activism, birth, Dance, Education, History, Independent Funding, Johannesburg, k!experiments, k!questions, Performance

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, […]

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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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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 […]

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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.   […]

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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 […]

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academia, Books, Film, Johannesburg, new writing, Performance, publishing, Research, Residencies, the streets, visual art

Nonwane: passages, tempos and spectacular ways of dying

Nonwane takes as its point of departure a suicide scene from the late Phaswane Mpe’s 2001 novel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow. The book deals with issues of xenophobia, suicide, sex, HIV and love. The suicide scene was initially planned to be re-enacted through the release of tons of coarse and fine salt from the 20th […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Books, Education, Johannesburg, Networks, the streets

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the mobile!library is an ongoing street performance to create awareness about keleketla!library. began in 2008 with german artist hans winkler as part of the ‘walking newspaper’ project, 2009’s performance was street to the max. produced by jozi marketing and advertising graduate /emcee, malose ‘4matt’ malahlela and the innacitycommunity collective, the mobile!library involved students from the vega imagination lab, […]

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academia, activism, birth, Education, Johannesburg, Networks, new writing, Print, publishing, Research, Residencies, Social Tools, the streets, visual art, You

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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