Shade Announces “SEE SAW”: A Pop-Up Retrospective Takeover at One Park, Cape Town

Shade, the Johannesburg-based waste materials library and youth arts platform, brings its imaginative, intergenerational, and community-rooted practice to Cape Town with SEE SAW, a week-long pop-up programme at One Park. Running from 12–17 December, SEE SAW presents a curated collision of art, sound, food, film and play, recasting Shade’s Johannesburg archive for new audiences in the Cape. Here’s everything you need to know.

*Waste Not Want Not* by Francois Knoetze

SEE SAW: A Retrospective in Motion

SEE SAW gathers performances, artworks, films, and “art-in-works” from across Shade’s network of artists and dreamers. Throughout the week, One Park becomes a site of encounters.

This dynamic constellation of practices that unfold across One Park, are re-curated artworks and reprinted ephemera that chart the shifting material narratives in urban culture. Across these encounters, youth artworks from Johannesburg’s inner city are placed in dialogue with emerging and established artists, highlighting Shade’s commitment to social collaging, intergenerational collaboration and the imaginative possibilities of shared worldbuilding.

Throughout the week, music performances, film screenings and a concept dinner will reshape the atmosphere with compositions that invite dancing, drifting and moments of collective reverie. Drawing from Shade’s extensive documentation archive, remixing years of community projects, parades, youth programmes and material experiments into new visual montages.

See Saw is Shade’s invitation to look again – at material, memory, and the worlds we build together through play.

The Full SEE SAW Programme

11 December – SEE SAW Opening

Seventhgaze & Air On
5pm – Close | Free

13 December – Play It By Ear

Felix Laband x Mey x Duce duce
1pm – Close (Music from 8pm) | R100 (Door Entrance)

14 December – Press Play

We Are Lillies Radio Takeover + Film Screenings
1pm – 10pm (Films at 8:30pm) | Free

16 December – Play With Your Food

Shade x Lulu Stone & Orli Oh ft Jumping Backslash x Duce duce
1pm – 10pm (Dinner at 8pm) | R790

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

FILM SCREENINGS

A Song About Birds : Jumping Backslash x Morena Leraba (Limb)

The Guise : Polarimpala x Behr

Dzata : Lo Def Film Factory x Russel Hlongwane

Hey Hillbrow 2025 (Premiere) : Craig Maarschalk, Percy Zimato, Jumping Backslash

ARO Parade 2024 : Craig Maarschalk, The Cooligans

Brixton Light Festival 2023 : Craig Maarschalk

Mveliso Ntaba – How It’s Made : Mey

Nomsa : Jonathan Pinkhard, Dominco Benigno

Whoreduh (VR Prototype) : Tamzyn Botha & Tinyiko Makwakwa

Waste Not Want Not (360 VR) : Francois Knoetze ft Limb x Brixton Photo Collective, Jarred Parenzee