JUNE JULY 2015
1995 2015
Goethe-Institut SOUTH AFRICA
programme
OVERVIEW
When
What & Where
04/06/2015— YOUR SKIN MAKES ME CRY 31/07/2015
Goethe-Institut
09/06/2015 FILM NIGHT: SCHILLER
Goethe-Institut
18/06/2015— XPRESSIONS! 13/07/2015
A PICTURE OF A THOUSAND WORDS
GOETHEONMAIN
28/06/2015 DAY OF THE GIANTS
GOETHE-INSTITUT
15/07/2015
FILM NIGHT: THE MIRACLE OF BERN
GOETHE-INSTITUT
16/07/2015— DURBAN INTERNATIONAL 26/07/2015 FILM FESTIVAL (DIFF)
DURBAN
21/07/2015
MUSIC LECTURE
BY CHARLOTTE SEITHER
WITS MUSIC SCHOOL
23/07/2015— BLACK DOG 17/08/2015
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VIDEO ART
Your Skin Makes Me Cry
4 June - 31 July 2015 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD
Sommer, Undine. “At the Gallery Owner’s”, 2012.
The exhibition of single-channel video works Your Skin Makes Me Cry is the result of a competition held at tertiary institutions in Germany. The title phrase, coined from the Radiohead song Creep, speaks about intimacy – the physical and emotional contact, happiness and pain it involves, as well as referring to the adolescent struggle for selfhood and the ongoing quest for personal identity. Your Skin Makes Me Cry further speaks about a social context – the staging of the self and the shattering of gender stereotypes. The individual works range from highly personal evaluations of the artist’s own role to critical appraisals of material found online; from observations on everyday realities of relationships, meditations on sexuality to conceptually-minded works focused on queer identities and gender.
FILM NIGHT
Schiller
Wednesday 9 June, 18H30 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD After the sensational success of his drama Die Räuber (The Robbers), young poet Friedrich Schiller flees from the elite academy of Prince Carl Eugen to become an acclaimed theatre writer in Mannheim, where he ends up competing with his rival August Wilhelm Iffland. English subtitles. Drinks will be provided. Please RSVP by 8 June 2015 to bso@johannesburg.goethe.org
XpressionS! A Picture of a Thousand Words
PHOTOGRAPHY
Opening: Thursday 18 June, 18H30 runs until 13 July GOETHEONMAIN, 245 MAIN STREET, MABONENG PRECINCT Xpression! A Picture of a Thousand Words is a photographic exhibition on Hip Hop culture in South Africa. It will bring together rappers, musicians, poets, DJs and graffiti artists in a collaborative effort to rekindle the flame of the underground Hip Hop movement. The exhibition combines photography, Hip Hop music, and graffiti art. The heart and the drive of the exhibition are the photos captured by Dutch photographer Edward van Herk during Splash Jam, a popular Hip Hop event that took place regularly at Ebaleni Carwash in Orlando West, Soweto. It was organized and hosted by well-known underground Hip Hop group Asylum Trybe. The 20 photos to be exhibited at Goethe on Main capture the magical atmosphere and positive vibes at Splash Jam. The works show an audience comprised of people from different cultural backgrounds who share their undying love and passion for underground hip-hop.
Simone Silhouette Š Edward van Herk
MUSIC
Day of the Giants
Sunday 28 June, 11H00 – 1700 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD
Boulez © Universal Edition, Alfred Schlee
Celebrate the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez, one of the giants of 20th century music! Join Jill Richards and Waldo Alexander for an informal, informative and interactive day of fun and music. We will explore Boulez’ work, and discuss his relationships with two other giants: John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, with music performed by Wits students. The concert will include one of the classics of 20th century repertoire, Cage’s 4’33”, as well as the Boulez 2nd piano sonata, Anthèmes (with live electronics), and Domaines played by clarinettist Morné van Heerden. Do join us for a lively day of music, videos, food and discussion. No knowledge required, only your ears! This event is generously supported by the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) and the Goethe-Institut. Prosound is proud to be part of this noteworthy event in the supply of audio products including Maestro speakers, DPA microphones and a Midas mixing consol.
FILM NIGHT
THE MIRACLE OF BERN
Wednesday 15 July, 18H30 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD With The Miracle of Bern, director and ex-football player Soenke Wortmann has brilliantly succeeded in setting an intensely emotional and touching family drama against the exhilarating, authentic background of West Germany’s miraculous World Cup victory in 1954. © German Films. English subtitles. Drinks will be provided. Please RSVP by 13 July 2015 to bso@johannesburg.goethe.org
© Senator Home Entertainment
MUSIC LECTURE
Lecture by Charlotte Seither
Tuesday 21 July, 14H15 – 16H00 Wits Music School Charlotte Seither is gaining an impressive reputation as one of the most promising German composers in her generation. As the first German she was granted in 1995 with the 1st Prize in the International Composition Contest Prague Spring. In 2009 she awarded the Rome Prize of the German Ministry for the German Academy Villa Massimo. In 1998 she received the degree of a Doctor of Philosophy and is a frequently asked jury-member of international competitions and committees. She has been a guest at many international festivals like Generations Festival Warschau, Gaudeamus Amsterdam, Grame Lyon, IFWM Seoul and Lacma Los Angeles. In August 2013 her orchestra piece Language of Leaving (2012/13) had its World Premiere with the BBC Symphony Orchestra London and the BBC Singers at the BBC Proms and was broadcast live from Royal Albert Hall.
Charlotte Seither Š Marko Bussmann
MULTIMEDIA DANCE PERFORMANCE
Black Dog
Opening: Thursday 23 July 2015, 18H30 runs until 17 August GOETHEONMAIN, 245 MAIN STREET, MABONENG PRECINCT Black Dog is a solo dance performance, choreographed and performed by Thulani Chauke. The work was created while Chauke was participating in a residency programme at the Centre Nationale de la Danse and at the Klap Maison Pour Danse in France in 2013. In this work, the audience witnesses the performer attempting to engage with a corrupted world through heightened alpha-male behavior. The work depicts symbols of influence over the lives of individuals – the power to destroy; and greed, fear, chaos and mayhem as weapons in this struggle. Dates for further performances will be announced closer to the time.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION ARTS EDUCATION
ARTUCATION Programme
ONGOING GOETHEONMAIN AND METROPOLITAN COLLEGE Artucation is an arts education programme that takes place every Wednesday. It involves a group of grade 10 and 11 learners who use curated spaces as a starting point to initiate dialogues which comment on learners’ social, political and personal environment. These curated spaces allow them to talk about the exhibition, unpacking and translating themes in their own interpretation. Discussions are continued in the classroom. The Artucation programme therefore starts to become an “art class outside of class” and a youth platform for expressive intervention in arts education.
Learners at GoetheonMain © Goethe-Institut. Photo by Miora Rajaonary
PUBLISHING PROJECT
Book Dash
27 June 2015 Goethe-Institut South Africa Book Dash gathers volunteer creative professionals to create new, African storybooks that anyone can freely translate and distribute. The volunteers act as pro bono publishers, so that the only cost of giving a child a book is the cost of printing it. Books will be created at the Goethe-Institut on 27 June, in partnership with the African Storybook Project. The files will be available for anyone to download to arrange print runs and put finished books into the hands of children. Find out more at www.bookdash.org.
Arts Education - Photography
Centers of Learning for Photography in Africa – Johannesburg Trainings & Curriculum Meeting
Two training courses and a curriculum development meeting on photography training come to an end on 5 June 2015, as part of the project Centers of Learning for Photography in Africa. The aim of this initiative is to contribute to the professionalisation of photography on the African continent by forming a strong educational resource network. The network of independent, well-equipped and selfsustainable training structures will facilitate training initiatives’ access to tools and content relating to curriculum-development, teaching methods, infrastructure and equipment. The Goethe-Institut’s role of an incubator, entails providing financial, intellectual and infrastructural support during the first project phase. Such support mainly consists of designing, organizing and hosting training workshops and meetings in close collaboration with its main partner, the Market Photo Workshop. It also entails facilitating networking and exchange between learning institutions, educators and other practitioners in the field as well as conducting research on educational resources available online and offline, and improving their accessibility. The project collective consists of representatives for photography training structures from across the continent and the African Diaspora, incl. Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria, South Africa and Germany.
Film Festival & Workshops
Durban International Film Festival
16 – 26 July DURBAN As part of the 36th Durban International Film Festival, the Goethe-Institut is proud to support TALENTS DURBAN, an initiative by Berlinale Talents. The 8th edition of Talents Durban aims to identify the compelling new voices of emerging African filmmakers. The 40 selected participants, emerging filmmakers from Africa will be invited to forge relationships with their global counterparts in an intensive programme of seminars, handson development workshops and industry networking activities, as well as hundreds of film screenings at DIFF. One of the films on this years’ DIFF programme will be Black President by Mpumelelo Mcata, which was produced with support of the Goethe-Institut.
STARTMOTION 17 - 21 JULY 2015
www.durbanfilmfest.co.za
© Talents Durban
Residency
Magnet Theatre Residency – Barbara Kollig
13.07. – 25.07.2015 Magnet Theatre, Cape Town Magnet Theatre is an award winning physical theatre company that has been operating in and outside of South Africa for the past 27 years. With support from the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, the Magnet Theatre is hosting international expert in the field of creating theatre for the very young, Ms. Barbara Kollig, artistic director and teacher at HELIOS in Hamm, Germany, to run a weeklong series of workshops and an incubation process. The workshops feed in to the development of a new piece of theatre, to be performed in the 3 main languages of the Western Cape, aimed specifically at the under 7’s. This piece will tour to disadvantaged communities with a mobile show and reach approximately 3.000 children over a period of 2 weeks. HELIOS’s presence will also further impact on the broader theatre community through workshops, meetings and conversations. More information on www.magnettheatre.co.za.
ONLINE MUSIC PLATFORM
MUSIC IN AFRICA
ONGOING Boasting a free online directory now at over 5.000 music professionals from across Africa and a rapidly-growing database of informative articles about the African music sector, the Music In Africa portal is quickly becoming a trusted source of music information and exchange in Africa. In this quarter, Music In Africa focuses on concluding coverage on Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Madagascar, Congo-Brazzaville, Ivory Coast, Mali, Cameroon, Ghana and Gambia by commissioning research in these countries, while also identifying new countries to be covered in the next phase. In addition, Music In Africa is collaborating with key music events in Africa, including the Flow Up music talent search (Senegal), Festa2H (Senegal), Azgo festival (Mozambique), Bushfire festival (Swaziland) and the Loerie Awards (South Africa). Music In Africa is an initiative by Siemens Stiftung and GoetheInstitut together with partners from across Africa. It is owned and governed by the Music In Africa Foundation. The portal responds to the need for reliable information and networking between music professionals in Africa. It also aims to contribute towards improved collaboration among artists on an international level, as well as to enhance awareness of African music scenes.
Creative Community Education and Development Project
Drama for Life Mvuso School and Community Education Project 2015
06.07. – 10.07.2015 Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood The Drama for Life Mvuso Schools and Community Education Project is in its fourth year run. The project brings together artists and secondary school teachers from selected schools in Soweto, to receive training in Applied Theatre and Drama methodologies. Selected participants are then given seven weeks to facilitate performance projects with teenagers, addressing contemporary social issues as experienced by the adolescents. Performance pieces will be showcased on 12/09/15 at the Pimville Community Centre. The top three performance pieces will be staged at Soweto Theatre on 24/09/15. More information on www.dramaforlife.co.za.
Drama for Life Š Mvuso
Application Deadline 15 August
GoetheOnMain Public Call For Proposals
APPLY UNTIL 15 AUGUST TO REALISE YOUR PROJECT AT GOETHE ON MAIN in 2016!
GoetheonMain Š Lerato Maduna
GoetheOnMain was launched by the Goethe-Institut South Africa in May 2009 at Arts on Main in the Maboneng Precinct as a non-commercial, artist-run project space. It continues to be an exceptional free platform in Johannesburg and has, since its inception, hosted more than fifty projects from various disciplines, including dance, theatre, visual arts, architecture, film, music and literature, from workshops to installation and performance work. An independent committee of arts professionals meets after the yearly public call for proposals to select work to be realised. The selection criterion is above all else artistic quality, whilst maintaining sensitivity for the context and local relevance, and favouring an experimental approach. The deadline is set for 15 August, for project realisation from December 2015 to January 2017. For more information and application forms, please see our website. goethe.de/goetheonmain GoetheonMain Š Lerato Maduna
LANGUAGE COURSES
LEARN GERMAN – Join us for German language courses
TERM DATES: 15/07/2015 - 23/09/2015 ENROLMENT ANYTIME Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood Learn German with the global leader in German language teaching. Whether you want to learn German for daily life, personal interest, professional development, or university studies – the Goethe-Institut is your qualified partner. We guarantee your rapid learning progress promoted by our highly qualified teachers, state-of-the-art teaching methods, intensive consultation and support, a system of course levels applied around the world, and internationally recognized examinations. We offer beginner and intermediate courses at the Goethe-Institut and organise one-on-one tutoring at any learning level, as well as special corporate courses for your company. Our new Blended Learning courses combine classroom and online learning. Enrolment is possible anytime during the opening hours of the Goethe-Institut.
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Front cover detail: Simone Silhouette © Edward van Herk Design: www.prinsdesign.co.za
learn german © Goethe-Institut / Bernhard Ludewig
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