activism – Keleketla Media Arts Project

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Bana ba Baloyi? Welcome to the Sun Xa’s Experimental Somatic-psychotherapeutic healing frequencies

On the evenings of 22 and 23 November 2024, Sun Xa Experience offered a cosmic relief to the concrete articulation of the past, presents and futures of the Drill Hall. In the context of Skaftien #6: 13+ km around the Drill Hall Arts Advocacy Project, a project that manifested at the House of World Cultures/HKW, […]

activism, Audio, Black Public Humanities, Education, History, Johannesburg, k!experiments, k!memory, Networks, Performance, Research, Residencies, the streets

69 Years to the Treason Trial

How do you pursue a meaningful, generative, effective and efficient conversation with a city that doesn’t listen? Keleketla! Library is proud to present yet another memory-project that propels forward. 69 Years to the Treason Trial: The Drill Hall Arts Advocacy Project is a letter to the City of Johannesburg. This key recipient, a critical government […]

activism, Education, History, Independent Funding, Johannesburg, k!action, k!experiments, Performance, the streets

Because we are Keleketla! before we are a Library

Many people do not know that Malose Malahlela and Rangoato Hlasane, the co-co-founders of Keleketla! Library are the co-founders of innacitycommunity, a then student collective at the then Mariston Hotel in Joubert Park, two blocks from the Drill Hall and the Johannesburg Art Gallery. This student collective started in 2003, 21 years ago. While innacitycommunity […]

activism, Books, Education, History, Independent Funding, k!action, k!share, Networks, new writing, Print, publishing

k!tools: Stokvel & Opening Up

This publication is a result of a visit to South Africa by Director of Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow, Francis McKee, at the invitation of curators Francesca Verga and Amy Watson, following a research residency in Glasgow in April 2014, as part of the British Council Connect ZA exchange programme. In March 2015 McKee […]

activism, Education, History, k!action, k!memory, Networks, Performance, Residencies, the streets

New Freedom Songs Ensemble

An audio visual reflections cut by Kyle Ferguson. Gwen Ansell visited one of the rehearsals and spoke politics with choir members for the Mail & Guardian: More here

activism, Dance, Education, History, k!action, k!experiments, k!migration, k!questions, k!xenophobia, Untitled

We Are One/Teen Talk DVD

‘if people’s education be treason’ Finally we got to see the cover of ‘We Are One/Teen Talk’ DVD. An outcome of an inter-generational, collaborative, process based and multi-layered art project between Keleketla! Library and Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières The image was designed by K!ASP members led by Wits School of Arts students mentored […]

activism, Audio, Books, Dance, Education, History, Performance, Print, publishing, Research, Social Tools, visual art

56 Years: A book launch

56 Years to the Treason Trial: Dialogue as a method for learning The launch of an educational supplement With: Lynn Carneson, author of A Homage to Hope and Red in the Rainbow And Judy Seidman, artist, cultural activist and former member of the Medu Arts Ensemble Keleketla! Library, The Drill Hall 8 December 2012 10 […]

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100 Metre Radius Concert

100 Metre Radius is a networking and professional development project that invites artists and organised groups from Johannesburg and beyond to imagine ways to utilise the Drill Hall, a historic site located in Joubert Park, as a cultural and social infrastructure. Since Keleketla! Library’s programmatic take over from the Joubert Park Project over four years […]

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academic activists

one of the best quotes i came across goes something like this… its possible to be a commited activist and brilliant academic, by Jenny Lee reflecting on Andy Smith. Reflecting on Andy Smith’s influence as an undergrad student at the University of Michigan, Jenny’s exact words are: “I would also never have thought that it […]

activism, Education, Johannesburg, Networks, new writing, publishing, recycle, Residencies, Social Tools, the streets

welcome to our…

greetings! welcome to the official theFanPalProject blog. this is one of the ongoing outcomes of the three day zine making workshop that took place on the weekend of the 22nd August, 08. the venue being the historic Drill Hall, the arts, culture and heritage site, right opposite the notorious taxi rank on Noord [by the way, […]

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keleketla!library – a context

Keleketla! is a Pedi word which is a response to the beginning of a story, something that you say back to the storyteller’s ‘once upon a time’. It has no direct English translation, but represents a form of acknowledgement and a consent that ‘I am here, willing to listen to your story with active participation’. […]

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TheFanPalProject

TheFanPalConcept The project aims to, over a period of 3 days, gather Johannesburg [Jozi] movements to design and produce covers of their ideal fanzines while exploring the role of grassroots movements in social activism and economic development. Further, the project aims to link participating grassroots, mostly hip-hop inspired movements with keleketla!library project, Joubert Park, Johannesburg […]

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share!!!

share your thoughts and reflections about theFanPalProject! it really doesn’t matter if you didn’t take part in the actual workshop…