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.
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 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...
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.
Stockholm Cosmologies
Stockholm Cosmologies brings together fifteen fine artists working across media and active in multiple geographies, spanning Scandinavia, Africa, and its diaspora.
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).
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
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.
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.
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.
Over three Saturdays, discussions will explore various sites of queer cultural expression, namely: The Shelf, The Gallery, and The Streets.
Jaou Tunis Biennale 2024
Personal Accounts is a transnational, decolonial, black feminist project of repair by Gabrielle Goliath.
OBF2024: Up Close With Maneo
Maneo Mohale and Koleka Putuma for a session exploring each other's work and what poetry makes possible.
Maneo Mohale - Open Book Festival 2024
2024 Panel Appearances: Up Close with Maneo; Queerness and the Divine; Navigating Religious Trauma
& Writersports
& Writersports
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.
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.
Repolla Reading Series, (Close)Reading & Ritual
What work can poetry do, in the endlessly genocidal present, and the burning after-now?
MIRROR POEM
Five-part ekphrastic poem responding to the work of Frances Goodman.
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
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.
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.
Anthems: Maneo Mohale | PANIC (podcast)
#AnthemsPride 2023 is a collection of 7 original stories, written and voiced by exceptional LGBTQIA+ contributors and allies. Maneo’s word of the day is PANIC.
Semana Santa (Five Poems)
Portside Review’s tenth issue brings you alternative visions and intersectional lives nuanced with loving critique, all the way from South Africa.
'I wanted to place myself in conversation with the living and the dead’—Maneo Refiloe Mohale in conversation with Makhosazana Xaba
JRB Patron Makhosazana Xaba aims to correct the misdeeds of the past by engaging black women and non-binary poets seriously on their ideas and on their work.
Conjure a Ghost (Collaboration w/ Kirill Berezovski)
Conjure a Ghost, is a unique multidisciplinary collaboration across bodies, worlds, words and time. Using loose, poetic spoken-word fragments from a diary Maneo Mohale wrote in the early days of the COVID-19 global pandemic, dancer and choreographer Kirill Berezovski uses movement to interpret enunciated text, exploring the grey spaces between impulse, response and creation.
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