ANOTHER ROADMAP GRUPO ÁFRICA (ARAC)
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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…
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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. In late February…
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ARAC Partners with Arts Research Africa to Convene a Symposium on Artistic Education in Johannesburg (10-18 February 2020)
At the invitation of Arts Research Africa (a research initiative of the Wits School of the Arts, the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC) convened a Symposium on Artistic Research in Africa that took place at Wits University, Keleketla! Library and other sites of knowledge production and speculation in Johannesburg, 10-18 February 2020. Another Roadmap for…
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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…
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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. inspired by intiatives such as Ba re e ne re Literature Festival, Rutanang Book Fair, Abantu Book Festival, Tjo!Storyfest and the Jozi Book Fair, Lephephe Print…
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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. The structure of this “evening school” draws from Senegalese writer and film director Ousmane…
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Nyanza Working Group meets with anthropologist Natacha Nsabimana at Sculpture Center and e-flux in New York (14 – 26 October, 2019)
In October 2019, the Nyanza Working Group convened a work week in New York that brought Isaïe Nzeyimana from Huye in Rwanda to New York, where he attended and led interpretation workshops of his own French writing that is being translated collectively into English for the first time. The week culminated in; An Evening with…
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Maseru Working Group in Dialogue with the Balisa in Sefikeng for International Literacy Day (10 September 2019).
The Maseru Working Group was invited to collaborate with the Lesotho Council of NGOs (LCN) and Lesotho Association of Non-formal Education (LANFE) to host a community dialogue with Herders (Balisa) in Sefikeng, Berea on 10 September 2019. The aim of the event was to engage on the value of literacy and education among Balisa and…
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ARAC Zines
Members of the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC) put together zines in 2018 as a summary of their individual research projects and activities. The Zines may be viewed as a repository of the key components of knowledge creation and dissemination embarked on by the various members, or they may be used as learning/teaching aids for…