Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings 20-24 December 2024
The Centre for Humanities Research welcomed puppetry practitioners and researchers in kinetic objects and object theatre for the first major international puppetry and kinetic objects conference hosted at the University of the Western Cape....
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Film Screening: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
The Centre for Humanities Research, in partnership with the Mzansi National Phillharmonic Orchestra, invite you to a preview screening of a concert film of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony....
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Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects.
The CHR is pleased to announce the publication of Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, which includes a chapter by senior lecturer and convenor of the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO), Aja Marneweck, and Handspring Puppet Company co-founder Jill Joubert....
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We are delighted to announce that The Return, a film by Mark Kaplan and Heidi Grunebaum, will premiere at Encounters Film Festival on 22 June in Cape Town (Labia) and on 30 June in Johannesburg (The Zone, Rosebank).
