Artists Forum with Fatima Dike
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.
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Publication: Instituting Worlds
The CHR is pleased to announce the publication of a chapter by Kim Gurney in an edited volume about architecture and islands, Instituting Worlds. The book, edited by Catharina Gabrielsson and Marko Jobst, is published by Routledge.
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Tectonic: TOMBWA - A solo performance by Victor Gama
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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On Tuesday 24 September 2024, the CHR took part in the Boschendal Heritage Day festivities, which involved puppet making workshops with school learners, and a giant puppet parade through Boschendal farm.
After the great success of the elephant puppet walk at the Boschendal Plum Harvest Festival in 2021, we will be celebrating this year’s festival with giant puppets to raise awareness of the living waters and aquatic life of our planet.
The 2021 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance centres on a family living in Barrydale and the connection a young woman has with an ancient indigenous tree, Old Gwarrie, as well as with the wonderful world she calls home.
“When Nights are Dark” is part of The Walk – a travelling festival of art and hope in support of refugees, with Artistic Direction from Amir Nizar Zuabi and presented by the Jungle, Good Chance, in collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company.
With 2021 being declared “The Year of Charlotte Maxeke,” the DSI-NRF Flagship on Critical thought in the African Humanities at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, has embarked on a special production based on the life of Maxeke.
The 2016 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance brings you Olifantland, a multilingual visual theatre show featuring five majestic life size elephant puppets by Adrian Kohler from Handspring Puppet Company in collaboration with UKWANDA Puppet and Design Collective.