The guest curatorial team of the Yakhal’inkomo exhibition
continues to explore a negotiation of the past in the present through an
exciting public programme this Youth month. The education programme “Spreading
the language of creativity” offers a glimpse into the artistic journey of
Michael Sibisi through a short film screening complemented by an interactive
walkabout experience.
This reflection on past lived experiences exemplified
through the exhibition continues to unpack various ways of conveying truth.
During Youth month, as young people continue to refuse and resist ongoing
social struggles, the Javett Art Centre invites visitors to discover fragments
of their past in the safe spaces enabled by this programme.
As filters of reality, photographs have the power to
foreground the social aesthetic of various moments in time. The fragments of
the lives of a brutalised Black society documented between the 60s and 90s in
South Africa are explored in the History of Black Photography conversation.
Hosted at the June 16 Interpretation Centre in Soweto, this offers a platform
for more supportive dialogue about the kinds of creative tensions that existed
at the time. Young people are invited to experience this intergenerational
dialogue through distinctive voices of South Africa’s visual cultural
landscape.
Join us on this journey as we connect with moments of Black
agency and was we continue to chronicle counter-narratives of pivotal
historical moments through contemporary lenses.