READ MOREBarrydale 2025: Steek my Weg
Join us for the Barrydale annual giant puppet parade and performance, 14 December 2025 at the BFO Primary School, Tinley Street, Barrydale.READ MOREExhibition Announcement: Every Artist Must Take Sides - Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson
‘Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson’, launched on 14 November 2025 at the Akademie der Künste (ADK). It is a project by the Akademie der Künste in collaboration with the CHR, and the Haus für Poesie, Berlin.READ MOREFilm Screening: MILISUTHANDO
The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the final session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run until December 2025.
This production premieres at the Star Theatre at the District Six Homecoming Centre (formerly the Fugard Theatre) on the 7th February until the 11th February 2023.
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 CHR is delighted to announce the publication of CHR Research Fellow Kim Gurney’s new book Panya Routes: Independent art spaces in Africa (Motto, 2022), which was carried out in her capacity as an affiliated Research Associate at UCT’s African Centre for Cities.
The Faculty of the Arts and Humanities, the Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Anthropology are pleased to invite you to The Annual Distinguished Dean’s Lecture by Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2024, as well as for Ivan Karp doctoral research awards for African students enrolled in South African Ph.D. programmes.