johannesburg working group
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“Letter writing as a technology of the past present and futures”: A New Project for 2020
When the project “ Letters to/from Cairo, Dehli, Gwangju/Cologne, Johannesburg & Richmond: Letter writing as a technology of the past present and futures” started, the method was a meditation on “ Fantasy, Thought, Feeling and Speculation as Action” through a set/suite of questions, prompts and propositions: How do we, in the year 2020/10 or whenever…
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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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Johannesburg Working Group organises two further Iterations of the Un/chronological Timeline in April and May 2019
Two further iterations of the Un/chronological Timeline have taken place in Johannesburg – one at theSymposium ‘Rorke’s Drift, Histories and Pedagogies’ at the Bag Factory and the other at Wits University Braamfontein Campus during Africa Month. 5-6 April 2019 Rorke’s Drift, Histories and Pedagogies: A symposium The Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, The Swedish Embassy in…
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ARAC participates in the 2nd NEPAD Regional Conference on Arts Education in Africa (23-27 May 2017)
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), an economic development program of the African Union, launched regional Arts Education Conferences in 2015 to bring together various stakeholders to share learning experiences and best practices and work together in a consultative manner towards developing a continental framework to guide the implementation of Arts Education in Africa.…