Dr Albertina Luthuli will be presenting prizes at the Phansi Museum’s Human Rights competition on Saturday, July 29 at 10 am. Over 90 schools from urban and rural areas in KwaZulu-Natal, some from as far afield as Bergville and the Drakensberg, took part in the event. Continue reading
Human Rights
Emily Hobhouse: a passionate advocate for human rights
Elsabe Brits with her book on Emily Hobhouse.
TheLuvvie.com’s ESTELLE SINKINS chats to Elsabé Brits, author of the new boography, Emily Hobhouse: Beloved Traitor.
Drama for Life Sex Actually 2016: Revealing vulnerable bodies
Songezo Mcilizeli presents Audition.
Drama for Life is bringing critical, bold theatre into the public domain through its 9th annual Drama for Life Sex Actually Festival.
Hosted at Wits University, the festival is a cross-community arts education, activism and therapeutic intervention, which is curated in a way that allows arts practitioners and audience members to holistically engage with and interrogate the complexities surrounding themes of sex, sexuality, relationships, culture, gender, HIV and sexual reproductive health; within human rights and social justice discourse. Continue reading
Writers invited to submit entries for the Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology
Gerald Kraak.
SUBMISSIONS are being invited for the Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology, a new award and anthology on the topics of gender, human rights and sexuality, for writers and photographers across Africa. Continue reading
Don’t miss A Voice I Cannot Silence at the Playhouse
Ralph Lawson and Clare Mortimer in A Voice I Cannot Silence. Photo: CuePix/Sithasolwazi Kentane
THE critically acclaimed, award-winning drama, A Voice I Cannot Silence, will be staged in the Playhouse Loft Theatre in Durban from May 12 to 20. Continue reading
Celebrating Human Rights at the Phansi Museum
Azania Mbatha’s Citizenship Clause
In recognition and celebration of human rights month, the Phansi Museum in Durban is presenting a selection of the Images from the Human Rights Portfolio in a three-week long exhibition until May 3. Continue reading
Bright young minds debate global issues
THE South African Model United Nations (SAMUN) International Conference 2015 will see some of the country’s bright young minds go head to head over global issues, humans rights and international relations. Held at the Cape Town Metro Council on 12 Hertzog Boulevard from October 15 to 19, the winning teams from the provincial rounds will engage in debates based on the principles and format of the UN General Assembly. Continue reading
TWENTY: Art in the Time of Democracy
An exhibition entitled TWENTY: Art in the Time of Democracy featuring works by 115 artists will be presented by UJ Arts & Culture at the UJ Art Gallery from July 1 to August 5.
Gordon Froud, senior lecturer at the University of Johannesburg (FADA) and curator for this show, incorporated a broad range of works by established and emerging South African artists addressing their experiences of the first twenty years of democracy in this country.
Froud originally curated this show for the Appalachian State University Turchin Centre in North Carolina during 2014, which, on its return was exhibited at the Pretoria Art Museum. A selection from this exhibition, co-curated by Professor Karen Von Veh (UJ, FADA) will be shown at the 6th International Beijing Biennale later this year.
The artists, amongst others William Kentridge , Mary Sibande, David Goldblatt, Diane Victor, David Koloane, Kagiso Pat Mautloa, Vusi Beauchamp, Clive Van der Berg, Paul Emmanuel, Kim Berman, Roger Ballen, Matt Hindley, Marco Cianfanelli, Jodi Bieber, Manfred Zylla, Andy Robertson, Christo Doherty, Mbali Dhlamini, Bevan de Wet, Phumilani Ntuli and Jaco van Schalkwyk, comment on a wide variety of themes such as identity formation within a young democracy, resistance, human rights, land concerns, the Mandela years and HIV/Aids.
The exhibition closes on August 5.
NEED TO KNOW
OPENING SPEAKER: Avitha Sooful, Head of Division and senior lecturer, Fine Arts, University of Pretoria
WALKABOUT: Wednesday, July 22 at 1 pm; Saturday, August 1 at 10.30 am
GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Friday from 9 am to 4 pm. Closed weekends and public holidays.
LOCATION: APK Campus, Cor. Kingsway/University Road, Auckland Park
CONTACT: UJ Art Gallery: 011 559 2099 aedempsey@uj.ac.za
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