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UJ Choir Celebration Concert 2017 – A Journey’s Rise

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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Uj Dear Mr Govt

Dear Mr Government, Please May I Have a Meeting with You Even Though I’m Six Years Old?

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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Out The Box Stand Up Comedy

Out the Box Stand-Up Comedy

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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Shifting Conversations

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

Johannesburg Brass

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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IN/BETWEEN

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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Uj Womb Of Fire

Womb of Fire

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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African Gothic

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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