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Pandemic Project Sunnyboy Motau

The Pandemic Project :: Sunnyboy Motau

UJ Arts & Culture’s featured artist for today’s The Pandemic Project is MIDM Professional dancer and choreographer Sunnyboy Motau in a moving piece that explores the juxtaposition of an imposed daily routine with the need for movement and change. Inspired by the time spent in the same space, over and over again, Motau attempts to balance the draining [...] Read more »
Movingcube Launch

Moving Cube Launch :: The Blind Alphabet Letter B: Babery to Bigeminate

Join us for the virtual launch of MOVING CUBE, the online platform of the UJ Art Gallery featuring a fresh approach to Willem Boshoff’s The Blind Alphabet – Letter B: Babery to Bigeminate (1993), on Wednesday 4 November 2020 at 18:00. The enduring relationship between MTN SA Foundation and UJ Art Gallery has brought public […]

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Choir Celebration Concert 2022

UJ Choir Celebration Concert :: 2020

Join the University of Johannesburg Choir, under the auspices of UJ Arts & Culture, in celebrating the close of a joyful and successful year. On 23 October 2020 at 19:30, at the St. Michael and All Angels’ Anglican Church, Weltevreden Park, the choir will share the year’s experiences in a concert that holds beauty of […]

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Intimate Presences Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion: intimate presences/affective absences (or, the snake within)

You are cordially invited to an online conversation between Leora Farber (Director, VIAD), Ashraf Jamal (VIAD Research Associate) and Lize van Robbroeck (Professor: Visual Art, Stellenbosch University) around Farber’s installation, titled intimate presences/affective absences (or, the snake within). The conversation will be facilitated by Pieter Jacobs (Head, UJ Arts & Culture). Zoom Details URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87415226103?pwd=Q2gyZmpic0R6Mk5OTURFQ2RFeXhvdz09 […]

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Viva La Vida Kahlo

Viva La Vida Kahlo

UJ Arts Culture audiences can look forward to Viva La Vida Kahlo, a production from Mexico staring Ana Karina Guevara, is set to bring Frida Kahlo’s history and philosophies to life.

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2020 Wrap Party

UJ Arts Academy 2020 Wrap Party

UJ Arts & Culture invites you to the 2020 UJ Arts Academy Virtual Wrap Party in honour of all our young artists who remained artistic in a difficult time. Come help us celebrate the art that went virtual in 2020 2020 UJ Arts Academy Virtual Wrap Party is proudly hosted by Nicholas Goliath featuring the […]

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Prodigal Man Returns

The Prodigal Man Returns

The Prodigal Man Returns features songs from some of Broadway’s greatest composers such as Jason Robert Brown, Henry Krieger and, the godfather of Musical Theatre, Stephen Sondheim. The talented cast will also be performing a selection of Lungile Michael Themba’s original compositions set to please the most discerning musical theatre lover.

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Cure Songezile Madikida

CURE :: Songezile Madikida

Today’s featured artist for the UJ Art Gallery’s CURE project is visual artist, Songezile Madikida. The video,” Blood on my hands”, was part of an exhibition titled Liminal States in 2004. Liminality, “being on a threshold,” is the condition that occurs during the inner phase of rites of passage, in relation to the rituals performed […]

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