Photo Workshop Vuyo Giba Steve Biko Centre Claude Gauwe Zwelitsha Retsi Pule Slowfoot Brothers Temperance Hotel King Williams Town 2024 … thank you
Audiences in the Eastern Cape have witnessed the extraordinary return to Duncan Village of the legacy of the prodigal son – Johnny Mbizo Dyani. Composer of the landmark “Song for Biko,” album (1979), he was a hero of the solidarity movement in exile. Dyani co-founded the Jazz Against Apartheid event in Germany in 1985. The…
One thing of course, that is right at hand is to conduct oral histories with the individuals who have played such an important role in the establishment of the movement.
Audio technology or video technology could build a small oral history archive around Jazz as a movement for change.
The Eastern Cape has over time been a significant contributor to the arts in South Africa, as well as the artistic footprint of South Africa internationally.
This cuts across the whole spectrum of creatives – in music, crafts, fashion, etc., and includes the evolution of innovation in these areas of creative endeavour.
In the video message to South African Jürgen Leinhos mentions “Stolpersteine” (stumbling stones), an initiative that “planted” thousands of stones with the names of Jewish people carved on it who were expelled from their houses and apartments and deported and killed. You can find those stones all over now – also in smaller towns such as…
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Since the early 1960s South African jazz musicians in exile together with their international counterparts have used the freedom of South African jazz to not only strongly influence European jazz music but also fight the struggle against apartheid. Their sacrifices made a significant contribution to the freedom and opportunities we…
Establishing a system and chain of art academies in the Eastern Cape is a core focus of Professor Peggy Luswazi. Her blueprint is a process of rural industrialisation, based on naturally available resources. This could create job opportunities and contribute to arrest the massive brain drain of thousands from rural areas to find no employment…
BEYOND EXILE and the international commitment and dedication to human excellence and progress.
Institutionalized racism on the one hand, denial and defense of exile on the other – how are these experiences processed artistically? And how do they flow into the oeuvre and consciousness of artistic work?
Culture is a wheel of understanding one another or telling a story that cannot otherwise be told as a collective.
Due to the parallel streams of oppression, suppression and depression, South African exiles and their European counterparts worked tirelessly to promote the cause of a long-term and sustainable freedom, both musically and politically.
South Africa…
South Africa and Germany share inglorious, burdening experiences in their history. The apartheid system in South Africa was inspired in essential points by the race laws of the National Socialists in Germany. And, as a result, the experiences of exile that the cultural avant-garde of both countries went through. Structurally similar is also the ignoring…
JAA is first of all a series of concerts organized by both musicians and
political/cultural activists. It is searching for allies and supporters and
remains a free association of people dedicated to the cause of freedom and individual and social solidarity and responsibility.
Jazz Against Apartheid: “Beyond Exile” contributes to this knowledge within South Africa of South African music and musicians and what they continue to stand for.