A journey to uncover the captivating story behind the traditional getting megan or royal umbrellas. And we tackle gender stereotypes with mondays biggest up and coming female hip hop artist. Me, youre a window, i am pamela. Im kind of good, and youre watching for you max. The creativity is a pro who says that a nice imagination, adverse original mazda pieces of fuel create to that heart is south african, born from gun new mishal mach hulu, whos breaking boundaries in mos in one way . The dylan say design of wound dining mutual, like hulu is making a name for himself in the creative circles of cape town and also on social media. When up cycled outs that he created from shopping bags went viral. Some cold me had them in time because i live a double lives during the day on the traditional dance. And im a co, its by night i draw inspiration from everything are on the, from, from, from books nature, creativity lives within me and its tailored through my dancing my size and design, my interior design and my photography, the time is on. So its a coupon city valet, and ive been dancing with and company for about 2 years in the we have about 6 productions and ill reputable a goes through contemporary new testicle. And by late on saying, as dawn says, we are active and each role requires something different. So one role will require you to be in touch with your feminine side. And one role required to be in touch with your masculine side. What part of do you have to be one entity . I believe is one, its easy. A waiting does a great connection. And so our job as the male counterpart, as seen the and her body, how she wants to be home, like on the waste on the left, you know, because they run is different. And i think he always tries to push himself to the limits to say, okay, lets do more peer with next jump higher. And he isnt afraid to ask other peoples opinions, which i think is helping him a lot to, to grow as an artist. I love like having so much control of my buddy. Thats what we train to be able to spend and on foot and balance. You missed 2 days of not the training. You go back to spend one, its a easy for, for your, for your body to forget. So its the discipline that you have to have like a common misconception that was file is conrad. So soft and so, so feminine. But we literally treat it as hard as drugs because you were hosting the whole day. And then by the time seminar, co kids, then you have to perform and stage get home at 11, youre tired. And then you have to repeated already gave the phone. Dani grew up in civil king when to the National Scale of awesome johanna. His big and fun ways, the fees for you 1st. Yeah. At the cape academy of performing arts by hosting a session. So all these designs suddenly concurs at the age of 15. And i still watch a lot of action tv, that in spite needs to actually create mine collections. And ever since ive just been on a roll when im sketch shamore designing, i never think of like with if its full, female or male. I just literally just think the human body is my kansas. I love came around with and drawn janine full of the just the position between an oversized and very tight and heavy light bill of contrasting like giving me a tools like as you can see like i have mentors and basically all of my pieces like being like looking various i see, but also like strong, and theres also an idea of like a warrior in my head, but also like sy fy into galactic, you know, because i love sy fy movies. But with regards to me, of cycling handles funded during covent, when we couldnt go to the shop and buy materials. I looked around the house, and then i was like a grocery bags go in and see them as prototypes. See, see what the actual codes would look like. I really like the way they load. I just decided to post it on my socials and then one day like to be up on social media. And then ill just like i let me just keep on making more. I really enjoy recycling. Makes me feel good, because then im contributing to the environment and being environmentally conscious. I recently just got into a new odd form which is called punch needling. Essentially, it is in void, your, your tool by recent the, exhibited my work at young about gallery and essentially the narrative requests to explore what it is that makes me a black. So that for can today, i gave black south africans today being a pain or on with like the pride colors. I couldnt even think straight another narrative than was the concept of one day if. So what if the avatar, which is the last 8 mendoza, black zillow, boy, what if Marge Simpson was a postal woman . So just twisting and coming narratives and turning them into african narrative, what inspired one of my recent took back collections. Um was the agenda based filings as a man. I wanted to be the voice to help and to, to bring awareness of the violence thats been happening in south africa. Well, actually, all over the world, we dont have to protect our daughters. If weve educated on funds and business, beautiful african woman. Right . Yeah. You know, chosing eyes being like, yep, i say im beautiful and i hear you on gummy showcases, hes designs as boom out, which is derived from the 1st the levels of hes 1st name and surname. Usually when i posed on social media, the reception is really positive. So i guess then like in spies, needs to create more content page on the form and brings about a different side of lee. And ill keep on expanding them because i love exploring my creativity testing my limits. I just know that like, im disinfo graters. Thats something that id like and brands and name, and im hoping that my work takes me where im going to be of 44 stanley is in ms. The rising gym off. Johannes faith, thanks to a cd courtyards. A all could take to dining or intake shopping and living experiences. I was bryan green. The grains behind this project was going to tell us a bit more about this in a way, says brian, you have a growing one to land in johannesburg, backyard telling me how have you to rated 44 stanley to be the 1st clean house that it is today, 44 stanley avenue east concert a long time ago, 2003. And ive had no Prior Experience in uh, in property. I come from this world of television. These buildings were empty that being boarded up and all i had was the dream. It is evident that you have a key, a vision when it comes to this place. Can you let us in, on any exclusive plans that you have in the future . So theres nothing really, thats kind of exclusive of that. Im focusing on the big what, what i do constantly do is you never drop football. You never kind of take your eye off. Whats happening, how you can exploit the property more how you can open up a little cavity and turned it into a shop. So youre always looking for new opportunity within the space, and i think weve created something that people really appreciate, that sort fancy. Its real and it just keeps getting better. Thank you, ryan, for welcoming us into this space. While i wonder this warren of delights, lets it over to malawi, to find out more about a growing delicacy evolving out of a low cost staple. Go tweets. Going up with my mother. I will tell you definitely we should are equal because it was a spell every time its phone. No, it smells. Oh no, it smells jesus. The only one i me have to convince. I mean hes to but yes, hes a tough one. 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It was really good, like you can see the fact that its gods needs, like i dont think if they hadnt told me, i wouldnt be able to just didnt go through a defense. Why wouldnt just to seen the piece. So no matter how you cut it to read when the theres so much to do you around. Yeah, so i thought i could use some company see how long ago the property manager is joining me to how my eyes are drawn towards everything around. Yes, telling me how do you make it so accommodating for those who wants to spend the day around here versus the place way you can show wireless to what the wind is to sit on the bustling or leaf trees buses. Quite a nice scenery. Weve got a Business People working from home, they using our office space is they using our cassies . So this is all in one. Weve got activities like your 1st birthday where we draw people from uh outside corporate 12 people from uh, tories attractions they base. So looking forward to come to this place so we can eat so from flowers, shop for odd shuffle, clothes and so much more. Thank you so much for making time for us, and i cannot wait to take the rest of the place out. Go on. That is a treasure trove of ancient couches. Lets go find out more about the hidden histories woven in the royal umbrellas. A key, pimples of an umbrella is to shoot a peasant from harsh weather conditions. But in gunnar, using an umbrella for a king or queen in a Traditional Space, goes beyond that function. And so theres many stories that holds the importance of why the umbrellas came or already settled in gonna um, many of our teams in queen mother is already used to umbrellas. But during the early 1700, the umbrella for gifted by the dutch. But they all have different imagery, different sizes, different colors and fabrications. With that, when that venison was born to gaming in parents and grew up in the united states, she later relocated to grandma and set up to see him the foundation that offers the platform where demi is coming to rest with a historical past to present day. So say honey and my connection to the royal umbrellas were away from me. So be reconnected to my call to a heritage and to also to my teeth and see legacy that my parents you to tell me about when i was younger. I mean, as far but my grandfather and being able to see that a lot of his information wasnt assessable and gonna, and even to our family. It made me realize a lot of individuals like myself, who are in gonna, or even outside are dealing with the same thing where they know about their lives. They know about this history, but they dont have any photos or artifacts to bring it back or reconnected. Rick to inbox on for our journey from the capital city across to meet one of the royal umbrella. Mikas incl must see in the us on to region as the people say, we are emission to the region after dominantly umbrella. Make it the one who faults me. This craft is called clear from supplement. His knowledge, the number of the key is defined. For me, this craft provides the means to look up to my funds to be making the umbrella you fits dry. The bumble in the sun as this prevents you 65th patient. Then use triple attempting to sizable pieces. We subsequently applies some kind of calls on the bum booster trips to present them. We then measured the bumble strips according to the prepared size of the umbrella. These trips and then arranged in a group of 8 for the long one and 6 for the short pieces. Then you preferred close to those trips and then run them a long trip to fuck them them to get a lot of people. After that, you run another thread, 2 different positions along the edges, and then typed in and notes. So thats trips spread out, keeping the when you ok, we leave the fabric over the umbrella frameworks and talk them family with needle tread along the edges to complete the umbrella making process. Done a lot to know what progress, what into one of the dash during the colonial era treat any gun. The noun as good course presents for the fest umbrella. So what i sent to chief in 17. 08 as a gift and has things been used up in the Traditional Space up until now to depict, to speak to us and staff us and identify out the role umbrellas that used to be an identification or for a lot of the individuals that are coming to see ceremonies and festivals, many times a to, to have multiple umbrellas, even if as large or small. But theyre never gonna have the same design. And even when the, maybe the ashanti king is in front of other kings, are like sub chiefs. His umbrella will always be the largest or who will be surrounded by multiple umbrellas, not just one, where many of the substitutes will be under maybe a medium sized umbrella to show that at the end of the day, the socket king is the king of all of the other chief, when there is a white umbrella, it might not have any design. It would just be a plain white umbrella. The suitcases that a chief has some religious context, or he is represented by a church. But usually that would be the special events, or maybe for that special ceremony that will see a white umbrella before my residency started, i was part of the Group Exhibition that was care rated by my ones. I can, it was a great opportunity for me to so case my umbrellas and a gallery space. Usually my umbrellas, ive seen and the museum exhibitions. But it was the 1st time for me to really see how a new audience will interact with my work. And also to be able to re introduce myself and a new light where now im bringing the Historical Archive and the importance of the roy umbrellas and a gallery space. This is julie who yeah. Ive gotten in and africans, us lives. It takes me down memory lead when i see this re fax on the, on face the vocation for. So i have done a very good job and i wish to all of the best in all hand, davis, the younger generation, like me get to have a few of our rich quotes and also out of 16 ask for con, conditional. Asked to fax the im able to re imagine and reclaim occupancy archives through photos, artifacts, videos for them. Within my artist process, im able to uphold the roy umbrellas, which was that historical objects. But now being able to use it as a way to tell our traditional stories and a more modern way the part of the culture will have that is 40 full stanley is the vice grove, Independence Cinema. 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And so for me, because can hire to premier their phones and that could be anyone from a 1st time full make a to a big sam c premier, the mit 6 phone for example. But we have tried so just always be that see, tempt in local content in every way that we can. Thank you so much. I can hear the passion in which you speak in when it comes to your work. And i cant wait to seek some of the folks come down. And now well meet with me. General was a female helpful artist for monday was using for success to help of the top of it, many one to pursue a career in music. Take it out. I mean, outside on your also known us come meet there as well as mollys fast and most females, female rock up between to 9 years old from by my pull book into a scene that is still very much males underneath it. So happy you can see the dentist has wrapped in our society is you know, something that is not for children who have a good edu