Memory, Arts and Culture Project
Art has the potential to create a safe platform for an intergenerational and cultural dialogue by allowing people to express themselves and engage others through a reconciliatory process.
This project draws learners, post-school youth, educators and art practitioners together through art forms such as storytelling, music and film, to explore issues of exclusion and inclusion with the view of building social cohesion. Through these processes, a range of educational material for formal and informal settings is produced and distributed to schools, libraries and community organisations nationally.
2011 Happenings
The theme, Shades of Belonging enables participants from different provinces in South Africa and other African nations, to explore issues of belonging through Indigenous Music and Film:
Follow the Beat
An instructional resource guide, produced in 2010, with an accompanying DVD on how to make and play the instruments, will be distributed to schools, libraries and art centres throughout the country. In addition, the book with the accompanying DVD will be used in different communities in 2012.
African Identities and Film
This year the project will use the documentaries produced in 2010 to start/initiate dialogue sessions in different communities. Film festivals will be hosted to showcase the participant's stories in South Africa. In addition, the documentaries will be submitted to different film festivals in South Africa and elsewhere.
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