nov– jan 2016/17 programme
OVERVIEW When
What & Where
03/11/2016- WOZA MOYA 20/11/2016 GOETHEONMAIN 09/11/2016 THE NOVEMBER 1938 POGROMS: KRISTALLNACHT, THE END OF THE BEGINNING AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END GOETHE-INSTITUT 15/11/2016 DICHTER, DENKER UND DÖNER: AN IRREVERENT TOUR THROUGH THE BEST OF GERMAN CULTURE AND LANGUAGE Goethe-Institut 17/11/2016 BOOK BITES: READING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM JOHANNESBURG’S SOCIETY OF GERMAN LANGUAGE Goethe-Institut 23/11/2016+ SOCIAL MUSCLE CLUB 26/11/2016+ CAPE TOWN + JOHANNESBURG 24/11/2016 ALLES AUF ZUCKER Goethe-Institut 25/11/2016
DIZU PLAATJIES LIVE IN CONCERT WITS THEATRE
10/12/2016 LITERARY CROSSROADS: NOVIOLET BULAWAYO & CHIKA UNIGWE SOWETO THEATRE 19/01/2017- ABIDJAN/MAPUTO: LGBT REALITIES 17/03/2017 BY RAYMOND DAKOUA GOETHE-INSTITUT 28/01/2017 MUSEAL EPISODE – ON THE GLOBAL FUTURE OF MUSEUMS GOETHE-INSTITUT Admission to all events is free of charge, unless otherwise stated
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EXHIBITION
WOZA MOYA
OPENING 03/11/2016, 18H00, RUNS UNTIL 20/11/2016 GOETHEONMAIN, 245 MAIN STREET, MABONENG
Image supplied by Marie Fricout and Mbali Dhlamini
Moya is a phrase used to define a spirit, a soul or other presence. Woza Moya is an expression used to summon or call Moya to one’s presence. Johannesburg’s landscape is a continuous shape shifter for most of its inhabitants. Woza Moya is a site-specific project that summons Moya and explores spirituality in Johannesburg. Using the Goethe on Main project space and its neighboring sites, the project investigates what spirituality is in the city and how its inhabitants convey it through visuals, sound and performance. Woza Moya invites its audience to engage with experimental elements that mediate spirituality and usher transcendence. Marie Fricout and Mbali Dhlamini invite the public to experiment with potential mediators that channel spirituality and transcendence in an art context.
COMMEMORATION
THE NOVEMBER 1938 POGROMS: KRISTALLNACHT, THE END OF THE BEGINNING AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END
09/11/2016, 18H30 FOR 19H00 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193 On the occasion of the commemoration of the 1938 November Pogroms, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, the Goethe-Institut and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung invite you to a lecture by Professor Michael Berenbaum. Professor Berenbaum is a writer, lecturer, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and the development of historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies.
Image supplied by Michael Berenbaum
WORKSHOP
DICHTER, DENKER UND DÖNER: AN IRREVERENT TOUR THROUGH THE BEST OF GERMAN CULTURE AND LANGUAGE
15/11/2016, 19H00 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193
Three-time Spiegel bestselling author of (mostly) nice books about Germany, Adam Fletcher is visiting from Berlin and will offer an interactive presentation that’s a mixture of readings, videos, images and quizzes. Discussing the cultural quirks of his adopted nation, he’ll then challenge your knowledge of German idioms before finally revealing in his “How German Are You” Quiz just how well you could blend in with the locals. This event will be bilingual. Please RSVP to bso@johannesburg. goethe.org by 14 November 2016.
Image supplied by Adam Fletcher.
LITERATURE
BOOK BITES: READING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM JOHANNESBURG’S SOCIETY OF GERMAN LANGUAGE
17/11/2016, 19H00 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193 With a good month to go until Christmas, the board members of Johannesburg’s Society of German Language will present one book each that they particularly enjoyed recently. The audience will be able to ask questions afterwards. Speakers: Ursula Misch, Angelika Hesse (for Iga Sudyka), Klaus Döring, Fritz Keller and Hans-Jörg Knobloch. This event will be in German.
WORKSHOP
SOCIAL MUSCLE CLUB HOSTED BY ALMA MARTHA
23/11/2016 18H30 – 21H30 47 COMMERCIAL ST, CAPE TOWN, 8001 26/11/2016 18H30 – 21H30 Troyeville HOTEL, ALBERTINA SISULU RD, JOHANNESBURG Alma Martha has asked members of the SOCIAL MUSCLE CLUB team from Berlin and Basel to come to South Africa as mentors and performance artists for the first Social Muscle Club in South Africa. SMC is an interactive game of interaction and sharing with gifts of performance. ALMA MARTHA has invited local artists to perform and create the space. The evening is free of charge and we hope you come and play.
Image supplied by Alma Martha Centre
FILM SCREENING
ALLES AUF ZUCKER (GO FOR ZUCKER, 2004)
24/11/2016, 18H30 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193
Image courtesy of Alles auf Zucker
After the death of his mother, bankrupt gambler Jaeckie Zucker receives a visit from his Orthodox brother Samuel Zuckermann and family. During the wake, Jaeckie secretly takes part in a pool championship to win the money he needs to pay off his debts. English subtitles. Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to bso@johannesburg.goethe.org by 23/11/2016
WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCE
MUSIC IN AFRICA TRAINING INSTRUMENT BUILDING & REPAIR
INSTRUMENT BUILDING WORKSHOP 20-26/11/2016, TRADITIONAL MUSIC CONCERT 25/11/2016 WITS THEATRE, 24 STATION ST, BRAAMFONTEIN
Image courtesy of guitarmaking.co.za
Music In Africa’s instrument building and repair workshop will train participants on building and repairing musical instruments, as well as monetizing the craft. It’s an intense workshop that will be facilitated by experts in the field at the Alpha Training Center in Hartebespoort from 20 - 26 November 2016. Drawing 22 participants from South Africa and 3 from outside of South Africa, the workshop will focus on acoustic guitar, the uMakhwayana bow and marimba. Trainers will include renowned instrument makers; Luigi Marucchi, MaBhengu Ngema, Mpho Molikeng and Christian Carver - one of the most prominent Marimba builders and suppliers in Southern Africa.
TRADITIONAL MUSIC CONCERT AT WITS THEATRE The training will culminate in a concert on traditional instruments at the Wits Theatre on 25 November 2016, featuring the award-winning South African musician Dizu Plaatjies. The performance will be preceded by a panel discussion on traditional instruments and their use in modern music at the same venue. This project is funded by the National Lottery Commission (NLC). Partners include SAMRO Foundation, Wits School of Arts, Goethe-Institut and Siemens Stuftung.
LITERATURE
LITERARY CROSSROADS
10/12/2016, 20:00 SOWETO THEATRE, CNR BOLANI LINK AND BOLANI RD, SOWETO TOPIC: LITERARY CROSSROADS - WRITTEN AND SPOKEN WORD Novelist and short story writer NoViolet Bulawayo and Chika Unigwe will explore ‘The Written and Spoken Word’ under the Abantu Festival theme ‘Our Stories’.
NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel, We Need New Names, was recognized with the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Pen/Hemingway Award, the LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, among others. NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University, and now teaches at Stanford University as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. She lives in Oakland, California. Chika Unigwe was born in Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria. She is the author of four novels, including On Black Sisters Street (2009, 2011 Jonathan Cape, UK and Random House NY) and Night Dancer (Jonathan Cape, 2012). Her short stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Guernica, Aeon and many other journals. Her works have been translated into several languages. A recipient of several awards and fellowships, she now lives and works in the USA. For more information, please see: http://www.abantubookfestival.co.za/
Image supplied by NoViolet Bulawayo
Image supplied by Chika Unigwe
EXHIBITION
ABIDJAN/MAPUTO: LGBT REALITIES BY RAYMOND DAKOUA
OPENING 19/01/2017, 18:30 exhibition runs until 17/03/2017 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193 Homosexuality has long been a taboo in many societies. Of the ten countries that still punish this ‘forbidden love’ with a death sentence, four are on the African continent. As Belgian-Ivorian photographer Raymond Dakoua points out: “nevertheless, LGBT-people try to live their lives as freely and happily as they can”. In this new body of work, Dakoua explores LGBT realities in two countries that have recently decriminalized homosexuality, or do not legislate it: Mozambique and Ivory Coast. “As a straight photographer I felt drawn into this subject, as the number of LGBT-political refugees in Belgium is fast growing. These people had no choice but to leave their countries of origin, so I wanted to explore the realities they left behind. The result is a journey into mostly unknown territory.”
Holding her lover tight, the woman said to me; ‘She is the light of my life’. Abidjan, 2015 © Raymond Dakoua
PANEL DISCUSSION
MUSEAL EPISODE – ON THE GLOBAL FUTURE OF MUSEUMS
28/01/2017, 13H30 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193 “Do museums today continue to be appropriate spaces for the presentation, documentation, mediation and archiving, or even for interaction between observer and object?” Museal Episode brings museum directors, curators and professionals in related fields from several countries together in an exchange. The four-day meeting will take place four times over a period of three years in different countries and is set to develop new models of presentation, mediation and dialogue. This iteration staged in Johannesburg and Cape Town will further engage some of the questions posed at the first meeting in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) and Santa Cruz/ La Paz (Bolivia): looking at ways to decolonize and democratize museums, as well as thinking through community involvement in such endeavors. The talk is a way for the public to engage with the closed session meetings.
© Bruno Marcello
FOR YOUR INFORMATION LANGUAGE
ANNUAL NATIONAL TEACHERS’ CONFERENCE FOR GERMAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
10-13/11/2016 STELLENBOSCH
Every year in November, about 90 teachers who teach German as a foreign language at South African primary schools, secondary schools or universities meet for their national conference. The Goethe-Institut, together with the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the DLV (German Teachers Association of Southern Africa), organizes a fourday programme. It gives the teachers the opportunity to network and participate in further training regarding the main theme of the conference: “intercultural learning in schools and universities”. For a list of schools and universities which offer German as a foreign language in South Africa, you can visit www.moretogerman.com
PHOTOGRAPHY
CENTRES OF LEARNING FOR PHOTOGRAPHY IN AFRICA NETWORK AT LAGOSPHOTO FESTIVAL 2016
The network Centres of Learning for Photography (CLPA), whose members represent photography training structures from across the continent and the African Diaspora, incl. Egypt, Ethiopia, Mali, Senegal, Sudan, Nigeria, South Africa and Germany, is looking forward to its 2016 network meeting, which will take place in Lagos, alongside the inaugural week of LagosPhoto Festival. The program will include a fundraising workshop, facilitated by Ayodele Ganiu, representative for Arterial Network/CORA, Nigeria. African Knowledge Production through Photography for Photography Trainers is the theme of a workshop facilitated by academic and art critic Prof. Manori Neelika Jayawardane. It will focus on criticality and socio-political awareness in photography training. A public discussion, organised in collaboration with LagosPhoto Festival, themed African knowledge production through photography and interdisciplinary artistic practice will be moderated by 2016 Goethe Medal recipient, photographer and educator, Akinbode Akinbiyi. Focus of the conversation, which features CLPA-members, LagosPhoto director, Azu Nwagbogu and Manori Neelika Jayawardane, is the role and consciousness of artists as producers of documentary and commentary. The aim of CLPA is to contribute to the professionalisation of photography on the African continent by forming a strong educational resource network. The network of independent and self-sustainable training structures promotes and facilitates exchange between training initiatives, mainly in matters relating to curriculum-development, teaching methods, contemporary photography discourse and the efficient running of training structures. The Goethe-Institut’s role of project incubator entails providing the network with financial, intellectual and infrastructural support during the first project phase, incl. hosting workshops and meetings, facilitating exchange between learning institutions, educators and other practitioners in the field as well as commissioning research on educational resources.
Say Goodbye to GoetheOnMain…
Lerato Shadi: Di Dikadika Tsa Dinaledi. 4.09.-02.10.2016, GoetheOnMain. Photo by Herman Verwey
The Goethe-Institut’s multi-disciplinary project space GoetheOnMain in Maboneng will close its doors at the end of 2016. Since May 2009, GoetheOnMain has hosted a wide range of exhibitions, workshops, events and performances; including visual art, literature, film, music, dance and theatre projects, and established itself as a significant free space. We would like to thank everyone who was involved with GoetheOnMain in one way or another, and we are sure that memories about the many outstanding projects will last.
… and meet our new Goethe Project Space (GPS) Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) is a multi-disciplinary roving project space. The new programme will support work realized all over South Africa ranging from workshops to exhibitions, events and performances; including visual art, literature, film, music, dance and theatre projects. Similarly to GoetheOnMain, a public call for proposals is presided over by an independent jury of arts professionals, who make the selection for GPS projects. Application deadline for GPS 2017 projects has passed on 15 October 2016, and the jury decision will be announced soon – visit us online to stay tuned.
Front cover detail: Arthur, embracing his partner, told me this: ‘’Me and my darling are a couple, I am dreaming of living my sexuality without hiding”. He is also a leader and counsellor within the Abidjan LGBT movement. © Raymond Dakoua Design: www.prinsdesign.co.za
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