k!action – Keleketla Media Arts Project

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

k!action, k!experiments, k!migration, k!questions, k!share, k!xenophobia

k!archives

‘Untitled’, a physical theatre piece choreographed by Nyaniso Dzedze and produced with members of the Keleketla! After School Programme in 2012: Nqobile Khumalo, Talia Ndlovu, Wesley Hlongwane, Neo Ncube, Grace Kasuza, Langalibalele Mathuthu, Cinderella Khoza, Simphiwe Shange and Emma Ramashala. 23 June 2012, Keleketla! Library, The Drill Hall, Johannesburg. Photographer unknown.

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, Dance, Education, History, k!action, Performance

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 […]