Jiggs Thorne is a performance poet, artist, and visionary art and festival director with a strong pedigree of creating, developing, and promoting African arts and culture. Jiggs is the founder and Director of House on Fire, The MTN Bushfire Festival, and of the Standard Bank Luju Food and Lifestyle Festival, as well as the founder of IGODA, a Southern African Music Festival Circuit. Through his diverse creative work, and as a leading arts practitioner, Jiggs has had a major impact on the artistic landscape of the Southern African region and beyond.
