Chilling With The
Creatives is an artistic movement based in Soshanguve founded by 21 year
old Innocent Moreku and Mackson Chirwa (23) . Speaking to Moreku he said to me
they are not trying to make money out of this, “Our focus is to reduce illegal
things like drugs, alcohol and prostitution among the young, so if we focus on
money we won’t be able to clean up the streets of Pretoria.”
They hosted an event on Sartuday, 03 June at Falala
community hall, Soshanguve Block F East, welcoming the young month and winter
in Vintage. It was basically about, music, food, fashion, art , photography and
most importantly socialising. Moraka said that they focus about this event was
to create a platform for young artistic individuals. “The has always has been
a huge gap between art events that happen in townships and those that happen in
town, so we wanted to give people an opportunity to come as they are,” said
Moraka.
Fashion lovers, artists, poets, socialites, designers and
food lovers came out in numbers wearing their vintage to support this art
exhibition. Fashion lover, Tiisetso Mabena said that she attended the event
because she loves how people dress up for vintage, “ In events like this one
people wear the way they feel and no one judges the other one,” she said. “It is fun, fashion expresses your true feelings.”
I was really impressed to meet a 15 year old fashion
designer, Smangaliso Nkuna who said that what he likes about Chilling With The Creatives is that
young people get a chance to showcase their talent and get to learn more about
what they love. Nkuna who has his own brand, “Masskap” said that his brother was the one who showed him the
ropes, and taught him almost everything he knows regarding fashion. He draws
his inspiration from the legendary fashion designer, David Tlale,” I love him
because he has his own style, and that is what I want to do, I want to be
unique,” said Nkuna.
It was my first time attending such an event, but trust me
the fun I had is unspeakable. I am definitely attending the upcoming one on the
16th of June. Moreku said that they want to see Chilling With The Creatives as the biggest art exhibition in Africa
and inspiring a lot of people with their work.
Photos by: KenexMedia SA/Thomas Chauke
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