AUG SEPT 2018 PROGRAMME
OVERVIEW: WHEN
WHAT & WHERE
1 August
First Wednesday Film Club: Portrait of a Lone Farmer
FILM SCREENING
ATLAS STUDIOS, MILPARK VISUAL ARTS
2 August
The Reading Room Continues
22 August
Silent Book Club at The Reading Room
23 August
Coast: Scenes from the trial of Dr Wouter Basson
27 August
Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert (Your beauty is worth nothing)
GOETHE-INSTITUT LITERATURE GOETHE-INSTITUT PLAY READING
JOHANNESBURG HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE CENTRE FILM SCREENING
GOETHE-INSTITUT THEATRE INCUBATION & MINI FESTIVAL
31 August & 1 Sept
Magnet Theatre’s Family Festival 2018
6-16 Sept
Museum of Lungs
25 Sept
Bruder Jakob
MAGNET THEATRE, OBSERVATORY, CAPE TOWN MUSICAL DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE THE MARKET THEATRE (JHB) & ICA LIVE ARTS FESTIVAL (CPT) FILM SCREENING GOETHE-INSTITUT PHOTOGRAPHY
Until 30 Sept
Wolfgang Tillmans: Fragile
Date Tba
Diski Skills Augmented Reality All events are Card Game
JOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY (JAG), JOUBERT PARK VIDEO & CARD GAME LAUNCH
GOETHE-INSTITUT
On The Cover: Andile Buka - Untitled I, 2017
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FILM SCREENING
FIRST WEDNESDAY FILM CLUB: PORTRAIT OF A LONE FARMER 1 August 2018 | 7:30pm Atlas Studios, Milpark, Johannesburg The monthly First Wednesday Film Club in collaboration with Goethe-Institut presents the documentary Portrait of a Lone Farmer (2015) by Jide Tom Akinleminu, with the filmmaker in attendance. Synopsis: When Danish-Nigerian filmmaker, Jide Tom Akinleminu visits his father’s poultry farm for the first time in years, he brings his camera along, and a wish to understand what happened to their family. Through the director’s lens a story about family, love and legacy unfolds, and of a son coming to terms with what they have become. Akinleminu’s first feature documentary has won awards and acclaim at film festivals across the world.
Image provided by the filmmaker
Jide Tom Akinleminu will also visit the Eastern Cape for Master Classes with students at AFDA (Port Elizabeth), Rhodes University (Grahamstown), Walter Sisulu University (East London) and the East London Film and Television Society.
Andile Buka - Untitled I, 2017
VISUAL ARTS
THE READING ROOM CONTINUES Opening: 2 August 2018 | 6:30pm Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Ave. 2193 Parkwood
Silent Book Club: 22 August | 6-9pm The Reading Room began in April 2018 as “an inquiry into the subjective nature of the term hero” and engaged directly with a body of work entitled Heroes by Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. The series of portraits exhibited, were central to a further activation by zine-makers and were led by artist facilitators, Alphabet Zoo. Following on, The Reading Room Continues reflects on the processes that developed in the space over this time. The gallery also highlights both new and re-worked material from the workshops, such as Andile Buka’s photographic portraits (2017) and a new series of prints by Danger Gevaar Ingozi and Alphabet Zoo. It will additionally host a seven-week Writer’s Studio to support the development of new and existing literary projects.
PLAY READING
COAST: SCENES FROM THE TRIAL OF DR WOUTER BASSON 23 August 2018 | 7pm
Photos by Shirin Motala
Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Forest Town
Produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the chilling and powerful exhibition, “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race”, examines how Nazi leadership in collaboration with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, used science to help legitimise persecution, and ultimately, genocide. Join us for a series of events engaging with the exhibition’s provocative topics, including a reading of Maggie Davey’s play “Coast: Scenes from the trial of Dr Wouter Basson” which was produced in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS).
JOHAN NESBURG
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FILM SCREENING
DEINE SCHÖNHEIT IST NICHTS WERT (YOUR BEAUTY IS WORTH NOTHING) 27 August 2018 | 7PM
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Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Ave. 2193 Parkwood
The twelve-year old immigrant Veysel and his family have a hard time to become integrated into Austrian life. They have more and more inner family-oriented problems. Veysel’s neighbour Cem teaches him how to pronounce a poem in German for school. At the time when Veysel wants to take the courage to recite it to his secret love Ana, the immigration police disrupts his plans. (source: imdb.com) Drama, 2012 | Director: Hüseyin Tabak German with English subtitles. Please RSVP to JOH-Learngerman@goethe.de by 24 August 2018.
THEATRE INCUBATION & MINI FESTIVAL
MAGNET THEATRE’S FAMILY FESTIVAL 2018
31 August & 1 September | 10am, 12am & 2:30pm daily Magnet Theatre, Old Match Factory, Lower Main Rd, Observatory, Cape Town Magnet presents a programme of 6 brand new enchanting shows for children up to the age of seven. The shows have been created under the mentorship of Jennie Reznek from Magnet Theatre and Barbara Kölling from Helios Theatre in Germany with innovative designs by Asiphe Lili and Puleng Stewart. Performing in the works are Magnet Theatre’s final year Full Time Training and Job Creation Programme trainees as well as six guest artists from Uganda, Lesotho, Botswana, and Mozambique. The casts of performers are trained specifically to engage and communicate with young audiences in a six-week long incubation process with Jennie Reznek and guest children’s theatre specialists Barbara Kölling and Anna-Sofia Zimniak from the Helios Theatre Company in Germany. The project aims to skill a whole new cohort of young actors in the creation of work for pre-school children. Each production explores a different material, captivating and fascinating the audiences with Magnet Theatre’s particular brand of play and physical theatre. Using mostly the language of the body, song and strong images these 6 productions offer totally unique South African and African theatrical experiences.
Photo provided by Magnet Theatre
Visit magnettheatre.co.za for more info and bookings
Photo by Kai Wido Meyer
MUSICAL DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE
MUSEUM OF LUNGS 6 - 9 September Johannesburg, Market Theatre
Tickets from webtickets, between R90-R150
14 - 16 September Cape Town, ICA Live Arts Festival
Entrance is free however reservations through the ICA are essential
Museum of Lungs is a musical documentary performance that excavates archive material and mixes intimate confession with haunted histories to convey vulnerability as a core of strength, and illness as a site of resistance and transformation. In contemporary South Africa, where tuberculosis is endemic, a writer tells her personal story of living with undiagnosed TB for years before receiving treatment. She asks questions about the precariousness of our individual and collective bodies, highlighting the colonial and systemic racial structures as well as the violence of our healthcare and political systems. The writer Stacy Hardy, her puppet doppelganger created by Marius Kob, musicians and composers Neo Muyanga and Nancy Mounir, and scenographer Moira Gilliéron collaborate with director Laila Soliman to create a multi-vocal performance of love, loneliness, fragility, and death, addressing the fundamentally impossible bravery of being alive and being human, today. Direction: Laila Soliman. Text & Performance: Stacy Hardy. Composition & Live Music: Nancy Mounir, Neo Muyanga. Puppet: Marius Kob. Scenography: Moira Gilliéron. Light Design: Mirjam Berger. Technic: Thomas Kohler, Mirjam Berger. Production & Touring: Franziska Schmidt, produktionsDOCK A co-production with FFT Düsseldorf, Kaaitheater Brussels, Kaserne Basel and HAU Berlin, supported by Fachausschuss Tanz & Theater BS/BL, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Johannesburg and the Goethe-Institut South Africa
GAME LAUNCH
DISKI SKILLS AUGMENTED REALITY CARD GAME Date tba Library-Gamebox-Hub, 119 Jan Smuts Ave. 2193 Parkwood This brand new card game not only celebrates South African freestyle soccer culture, but also brings it alive through the latest Augmented Reality technology. The game includes playing cards showing popular tricks such as shibobo, tsamaya and scara turn. Each trick is rated in categories like swag and speed, which allows players to challenge each other, with the ultimate goal of collecting all cards. Through Augmented Reality technology, the cards come alive: Move your cellphone over a card and watch as the trick magically appears on your screen in a slow motion video. The game was developed as a collaboration between augmented reality specialist Something Else Design Agency and the Goethe-Institut. It features freestylers Keagan Ryan Everton, Angelique Ferreira and Ozwin Edwards.
Ozwin Edwards, photo by Benjamin Keuffel
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FILM SCREENING
BRUDER JAKOB 25 September 2018 | 7pm Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Ave. 2193 Parkwood A young German transforms himself. Jakob Sachs converts to Islam, becomes a Salafist, alienating himself from his family. Allah means everything to him. This is not the final turning point for Jakob in his search for God. He and his wife will follow the Bahai religion. For the couple, the step means liberation. With this documentary, his older brother, Eli Roland Sachs, tries to trace and perhaps understand Jakob’s ways. Bruder Jakob (Brother Jakob) is not a film about Islam, but about a young man who is sometimes naive, but who vigorously searches for the meaning of life. Documentary, 2016. Director: Elí Roland Sachs
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Please RSVP to JOH-Learngerman@goethe.de by 21 September 2018.
Photo by Herman Verwey
PHOTOGRAPHY
WOLFGANG TILLMANS: FRAGILE Running until 30 September 2018 Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Cnr Klein and King George Streets, Joubert Park
After stops in Kinshasa and Nairobi, the new touring exhibition Fragile, showing works by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans, opened at Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) in July. The work of Wolfgang Tillmans occupies a prominent position in the contemporary art world. Ever since his first exhibitions and publications in the early 1990s, he has constantly been redefining photography both as an image and as a material artefact. Wolfgang Tillmans’s oeuvre encompasses his pictures of club culture in the 1990s, abstract works based on extreme formal reduction, the beauty of the everyday and pictures of the sublime, a sensual gaze full of physical desire and an analytical perspective with great social and political awareness. Fragile provides a comprehensive overview of the manyfacetted and different forms of artistic expression in the work of Wolfgang Tillmans, from large-scale prints to sculptural objects, video projections, and music, to his curatorial work in making the exhibition. The selection for this ifa touring exhibition comprises more than 200 works from 1986 to 2017. Presented by ifa in collaboration with Wolfgang Tillmans and the Goethe-Institut.
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OTHER THINGS WE DO
I AM SCIENCE AT THE NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK
Photo by Shirin Motala
Photo by Madelene Cronje
During National Science Week, from 30 July - 4 August the I Am Science team will celebrate the power of science by taking its hands-on science programme to Zitikeni Secondary School in Tembisa. It will teach a group of girls how to do fun, exciting and education science demonstrations so they can do these for their classmates and spread the magic of physics and chemistry. See more information about the project at iamscienceproject.com and about National Science Week at saasta.ac.za.
OTHER THINGS WE DO
PHOTOGRAPHERS´ MASTER CLASS Photographers´ Master Class, now in its 11th and final iteration, will run in parallel to the FNB Joburg Art Fair in Johannesburg this September. This long-term project initiated in 2008 by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg with writer and independent curator Simon Njami, has been an important annual event for a generation of young African photographers. It has functioned as a forum to meet with museum directors and independent curators, and importantly, to critically engage with their own and others’ work. Though initially structured as a portfolio reading, it developed into a substantial peer review session, with mentoring offered to photographers between workshop iterations. The project has in the last decade been realised in parallel to large photography, or arts and culture events on the continent, making further professional networks available to those who participate. The location is key in promoting exchange, as well as ensuring exposure to other photographers, art professionals and practitioners from other disciplines.
START-UP! PASCH CAMP IN BERLIN Date: 20 August – 2 September 2018 As part of the 10 year PASCH (Schools: Partners for the Future) anniversary programme, learners of German as a foreign language from Burkina Faso, Germany, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Malawi, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda participated in national workshops, where they were introduced to the world of young entrepreneurship. How do you develop a sound business idea? What makes a business-plan a good business-plan? And what does a perfect pitch look like? Equipped with the necessary know-how, they pitched their idea to a jury, who selected the national winning teams. Congratulations to the 30 pupils who will meet in Berlin in August for a two-week camp! In Berlin, they will further their language skills, get to know the city and gain more experience through visiting start-ups and doing short-term internships.
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