Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC) participation in the #Im4thearts Capacity Building Winter School (22-24 June 2020)
Formed in January 2020, #Im4theArts is an artist-led movement for the rights of all workers in the South African arts sector with 18,000 Facebook and 800 formally registered members that are working for accountability and economic sustainability in the creative sector. The #Im4theArts Winter School was a response to members’ needs for capacity-building. As part of the Winer School, ARAC members Christian Nyampeta (Nyanza Working Group) and David Andrew (Johannesburg Working Group) participated in the first of three online Zoom sessions on the State of Arts Education in South Africa.
Kampala Working Group visits Johannesburg Working Group (February - May 2020)
In pursuit of her doctoral research into the colonial archive, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa of the Kampala Working Group spent the first semester of 2020 as a Visiting Researcher at the Wits School of the Arts, where she both pursued her research and participated in teaching with her colleagues from the Johannesburg Working Group.
ARAC welcomes Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández as Invited Expert for the ARAC-ARA Symposium (February 2020)
ARAC was delighted to welcome Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández of the Toronto Working Group as our invited expert for the ARAC-ARA Symposium on Artistic Education in Africa in February 2020. Rubén is Professor of Curriculum & Pedagogy and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Curriculum Inquiry at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His research and scholarship are concerned with questions of symbolic boundaries and the dynamics of cultural production and processes of identification in educational contexts. His theoretical work focuses on the relationship between cultural production and solidarity. He is the author of The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School (2009) and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education (2019)
ARAC at Lephephe Print Gatherings 4 (February 2020)
The ARAC-ARA Symposium on Artistic Education in Africa ended in style at the 4th Lephephe Print Gathering at the King Kong Building in Johannesburg on Saturday 15 February 2020.
Nyanza Working Group launches «École du Soir» (February 2020)
École du soir (Evening School, EDS for short) is a multiform hosting structure for collective feeling, cooperative thinking, and mutual action. EDS is convened by artist Christian Nyampeta, with the support of and alongside a chorus of fellow artists, institutions, and networks.
