MASOJA will be Headlining at the Sandton Poetry Show come 30th March 2014 Masoja Msiza began his career as a poet, and later a stage and television actor, musician and storyteller. Masoja is the brains behind the popular Lentswe Poetry Project spots on SABC 2 and has published a collection of poetry entitled The Voice of Hope (Umgangatho Media).Recently self published another poetry volume titled AVALON He has also written and performed promo poems for Ukhozi FM and for Bafana Bafana during the 2004 AFCON tournament in Tunisia.Toured the country performing his COCA-COLA sponsored project SOCCER CRAZY CREW and has been a stage performance coach for EXXARO mines in DELMAS. Masoja uses poetry as a tool for social activism - to heal, educate, rehabilitate, and entertain people in prisons, schools, churches, the workplace and communities. His acting highlights include roles in the television shows Sokhulu And Partners, A Place Called Home, Isidingo Scandal, and Jozi Streets and in theatre productions such as Where The Soul Resides as STEVE BIKO, Amawashas Asegoli, Once Were Free as SHAKA ZULU and The Voice From Kilimanjaro. He received further development in theatre by being part of the MARKET THEATRE LAB Initiative in 2005 Masoja is currently focused on developing his television production company Masoja Creations and the Spoken Word Society, a company that aims at commercialising poetry and other forms of the spoken word like comedy and storytelling. He is currently facilitating workshops for LENTSWE and the WINDYBROW THEATRE His objective with these projects is to contribute to stimulating creativity and defining the new paths of imagination into our society and to uplift the love for education. He comments: �I am inspired by events and circumstances that our society and communities experience�The themes I write about are socially related issues like domestic violence, substance abuse, illiteracy, motivation and rehabilitation. Poetry for me is the mother of all art forms, be it storytelling, music, drama, etc. I figure that poetry is not given the right support it deserves instead much attention is given to the other forms of art, we need to have more platforms that bring poets together with musicians and performers on the same stage
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:53:43 +0000
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