The Butterfly Effect: Tanika Paschke-Moloi
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Picture this. It’s been raining for days. Then, a sudden break in the cloud. Light pours through a crack in the road — the water there now a mirror to the sky. Then sound. A guitar strums in threes and fours. A foot taps. A mouth opens and sings. Story interweaves melody, threaded together by ideas, love affairs, and questions about life, death, and everything in between. This is the promise of The Butterfly Effect
Tickets R200pp (show only)
18h30 for 19h00 (kitchen orders close at 19h00)
*Live Music Starts AFTER Dinner Service is completed*
Dinner, Dessert and Drinks available
Fully Licensed, BYOB not permitted
Card / Cash (preferred) Payment
15% Service Fee Charged
More on the Show:
You leave this experience changed — more human, somehow having understood something deeper about what it means to be human. You can’t explain it. Can’t put your finger on it precisely. Yet you know, unmistakably, that you are better for having been there. Here. Present. Feeling fully. Breathing deeply. Not alone. Not separate. For the first time, part of something. Belonging. Yet still completely yourself.
Led by singer-songwriter Tanika Paschke-Moloi, The Butterfly Effect is a 60-minute music and poetry performance that tells the story of an individual moving through different systems — family, education, work, social environments — in search of safety and belonging.
The music interlaces delicate ambient textures with moments of transcendent orchestration and anthemic voice. Simple chords and melodies cradle complex ideas and emotional depth. Cinematic in nature, the project unfolds with the flow of a story — as though you are reading a book that gradually resolves into a choir of voices: clapping, moving, dancing out of cleanly organised lines and into a distilled silence.
A singular beat remains. It stops, then begins again — in utero. The womb. The sound of our mother's heartbeat.
Tanika Paschke-Moloi, alongside her band, integrates her unique experience across multiple careers, cultures, and socio-economic worlds with a hard-won artistic voice to tell this story in the only way she can.
First we listen. Then we dance.
Tickets R200pp (show only)
18h30 for 19h00 (kitchen orders close at 19h00)
*Live Music Starts AFTER Dinner Service is completed*
Dinner, Dessert and Drinks available
Fully Licensed, BYOB not permitted
Card / Cash (preferred) Payment
15% Service Fee Charged
More on the Show:
You leave this experience changed — more human, somehow having understood something deeper about what it means to be human. You can’t explain it. Can’t put your finger on it precisely. Yet you know, unmistakably, that you are better for having been there. Here. Present. Feeling fully. Breathing deeply. Not alone. Not separate. For the first time, part of something. Belonging. Yet still completely yourself.
Led by singer-songwriter Tanika Paschke-Moloi, The Butterfly Effect is a 60-minute music and poetry performance that tells the story of an individual moving through different systems — family, education, work, social environments — in search of safety and belonging.
The music interlaces delicate ambient textures with moments of transcendent orchestration and anthemic voice. Simple chords and melodies cradle complex ideas and emotional depth. Cinematic in nature, the project unfolds with the flow of a story — as though you are reading a book that gradually resolves into a choir of voices: clapping, moving, dancing out of cleanly organised lines and into a distilled silence.
A singular beat remains. It stops, then begins again — in utero. The womb. The sound of our mother's heartbeat.
Tanika Paschke-Moloi, alongside her band, integrates her unique experience across multiple careers, cultures, and socio-economic worlds with a hard-won artistic voice to tell this story in the only way she can.
First we listen. Then we dance.
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Where is it happening?
20 Alma Rd, Rosebank, 7700 Cape Town, South Africa, 20 Alma Rd, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa
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Host or PublisherThe Alma Cafe
