Mbali Malimela UMNGCELE launch & Screening

ABOUT

Through the UMNGCELE EP Mbali Malimela walks us through her world. Taking us from her early childhood through to her young adulthood.

We see her wrestle with the complexity of the environments, situations, and experiences she encounters during this time.

UMNGCELE launch & Screening is a reminder of the importance of setting boundaries between friends, family, and beyond.

Malimela Mbali is an international award-winning Isizulu writer, performing poet and storyteller based in Durban. As a founder/producer of a poetry brand called Bantu Origin, she holds a strong passion of restoring the love and use of vernacular language through poetry. She has been invited to participate in numerous poetry platforms including the Lagos International Poetry Festival 2022 in Nigeria, 22nd and 25th Poetry Africa Festival , 25th Time Of The Writer Festival as well as the 1st and 2nd Artfluence Human Rights Festival on behalf of S.A held by the UKZN Centre For Creative Arts. Mbali has recently been profiled as one of the 20 South African young and thriving poets by the Right To Speak catalogue. She has also been a part of Ethekwini Municipality’s Women’s Dialogue (2020), the first KZN Poetry Festival as well as The Playhouse Company’s Annual South African Women’s Art Festival (2018-2021) & their Sundowners Jazz and Poetry concerts. She has had her writings published in the most loved African journals including the Sol Plaatje European Union Anthology, AVBOB Poetry, Imbiza Journal and Fundza literacy. Mbali’s Visual poetry projects (available on her YouTube Channel) have been screened at The Durban Business Fair, a Television Programme held at the Durban ICC and “Ugubhu Lwami” on 1KZN TV. Mbali has been featured as a guest poet on Poetry Shows, Jazz Album launches, Radio stations and has more of her work on all digital stores. 

Doors open at 6pm and show starts at 8pm

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