The multilingual theatre production performed in isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho, SeTswana, and Swahili, strongly draws its aesthetic from African storytelling traditions, incorporating dance, song, and ensemble work.
Growing opposition to sacking of arts educator at Australia’s Monash University
A petition calling for the reinstatement of Dr. Jan Bryant, a highly regarded academic and educator at Melbourne’s Monash University, has received nearly 1,000 signatures.
Bryant specialises in art history and theory, fields that are crucial to critical and cultural understanding. The petition points out that many of her PhD students “will be left in the lurch” as a result of her dismissal. Monash University (Wikimedia Commons)
Bryant has been teaching on short-term contracts in the Art, Design and Architecture faculty for eleven years, educating thousands of students, supervising dozens of PhD students, and publishing books, papers and essays.
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South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival has been renamed (Un)Infecting the City for 2021 to reflect the thematic focus on the psychological and social impacts of living through this tumultuous period of history. (Image courtesy of Mud & Fire Parables.)
In partnership with the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA), Infecting the City is back.
Infecting the City is South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival.
This edition takes place from 8 May to 30 June 2021 throughout Cape Town s city centre, across the Cape Flats and online.
Now renamed for its thematic focus on the psychological and social impacts of living through this tumultuous period of history – and the strict mask and social distancing protocols in place – (Un)Infecting the City will present eight distinct programmes in public spaces and online over eight weeks this winter.