!INOMAN (ROOTS) Manenberg Community Arts Experience – Resistance Project)
AFAI partnered with various kindred organisations and people, including renowned anti-arms activist and artist, Ralph Ziman, for yet another South African leg of the Resistance Project. This portion of...
View ArticleBICYCLE ART – Artistic Procession
As part of the Marikana Public Art Intervention, a group of cyclists cycled around Cape Town CBD with Marikana contraptions, hard hats and Marikana commemoration themed T-shirts to visually awaken...
View ArticleDistrict Six Design Memory Lab
The District Six Museum, in partnership with Cape Town Partnership and the African Arts Institute (AFAI) ; supported by Woodheads launched a District Six Design Memory Lab that looked at creative forms...
View ArticleAlternative Opening of Parliament Fashion Parade Meeting
Alternative Opening of Parliament Fashion Parade Meeting AFAI invites artists and activists – including designers – to join the planning meeting for the next public art intervention! The vision of the...
View ArticleAlternative Fashion Parade Schedule (For participating artists & the general...
How has the government failed us since the start of Democracy in 1994? Politricks critique, social & political commentary through fashion*… More fire! Today is Day 1 of the Alternative Fashion...
View ArticleHuman Rights through Public Art
AFAI partnered with various artists to commemorate Human Rights Day (21 March) and creatively reflect on our human rights. Meetings as well as the range of activities showed how varied the concepts of...
View ArticleWorkers’ Day “Labour Clock”: A nation’s ticking time-bomb?
As many working people celebrated taking a day off to rest this Worker’s Day (01 May 2015), artist, Francois Knoetze and AFAI used public art to reflect upon the shockingly highly total of the South...
View ArticleUnite Against Corruption Campaign
AFAI was informally approached by leaders of the Unite Against Corruption Campaign to assist in the recruitment and mobilisation of the arts sector as part of the Campaign. Working with colleagues in...
View ArticleCultural Entrepreneurship – exploitation or innovative preservation?
PUBLIC DEBATE- 28 JULY – Cultural Entrepreneurship – economic exploitation of culture or the preservation of culture through innovation? As a finale to the Cultural Entrepreneurship course run by AFAI...
View ArticleUPCOMING DEBATE: Arts Activism
UPCOMING PUBLIC DEBATE- 24 AUGUST- Arts Activism – what is the role of the artist in social movements? The campaign to ‘Unite Against Corruption’ has helped to unite – at least symbolically – many in...
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