Author: Breyten Odendaal

UJ Arts & Culture heads to Makhanda

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UJ Arts & Culture is gearing up for its tour to the National Arts Festival to showcase the depth of cultural engagement facilitated by University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Art,

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UJ Arts & Culture set to shine at this year’s National Arts Festival

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As anticipation mounts for the 2017 National Arts Festival (NAF), which is scheduled to take place from 29 June to 8 July, the University of Johannesburg Arts & Culture (a

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Mirrors :: South African performance at UJ

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Mirrors is a multidisciplinary artistic performance in which dance, video and music weave a discourse that connects Italy with the African continent with the aim of celebrating the encounter between

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Post Present Future exhibition: A personal response to history narratives

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As South Africa celebrates twenty-five years of democracy, the emerging rhetoric is that the country is a free and democratic state. Plausible as the stories of success in the past

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UJ’s #CloseToHeART Programme Announced

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With an ethos of creative collaboration, powerful partnerships and interdisciplinary synergies at its heART, UJ Arts & Culture, a division of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the

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21 Years of Curating the Cube: a celebration of excellence in the fine art of curatorship

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From the 5 to 26 June 2019, UJ Arts & Culture celebrates Annali Cabano-Dempsey’s long term curatorship of the UJ Art Gallery in the introspective exhibition 21 Years of Curating

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The New Project brings music experimentation alive in Gauteng and the Western Cape

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In association with Concerts SA, pianist Coila-Leah Enderstein and percussionist Dylan Tabisher present the national tour of The New Project, an improvised music collaboration with bassist Carlo Mombelli.

The New Project

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International Duo Muze comes to UJ

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This March UJ Arts & Culture proudly welcomes the international contemporary Duo Muze, featuring virtuoso musicians Bernadette Zeilinger and Diego Muné , for an exclusive one night only concert at

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MEKARON by Rodrigo Petrella :: Artist Statement

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In Denmark’s National Museum in Copenhagen, I saw some paintings by Albert Eckhoult done in Dutch Brazil during the government of Count Maurício de Nassau, between 1637 and 1644. Eckhoult,

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UJ Arts & Culture’s heART

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In 2019, UJ Arts & Culture embraces the power of the arts to ignite the passion of its students and audiences.

A division of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

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UJ ARTS ACADEMY 2019 AUDITIONS DATES

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UJ ARTS ACADEMY :: APK AUDITIONS

TUESDAY 5th & 12th February

POETRY :: 16:00 – 18:00

UJ Arts Centre :: Small Studio

WEDNESDAY 6th & 13th February

DANCE :: 17:30 – 19:00

UJ Arts Centre ::

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ASSITEJ Family Season at UJ

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ASSITEJ South Africa is proud to present a season of Theatre for Young Audiences in partnership with UJ Arts & Culture, from 29 November to 9 December 2018.

Under the banner

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Johannesburg’s Grand Night for Singing in Aid of Education: Dean’s Concert

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UJ Arts & Culture brings together world-class musicians for the 3rd annual Dean’s Concert, a benefit gala to help students in the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture at the

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DESIGNING APARTHEID Interrogating the relationship between design and apartheid, its origins, effects, and legacies

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Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Johannesburg, in partnership with the Apartheid Museum, Wednesday, 31 October 2018.

This is a call for papers for a one-day colloquium on the

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Tickets for Bottle Caps

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Audiences can get their hands on tickets for Moving into Dance’s ‘Enable through Dance’, showing at the UJ Art Centre on 18 and 19 October 2018, by paying with bottle

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Visual Art Exhibition: Continuing Conversations

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The UJ Art Gallery is hosting ‘Continuing Conversations’, an exhibition of portraits from the permanent collection of MTN and the University of Johannesburg, as well as selected portraits from MTN

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UJ Arts & Culture hosts comedy marathon

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Bringing the 2018 UJ comedy season to a close, UJ Arts & Culture once again teams up with POPArt and GOLIATH and GOLIATH to host an ‘Out the Box’ comedy

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UJ’s ‘Choir Boy’ at RedFest

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UJ Arts & Culture’s award-winning ‘Choir Boy’ comes to Joburg’s RedFest in Morningside for two performances, on 29 and 30 September 2018.

After its premiere at this year’s National Arts Festival

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Performance and Workshop on creating theatre for young audiences

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Pillow Fort Theatre tours to creches in Johannesburg this September, in partnership with ASSITEJ SA and UJ Arts & Culture; as well as offering a workshop to professionals interested in making theatre for

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Izimbongi Poetry Festival

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This year’s annual Izimbongi Poetry Festival will take place on all four of the University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) Campuses in Auckland Park, Doornfontein and Soweto; from 25 to 29 September 2018.

The Izimbongi

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Internationally acclaimed choreographer visits UJ

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German-Chinese choreographer Hannah Ma and Keisuke Mihara’s internationally acclaimed Swan comes to the UJ Con Cowan Theatre this September.

UJ Arts & Culture (division of the Faculty of Art, Design &

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UJ Youth Arts Festival now open for applications

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The inaugural UJ Youth Arts Festival is set to take place from 24 August to 7 September 2018.

UJ Arts & Culture (a division of the Faculty of Art, Design and

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Uncles & Angels staged at the UJ Art Centre

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Uncles & Angels, a digital performance art collaboration between Nelisiwe Xaba and Mocke J van Veuren, will be presented at the UJ Art Centre Theatre from 23 – 25 August

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UJ Youth Arts Festival kicks off this week

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The University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) Youth Arts Festival will kick off on 15 August at the Con Cowan Theatre in Auckland Park, Johannesburg.

Presented by UJ Arts & Culture (a division

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