MEANWHILE
Meanwhile is a spoken word poetry show created and performed by Thandokuhle Mngqibisa & Nosipho Gumede, a Medical Doctor and a Metallurgical Engineer by profession respectively. The performance showcases how women have always known how to blend; that they can parallel science and art; that they can be scholars when their Meanwhile is poetry.
The poetry walks the listener through a journey of becoming; the different trajectories life can take. The audience can expect the poems to be carry them back to a place where they knew how to be six; then move them to the point where they discovered that differences split society into us, them and other; then finally the poems will leave the audience with an appreciation for endings.
This will not be just a collaboration of artists but a linking of stories that shows how two poets can meet between the poems.