Art and protest: the role of the arts and artists in our contemporary world

Can art change the world? Much has been written about the contribution of the arts and artists to the struggle against apartheid.  COVID-19 has laid bare – yet again –  the disparities within our society. What is the role of artists and of the arts in contemporary South Africa? How do the arts perpetuate or challenge social inequalities?    

Welcome: Lerato Thooe – Interim Steering committee member Gauteng: Im4theArts.

Chair: Firdoze Bulbulia – Award-winning film and media producer, director and trainer.

In conversation:

Siseko Kumalo
Editor: Journal of Decolonising Disciplines

Ukona Mlandu
Artist

Bongani Njalo
Artist

Alex Sutherland
Co-ordinator of creativity in activist education,
Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education

Wednesday 24 June from 19h00 – 20h30 live on the Im4theArts Facebook Group 

Posted by Yvette Hardie on Wednesday, 24 June 2020

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