Mandela & MK: Situating South African History within the Black Radical Tradition.
The CHR welcomes Robert Trent Vinson who will be giving a public lecture as part of the CHR’s Winter School programme on Tuesday 23 July and the launch of the CHR’s Humanities hub on 30 July....
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Between Poetry and Biography: Ruth Mompati, Charlotte Maxeke and intellectual histories of liberation
The CHR welcomes Mongane Wally Serote, South Africa’s National Poet Laureate, and Thozama April, who will be giving a public lecture as part of the CHR’s Winter School programme on Thursday 25 July and the launch of the CHR’s Humanities hub on 30 July....
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Winter School 2024: Partition / non-Partition
The CHR’s annual Winter School will be held at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab between 22 and 26 July 2024 at the Iyatsiba Lab in Cape Town (66 Greatmore St, Woodstock)....
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Through the years the annual parade and performance in Barrydale has brought together artists, scholars, researchers and publics not only from across Barrydale and Cape Town, but nationally and internationally as well.
Rehearsals are full steam ahead in Barrydale for the 2022 Puppet Performance and Parade created and produced by members of the CHR and aesthetic education partner, Net vir Pret.
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.
With construction underway on Greatmore, a sod-turning ceremony was held to celebrate the coming to fruition of the proposal for an arts and humanities hub supported through the DSI-NRF Flagship and the NIHSS.
Life-sized elephant puppet Mnumzane strolled across the Boschendal Estate on Sunday 14 March 2021, accompanied by little elephant Alfie, their path criss-crossed by the boisterous Dassie puppet.
Friday February 5th marks the 40th anniversary for the Handspring Puppet Company, collaborators in the aesthetic endeavours of the CHR, most particularly as creative mentors to the Ukwanda Puppetry and Design Collective, as well as the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO).
The 2017 annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) explored the multiple ways in which improvisation has enabled and facilitated the study of the humanities, not least in times of great social upheaval.