Goethe-Institut South Africa: Programme January - March 2015 by Goethe-Institut South Africa

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OVERVIEW DU

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YEARS

20 year anniversary GOETHE-INSTITUT South Africa

When

What & Where

27/01/2015

LITERARY CROSSROADS Goethe-Institut

31/01/2015 MOZART FESTIVAL: LISTENING TO THE IMAGE Goethe-Institut 05/02/2015 – ASINGELINE BY MAMAZA 31/03/2015 Goethe-Institut

21/02/2015 + JOZI FILM FESTIVAL: WORKSHOPS 22/02/2015 Goethe-Institut 26/02/2015 – DANCE UMBRELLA 15/03/2015 VARIOUS VENUES IN JHB

26/02/2015 + ON FIRE BY CONSTANZA MACRAS 27/02/2015 DANCE FACTORY

27/02/2015

20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY 20 YEARS GOETHE-INSTITUT SOUTH AFRICA Goethe-Institut

28/02/2015 + WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THIS PLACE?? 01/03/2015 BY THABISO PULE DU GOETHEONMAIN 09/03/2015 – UNTITLED (NDIYA KUTHANDA) 14/03/2015 BY VINCENT CHOMAZ CAPE TOWN 12/03/2015 – UMHOBE WE SIGWE BY THANDO MAMA 20/04/2015 GOETHEONMAIN 14/03/2015 + FREMDE TÄNZE BY NELISIWE XABA DU 15/03/2015 DANCE FACTORY 28/03/2015 – CARLO MOMBELLI & THE STORYTELLERS 04/04/2015 JOHANNESBURG, CAPE TOWN, DURBAN, MAPUTO

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WELCOME! Dear partners and friends of the Goethe-Institut, 20 years have passed since we first opened our doors in Johannesburg in 1995. Together with our South African partners, we have come a long way since then, witnessed many outstanding artistic projects, fruitful workshops and hot debates. We’ve counted over 10.000 enrolments for German lan1995 2015 guage classes, and more than 2.000 Goethe-Institut students have written exams at the south AFRICa Goethe-Institut. Our library has seen its visitors engage with Germany through e-books, contemporary authors and literary classics, and the latest of the German media landscape. 2009 was a special year for us, as we tore down the old walls surrounding our Parkwood building and at the same time opened the doors of our experimental art space GoetheonMain in Maboneng. Now we want to celebrate our 20th South African anniversary with you: please join us for a huge birthday party on 27 February at the GoetheInstitut. Joburg’s João Orrechia, German-Chilean DJ and Producer Matias Aguayo and more acts will make sure that it’s going to be a long night! After 20 exciting years in Johannesburg, we also look forward: One of our focal points in 2015 revolves around creating the future, and more specifically, AFRICAN FUTURES and SCIENCE FICTION. How do artists, cultural activists and intellectuals envision Africa’s future? And which forms and narratives of the sci-fi genre were created by Africans? A big festival, an international conference and numerous other events will explore these questions. ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM continue to be strongly relevant and hotly debated topics on the continent. We have been engaging in a conversation around alternative architectural narratives for quite a while now and will deepen this engagement in the months to come, with a special focus on curating African architecture. 2015 will also see us looking into PARTICIPATION as the core of any democratic society. How do different groups of society participate in cultural processes and decision-making? In this context, we will launch a range of film and visual arts projects together with the LGBTI (Lesbian/Gay/ Bisexual/Transgender/Intersex) / Queer community in South Africa and all over the continent. And we’ll shed a light on the phenomenon of digitalization in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on trends and initiatives that enable mobile access to literacy, literature and learning. Speaking of that, our new Blended Learning German courses combine classroom and online learning. They’ve started with great success and enrolment is open on an ongoing basis. I look forward to welcoming you at our events in the coming weeks and months and, on behalf of all of us at the Goethe-Institut, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy and successful new year. — Dr. Norbert Spitz Director of the Goethe-Institut South Africa

LITERATURE

LITERARY CROSSROADS: POETRY ACROSS BORDERS – HOW DO NEW MEDIA AND THE INTERNET CHANGE PRESENTATION AND RECOGNITION OF POETRY?

27/01/2015, 19H00 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD Literary Crossroads is a new bimonthly series of talks where South African writers meet colleagues from all over the continent and from the African diaspora to discuss trends, topics and themes prevalent in their literatures today. The series is curated by Pumla Dineo Gqola and Indra Wussow. The first edition of Literary Crossroads, themed Poetry Across Borders and presented by Ben Williams, is part of a high profile network meeting about Mobile Literacy and Literature, which is held at the Goethe Institute from 26 to 28 January 2015. The three invited poets, Chirikure Chirikure (Zimbabwe), TJ Dema (Botswana) and Alan Finlay (South Africa), are frequent guests at local and international festivals across the world. They will share their poetry and also raise questions such as: How has the global availability of literature through new media influenced their way of production, distribution and performance of poetry? Is travelling still an important part of networking and understanding other poetry traditions? Are new audiences created through new media and how do poets target them? What are the implications with regard to publishing and networking with fellow poets? Is there more room for local languages and their literary production today? Do new ways of distributing poetry make for a bigger impact in education, at schools and in universities? The authors’ books will be available for sale on the evening. Chirikure Chirikure (Zimbabwe, 1962) is a graduate of the University of Zimbabwe and an Honorary Fellow of Iowa University, USA. He currently lives in Germany, as a fellow under the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme.

Chirikure Chirikure © Gezett

He is widely known as a performance poet and cultural consultant. Chirikure worked with one of Zimbabwe’s leading publishing houses as an editor/publisher for 17 years, until 2002. He then went on to work for an international development agency as a programme officer for culture for Southern Africa, based in Harare. Chirikure’s volumes of poetry were published in Zimbabwe and Germany. All of his poetry books won first prize in the annual Zimbabwe Writer of the Year Awards. His first volume, Rukuvhute, also received an Honorable Mention in the Noma Awards for Publishing in Africa. Chirikure is a frequent guest at international festivals.

TJ Dema (Botswana, 1981) is a spoken word poet, who runs Sauti Arts and Performance Management and is chair of the Writers Association of Botswana. She took part in the 2005-2006 British Council and Lancaster University’s Crossing Borders project, with which she read at various festivals and other literary gatherings, such as the Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary Literature and Johannesburg Arts Alive. She has performed in many countries, including France, Denmark, India, South Africa, Malawi and Zimbabwe. A selection of her poetry has been translated into Chinese. She has recently recorded twelve Botswana poets on a multilingual CD titled Dreaming Is A Gift For Me.

TJ Dema © Cato Lein

Alan Finlay (South Africa) lives in Johannesburg where he works as a writer, researcher and editor on issues of media freedom and internet rights. His poems have appeared in various journals locally and abroad, and short selections of his poetry have been published by small presses. He also edited one of South Africa’s oldest poetry journals, New Coin, for a few years. Finlay is convinced that new media offers a brilliant chance to popularize and spread literature – and that online publishing can help to make South African poetry available to readers at home and worldwide. In 2000, he launched one of South Africas first online literary journals, donga, in collaboration with with Paul Wessels. Finlay’s latest collection of poems, Pushing from the Riverbank, was published by Dye Hard Press in 2010. Finlay’s poems intervene and ask questions such as: how can generations overcome the past, recover from the lack and loss of love; and from violence. In 2012, he co-edited and published a selection of donga journals in book form.

MUSIC/PHOTOGRAPHY

MOZART FESTIVAL: LISTENING TO THE IMAGE

31/01/2015, 15H00 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD

Ke Lefa Laka © Lebohang Kganye

The 7th edition of the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival (JIMF), running from 27 January to 8 February 2015 and themed “Masquerade“, will see a variety of concerts, workshops, master classes and collaborations which explore the phenomenon of masks and disguises as well as artistic and human identities in a wider sense. Featuring world renowned artists and ensembles, including Sir James Galway, Melvyn Tan and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the JIMF also provides platforms for a number of interdisciplinary projects with dance, film and visual arts, apart from placing great emphasis on educational initiatives for young South African musicians. The Goethe-Institut supports a multidisciplinary collaboration between emerging South African composers Antoni Schonken, Matthew Dennis, Diale Peter-Daniel Mabitsela and photographer Lebohang Kganye. Each composer created a new composition in response to Kganye’s photography series entitled Ke Lefa Laka. Curator Mika Conradie, composer-in-residence for the 2015 JIMF, Peter Klatzow, and Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph guided this process towards the presentation of three new performances, consisting of live music performances and projected photographic material. There will be a panel discussion with the photographer and the composers afterwards. www.join-mozart-festival.org

VIDEO INSTALLATION

ASINGELINE BY MAMAZA

OPENING 05/02/2015, 18H30 05/02/2015 – 31/03/2015 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD Dance collective MAMAZA are Ioannis Mandafounis, Fabrice Mazliah and May Zarhy. Through their work they develop a choreographic space which questions the existing tension between the visual image and the physical feeling it produces in the viewer. In ASINGELINE, MAMAZA raise questions like: how can the image of the theatre go out of its isolated, elitist place and possibly communicate more with its surroundings and the city where it is located? What other nature of work can be presented within the general context of the theater which could potentially attract a different type of audiences who do not conceive themselves as theater-goers? MAMAZA decided to draw a line between these two distinguished ‘worlds’: the ‘normal’, daily, urban life on the one hand, and the art world on the other hand. The first would be the city center, and the second the theatre building. The line would be traced between these two, connecting between the public – society, and the arts, specifically – choreography and performance. The line is neither a performance, nor an installation. In its essence it is a thought put into action. It is a line which appears in order to connect, to link, to bring distant places into contact. ASINGELINE, an enacted thought was initially created and commissioned by deSingel International arts campus in Antwerp, Belgium and is supported by the Goethe-Institut, The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Migros Culture Percentage, City of Geneva and the Republic and State of Geneva. The work, which was performed in Johannesburg in 2013, is brought back as a video installation, featuring images from different cities in the world, including Lagos and Ouagadougou. The installation was first shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale. www.mamaza.net

ASINGELINE © Mamaza

FILM

JOZI FILM FESTIVAL: WORKSHOPS

21/02/2015 + 22/02/2015 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD The Jozi Film Festival, now in its fourth year, runs from 20-22 February 2015 at The Bioscope Independent Cinema in Maboneng, at Ster Kinekor Cinema Nouveau in Rosebank and as a one-night-only screening in Alexandra. A multi-genre slate of films will be presented, from documentaries to features to shorts and student films. Alongside the films on offer, Jozi Film Festival runs two days of workshops at the Goethe-Institut. The workshops center on storytelling, both in fictional and documentary genres - from scriptwriting, cinematography and editing to how sound and music can enhance a film’s narrative. Workshops: Saturday 21/02/2015, 10H00-13H00/14H00-16H00 Sunday 22/02/2015, 10H00-12H30 Workshops are open to the public. Admission: R40 per session, R100 weekend pass. Cash at the door. www.jozifilmfestival.co.za

DANCE

DANCE UMBRELLA

26/02/2015 – 15/03/2015 VARIOUS VENUES IN JOHANNESBURG We are pleased to continue a long-standing partnership with the Dance Umbrella festival in 2015. This year, the Goethe-Institut supports the following productions: On Fire: The Invention of Tradition, a new work by acclaimed choreographer Constanza Macras, in collaboration with artist Ayana V Jackson; Fremde Tänze, choreographed by Nelisiwe Xaba and curated by Anna Wagner and Eike Wittrock of the Julius-Hans-SpiegelZentrum in Theater Freiburg; and lastly What the Hell Happened to this Place??, choreographed by Thabiso Pule. The Goethe-Institut furthermore supports the 2015 edition of the Dance Writers Workshop, which will be led by Mary Corrigall. www.danceforumsouthafrica.co.za

PARTY

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20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY GOETHE-INSTITUT SOUTH AFRICA 27/02/2015 19H30

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Goethe-Institut 119 Jan Smuts Avenue Parkwood

+ João Orrechia + special live performance by German-Chilean DJ/Producer Matias Aguayo + Miz Buttons + Mma Tseleng

Admission: Free Safe parking available See www.goethe.de/joburg Matias Aguayo © Katharina Poblotzki broadenanewsound.co.za

DANCE DU ON FIRE BY CONSTANZA MACRAS 26/02/2015 + 27/02/2015, 19H00 DANCE FACTORY, CNR JEPPE & PRESIDENT ST, NEWTOWN

Constanza Macras © Manuel Osterholt

ON FIRE, the new piece by Constanza Macras, deals with the re-evaluation of heritage and tradition in relation to segregated cultural groups, which are being articulated in new ways in urban life - and with self-defined contemporary practices and rituals. The piece wishes to reflect on postcolonial/post–apartheid ongoing power struggles and the artistic deconstructions of colonial/patriarchal imageries of „the other“. For this piece, Constanza Macras works with a mixed cast of South African and Berlin-based performers and in collaboration with the work of Johannesburg-based artist Ayana V Jackson, whose photography interrogates and deconstructs other aspects of a specific chapter that we might add to the history of “invented traditions”: the visual representation of the “other” in historical and journalistic photography. A production by Constanza Macras/Dorkypark in collaboration with Ayana V Jackson. A co-production with Dance Umbrella South Africa. Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes and with friendly support of Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, Goethe-Institut South Africa, Dance Forum Johannesburg and Momo Gallery. www.constanzamacras.com

DANCE WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THIS PLACE?? DU BY THABISO PULE 28/02/2015, 18H00 AND 01/03/2015, 14H00 GOETHEONMAIN, 245 MAIN STREET, MABONENG PRECINCT In his new multimedia performance, choreographer Thabiso Pule concerns himself with changes in Johannesburg’s ecosystem. He says: “Our environment has been the victim of all sorts of attacks. Manmade alterations of

the ecosystem in Johannesburg have led to widespread and long lasting consequences. A severe disruption of the environment will lead to disasters related to biodiversity, pollution and infrastructure development.” Choreographer and Performer: Thabiso Heccius Pule Video Editor and Creative Director: Fanny Tsimong Sound Composer: Neo Beats

Thabiso Pule © Thami Manekehla

DANCE DU FREMDE TÄNZE BY NELISIWE XABA 14/03/2015, 20H15 AND 15/03/2015, 14H30 DANCE FACTORY, CNR JEPPE & PRESIDENT ST, NEWTOWN In 2014, Nelisiwe Xaba was invited to the Julius-Hans-Spiegel-Zentrum at Theater Freiburg, Germany. The Julius-Hans-Spiegel-Zentrum is a choreographic and academic research facility which investigates a forgotten or suppressed aspect of German and West-European Modern Dance: its exoticisms. During her residency in Freiburg, Nelisiwe Xaba created a dance evening based on the programmes of female dancers such as Mary Wigman and Sent M’Ahesa. These pioneers of ‘modern dance’ in the 1910s and 1920s often presented a series of short, eroticist pieces accompanied by music. In one evening they crossed distant places and times, or rather their imagination: a ‘temple dance’ was followed by an ‘Indian dance’, an ‘Arabesque’ or a ‘Siamese dance’. In her evening of “Foreign Dances”, Nelisiwe Xaba turns around the perspective and exoticizes the Black Forest. Supported by TANZFONDS ERBE, an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation; the Goethe-Institut and the Julius-Hans-Spiegel-Zentrum. Curated by Anna Wagner and Eike Wittrock.

Nelisiwe Xaba © Fred Koenig

SOUND INSTALLATION

UNTITLED (NDIYA KUTHANDA) BY VINCENT CHOMAZ

10/03/2015 – 15/03/2015 INFECTING THE CITY PUBLIC ARTS FESTIVAL, CAPE TOWN

Vincent Chomaz Untitled (I love you) installation © Zona Dynamic

As part of the 2015 Infecting The City Festival, the Goethe-Institut supports a sound installation by Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist and independent curator Vincent Chomaz. Broadcasted from within inconspicuous places, perfectly alike voices converse endlessly: “ndiya kuthanda, you love me, I love you, you love me, ek is lief vir jou, you love me, ndiya kuthanda, you love me, I love you, you love me, I love you, you love me…” Repeated, they become a psalmo-

dy and a mantra, the elements of a catharsis. Spoken by one single voice, Untitled (Ndiya kuthanda) intends to stage and question such fundamental social interactions as love, liking or disliking; to examine the mechanisms at play in how we relate to others. Set in Afrikaans, isiXhosa and English, Cape Town’s three main languages, the piece becomes a reflection on and about the complexities of living together in this multicultural, multiracial and multilingual society. www.infectingthecity.com

MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION

UMHOBE WE SIGWE BY THANDO MAMA

12/03/2015 – 20/04/2015, OPENING 12/03/2015, 18H30 GOETHEONMAIN, 245 MAIN STREET, MABONENG PRECINCT The national anthem of a country is a symbolic and emotive song which evokes and eulogizes the traditions, struggles and history of its people. During the struggle against apartheid, Nkosi Sikele’iAfrika was a significant song sung by Africans and those who were fighting oppression, whilst Die Stem van Suid-Afrika was the national anthem of South Africa from 1957 to 1994, sharing national anthem status with Nkosi Sikelel’iAfrika until 1997. These two songs evoke different emotions to an estranged nation. Post 1994, and twenty years later, both songs evoke dissimilar emotions of deferred reconciliation. The questions Umhobe we Sigwe tries to ask are: can we truly say we are free and is there a need to continue to force reconciliation and unity? Is our

Umhobe we Sigwe © Thando Mama

national anthem worth being sung as a compromise mash-up? Memory and remembering are critical tools in self-awareness. If these tools are erased in our history, what becomes of us as a nation? The project is a multi-media installation with components of audio, video, prints and text, exploring the concepts of memory, memorialization and nationhood. The project aims to promote intercultural engagement through dialogue in the critique of our national symbol in the form of the national anthem. Not only is it relevant in the context of the city, but it also aims to bring a national debate back to the arts space. www.carlomombelli.com www.capetownjazzfest.com

MUSIC

CARLO MOMBELLI & THE STORYTELLERS

28/03/2015 – 04/04/2015 CAPE TOWN 28/03/2014 / JOHANNESBURG 04/04/2014 MAPUTO, DURBAN (TBA) A unique voice in composition and bass performance, South African musician Carlo Mombelli approaches live concerts as a movie soundtrack. American Bass Player Magazine reports about Mombelli: “Avant-garde bassfocused jazz composition has rarely sounded so gorgeous. …Once in a while an artist comes along who produces music unlike anything you’ve heard.” Mombelli’s latest CD, ‘Stories’ was recorded in September 2013 in Basel, Switzerland with Zulu singer Mbuso Khoza, Swiss cellist Daniel Pezzotti, trombonist Adrian Mears, and Berlin based German drummer Dejan Terzic (winner of the 2014 German Echo award). The Jazz Times described a performance by this ensemble in 2014 as “disconcertingly beautiful”. Carlo Mombelli & the Storytellers are coming to South Africa for a performance at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival and will also perform in Durban and Maputo, and end their tour in Johannesburg. They will be joined by the 2014 Standard Bank Young Artist award-winning pianist Kyle Shepherd. Cape Town 28/03/2014, Cape Town International Convention Centre Johannesburg 04/04/2014, 20H00, Wits University Great Hall www.carlomombelli.com and www.capetownjazzfest.com

Carlo Mombelli © Oscar Strauss

FOR YOUR INFORMATION NETWORK MEETING

MOBILE LITERACY

26/01/2015 – 28/01/2015 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD In sub-Saharan Africa, presenting content in a mobile digital format is rapidly gaining importance. In Africa, only 7% of households have access to internet, but 65% of the population has access to a mobile phone. Over centuries, alphabetisation was dependent on access to printed material. In many areas in sub-Saharan Africa, access remains a key challenge in both formal and informal education. Bookstores are scarce, books are expensive and there is a shortage of libraries. Widespread access to mobile phones opens up new opportunities to make literature and reading material accessible. The Internet makes publishing and distribution of African stories and content easy. At the Mobile Literacy conference, key players such as content and platform providers, researchers, librarians and users of mobile content will come together in Johannesburg for a first network meeting with the aim of addressing questions of collaboration and development in Africa. Besides South African initiatives like Nalibali, Fundza and Bookly, there will also be representatives from initiatives in other African countries, Germany and global players like Worldreader. Some of the issues that will be addressed are: How can the different players in the area of mobile literacy and mobile literature in Africa work together more effectively? How can you get from mobile literature to mobile literacy? How can libraries act as mediators between content providers and users?

BOOK LAUNCH

THE SPOKEN WORD PROJECT: BOOK AND DVD LAUNCH

This book documents the spoken word scenes in South Africa, Madagascar, Cameroon, Mali, Kenia, and Côte d’Ivoire, where The Spoken Word Project, initiated by the Goethe-Institut in 2013, took place. The authors provide an insight in the fascinating way, the old tradition of story-telling and oral history was taken up by a young generation of poets and transformed in a powerful new way.

ISBN: 978-3-95461-031-0

Preis 24,90 €

Authors:

Firmin A

Mbongi

Brigitte D

Youssou

Linda G

Julian H

The spoken word projecT

“From Bamako to Nairobi, Antananarivo to Yaoundé, the spoken word scene is highly active and full of artistic innovation. It is a phenomenon of recent years that continues to grow despite many constraints. In cafés and bookshops, at literary festivals and even on the steps of buildings on university campuses, young people often gather to rhyme their truths and hear others breathing the fires that burn inside their bellies about injustice in their societies, racism, police brutality, corrupt leaders, poverty, or the lack of career opportunities. Ideas, themes, story lines or even concepts and phrases are taken up by a listener at one event who turns performer at the next event because they capture her or his truth, too. And so words, stories, gestures and intonations travel as they pass from one mind, mouth and body to another.”

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After two years, the Spoken Word Project culminates with a publication featuring articles about the spoken word scenes in South Africa, Madagascar, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Mali. At the Leipzig Book Fair, Hanna Hesse from the Literature Department of the GoetheInstitut will facilitate a talk between Julian Heun, a spoken word artist from Berlin, who accompanied the project and Mbongiseni Buthlezi from the Cape Town University, who was one of the editors of the publication. The book is published by Lektora (Germany).

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15/03/2015, 11H00 – 12H00 LEIPZIG BOOK FAIR, GERMANY

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The spoken word projecT StorieS travelling through africa editorS: MbongiSeni buthelezi chriStopher ouMa Katleho Shoro

For further information please contact Brigitte Doellgast on doellgast@ johannesburg.goethe.org

ARTS EDUCATION

ARTUCATION

JANUARY – MARCH 2015 Artucation is an arts education programme that takes place every Wednesday at GoetheoOnMain, facilitated by arts educator Puleng Plessie. It involves groups of grade 10 learners who use dialogue as a starting point to initiate conversations around the exhibition on show. These dialogues comment on social, political and the learners’ personal environment. GoetheOnMain gallery thus becomes a space where they talk about the © Miora Rajaonary exhibition topic and begin to unpack and translate themes in their own interpretation. This is presented in a form of an artwork in the classroom. Therefore Artucation becomes a youth platform for expressive intervention in arts education. Artucation runs every Wednesday at 14H00 throughout the January to March 2015 school term and is free of charge. To make a booking for your school class, please contact Puleng Plessie on bookings@ktdarts.org or 076 2532 530.

ONLINE MUSIC PLATFORM

MUSIC IN AFRICA

ONGOING Music In Africa (www.musicinafrica.net), the new information and exchange portal dedicated to the African music sector, continues to expand. With three more sections added in November 2014 (Magazine, Resources and Education) the site now boasts an ever-expanding collection of interesting and useful information, including overviews of African music scenes, ‘howto’ guides for music professionals, news, reviews, features, a directory of music operators in Africa and much more. Music In Africa will continue to expand into new countries in 2015, while developing useful content and pursuing offline activities that support the African music sector. In November 2014 the initiative was warmly received at major events across Africa, notably in Kinshasa, Dakar and Johannesburg. This will continue in 2015 with presentations and workshops scheduled for Tanzania,

Zanzibar, Germany, Swaziland and more countries. Music In Africa is an initiative by the Siemens Foundation and Goethe-Institut together with partners from across Africa. It is owned and governed by the Music In Africa Foundation – a non-profit organisation registered in South Africa. www.musicinafrica.net

LANGUAGE COURSES

LEARN GERMAN – Join us for German language courses

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. Explore the German language with us and get in touch with other students on www.facebook.com/germaninjoburg Contact Amanda de Beer for more information: learngerman@johannesburg.goethe.org or 011 442 3232

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