2005
Participated in the group exhibition “Encompass” at the Cape Gallery

2003
Thami Kitti, is mentioned, together with Kevin Willemse, as an assistant puppet-maker for the production of Tall Horse. Anglo Gold Ashanti funded his work over an extended period in Handspring’s Kalk Bay Studios.

1998
Worked with Lovell Friedman at Community Arts in Woodstock helping with the display of exhibitions.

1997
Participated in a painting and sculptural project under Jane Alexander; “Shadows of Robben Island”

1996
Attended an international workshop in Botswana.

1990
Thami attended the Community Arts Project working in Sculpture (Wood) and painting.

Attended the Luhlaza High School where he completed Standard 7 in 1989.

excerpts FROM THE TALL HORSE THEATRE PROGRAMME:

“Tall Horse is a product of collaboration of artists from diverse cultures – Malian, South African, Béninoise/French, American and English. It is a story of collaboration among Malian, French, Egyptian and Italian individuals, slaves and kings, scientists and tomb robbers, to bring an exotic, regal and exceedingly rare gift to Enlightenment-Era France. Like the story’s principal characters, we ended up somewhere other than we had imagined we were going to at the outset of the journey. But the road from there to here, like that taken by the Malian former slave and the French scientist, was also one of discovery.”

The producer, Basil Jones noted

“We have been inspired by the Bamana and Bozo puppetry traditions of Mali since our period in Botswana when my partner, Adrian Kohler, brought a Malian puppet back from a buying trip to Johannesburg and I was subsequently involved in the acquisition of a collection of puppets from Mali for the National Museum and Art Gallery. This puppetry tradition is important for world puppetry in that it is one of the few still very much part of village life, entertainment and rites of transition. Not only that, but the actual puppets themselves are created within an extremely rich sculptural tradition.”