LET’S CAFÉ
Let’s Café – The First Burst of the New Season
The Intimate as a site of knowing
Curated by Refiloe Lepere & Navid Ghavidel
We are delighted to open the new season of Let’s Café with a constellation of three projects that turn toward The Intimate (/ˈɪ
ntəmət/) as a site of knowing: Hidden Familial Currents (Navid Ghavidel & Amir Tehrani), Story Circles (Refiloe Lepere & Mamaki Mlangeni-Barrett), and Morapedi – One Who Prays (Lerato Lodi). Together, they invite us to consider how aesthetics, archives, and family intertwine as spaces where care, resistance, and imagination are practised.
Each work begins from the personal, from the remembered gestures of a grandmother, the undercurrents of family histories, or the shared stories of women theatre-makers, then reaches outward, transforming private memory into collective inquiry. Through photography, shrine objects, or performative storytelling, these artists reframe the archive. Not as a repository of the past but as a living relation: a way of holding, transmitting, and remaking what has been silenced or fragmented.
Across very different geographies – Iran and South Africa – the three projects share an ethics of listening. They reveal how art becomes a site of reconciliation with our inheritances, a rehearsal for alternative genealogies, and a bridge between generations, faiths, and communities. This first burst marks a new chapter for Let’s Café: one that embraces intercontinental curation, embodied scholarship, and trans-local dialogue.
We warmly invite you to join us in conversation to think, remember, and imagine together how our aesthetic practices might continue to care for the stories that shape us.
19th November -
6pm (SA) /7.30pm (Iran) /5pm (CET), Hidden Familial Currents (Navid Ghavidel & Amir Tehrani)
26th November -
6pm (SA) /7.30pm (Iran) /5pm (CET), Story Circles (Refiloe Lepere & Mamaki Mlangeni-Barrett)
3rd December –
6pm (SA) /7.30pm (Iran) /5pm (CET), Morapedi – One Who Prays (Lerato Lodi)