Africa Cluster's contents tagged with "Art Education"

The Maseru Working Group contributes to the VANSA Organising Handbook (October 2018)

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:20:55 +0000

Lineo Segoete (Maseru) was invited by Visual Arts Network South Africa (VANSA) to attend a meeting of arts, cultural and arts educational peers from the region that eventually resulted in the creation of a handbook for ‘organising’. The book details some of the experiences of and strategies for organising that are currently
adopted by arts and cultural organisations in Southern Africa so as to achieve the furtherance of creative practices and cultural expressions.

The meeting itself emerged out of a report by VANSA, commissioned by the Ford Foundation Southern Africa in 2016/17. The original report was an in-depth discussion on new forms of arts organising in Southern Africa, the state of arts infrastructure in the region, and a longer discussion of the impact of the
history of the region.

This publication includes some excerpts from that report and brings these together with thoughts and learnings that emerged out of the organising workshop.
The VANSA Organising Handbook is free to download or to read online here.

Maseru Working Group Organises the Skima Sesotho Workshop Series (April - August 2018)

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:56:16 +0000

Between April and August 2018 the Maseru Working Group organised a series of workshops collectively entitled Skima Sesotho. These workshops, which brought together exercises and discussions about critical multimedia literacy with the BA RE Dictionary Project, aimed to get the Basotho excited about the Sesotho language and to demonstrate the playful malleability of Sesotho.

Through these workshops, which were free and open to the public, the Maseru working group introduced a process for cultivating new Sesotho words complete with definitions and example sentences. Words could be entirely new creations or could seek to capture slang words that are used in particular social contexts, e.g. schools, villages, churches, neighborhoods, etc. The workshops also explored media literacy, and how images, texts and sounds can be combined to create contrasting meaning about the same subject matter. Taking the comparison of British and Lesothan news footage as a starting point, the workshop then explored ways to read context and meaning in multimedia.