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A Grand Night for Singing: A Musical Celebration

Breyten Odendaal

August 17, 2019

Join us for a spectacular evening of opera and song, as UJ Arts & Culture presents ‘A Grand Night for Singing’. This much anticipated annual event takes place on Saturday

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Conversing the Land Call for Entries

The MTN SA Foundation and UJ Art Gallery will continue their collaboration following on the successful Shifting Conversations exhibition (2017) that engaged with colonial and post-colonial narratives, and an exhibition

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Hybrid Vigour: Ecce Homo at the UJ Art Gallery

Breyten Odendaal

July 5, 2019

UJ Arts & Culture a division of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) is proud to present the opening of Yannis Generalis’ exhibition Hybrid Vigour: Ecce Homo at

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UJ Arts & Culture heads to Makhanda

Breyten Odendaal

June 15, 2019

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

Breyten Odendaal

June 10, 2019

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

Breyten Odendaal

May 15, 2019

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

Breyten Odendaal

May 10, 2019

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

Breyten Odendaal

April 1, 2019

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

Breyten Odendaal

March 20, 2019

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

Breyten Odendaal

March 10, 2019

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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