Education – 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 […]

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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 […]

Education

Book Launch Alert

27 July 20252 – 4pm Keleketla! Library, 6 Verwey Street, Troyeville The launch will end with sundowner sonic selections on decks by Boeta Gee (Cape Town) and Mma Tseleng. The book will be for sale at R250. + Carefully selected Pop-up Bookstore by Lit.Culture. This event is free and open to all (but NB: the […]

academia, Black Public Humanities, Books, Education, new writing, Print, publishing, the streets

Wondering Hand(s) and Spirited Ink: Snapshots into the Black Public Humanities

Keleketla! Library, in partnership with the Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) is proud to present our latest publication. Inspired by the provocations of the 2019 Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) colloquium Call for Proposals, the papers that form part of this collection directly confront questions of black memory, thought, imagination, and praxis under conditions […]

Audio, Education, History, Johannesburg, k!experiments, k!memory, k!migration, oral sensitive, the streets

Thath’i Cover Okestra Vol. 5

Generously we offer you a sneak preview to another edition of Keleketla! Library orasonic memory project, Thath’i Cover Okestra, Vol. 5: 17 July to 12 September 1977. Lebo Mathosa is born. Steve Biko is assassinated. This one is titled ‘Sab’shaya’. The story of how it was composed will follow, its beautiful, it traverses continents. […]

Books, Education, food, History, k!share, Networks, new writing, oral sensitive, Performance, Print, publishing, Shop

Lephephe Print Gatherings 3: Wonke Wonke

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Education

Participate at Lephephe 2!

Lephephe is a quaterly experiment in the distribution of printed material. It is inspired by similar intiatives such as Ba re e ne re Literature Festival, Rutanang Book Fair, Abantu Book Festival, Tjo!Storyfest and the Jozi Book Fair. It aims to foster and nurture the age-old appreciation of cultural production and specifically art, literature, food […]

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Welcome to Lephephe Print Gatherings 1

…so we keep printing

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The Free School for Art and other Necessary Fings: MAROPENG with Masello Motana and Nape Motana

Keleketla! Library is proud to publish the recording of this transformative chapter of Donna Kukama’s *The Free School for Art and Other Necessary ‘Fings. Recorded at the event on 17 September 2017. This time the Free School for Art and Other Necessary ‘Fings invites you to MAROPENG, a talk on the role of language in […]

Audio, Dance, Education, History, k!memory, kasi, new writing, oral sensitive, publishing, Social Tools, the streets, You

NOU DIE LAS: A Kwaitopedia of Afrikaans terms and phrases ko kasi*

Nou Die Las is the beginning of a long term project initiated by Keleketla! Library as part of the Aardklop Festival in 2017. It celebrates the depth and the innovative energy the township contributed to the development of Afrikaans. South Africa’s history of oppression has understandably led to an antagonistic attitude towards Afrikaans. This singular […]

Education, History, k!migration, Networks, Research, You

Intertwining Hi/Stories Arts Education festival

Keleketla! Library, as part of the Another Roadmap School is represented by Rangoato Hlasane at the Intertwining Hi/Stories Festival in Vienna from 2 to 7 October 2017! There is so much more, and especially if you happen to be in Vienna check this this website for details.

Audio, Dance, Education, Johannesburg, k!experiments, k!share, Music, Performance, publishing, Residencies

2017: A glimpse into independent music

Soweto Sounds: 2017 Music Project with UK-based Coldcut Keleketla! Library and In Place of War (UK) together with the British Council Connect ZA are bringing Coldcut, UK’s most irrepressible musical mavericks and founders of the label Ninja Tune to South Africa. Keleketla! and Mushroom Hour Half Hour are staging a recording studio at Trackside Creative, Soweto to incubate Coldcut composition workshops with local musicians. It’s a […]

Books, Education, k!experiments, k!share, new writing, Print, publishing, Social Tools, visual art

CCTV Publication (2012)

CCTV is a survey-type publication of current practitioners and practices in SA and elsewhere, and only comes out on occasion of a specific event/project. Its aesthetic is influenced by the Medu Newsletters (1979-1984), beautiful silkscreen covers with loose A4 sheets of contributions. This issue launched as a ticket (R50) to a group event titled CIRCUS, […]

Education

k!words Conversation Map

The library this week is making available for download ‘k! tools’in a form of e-publications_’k!words Conversation Map’ was illustrated by Francis Burger during her residency at Keleketla. Follow the link below to own one. F Burger & Keleketla!, 2013, K!words conversation map-2

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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 […]

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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

Audio, Education, History, k!memory

Thath’i Cover Okestra Vol. 4

We call it the Thath’i Cover Okestra, an evolving pan-African Okestra that investigates the meaning and importance of Kwaito (South African electronic dance genre) music’s legacy for a new generation. Through this collaborative exploration, what emerges is a new super nostalgic African futuristic spiritual chant non-genre. Reading to what the beautiful people said, on Facebook […]

Books, Education, History, k!experiments, Performance, publishing

Join Keleketla!

Keleketla! Library seeks an energetic, innovative and self-organised individual to fill the position of: Digital Archive Intern. Image Courtesy of Safe City Map Workshop (2010) Nature and Duration of Contract – Fixed Term Contract 1 May – 31 November 2014 – 2.5 days per week – Selection Process – Stipend – R4600 pm – […]

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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 […]

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Kgagatlou Secondary School

For those who don’t know, ‘Keleketla’ is a Pedi word used as a response and is evident in how we named past collaborative projects like ‘Nonwane‘ & ‘Skaftien‘. The origins of the term locates us in Limpopo where the 2nd collaborative school is based. Ga-Mphahlele in a small village called Sefalaolo. Our first visit to […]

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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 […]

Audio, Education, publishing, Research, Residencies

When the Moment Comes

When The Moment Comes is an experimental audio play created by Abu Mafuya with Audio & Music youth from our After School Programme. Zenzele ‘Dj Zakes’ Ndaba and his group of youth collaborated, contributing theme music and effects. Said Abu about the play, “When The Moment Comes is an individual, fictional recast of the […]

Education, Johannesburg, Music, Performance, Print, Research

Review and Updates

Keleketla! Library is implementing an exciting 2-year project funded by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF) with the support of the Joubert Park Project and the Curriculum Development Project Trust. The project engages with the South African Treason Trials that started at the Drill Hall in December 1956. Drill Hall Arts, Culture & Heritage […]

Books, Education, Film, Johannesburg, Performance

Never Steal a Wizards Car

Keleketla! Media Arts Project and the Wits School of the Arts (Division – Film and Television) implemented a film workshop with the inner city kids around Joubert Park from the 14th June – 14th July. The kids had to embrace the cold city sidewalks to attend a series of visual storytelling, writing/adapting stories for film […]

Education, Research

12 Days after Biko Day…

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Keleketla! at Khanya College Winter School 2010

Visit the Keleketla! and Chimurenga stall at the Jozi Book Fair 7-9 August 2010 Musuem Africa, Newtown Keleketla! Library will also be presenting at this year’s NGO/CBO Fair hosted by Khanya College as part of their 2010 winter school. The presentation will be a brief reflection on our past, present and future projects as an […]

Books, Education, Networks

keleketla at the khanya college winter school 2009

Khanya Winter School 2009 30 July – 9 August Musuem Africa and various venues, including the House of Movements and the Artist Proof Studio It was our first experience of the Winter School, an annual gathering of progressive individuals, groups and organizations who share strategies for social justice in South Africa and beyond. Highlights The […]

Education, Independent Funding, Music, Networks, Performance

Stokvel # 2 dropping a mixtape!!

Stokvel # 2 was… Intro point blank gallery, Drill Hall, Jozi Saturday July 18 Jozi massive-Johannesburg, Durban Sings-Durban & Allied Media Conference-Detroit Verse 1 How can we use hip-hop to transform our communities? One veteran Jozi emcee remarked during the Detroit/Jozi skype exchange that we can discuss hip-hop all day, and discredited the subject of […]

Education, food, Independent Funding, Music, Networks, visual art

stokvel-same ol’ different goal

Stokvel Frekuency Rocked on Saturday June 6th. In part a house-warming, farewell for University of Michigan friends and colleagues and Kagiso ‘Man Purple’ Mnisi’s birthday party, the joint raised art for the FRONTLINE art auction to raise funds for keleketla community art and resource centre. Employing minimal email invitations and held at an unfamiliar venue, […]

Books, Education, Networks, recycle, visual art

creative recycling feedback

A total of nine kids took part in the creative recycling project on Thursday 4 June with Given and Zakhile of L2 Designs. The turnout was poor so we decided to cancel Friday session and plan for another day when we can have more kids to participate. We are planning a Saturday in order to […]

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Green Footprint Education@keleketla!

Creative Recycling with inner city kids this week at keleketlalibrary…. Green Footprint Education Intervention is a NAC funded creative recycling project by Jozi based designer, crafter and artist Given Nkuna and his team. Given founded Le2 Designs, a design house that specializes in felt products such as belts, bangles, hats and jewellery. Le2 Design’s hats […]

Books, Education

DIBUKA !!! DIBUKA !!!

The Keleketla Library is shaping up from it’s break to a full functioning operation. A big part of the process cataloging all the books, and finishing a mini big moveo of all the book facilities from one side of the building to the other. Ra and the team are at it every day, dust, stickers, […]

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Swart Magazine Black n White Party Launch!

Issue 4 of SWART magazine is to be launched in style this coming Saturday: HOSTED BY QUAZ featuring Last Dayz Fam Pink Above Above the Glass Sake of Skil (S.O.S) and many more Open Mic with exhibition by: Wesley Pepper, Dash, Vallentine, Skipa and Hlubi +++ FREE STUFF When you purchase the magazine you get: […]