Basadi Dibeela Bio:
Basadi Dibeela is an arts and culture curator, DJ, and freelance arts journalist. Her work centres around arts, innovation, and sustainability. Drawn to villages as much as to cities, she is interested in an expansive and accessible art landscape that does not only look to - but seeks to find new expressions and vocabularies outside of cities and metropolitan areas. She is exploring what critical cultural placemaking looks in the context of a village, and the role of the artist, the curator, and the community in shaping what that could look like.
Previously, Basadi has worked as a strategic planner and programme developer, while serving on the board of the Kgosi Bathoen II Museum in her home village of Kanye, Botswana. As a social entrepreneur, Basadi started the Loselo Kultur Network, an organisation devoted to operating a multi-disciplinary arts and innovation space that encourages critical thinking, ideas exchange, experimentation. Basadi holds a Masters in Arts Journalism from Syracuse University in New York USA, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Botswana.