I vow to keep the flame of our love burning.
May the sparkle of our love pierce the sky way beyond our lives now united.
May our united hearts forever beat in unison throughout the universe.

We met on Instagram when we started following each other because we had mutual friends. When Seipati approached me she basically commented on one of my pics whilst enquiring why she wasn’t invited for lunch.

Cape Town-based Khanyisile Mbongwa is an award-winning poet, performative artist and art curator. In 2006 she co-founded the artist collective Gugulective, where she produced video art and performance installations

“To remember, To dream and To plan” that was the Festival’s theme. Outside the screenings there were a lot, lot, lot of talking. We talked about visibility of black LGBT people in cinema with no less than seven panelists including: filmmakers, sociologists, actors, photographers and state officials.

Every June for the past 9 years, we host the Film Festival with screening a couple times a week. At the Film Festival, what we do love is to have discussions after the screenings so that people get to interact, and we get to learn how they are thinking. We will lead discussions, ask what they thought about the films; sometime attendees will share personal stories as well.

In Morocco, arts entertainment relies heavily on state-sponsored mainstream culture. As such, young ‘artivists’ and the overall youth population are eager to create spaces where they can share their ideas, exhibit their pieces of arts and relate to other people with common interests and mindsets.