Date:
Wednesday 28 May 2025
Time:
11:00pm for 1:00pm
Venue:
The CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab,
66 Greatmore Street, Woodstock
(enter via Regents St)
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.
The first 2025 Artists Forum will be led by Fatima Dike, a South African Theatre Director, Playwright and Theatre Producer from Langa, Cape Town. She will be taking participants through her journey as a theatre maker during the hard and controversial 1970’s, the turbulent 1980’s and the complex post-apartheid period.
Artist Bio
Fatima Dike
Fatima Dike is a playwright, Director, Teacher and Mentor. Her body of work stretches between 1976-2008 and includes the plays The Sacrifice of Kreli (1976), The First South African (1977), Women’s Voices (1997) and most recently The Return (2008). As well as working at the Guga S’thebe Arts & Culture Centre in Langa, she has lectured at John Carroll University’s English department (Ihio), has travelled and worked internationally for a number years, and has directed two plays (Woza Albert by Mbongeni Ngema & Percy Mtwa and Nothing but the Truth by John Kani) alongside the Siyasanga Cape Town theatre company’s grade 12 English drama set.