am – 19:00 pm
Life Skills 11:00 am – 12:00 am
Life Stations Panel 12:00 am – 13:00 pm
Jazz for Rural Development 13:00 pm – 14:00 pm
Opening Address 18:00 pm
JAA Eastern Cape 18:00 pm – 19:00pm
JAA International 19:00 pm – 20:00 pm

BE THERT
17 December
JAA EASTERN CAPE 2023

BE THERE
17 December
JAA EASTERN CAPE 2023

JAA EASTERN CAPE 2023

GET INVOLVED
17 December
2023
Jazz Diaspora

South Africa

Germany

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South Africa

Germany

Canada

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Jazz Diaspora
It doesn’t matter where we come from, what colour we are, who we, what we play, as long as we bring all that and we have to it, that speaks volumes to the music, to the longevity and, the sustainability of this project. It is music of meaning and impact. Those people, all of those people are heroes in many ways to the, to the culture, to the music, to the society, and to the diaspora and the exile.

South Africa

Germany

Canada

United Kingdom

Denmark

Sweden
