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SANG MEESTERKLASSE DEUR BESOEKENDE DOSENTE

Die NWU Skool vir Musiek ontvang op 8-10 Maart 2011 twee besoekende sangers wat albei meesterklasse vir sangstudente by die Konservatorium sal aanbied.



Prof. Barbara Hill-Moore is professor in sang aan die Meadows School of Arts, Southern Methodist University (Dallas, VSA) vir meer as 35 jaar. Sy het sedert 2000 verskeie kere besoek aan Suid-Afrika gebring, maar hierdie is haar eerste optrede by die Noordwes-Universiteit.

Erica Eloff het haar sangstudies aan die NWU voltooi en in 2003 na Engeland verhuis waar sy haar sangloopbaan by British Young Opera begin het. Sy het vinnig opgang gemaak as sopraan in operas en Lieder-konserte en die eerste pryse verower in die London Handel Competition en UFAM Concours International de Chant in Frankryk.

Die sang meesterklasse vind op Dinsdag 8 en Woensdag 9 Maart van 14:00-17:00 en 18:30-20:00 in die Konservatoriumsaal plaas en is oop vir die publiek (gratis toegang). Die kursus word afgesluit met 'n gratis konsert deur die deelnemers op Donderdag 10 Maart om 16:00, ook in die Konservatoriumsaal. Skakel gerus (018) 299-1692

Bringing the textbook to life

The Grade 12 Visual Culture Studies exhibition
A selection of artworks by South African artists included in the Visual Culture Studies framework will be on view in the Annex Gallery at Oliewenhuis Art Museum from 7 March to 30 April 2011. The artworks were selected from the Museum's Permanent Collection.

The exhibition is grouped according to the prescribed themes for Grade 12 Visual Culture Studies and represents the history of South African art, from the 1950s to contemporary art. Supporting information will be available to make this a worthwhile educational experience.

This is a must see for learners taking art as a subject and for tertiary art students.
Teachers are welcome to arrange a free guided tour.

For additional information contact Ester at 051 4479 609.

Die musiek van Hannes Taljaard

Twaalf soliste en een koor span kragte saam in 'n konsert op Sondag 13 Maart 2011 om 15:30 in die NWU Konservatoriumsaal, Potchefstroom, om onder andere agt volksliedjies en vyf wiegeliedjies uit te voer wat oor die laaste dertien jaar deur die Potchefstroomse komponis, Hannes Taljaard, gekomponeer en verwerk is. Twee werke vir klaviersolo staan ook op die program. Die uitvoerders is byna almal studente, personeel of oud-studente van die Skool vir Musiek, NWU waar Hannes Senior Lektor en Residensiële Komponis is.

Die sopraan Erica Eloff vlieg spesiaal uit London in vir die konsert en sy sal drie werke uitvoer: Zwikumbukumbu 1 (verwerkings van tshiVenda volksliedere saam met die pianis Rachelle Elmes-Wessels), die eerste uitvoering van 'n nuwe werk Arie Antiche (saam met die Pretoriase violis Olga Korvink), en 'n gunsteling van gehore, Wiegeliedjies, Boek 1. Die Wiegeliedjies word begelei deur 'n ensemble met klavier, klarinet en fagot en is soos die Arie Antiche vir Erica gekomponeer. Ander pianiste wat optree is Waldo Weyer, Olga Tshikhelashvilli en Elize Kruger. George Fazakas en twee fluitstudente sal saam met die pianis Catrien Mulder verwerkings van Suid-Afrikaanse volksliedjies uitvoer.

Die gratis middagkonsert vir die hele gesin is oop vir alle belangstellendes en sal net meer as 'n uur duur. Meeste van die volksliedjies sal in twee en selfs vier gedaantes gehoor word, en oud en jonk sal ongetwyfeld iets hoor wat elkeen sal raak. Skakel gerus (018) 299-1692 .

Bitter fruit - Bittervrug

Susanne Schleyer/Michael J.Stephan
Photo and sound installation

Stephan Erasmus
Sculpture and book art

Indra Wussow (jozi art:lab)
Curator

17th February - 25th March 2011
NWU Gallery in Potchefsstroom 
 

For outsiders it is hard to believe that in South Africa with its history of white supremacy Whites became impoverished or even had been poor for generations. Already in the 1920s there were many "Poor Whites" and this issue was politically addressed. To empower those at the expense to the majority of the country was one of the principles of the Apartheid regime until 1994, a task that failed to succeed. Today more than half a million white people can’t feed themselves. This development has many reasons. This problem is ignored however– ignored in a country, in which most of the capital and wealth are owned by the white minority and most of the black people are still living in poverty.

"Poor Whites"  live outside of towns in squatter-camps. These places are named "Maranata" or "Eagles Nest" – but no eagle would get lost in such forgotten place. These people live in shacks and old caravans, clean water and electricity are rare. 

At two of those lost places Susanne Schleyer and Michael J. Stephan improvised a studio and asked the contributors to stand in front of a "white wall" to portrait them there. Many of them are dressed in clothes they usually wear at church on Sundays. The artists didn’t encourage them to present themselves in a special pose or position.
The portraits include interviews. The interviews were conducted together with the Afrikaans artist Stephan Erasmus, who worked out his own interpretation of Afrikaaner identity, about loss, about guilt and redemption and how Afrikanners find their role in a new South Africa. His sculptures and artist books, he created in this process are part of this show.

In the interviews contributors were asked questions about their lives, their living circumstances, their wishes for their future. Notable: Even if they didn’t believe, that God would prove them, they never felt responsible for the situation they are in. On the contrary they called many reasons, why their situation was so desperate – especially the "blacks" are constantly blamed for their plight. They accused them not to offer them any help and forget themselves the fact that the former political system of Apartheid offered only little welfare for the majority of the South African people. In the squatter-camps there aren’t any "poor blacks". In this social landscape you are still discovering separation and intolerance.

Susanne Schleyer: "We looked into their faces, which seem to be from another time. We decided not to photograph them in the degrading misery and chaos. They didn’t expect that, because all their life they had been seen and portrayed like losers, like "White Trash". We took them out of this context, which determines their life. We put them in front of the "White Wall", because we didn’t want to abuse them, because we were looking in their faces and in the pictures for something – and we found what we all own: Proud and Dignity".

Indra Wussow (Curator): "As curator of the show I was very much interested in showing social transformation by scrutinizing one particular group of the South African society. To bring the Afrikaans artist Stephan Erasmus and the German artists Susanne Schleyer and Michael J. Stephan together meant to offer two completely different perspectives of the topic, seen from the inside of the society as well as from outsiders. The art show "Bitter Fruit" gives evidence to the fact that the Freedom Charta is still a mission for the new dispensation in South Africa and how many obstacles and prejudices have to overcome on its way into being."

The Kultuur Kruiwa spoke to Indra Wussow, curator of the exhibition. Listen to the podcast right here on "a Slice of Life"

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