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READ MORE New Publication: Kim Gurney reviews Jay Pather’s edited volume, Restless Infections - Public Art and a Transforming City.

There is a double bind to writing about performance art, or live art as it is also called. Generally speaking, live art involves combinations of the body, time and space.
READ MORE Seminar: The Klopse/Minstrel tradition as intangible heritage

The CHR’s Valmont Layne will be giving a keynote at ‘The Klopse/Minstrel tradition as intangible heritage’, a seminar organised by the Salt River Heritage Society.
READ MORE Iyatsiba Lab: a hub for creative cross-over, A talk by Premesh Lalu.

You are invited to attend an APES+ talk titled “Iyatsiba Lab: a hub for creative cross-over”, by Premesh Lalu.
August 19, 2025

ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series

The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the opening session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run from now until December 2025.
October 17, 2019

Dying For Gold Screening and Discussion

The story of 120 years of gold mining and racial capitalism leads to disease and extreme poverty which endures into the present. Through more than a century of deep level gold mining in South Africa, a legacy of illness, death and inequality has left its mark on the Southern African continent.