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Influence

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As part of the Communicating the Humanities research project, The CHR Documentary film class was in conversation with award winning journalists and filmmakers, Richard Poplak and Dianna Neile, and producer Neil Brant, about their latest film Influence.

The CHR Documentary film class was in conversation with veteran journalists and filmmakers, Richard Poplak and Dianna Neile, about their latest film Influence. CHR Research Manager, Maurits van Bever Donker, PhD, served as the discussant for the film while master documentarian, Francois Verster chaired the session.

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September 21, 2023

Publication announcement: Dr Kim Gurney, ‘Epistemic Disobedience’.

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Award Announcement: Aja Marneweck, “Best Faculty Academic Impact: Creative Arts Output Award 2022.”

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Oscillations Workshop: Sonic Inquiries and Practices

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Itumeleng Wa Lehulere Standing Stage Left at South African Theatres

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Tomorrow, Friday 8 September, Itumeleng Wa Lehulere will be giving a talk at the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Global Change. Titled ‘Standing Stage Left at South African Theatres’ and scheduled for 19:00 – 20:00 (SAST), Wa Lehulere will reflect on his artistic journey from the late 1970s; what he calls “his comrades marathon” and a “journey of brutality, grief, and healing; breaking and mending,searching and searching...and observing”. Please make time to listen to a conversation about art as a weapon of struggle and resistance. You can livestream by following this link: buff.ly/3P6zCTB. Itumeleng’s life in the arts and political fraternities spans over thirty years. Beginning as an activist in apartheid South Africa, he was renowned as a very influential figure that many young people listened to and followed. He played a significant role in the formation of COSAS in the Western Cape, while playing a prominent role in the church, being part of the choir and playing marimba for the St Gabriel’s Catholic Church. His artistic career started as a poet, musician and dancer who later worked with Gibson Kente Productions in Johannesburg, playing lead roles along side Brenda Fassie in “Hungary Spoon”. Affectionately known as Bra E, he has conceptualized and directed a number of prominent pieces of provocative pieces for theatre, like… “You strike the woman, You Strike the Rock” “Down Adderly Street” “Gap toothed Sisters “Roxy” the musical “Diaries of my Womanhood” “Red Winter” “Echoes of our Footsteps”, all of which were played out in the major theaters of South and abroad, spanning a period of over 20 years. After completing his performance Diploma under the prolific Professor Mavis Taylor, Itumeleng worked with many Directors in Theatre that include: Barney Simon, Janice Honeyman, Ester van Ryswerk, Mark Fleishman. Itumeleng has also worked intensively with the legendary Mike van Graan at the Community Arts Project School of Popular Theatre. His best work appeared at the Market theatre under owners of The Handspring Puppet Companies Basil Jones and Adrian Kholer in a production entitled “Carnival of the Bear”. Itumeleng was instrumental in the forming of the Market Theatre laboratory alongside Mark Fleishman under the leadership of Mannie Manim and Barney Simon. Itumeleng has taught at the following institutions: Alexander Arts Center(JHB), Fuba Academy(JHB,) New world Foundation(CT), Community Arts Project(CT), and tutored at the University of Cape Town Drama School. Itumeleng was one of few actors to be contracted to the Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal(1990). He has since been commissioned by City of Cape Town (writer/director: Affirmative Action Education program) which was converted into a video drama also directed by Itumeleng. Itumeleng then moved on to found and direct for twelve years the multi award-winning Ikhwezi Annual Theatre Festival in association with the Baxter Theatre Center at the University of Cape Town under the astute leadership of Mannie Manim. The Festival was chosen as the Cultural Development Project of the year(2004). Itumeleng is also very interested and involved in writing, directing and acting in television series and movies, the latest of which was conceptualizing, writing and directing the acclaimed romantic comedy "Forced Loved" produced by Penguin Films. Itumeleng was the Artistic Director of the Jozi Bookfair, hosted by Khanya College at Wits University (2014-2016). Wa Lehulere is an intellectual who strives to tell current and thought provoking works, that speak to the times. His approach to theatre is avoiding the over use of props to encourage the actor to use his/her instrument(body and voice) to tell the story holistically. He is in residence with ICGC in August and September 2023. ... See MoreSee Less

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We are thrilled to invite you to the keynote address by Gascia Ouzounian at our upcoming workshop, Oscillations: Sonic Inquiries and Practices happening rom Monday, 11 September – Thursday, 14 September 2023 at the Greatmore Humanities Hub in Woodstock. Please note that, although this is an open event, space is limited, so if you want to join us, RSVP via email to Miceala Felix at centreforhumanitiesresearch@uwc.ac.za by Monday 11 September. Gascia Ouzounian is a sonic theorist and practitioner whose work explores sound in relation to space, architecture, urbanism, and violence. She is associate professor of music at the University of Oxford, where she leads the European Research Council-funded project Sonorous Cities: Towards a Sonic Urbanism (buff.ly/44FZJXd). She is the author of Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts (MIT Press 2021), and has contributed numerous articles to leading journals of music, visual art, and architecture, covering a range of topics, from sonic memories of the Armenian Genocide to sound in radical Black arts traditions to ‘counterlistening’ and women in sound art. Ouzounian’s recent projects include Scoring the City, which takes inspiration from the graphic score and other unconventional notations in experimental music to develop new modes of ‘urban scoring’ (buff.ly/3fXUFFZ); and Acoustic Cities: London & Beirut, which brought together ten artists in creating works that explore the sonic, social, and spatial conditions of two cities. Oscillations is a project by Akademie der Künste (Berlin) Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town) and Deutschlandfunk Kultur / Klangkunst (Berlin). Oscillations is funded by the TURN2 Fund of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media). Supported by the DAAD Arts & Media Program, Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf and the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences in South Africa. For more information follow this link: buff.ly/3sMKrTC. ... See MoreSee Less

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#MemoryLaneMonday! Throwing it back to our Winter School in August. We even managed to get schooled by our very own Phokeng Setai at the @norvalfoundation's Berni Searle retrospective, 'Having But Little Gold'. ... See MoreSee Less

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We had a wonderful writing workshop and masterclass yesterday with Eoin McNamee, the CHR's inaugural #Maxeke-Robinson Research Chair. If creative writing is, according to McNamee, ultimately an act of bearing witness, then “teaching” writing is really about teaching the art of careful observation, attentiveness, and deep perception; moving from the periphery to the centre and building each piece of writing from the negative space that surrounds characters and effects. Details matter and the writer's craft entails sharp attentiveness to the minutiae of a story in order to activate the reader's sensory faculties. We had the great pleasure of welcoming colleagues from the English Department’s Creative Writing programme and hope this workshop catalyses other opportunities for collaboration. ... See MoreSee Less

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  • Publication announcement: Dr Kim Gurney, ‘Epistemic Disobedience’.
    September 21, 2023
  • Award Announcement: Aja Marneweck, “Best Faculty Academic Impact: Creative Arts Output Award 2022.”
    September 20, 2023
  • Oscillations Workshop: Sonic Inquiries and Practices
    September 7, 2023
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