15 May 2023 - 19 January 2024
The Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC) is a group of scholars and practitioners of artistic and cultural education who operate in both formal and informal contexts across the African continent and the diaspora. Since 2015 ARAC has been collaborating to pursue a joint programme of research into arts and educational practices in their respective localities. The group research processes are critically informed and grounded in historical analysis, particularly with respect to Africa’s colonial heritage. ARAC is committed to building a shared knowledge experience based system and a structure of mutual learning that will benefit arts educational workers in Africa.
ARAC is a “cluster project” of the Another Roadmap School, which is a self-organised network of scholars and practitioners of artistic and cultural education based in 24+ cities worldwide. For the Javett-UP iteration of the project ARAC will work with the ‘Schoolbook Project’, which aims to make accessible the work that ARAC has done and produced since 2015. ARAC currently consists of working groups working from Cairo, Johannesburg, Kampala, Kinshasa, Lagos, Lubumbashi, Maseru and Nyanza. During their 8-month residency at Javett-UP, ARAC will produce five “exercise books” focusing on PROVOCATIONS, EXERCISES, GLOSSARY, IMAGES and AUDIO-VISUAL collections.
Reimagining Our Futures – Javett-UP 2023 Programme Announced
As 2022 draws to a close, the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett- UP) looks back at an impactful year, highlighting connections, intersections, and creative diversity. Throughout the year, Javett-UP welcomed over 33 0000 visitors who engaged with our various exhibitions, public programmes, educational activities, and high-end private events. The Centre saw various interventions and activities that drew artists, activists, audiences, scholars, students, learners and myriad contact zones together at the heart of art in Tshwane for critical multi-disciplinary interactions and dialogues.
The 2023 programme builds on the substantial depth achieved in 2022, and locates a sharper focus on pan-African artistic education in partnership with both local and continental platforms and forums, bridging the knowledge divide through hybrid channels.
Through this programme, Javett-UP aims to mediate the transdisciplinary nature of connecting science and art to cultivate innovative ways of responding and contributing to our collective sustainable development goals and agendas. The conversations around cultural heritage continue, with the programme designed to explore new ways of bridging indigenous knowledge with academic research to cultivate new ideas and ways of doing.
“Our 2023 programme emphasises pan-African artistic education in partnership with both local and continental platforms and forums, bridging the knowledge divide through hybrid channels. We will advocate art as a source of healing that our society is in dire need of, and we will create and promote a marketplace for the commercial and wellness value of the artistic experience and creative products to contribute to the growth of the creative economy and cultural tourism of our City of Tshwane.
We send out our humble appreciation to all of you who graced us with your presence at the Art Centre, and your valued contributions and support to our programmes and operations. We are looking forward to welcoming you again together with your friends and family in the coming year” notes Javett-UP CEO Lekgetho Makola.