// 12 // Talking Music & Cities with Kwende Kefentse

City Centric Podcast

On this show I’m delighted to welcome Kwende Kefentse who I met through a very random and chance encounter. We recently met at a roundtable discussion organised by two creators of an illustrated book called Out of Nothing with the lead being Daniel Locke. The evening was focused around how Daniels love of hip-hop and space exploration led his creativity in the way he looked at this book. After sitting next to Kwende for five minutes at this event it was evident why he traversed across the city to attend. Born and raised in the Greater Toronto Area, Kwende is currently living in London and working on his masters at The Bartlett's Space Syntax Lab (UCL). Fascinated by cities, his various professional ventures reflect different explorations and investigations into how they function, with a particular focus on culture, space, and music. Most recently Kwende worked in the Arts and Heritage Development unit at the City of Ottawa, on a small but mighty award-winning Cultural Development and Initiatives (CDI) team. He also runs his own label Memeplex, so quite clearly he doesn’t like to sleep! So let’s hear some more about his own story. To get hold of Kwende and ask him a question of follow up with his work head over to https://about.me/kwende.kefentse. If you have any questions about the show, or even ideas for it please email us at [e-mail] and feel free to give us a follow on Twitter via @TheCentricLab. Bye bye….