A Gathering in a Better World Festival Opening - Bakgethwa

BAKGETHWA (a Sepedi phrase that means ‘the chosen ones’) is an immersive journey about the essence of life, embodiment, resilience, celebration, and humankind’s inescapable return to the frequency of the spirit. The work materializes from a studio exchange of ideas between artists living with disability and ‘able-bodied’ seasoned performing artists. After an extensive search across genres with the focus also being inclusion and integration of disability and different art backgrounds, Calvin Ratladi has gathered Johannesburg and Cape Town-based artists that he impulses as a force that represents the ethos and focus of A Gathering in a Better World Johannesburg curation for 2023.