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Thursday, 17 March 2011

Next stop: Berlin

South African artists, writers and curators travelled to Berlin and collectively curated the exhibition "it's all chinese to me - how abstract can one be?" which opened on 17 June at the projectspace by artists for artists after the butcher. The project was closed by a conversation with Khwezi Gule on 30 June.

Monday, 14 March 2011

Workshops at Polokwane Art Museum

Artists, poets and writers joined workshops organised by the art exchange project "beyond language" in collaboration with the Polokwane Art Museum on the weekend of 12 and 13 March.

The workshops focussed on three different fields:
- poetry and creative writing with Bandile Gumbi

- publishing and writing about art and culture with Fouad Asfour

- writing artist statements, CVs, artist biographies and funding applications (facilitated by Sharlene Khan as community outreach project of UNISA)

Claudia Shneider, Eva Seufert and Ingo Gerken closed the workshop presenting their work exhibited at "Figures of Speech" followed by a round table organised by Sharlene Khan who invited artists from Limpopo to discuss difficulties in accessing the art market.

Book launch and reading "Emzana Shack Recollections" by L. Sojini

Book launch of Lungile Sojini's English and Tsotsi-Taal literary debut entitled
Emzana Shack Recollections
Sunday, 6 March at noon at jozi art: lab, Arts on Main

News: Book launch and reading "Emzana Shack Recollections" by L. Sojini

beyond language presents the book launch of Lungile Sojini's English and Tsotsi-Taal literary debut, "Emzana Shack Recollections" this weekend:

Saturday, 5th of March 5, 3pm at Keleketla! Library, Drill Hall (Plein & Twist St)

Sunday, 6th of March at noon at jozi art: lab, Arts on Main

Thursday, 3 March 2011

Round Table artist discussion at Hector Pietersen Memorial and Museum

On the day after the exhibition opening, project participants presented their works and attended a programme of performances and presentations by artists, poets and musicians from the Room 13 project (www.room13.org.za; based at St. Martin de Porres High School in Soweto) at Hector Pietersen Memorial and Museum. The discussion was moderated by the director of the Museum, Khwezi Gule.