First Thursday

✨ Meet the Artist, Witness the Story.

📅 Thursday, June 5 @ 6 PM
📍 Alliance Française du Cap – 155 Loop Street, Cape Town

Kopano Mashike is not just an artist , she’s a storyteller, actor, and cultural worker, known for her ability to gather people around stories that confront, uplift, and provoke.

Born into privilege but moved by proximity, Kopano arrived in Cape Town at the height of the 2024 floods  a time of devastation for many in the townships. What she witnessed didn’t inspire pity. It sparked purpose.

This solo exhibition, The City of Shacks, is a reckoning.
It honours the mothers building homes from tin, the fathers hammering into borrowed land, and the children who learn too early that even walls can disappear.

It’s raw. It’s real. It’s a chance to see what we often look away from.
As Kopano says:
“Violence and beauty live side by side in this city. This exhibition is my attempt to hold that truth.”

Event Details

🖼️ Exhibition runs until 30 June
🕙 Viewing hours: 10 AM – 5 PM (Mon–Fri)
🎟️ Free & open to all