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READ MORE Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold

For this exhibition, eight artists were invited to select artefacts from the document archive of the Association for Visual Arts (AVA), a not-for-profit gallery and collective in Cape Town, as source material for an artistic response.
READ MORE Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere

The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR. The Forum’s objective has been to connect scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, and to bring artists and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency.
READ MORE The Polyrhythmic Ensemble

The Polyrhythmic Ensemble was formed in 2023 with the aim of creating new works based around research into contrapuntal and polyrhythmic African music.
May 24, 2019

Tony Miyambo On Tour

CHR Artist in Residence Tony Miyambo is on tour performing Kafka’s Ape and The Cenotaph of Dan Wa Moriri.
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May 24, 2019

Oratorio Of A Forgotten Youth: Musical Reflections On The Youth Of ’76

CHR Artist in Residence Mandla Mlangeni presents his Oratorio of A Forgotten Youth at Artscape from 15 June 2019.
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May 20, 2019

Mandla Mlangeni and Amandla Freedom Ensemble Live in Cape Town

Mandla Mlangeni leads the Amandla Freedom Ensemble in an interdisciplinary collaborative musical endeavour that took place in different venues in Cape Town and Stellenbosch between 12 – 16 May.
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May 15, 2019

Warona

Presented by: Ukwanda Puppets and Designs Company
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May 14, 2019
Anas is watching’, mural by Nico Wayo. Accra, Ghana. Photo: K. Gurney

From platform to plotform: Artistic thinking in spaces of flux

This session shares work in progress on an African Centre for Cities (ACC) research project led by Kim Gurney called Platform/ Plotform to help forward future work and interdisciplinary outputs
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May 13, 2019

Seminar: Willemien Froneman

Nico Carstens, Disavowal, and the Perverted Mind of Apartheid
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May 13, 2019

Lion’s Share: Remaking South African Copyright

A Humanities in Session Lecture by Prof. Veit Erlmann
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May 7, 2019

Reckoning with Africa and the Desire for a Global Mnemoscape

A new paper by Next Generation Scholars Lauren van der Rede and Aidan Erasmus has appeared in a global-e Special Issue Series on Mnemonic Solidarity in the Global Memory Space.
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May 7, 2019

Testimony and Truth Today

A Humanities in Session Lecture by Proffessor Sara Guyer
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May 3, 2019

Seminar: Ari Sitas

Of Chata: Beginnings of a Journey
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May 2, 2019

Democracy, Consensus and Citizenship

and the Book Launch of Consensus as Democracy in Africa by Prof Bernard Matolino (UKZN)
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  • Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold
    October 22, 2025
  • Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere
    October 21, 2025
  • The Polyrhythmic Ensemble
    October 20, 2025
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