Let's Touch Base
Let's Touch Base
Podcast Description
Your Weekly Touch Up presents...Let’s Touch Base, a grounded, in-depth conversation led by host ByLwansta with and featured panelists. These talks are designed to be honest, reflective, and practical, spotlighting real experiences from cultural producers, artist-entrepreneurs, and music industry players across the alternative scene.
The focus is on exchange over ego, insight over instruction. It's a moment to slow down, ask better questions, and build community through shared knowledge.
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Content Themes
The podcast covers themes of cultural production, creativity, and the music industry, with episodes focusing on topics such as the experience of creating from the diaspora, identity in artistic expression, and cultural entrepreneurship. For example, the first episode discusses the dynamics of building a career rooted in African culture while navigating multiple global influences.
Your Weekly Touch Up presents…Let’s Touch Base, a grounded, in-depth conversation led by host ByLwansta with and featured panelists. These talks are designed to be honest, reflective, and practical, spotlighting real experiences from cultural producers, artist-entrepreneurs, and music industry players across the alternative scene.
The focus is on exchange over ego, insight over instruction. It’s a moment to slow down, ask better questions, and build community through shared knowledge.
A conversation on culture, creativity, and connection across borders.
In our first episode of Let’s Touch Base, we explore the creative push and pull between home and abroad. What does it mean to build from the continent, and what does it take to sustain presence in multiple places at once?
Featuring Anita Makgetla, cultural producer and founding member of Strictly Soul, Africa’s biggest R&B event series, and MPHO the GVN, South African-born singer-songwriter making waves in the UK, this panel offers insight into:
Building a music or events career rooted in Africa
Demystifying the idea that success must start in the US or Europe
The importance of cultural context in curating events and music
Navigating identity and audience when working across continents
The infrastructure and support needed for artists living in the diaspora
Lessons in longevity, community-building, and creative intention
Whether you’re building locally or living globally, this conversation offers practical takeaways, real talk, and a few grounding reminders.
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