Kenyan LGBTQ activist honoured at first African Art Awards Dinner
Tribal drums summoned the top brass of the Washington D.C. art world to the city center where the National Museum of African Art hosted its inaugural African Art Awards Dinner on Friday. Held at the Smithsonian’s iconic Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall and hosted by CNN International anchor Isha Sesay, the African […]
MCQP defends controversial Bollywood theme
Cape Town’s MCQP costume party has defended itself against claims that its recently announced “A Bollywood Production” theme is offensive and inappropriate. The 2016 theme was revealed to great fanfare on Saturday, but some quickly condemned it on social media as an example of “cultural appropriation” and demanded that it be changed. A petition has […]
This year’s MCQP theme proves to be controversial
The theme for the 2016 MCQP costume party has been revealed, and not everyone’s happy about it. On Saturday, the theme was announced as “Thousands of extras to star in MCQP’s A Bollywood Production”. It was first made public at a jam-packed Halloween party at the Dragon Room in Cape Town. “This year’s MCQP will […]