This year’s giant puppet parade in the quirky Klein Karoo town of Barrydale, celebrates and reclaims the power, mythologies and awareness of the local River, the Klein Huis Rivier that runs through the Tradouw valley, and its age old significance to the people and animals of this scenic, fertile part of the Langeberg.
River and Redfin
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The CHR and Net Vir Pret Annual Giant Puppet Parade and Performance, Barrydale,
16 December 2018
Mandla Mlangeni receives 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist Award
The CHR congratulates Artist in Residence Mandla Mlangeni on being a recipient of the 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist Award.
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CHR Annual Report 2017
Milestones were specifically recorded in areas of research publication, graduate fellowship support, consolidation of national and international collaborations, and enhancement of our public arts projects.
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The 2016 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance, called Olifantland, a multilingual visual theatre show featuring five majestic life-size elephant puppets by Adrian Kohler from Handspring Puppet Company in collaboration with UKWANDA Puppet and Design Collective.
The 2016 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance
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The DST-NRF Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape (CHR) in collaboration with the SARChI Chair in Social Change at the University of Fort Hare (SARChI) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global Change at the University of Minnesota (ICGC), held the seventh Winter School on the theme “The Humanities Improvised” in 2017.
Winter School
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2017 REPORT
Under the theme of The Humanities Improvised, the annual meeting gathered together artists, art commentators and humanists from member institutions to reconceptualize the relationship between art and the humanities against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world of work, politics and technology.
The International Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)
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The CHR hosted the 2017 annual meeting of
The Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) constitutes an arena for scholarly exchange, artistic creation and public inquiry into African political subjectivity, art and society, and technology and the human.
