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. […]
Read moreLephephe Print Gatherings 3: Wonke Wonke
Welcome to Lephephe Print Gatherings 1
…so we keep printing
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreNOU 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 […]
Read moreIntertwining 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.
Read morek!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 […]
Read moreNew 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
Read moreThath’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 […]
Read moreJoin 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 – […]
Read moreWe 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 […]
Read moreKgagatlou 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 […]
Read more56 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 […]
Read more100 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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