Black Labone, a home for the art talents

 By: Alulutho Madolo

Twitter: @Lutho2022

Email: alumadolo@gmail.com

Every Thursday afternoon, Black Labone features youth’s live music, poetry and other arts performances. It is a busy market with artists that have incredible skills in the African Beer Eporium at Pretoria CBD.


Black Labone is an abode for creatives of all kinds, mainly from around Pretoria, but also for those who hail from distant lands. This movement is five years old. It is not the first art movement of its kind in the Capital City and has proven to be the most consistent. Black labone’s purpose is create space for the youth to share their different art talents, collaborate and produce work that consistently improves upon itself.


“It took time to establish Black Labone because the mission was to create a movement that is freely available as these movements were, but also it needed to be self-sustaining. A self-sustaining programme but also a long-standing programme,” said Izah Kutsh, the owner of Black Labone.

For their fourth anniversary last year, Black Labone hosted what Izah describes as an origin’s story.

“We had an open discussion, sort of round table discussion where we spoke of movements that have been established in Pretoria before Black Labone… what their impact was and how things are looking for artists that were involved in those movements,” he shares.

In the audio below, Basetsane Khumalo a member of the audience expressing how she feels when she is watching the performances.

https://soundcloud.com/alulutho-madolo/audience-expressing-herself-at?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1&si=34aa44f056ca4cddbd19ec7c809a6592&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing


This is what some of the people had to say about Black Labone.

Bonga Mpiwe


I enjoy and love performing in front of people, showing them, my talent and I feel overwhelmed after singing. Being at Black Labone every Thursday has made me a better version of myself because I got to something that I love.










Dondi Molakeng





Watching people on stage sharing their different kinds of arts talents is enjoyable and exciting, I am glad that Black Labone was established and now the youth have something to do in their free time.










Kevin Shaburwa





 I have performed at Black Labone a few times, and it seems like home because it is a free environment with a fantastic energy, great performance, and wild people, and an experience like no other.












Black Labone is doing an amazing job in giving the youth a chance to do what they love and sharing out their talents to other people.


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