JAN FEB 2016 programme
OVERVIEW When
What & Where
19/01/2016 FAK JU GÖHTE Goethe-Institut 30/01/2016 JOHANNESBURG INTERNATIONAL MOZART FESTIVAL GOETHE-INSTITUT 04/02/2016- Tales of Resilience V 18/03/2016 Goethe-Institut
09/02/2016 LITERARY CROSSROADS Goethe-Institut
16/02/2016 HUMBOLDT FORUM Goethe-Institut 17/02/2016
JACOB THE LIAR GOETHE-INSTITUT
23/02/2016 BEYOND BORDERS: MAKING ART ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES Venue TBA 25/02/2016+ Romeo & Juliet / 26/02/2016 REBELLION & JOHANNESBURG UJ CENTRE FOR THE ARTS
25/02/2016 LAUNCH: IT TAKES 2! VOLUME 2 GOETHE-INSTITUT 26/02/2016- EXTRA ORDINARY 28/02/2016 GOETHEONMAIN Admission to all events is free of charge, unless otherwise stated
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LANGUAGE
GERMAN LANGUAGE COURSES AND EXAMINATIONS 2016
15/01/2016 – 24/03/2016 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD Courses Term 1: 15 January Term 2: 15 April Term 3: 15 July Term 4: 1 October
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24 March 23 June 22 September 8 December
Exams We offer accredited exams for levels A1 – C1 four times per year at the end of each term. For more information, dates and fees, contact learngerman@johannesburg.goethe.org.
FILM SCREENING
FACK JU GÖHTE
19/01/2016 18H30 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193 After serving a 13-month prison sentence, Ganove Zeki Müller goes in search of the loot from his last robbery. The money is buried under a school’s gym hall. He applies to become the caretaker at that school but gets a job as a substitute teacher instead. A job which has him dealing with a naive trainee teacher and delinquent learners who can’t even spell “F*ck you”, Goethe correctly. This is Zeki’s baptismal into a career in pedagogy. Fack Ju Göhte is Turkish author and screenwriter Bora Dağtekin’s farce which became Germany’s most successful film of 2013. English Subtitles. Refreshments will be provided Please RSVP to bso@johannesburg.goethe.org by 12/01/2016
‘Fack Ju Göhte’ film still © Fack Ju Göhte
MUSIC
JOHANNESBURG INTERNATIONAL MOZART FESTIVAL
30/01/2016 15H00 GOETHE-INSTITUT 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193 The Goethe-Institut supports a multidisciplinary collaboration between emerging South African composers Wayne Simpson, Felicity Mdudhuli, Keith Moss and poet Sthembiso Khwela. Each composer was commissioned to create a new composition in dialogue with Khwela’s praxis as oral poet. 2016 JIMF composer-in-residence, Peter Louis van Dijk, and Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph guided this process towards the presentation of three new compositions, featuring in different ways the spoken word poetry of Stembiso Khwela. These performances will be presented at the Goethe-
Wayne Simpson
Keith Moss
Felicity Mdudhuli
Images courtesy Johannesburg International Mozart Festival
Institut on 30 January 2015, followed by a panel discussion with the poet and the composers. The 2016 edition of the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival, “Alla Turca“, will run from 23 January to 7 February, featuring a wide range of concerts, workshops and masterclasses exploring the creative connection between Western art music and oriental or exotic idioms. More information can be found on www.join-mozart-festival.org.
EXHIBITION
TALES OF RESILIENCE V
OPENING 04/02/2016 18:30, RUNS UNTIL 18/03/2016 GOETHE-INSTITUT 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193
Tonga Lwiindi festival © Calvin Dondo
Tales of Resilience V is a solo exhibition by Zimbabwean photographer Calvin Dondo. Images were taken over a twenty year period and focuses on the Tonga people - in particularly the effects of the forced removal from their ancestral land to make way for the construction of the Kariba Dam in 1956. According to the artist: “The Dam was built to host a hydroelectric power plant to provide electricity for Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its construction divided the Tonga community, and currently you find these people located on the Zambia and Zimbabwean sides of the Zambezi River. Despite this, the Tonga people have been able to remain united and have been steadfast in their resistance to foreign cultural proliferation: keeping their spiritual connection to their traditions and customs, which is maintained through ceremonies, festivals and strong family ties.” The project is in its fifth public iteration; previous iterations included workshop and exhibitions. Calvin Dondo is a graduate of the GoetheInstitut’s Photographers’ Master Classes, in which he participated from 2008-2010.
LITERATURE
LITERARY CROSSROADS
09/02/2016 19H00 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193 Topic: Rewriting South African Landscapes Guests: Zakes Mda (South Africa) and Nakhane Touré (South Africa)
Two writers of two generations meet and revisit the landscape of the Eastern Cape that is so much part of their writing. This evening will offer insights in two very different literary advances to this South African heartland with its troubled history, its many cultures and its stories.
Zakes MDA (left/right) © Elelwani Netshifhire
How do both works reveal the changing landscapes with its changing social and politcal parameters? How do their persepectives differ? The young writer, who has always admired the elder and his literary mastery, will introduce his first novel.
PANEL
HUMBOLDT FORUM
16/02/2016 18H30 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193
Amazon exhibition rendering © Stiftung Berliner Schloss – Humboldtforum, Ausstellungsgestaltung: Ralph Appelbaum Associates / malsyteufel
The Humboldt Forum is currently one of the most ambitious cultural projects in Europe. Situated in the historical heart of Berlin, right opposite the Isle of Museums, which provides a large range of European cultural offerings, the Humboldt Forum aims to be a centre for “non-European” cultures. When the reconstruction of the Berlin Palace started, Berlin already housed a considerable ethnological collection, library and archive holdings as well as research capacities. The Humboldt Forum aims to integrate these non-European collections and engage with them from a
contemporary point of view. The variety and different aspects of the regions which are represented in the ethnological collection will be incorporated in the concept: Africa, Asia, the Pacific as well as North and South America. Therefore, the planners and designers of the Humboldt Forum would like to engage with experts from these regions to ensure an open concept that includes the different regions’ perspectives. During the panel discussion, President of the British Museum and Foundation Director of the Humboldt Forum Neil MacGregor and President of the Goethe-Institut Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann will elaborate on the Humboldt Forum and engage with African intellectuals, museum directors and the public on its concept.
FILM SCREENING
JACOB THE LIAR
17/02/2016 18H30 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD, 2193 Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. In order to be believed, he feigns access to a hidden, strictly forbidden radio. Quickly he becomes a oneman bulwark against despair, a reluctant hero, but a tragic figure still – man ultimately powerless to see or change the fate of his people.
Image ©Jakob der Lügner
PUBLIC DISCUSSION
BEYOND BORDERS: MAKING ART ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES
23/02/2016 18H00 – 20H30 VENUE TBA As part of Dance Umbrella 2016, the Goethe-Institut is proud to support another edition of the Dance Writers Workshop led by Mary Corrigall. This year, the final session of the workshop will culminate in a panel discussion and open dialogue centered on the nature and politics of collaborations across disciplines and artists from different nations and cultural groups. Dancers, choreographers, visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, costume designers from SA and abroad will be encouraged to attend. The event is open to the public and will introduce this year’s international artists and works that will be staged during Dance Umbrella 2016.
DANCE PERFORMANCE
Romeo & Juliet / REBELLION & JOHANNESBURG
25/02/2016 + 26/02/2016 UJ CENTRE FOR THE ARTS In 2016, the Goethe-Institut is pleased to continue its long-standing partnership with the Dance Umbrella festival through our support of the South African premiere of Romeo & Juliet / REBELLION & JOHANNESBURG choreographed by Hamburg-based South African choreographer Jessica Nupen. Romeo & Juliet / REBELLION & JOHANNESBURG was created in
Romeo & Juliet / REBELLION & JOHANNESBURG © Steve Thomas
2015 in Johannesburg at Moving into Dance Mopathong, and completed in Munich. It premiered there on 17 September 2015, followed by a successful tour of Germany, including performances in Dortmund, Berlin, Hamburg, and Ulm.
LITERATURE
LAUNCH: IT TAKES 2! VOLUME 2
25/02/2016 19H00 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193 FunDza’s Mentoring Young Writers project - sponsored by the National Arts Council - took to Gauteng to find and celebrate young writing talent in our country. Between June 2014 and August 2015, some of South Africa’s best authors teamed up with young writers to write a series of fast-paced, exciting short stories first published on FunDza’s mobi network and then compiled into a print anthology, It Takes Two! Volume 2.
Image courtesy Fundza
From romance and heartache to mystery and crime, these stories have something thrilling for every reader. Michelle Friedman and Lawrence Simelane’s stories explore family bonds. Molefi Lebone and Pearl Matsebula write stories connected by the backdrop of a miners’ strike. Reneilwe Matshitso and Pearl Matsebula investigate family secrets in their coming-of-age stories. Baeletsi Tsatsi and Lerato Moratola look at love, the choices we make, and the lifelong consequences of these choices. Vhuthu Muavha and Edyth Bulbring bring hilarity to the fore with their romantic comedies. While sisters Bontle Senne and Busang Senne bring magic and the supernatural into their stories of revenge. Join us to meet the authors and to be introduced to the amazing stories that FunDza readers have loved.
DANCE PERFORMANCE
EXTRA ORDINARY
26/02/2016 – 28/02/2016 20H00 GOETHEONMAIN, 245 MAIN STREET, MABONENG PRECINCT Extra Ordinary is a performance installation and a living photography exhibition. In this work in progress version, the multitalented artist Sifiso Seleme plays with stereotypes of men and women, with glamour and poverty, ecstasy and exhaustion. Longing and generosity, despair and hope are all present in this extraordinary idea and first performance. In this work, the viewer learns about the double life of the main figure. The performer misleads the audience and asks them to take a careful look into the details on stage. The background of Sifiso Seleme’s work is comprised of strong pictures is the post-apartheid society in his home in South Africa. His interest is particulary the in-between of different realities of life in Johannesburg and Soweto and its possibilities and impossibilities.
Sifiso Seleme in performance © Tanka Bruckner
FOR YOUR INFORMATION LANGUAGE
TRAIN THE TRAINER: METHODS OF TEACHING GERMAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
09/01/2015 – 16/01/2016 GOETHE-INSTITUT BERLIN For the past two years, the Goethe-Institut South Africa has provided an intensive blended-learning training course for 6 “multipliers” – teachers of German, who wanted to update their knowledge in methods of teaching German as a foreign language. After finishing six units of the newly established “Deutsch lehren lernen” (learn how to teach German) series of the Goethe-Institut, they will now complete their program with a “train the trainer” workshop in Berlin. The newly acquired knowledge will enable them to facilitate teacher training workshops in South Africa.
ARTS EDUCATION
ARTUCATION PROGRAMME
ONGOING Artucation is an arts education programme facilitated by Puleng Plessie which takes place every Wednesday. It involves high-school learners using multidisciplinary spaces as a starting point to initiate dialogues which comment on learners’ social, political and personal environment. They talk about art and begin to unpack and translate themes in their own interpretation. These discussions continue beyond these multidisciplinary spaces into the classroom. In this way, the Artucation programme starts to become an “art class outside of class” and a youth platform for expressive intervention in arts education. This year Artucation will take it a step further by having various collaborations with Film-, Visual Arts-, and Applied Drama Facilitators and School teachers.
Participants in the Artucation Programme in a multidisciplinary space © Masimba Sasa
ONLINE MUSIC PLATFORM
MUSIC IN AFRICA
The pan-African music information portal Music In Africa (www. musicinafrica.net) has recently completed an important project that focused on archives of African music world wide. With the financial support of the Goethe-Institut Head Office in Munich, Music In Africa commissioned research to identify and document established archives focusing on recorded African music, instruments and sheet music composed by Africans. The documentation was done in both English and French, resulting in the presentation of over 400 African-focused music archives from all over the globe on the Music In Africa portal: http://musicinafrica.net/directory-categories/archives. The Music In Africa portal has grown significantly over the past months to reach thousands of users every day.
Front cover detail: Romeo & Juliet / REBELLION & JOHANNESBURG © Steve Thomas Design: www.prinsdesign.co.za
Ethnomusicology Archive’s efforts to preserve cultural memory are threatened ©newsroom.ucla.edu
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