Kunstinstituut Melly • 24th October 2026

Moshekwa Langa: You will find us in the best places

Expressive text exploring the work of Moshekwa Langa, exploring his solo exhibition opening, unfolding across all four floors of Kunstinstituut Melly, bringing together Moshekwa Langa’s practice, from 1995 to 2026.

Sensuous Heirlooms • 12th October 2026

Sensuous Heirlooms (edited by Uhuru Phalafala)

‘Rutang bana ditaola, le se ye natšo badimong’
A collection of essays exploring the queer, sensuous heirlooms we inherit from the matriarchive.

Open Book Festival • 5th September 2026

Up Close with Maneo | Athambile Masola - Open Book Festival 2026

Athambile’s work deftly stretches over language and genre, illuminating the extraordinary lives of Black women throughout history as they resist injustice and erasure.

Karavan Press • 16th July 2026

Memories In Our Throats (anthology)

Memories In Our Throats is an anthology of English South African poetry, edited by Melissa Sussens.

La Biennale di Venezia • 7th May 2026

Venice Biennale 2026 | Poetry Caravan

A procession of poets took place in the Giardini della Biennale, honouring Koyo Kouoh's memory & opening a space for poetry and storytelling.

Hyperallergic • 7th May 2026

Artists Pay Tribute to Koyo Kouoh in Poetry Caravan at Venice Biennale

The late curator’s 1999 voyage with nine African poets inspired a moving procession led by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, writers, and musicians.

Elegy in Venice • 7th May 2026

Elegy Reader — Elegy in Venice

This community-driven project expanded upon the pressing concerns of Goliath’s Elegy; a work of ritual mourning, addressing conditions of femicide and rape...

Iziko Museums • 17th February 2026

Public Mother/Other Symposium

Motherhood: Paradox and Duality serves as the starting point for this one-day symposium exploring motherhood and mothering as cultural, political & creative forces.

uHlanga • 2nd February 2026

Stockholm Cosmologies

Stockholm Cosmologies brings together fifteen fine artists working across media and active in multiple geographies, spanning Scandinavia, Africa, and its diaspora.

Open Book Festival • 7th September 2025

Up Close with Maneo | Exploring the Complexities of Black Girlhood | OpenBookFestival 2025

Maneo Mohale speaks to literary icon, Tsitsi Dangarembga, about bearing witness to complex states of Black girlhood in her powerful world-bending Tambudzai and Nyasha trilogy (Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not, This Mournable Body).

Open Book Festival • 5th September 2025

Maneo Mohale - Open Book Festival

2025 Panel Appearances: From Pan Africanism to the Black Atlantic; Exploring the Queer Imaginary; Up Close with Maneo; uHlanga 10 Year Celebration

Open Book Festival • 4th June 2025

Up Close With Maneo | Queerness and the Impact of Fascism - Open Book Festival

Maneo Mohale and Lwando Scott have a geolocal conversation highlighting queer safety in a time when rights are being rolled back.

Bag Factory • 30th January 2025

To Break A Bitter Fever: A Healing Art Exchange Responding to Gendered Violence in South Africa

Curated by Kefiloe Siwisa in collaboration with artists Gabrielle Goliath, Gogo Mahlodi, Gugu Duma, Lebogang Mabusela, Maneo Mohale, Natalie Paneng, Nombuso Mathibela, Rachel Lowe, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, and Thuli Gamedze.

Bag Factory • 21st January 2025

Queering the Ga(y)ze - Public Dialogue Series

Bag Factory is pleased to present Queering the Ga(y)ze: A Public Dialogue Series, convened by Nala Xaba and Noma Pakade, in association with the British Council. 
Over three Saturdays, discussions will explore various sites of queer cultural expression, namely: The Shelf, The Gallery, and The Streets.

Jaou Tunis • 12th October 2024

Jaou Tunis Biennale 2024

Personal Accounts is a transnational, decolonial, black feminist project of repair by Gabrielle Goliath.

Open Book Festival • 6th September 2024

OBF2024: Up Close With Maneo

Maneo Mohale and Koleka Putuma for a session exploring each other's work and what poetry makes possible.

Open Book Festival • 6th September 2024

Maneo Mohale - Open Book Festival 2024

2024 Panel Appearances: Up Close with Maneo; Queerness and the Divine; Navigating Religious Trauma
& Writersports

Bakwa Books • 19th August 2024

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Awono

This unique anthology centres around a poem by award-winning Cameroonian writer, Jean-Claude Awono––Le Poème de Yambacongo––and nineteen very distinct translations of that poem from across the globe.

night_sky • 14th August 2024

FicSci 02: Night-sky

FicSci is an experiment in hybridized creative practice. This collection offers writing that emerged from an encounter that brought twelve creative writers together with an astronomer.

Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class • 24th July 2024

Repolla Reading Series, (Close)Reading & Ritual

What work can poetry do, in the endlessly genocidal present, and the burning after-now?

SMAC Gallery • 9th September 2023

MIRROR POEM

Five-part ekphrastic poem responding to the work of Frances Goodman.

Draw a Line Through That • 31st July 2023

On Apocalypse

“The music is a riotous solemnity, a terrible beauty. It hurts so much that we have to celebrate.”—Fred Moten, Black and Blur: Consent not to be a Single Being

PEN South Africa: The Empty Chair • 13th July 2023

KB Brookins & Maneo Mohale: Dreaming of Freedom & Centring Trans Joy

KB Brookins talks with Maneo Mohale about their poetry collection Freedom House. They contemplate poetry, social justice, community, trans-ness & hope.

FreedomAfter • 8th July 2023

Maneo Mohale | Beg (Sestina for a Dom) (podcast)

In this interlude, poet and author of "Everything is A Deathly Flower", Maneo Mohale recites the poem "Beg", exploring sexual freedom, kink and desire.