How does South Africa deal with its public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How does South Africa deal with its public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How do new monuments address fraught histories and commemorate heroes of the struggle? Across South Africa, statues commemorating figures such as Cecil Rhodes [...] Read more »

In this seminar, Kim Miller looks at two prominent anti-apartheid resistance leaders- Lilian Ngoyi and Helen Joseph- and the imagery that represents them as political subjects and friends. Miller considers how women’s friendships with each other, and the ways in which those relationships are represented, teach us the value of feminine forms of heroism that […]

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The Izimbongi Poetry Festival is a student showcase of poetry in its myriad forms and expressions. The 2017 Izimbongi Poetry festival will take place on 11 November at UJ’s Con Cowan Theatre, (Bunting Road). The festival is a platform for young poets from The University of Johannesburg to showcase work created throughout the year. This […]

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20 in 5: 20 comics 5min each RAPID FIRE COMEDY Line Up Includes: Tats Nkonzo Shanray van Way Kate Pinchuk Kraai du Toit Mbu Many Laughs Napsta Loyiso Madinga Prins Mojak Lehoko Tsitsi Chiumya Gilli Apter Emilio Tobias Glen Biderman-Pam Bongani Dube Suhayl Essa Beach Dopo Matladi Gavin Kelly Nkosinathi Maki Muzi Dlamini

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Rounding off 2017’s Classical Music programme, UJ Arts & Culture is proud to present the Dean’s Concert 2017, entitled A Grand Night for Singing in support of the Dean’s Bursary Fund. As the grand finale of the year’s programme, this free concert offers Johannesburg audiences a rare opportunity to hear two of South Africa’s rising opera […]

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Lorem purem poeticum frenulum

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A fresh, different perspective on South African politics. In this incisive, informed book we find challenges to commonly held opinions and new solutions to old problems. Many common political arguments come pre-packaged in a very old and dusty box – and in this book, Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh sets out to dismantle that box. The self-evident truths are […]

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Each year, the University of Johannesburg Choir takes up to write a new chapter’s journey that forms part of the legacy created over the many years of existence of the UJ Choir. Each year, the University of Johannesburg Choir takes up to write a new chapter’s journey that forms part of the legacy created over […]

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This is a tender retelling of what children are saying about their governments. They want to make decisions, they want to talk to Mr Government, and they want Mr Government to listen to them. The work is a cross-border collaboration that is built on the words of children in Lesotho and South Africa; the play […]

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The Box Comedy has been running for 4 years at POPArt theatre in Maboneng and has expanded in collaboration with UJ Arts & Culture to a monthly comedy event on the UJ APB Campus. Host: Richelieu Beaunoir Featuring: Mpho Popps Muzi Dlamini Tsitsi Chiumya Lozalo Gola Jermain Matross Client Dopo Matladi

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The UJ Art Gallery will host an exhibition entitled SHIFTING CONVERSATIONS, in collaboration with the MTN SA Foundation, from 18 October to 22 November 2017. This exhibition, with artworks from the MTN and UJ Art Collections, and curated by Johan Myburg and Melissa Goba, thematically explores conversations in response to binaries such as ‘colonised’ and ‘coloniser’ prevalent within the […]

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Johannesburg Brass is a collection of principal brass performers from Gauteng’s different orchestras. Their programmes are formulated to educate, entertain and inform, and are suitable for all ages of audience and fans of a diverse cross section of genres. The members are on the constant lookout for new music written by young and established South […]

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Ho from Hong Kong, collaborates with South African composers, Franco Prinsloo and Pieter Bezuidenhout, to bring a unique contemporary classic experience to South Africa in 2017. IN/BETWEEN is a series of loosely connected song cycles exploring love, loneliness and freedom. An international collaboration between artists from different parts of the world. This semi-staged production features […]

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Womb of Fire is the starting point for an examination of the performing female body as the site of disruption where the body itself challenges the borders and boundaries of the body politic. The play uses a non-Western mythical frame. Personal, historical and political intersections flesh out and localise the myth of Draupadi from the […]

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After a year-long interdisciplinary process, UJ Arts & Culture (a division of FADA) presents the development run of Reza de Wet’s iconic African Gothic (translation of Diepe Grond). The staging of the play is the culmination of a process that has seen more than 300 students and lecturers from different departments in the Faculty of […]

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