A Future Museum Against Apartheid
This short documentary film showcases the work of the Art Against Apartheid collection.
RCMC Annual Conference 2017
Reckoning with History, hosts a set of discussions around questions of how to imagine the future of ethnographic museums and collections in fashioning a postcolonial present.
CHCI Meeting Documentary
A short documentary on the Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, held at the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Derek Gripper & Reza Khota Rehearsal
In preparation for their upcoming show at this year’s CHCI meeting at the Castle of […]
A Map of Suffering
The CHR's Factory of the Arts, composer Reza Khota in collaboration with the AfroAsia's project's […]
Jazz and the Politics of Co-Creation
On Friday 23 June, Kelley gave a presentation titled Jazz and the Politics of Co-creation.
Video and Podcast: Conversations with Hilton Schilder
Conversations is a new series of public dialogues with jazz musicians and their legacies convened by the Factory of the Arts
Olifantland
The 2016 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance, called Olifantland, a
multilingual visual theatre show featuring five majestic elephant puppets
New Horizons Spotlight
The Factory of the Arts was recently featured in Cape Town Television’s weekly programme, New […]
State Capture?
The Dullah Omar Centre for Critical Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities […]
Animation of Dathini Mzayiya making a drawing of Emile Maurice
Dathini Mzayiya and Reza Khota Animation Commemoration for Emile Maurice Reza recorded separate photographic images […]
People You May Know: A Performance at the Factory of the Arts
People You May Know was a collaborative performance and exhibition featuring Dathini Mzayiya, Brydon Bolton, […]
South Sudan: The Road to Civil War – A Lecture by Mahmood Mamdani
Professor Mahmood Mamdani delivered a public lecture titled “South Sudan: The Road to Civil War’ on 18 August 2016 at the University of the Western Ca
Video: The University and its Worlds: A Panel Discussion with Achille Mbembe, Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, and David Theo Goldberg
This is part of a lecture series on the Idea of the University in Africa.
The Humanities and the University in Ruin – Prof Mowitt
Annual Deans Distinguished Lecture – UWC Arts Faculty presented by Prof. John Mowitt.
Theme: “The Humanities and the University in Ruin”
The effects of Apartheid on the creative fields and aesthetic education – Premesh Lalu
Premesh Lalu, Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa reflects on the effects of Apartheid on the creative fields and aesthetic education in South Africa.