APRIL MAY 2018 PROGRAMME
OVERVIEW: WHEN
WHAT & WHERE
12 April
VISUAL ARTS The Reading Room (Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi and Alphabet Zoo) GOETHE-INSTITUT
LECTURE Judicial Independence and Courage in Africa by André Thomashausen
19 April
GOETHE-INSTITUT
FILM SCREENING Colours of the Ocean
30 April
GOETHE-INSTITUT
April (date tba)
IMAGINATION NIGHT #3 Skhumbuzo Myeza’s IMBASA CREATIVE SOLUTIONS GOETHE-INSTITUT
FILM SCREENING When we Leave
28 May
GOETHE-INSTITUT
READING Arno Camenisch reads from his works
29 May
GOETHE-INSTITUT
May (date tba)
IMAGINATION NIGHT #4 Morwesi Ramonyai’s WATT-A-WOMAN GOETHE-INSTITUT
All events are free of charge unless otherwise stated inside the brochure On The Cover: Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. Sobukwe (after Robert Sobukwe) 2017. Teacher, lawyer, academic and writer who led an Africanist breakaway from the African National Congress in 1958 to form the Pan African Congress. Oil on canvas, 50x50 cm Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. Translator (after Krotoa) 2016. Khoikhoi woman who worked as a translator between her people and the early Dutch settlers in South Africa. Oil on canvas, 50x50 cm
VISUAL ARTS
THE READING ROOM (THENJIWE NIKI NKOSI AND ALPHABET ZOO) Public Event: Thursday 12 April 6.30pm Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Ave, Parkwood Open to public from 5 April to 22 June
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. Mbulu (after Letta Mbulu) 2017. Oil on canvas, 50x50 cm
This project offers a sustained engagement with Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi’s body of work Heroes. Nkosi’s portraits are veiled – a function of technique, as well as her conception of what constitutes a “hero”. The faces shift between recognition and obscurity, and come to stand for a community. Alphabet Zoo is Minenkulu Ngoyi and Isaac Zavale, both traditional print-making artists that formed a street-culture zine and work collaboratively. Together with Andile Buka, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Mooki Mooks, Kgomutso Neto Tleane, Jack Dyamonds, and the collective Danger Gevaar Ingozi, they start to respond to Heroes, creating new work in conversation with Nkosi’s paintings. The space itself grows and changes over time as work is added. It is imagined as a reading room and a place for conversation, screenings and small-scale events: a space always in motion. Participants and the public at large are asked to step inside, and think through the significance of the work, build on the narratives, consider the absences and the spaces between the portraits. The Reading Room is open to the public from 5 April, with a public event on 12 April. Further events are to be announced on social media. From 22 June the reading room will continue under a different guise, elaborating on the conversations of this first iteration.
LECTURE
JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AND COURAGE IN AFRICA BY DR. ANDRÉ THOMASHAUSEN Thursday 19 April, 19H00 Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, Library Judicial Independence and Courage in Africa will present a brief review of the evolution of the judiciary in post-colonial Africa, followed by an attempt to review for a general and not only legal audience the superior court decisions taken by the courts of the EAC - East African Community, ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States, as well as in Burkina Faso, Benin, The Gambia, Kenya and South Africa. The German address will be accompanied by matching English PowerPoint slides. About the speaker: Prof.em. of International and Comparative Law (Unisa), Dr. André Thomashausen, has actively contributed to constitution making in Namibia, Mozambique, Angola, Central African Republic, and Portugal. In the 1980ies he co-authored, with Professor Ian Brownlie, the Treaty for the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, Africa’s largest water transfer scheme. This lecture is presented by Johannesburg’s Society of German Language (GfdS) and will be in German.
Constitutional Court Art Collection: Dumile Feni, History, 2003, bronze. Photo by Harvey Barrison - Travel and Fine Art Photographer.
FILM SCREENING
COLOURS OF THE OCEAN Monday 30 April, 7pm Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Ave., Parkwood (Auditorium)
Disaster in a holiday paradise: the German tourist Nathalie witnesses a tragedy involving refugees on the Canary Islands. A boat full of refugees is stranded. Among the survivors, she spots a man with his little son. Nathalie wants to help, only to be sent away by a police officer whose work has turned him into a merciless man. But the refugee Zola and her son Mamadou establish contact with the German. Nathalie decides to help these people in need – against the wishes of her husband. But the money used to help the refugees flee to the mainland leads to a catastrophe that Nathalie was unable to foresee. COLOUR OF THE OCEAN is a highly topical film about Europe’s humanitarian and political problems in dealing with the refugee crisis. Drama, 2010, 91 min. Directed by Maggie Peren. German with English subtitles. Please RSVP to learngerman@johannesburg.goethe.org by 29 April 2018.
FILM SCREENING
WHEN WE LEAVE Monday 28 May, 7pm Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Ave., Parkwood (Auditorium)
This story might seem like a familiar one, often reported in the newspapers. However, director, producer and scriptwriter Feo Aladağ has managed to create a multi-layered and poignant portrait of a family, far removed from the typical clichés. Umay lives together with her husband, Kemal, and their son, Cem, in a suburb of the Turkish metropolis, Istanbul. Kemal’s regular and violent outbursts are directed at his wife and his son. Umay develops a tremendous yearning for her hometown, Berlin, and her parents. Hopeless, Umay packs her things and runs away from her life and marriage in Istanbul. Umay is suddenly alienated from the family and becomes the target of an honour killing plot.
Drama, 2010. Directed by Feo Aladağ. German with English subtitles. Please RSVP to learngerman@johannesburg.goethe.org by 27 May 2018.
Copyright: Janosch Abel
READING
ARNO CAMENISCH READS FROM HIS WORKS Tuesday 29 May, 19H00 Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, Library 40-year-old writer Arno Camenisch who publishes in German and Romansh is regarded as one of the most promising Swiss authors of his generation. His novels and stories have already been translated into over twenty languages. His just published novel “Der letzte Schnee” (The last snow) immediately jumped to No. 1 of the Swiss best-seller list. A specialty of the readings by Arno Camenisch is that he is accompanied by Roman Nowka on the guitar. This event is presented by Johannesburg’s Society of German Language (GfdS) in cooperation with the Swiss Embassy. The lecture will be in German.
OTHER THINGS WE DO
Em’kal Eyongakpa at studio Efforbi. Photo supplied by the artist
EM’KAL EYONGAKPA RECEIVES €20.000 HENRIKE GROHS ART AWARD 2018 Cameroonian intermedia artist Em’kal Eyongakpa is the first recipient of the Henrike Grohs Art Award, conceived by the Goethe-Institut and the Grohs family. “The jury unanimously awards the inaugural Henrike Grohs Art Award to Em’kal Eyongakpa for his poetic, subtle and subjective approach. His work expresses universal concerns of humanity. The multidisciplinary stance of his practice that includes knowledge derived from science, ethnobotany, magical realism, experimentation and utopia, aptly responds to the core values of the Henrike Grohs Art Award”, said the jury members Koyo Kouoh (Artistic Director, RAW Material Company, Dakar), Laurence Bonvin (artist and representative of the Grohs family, Berlin), Raphael Chikukwa (Chief Curator, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare) and Simon Njami (Curator, Paris). The Henrike Grohs Art Award is a biennial prize dedicated to artists who are living and working in Africa and practicing in the field of visual arts. It recognises the lifetime achievements of the former Head of the Goethe-Institut in Abidjan, Henrike Grohs, who was killed on 13 March 2016 in a terrorist attack in Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire. Find out more about Em’kal Eyongakpa on www.goethe.de/henrike-grohs-art-award
OTHER THINGS WE DO
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OTHER THINGS WE DO
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF PASCH SCHOOLS 600,000 students around the world are learning German at over 2000 PASCH schools in 120 countries. PASCH stands for “Schulen: Partner der Zukunft� (Schools: Partners of the Future). For 10 years, this initiative of the German Federal Foreign Office has been supporting schools all over the world that offer qualified German-language tuition by providing modern teaching materials, teacher training, student exchanges and scholarships. In South Africa, the Goethe-Institut supports 4 so-called FIT schools within the PASCH network (Paul Roos Gimnasium in Stellenbosch, Linden High School in Johannesburg, Witteberg High School in Bethlehem, Tsoseletso High School in Bloemfontein). More information on www.pasch-net.de
LANGUAGE COURSES
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A SERIES OF PITCHING & NETWORKING SESSIONS HOSTED BY ENTREPRENEURS WORKING FROM HUB@GOETHE APRIL SKHUMBUZO MYEZA’S
IMBASA CREATIVE SOLUTIONS
(Brand Agency)
MAY MORWESI RAMONYAI’S
WATT-A-WOMAN
(Renewable Energy App)
JUNE NOMPI VILAKAZI’S
PULANE’S ADVENTURES
(Animation Series)
JULY THUBA MOYO’S
SUSTAINABLE AFRIKA
(Online Platform)
Dates to be announced. Find out more on www.goethe.de/joburg/hub or via our social media channels.