Cape Town’s Culture Gangs

Magnet Theatre’s Community Arts Development programme, the Culture Gangs, works to support existing youth drama groups in Cape Town’s townships. In 2017, the groups being supported are Chris Hani High School in Khayelitsha, iThemba Labantu...

Po Chi, Tam and Mei-Chun, Lim: Glocalising drama education in Hong Kong and Taiwan:...

Drawing on the theory of Chen Kuan-Hsing’s, ‘Asia as Method’, this paper aims to investigate how drama education is glocalised in the early childhood education in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The notions of inter-referencing...
young@home by Hillbrow Theatre

Speaking in a Language that Transcends Borders

OBISIKE: It Takes A Lion’s Heart This performance, the result of an international collaboration between Germany and Nigeria, highlighted the similarities between cultures on the theme of women’s rights and questions of self-determination. Strips of paper...

Safe Place

The Safe Place Festival believes that every child deserves access to cultural opportunities to expand their minds and to include them in society at large. The goal of the Safe Place initiative...
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Meeting with Mine Nilay Yalcin & Kelly Joyce Fielder – Faces of the ASSITEJ...

Mine Nilay Yacin is a Norwegian/Turkish Freelance Stage Artist who trained as an Actor Nordic Black Express in Oslo, graduating in 2007. Since then she has worked as a freelancer in the...

Fingers, Toes and Happy Toddlers

Nicola Elliot’s Fingers And Toes, My Body Knows was an exciting addition to the programme for Early Years at the Cradle of Creativity. With the audience each being given a cushion upon entry into the...
John Namai, a Storyteller from Kenya, facilitates a workshop at Cradle of Creativity on the Art of Sigana Storytelling

Reviving the Art of Storytelling

Storytelling can be traced back through the ages. Prior to written text and literature, communication of stories, traditions, customs and values was often through the oral traditions of voice and song. Yet, despite the...

IDIERI 9: Day 3 Twitter Roundup

IDIERI 9 entered its third day on a particularly cold winter's morning. With a plethora of exciting workshops, papers, and panels, the day saw a lot of pertinent provocations. https://twitter.com/selinabusby/status/1014270762289639425 https://twitter.com/gaenor22/status/1014247037099864064 https://twitter.com/ginippi/status/1014303664213667841 https://twitter.com/jendibella/status/1014285474163068928 https://twitter.com/playfulpedagogy/status/1014334353277517824 https://twitter.com/Imagine_A_Day/status/1014404376054489088 https://twitter.com/cfrenchtweeting/status/1014417643283992576 https://twitter.com/ginippi/status/1014427985028395009  

No Fun Ction All Anguage

Exploring the ways in which we communicate, No Fun Ction All Anguage is a beautifully visual and powerful piece. The inclusive ensemble of differently-abled cast members offered a powerful critique of normative ideas around communication,...

Alison O’Grady: Human Rights and Critical Consciousness For Personal Practice

Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?... If you prick us, do we not bleed? The Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare Act 3, scene 1 How do we learn to be human...