Scholars explore Democracy through photo’s
Check out the Market Photo Workshop photography project with high school students – looks interesting – great to get them visually aware and photography fluent at such a young age – hopefully the beginnings of some future brilliance. Tied into the 10th anniversary of the signing of our Constitution – it looks like an interesting mix of art and democracy – the Conhill is an awesome place to visit …
and the Bag Factory in Fordsburg is really interesting too. Get amongst!
Democracy Begins with Conversation
A project of Market Photo Workshop in collaboration with the Living Together Project
It is not often in the era of video games, the internet and cell phone chat rooms that high school students come together to discuss and learn about citizenship and constitutionalism. But they do come together in the Democracy Begins with Conversation project of Market Photo Workshop and the Living Together Project.
People working in the arts created a creative learning environment to develop an understanding of the constitution and democracy, focusing on photographs, poems, prints, music, drama etc.
On 9 December 2006, 150 high school learners from Orange Farm, Duduza and Soweto participating in the Living Together Project’s Democracy Begins with Conversation Project will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the signing of the South African Constitution at Constitution Hill.
The proceedings will be opened by one of the Constitutional Court Judges, after which learners will present the performance pieces, poems and raps on Constitutional issues that they have created over the course of the 8 week project for their family and friends. After the performance there will be a discussion with the audience on where we have come from and where we are going 12 years into democracy.
The afternoon programme will be hosted by The Bag Factory in Newtown, where photographs taken by learners during the programme at Market Photo Workshop and other visual artworks created during the project will be exhibited. This will be followed by a discussion with artists from the Bag Factory as the guest speakers on the role of art, culture and conversation in building democracy.
Venues
Photography Exhibition
Opening: 9 December 2006
Time: 13h30 for 14h00
Venue: The Bag Factory Artists Studios
10 Mahlathini Street
Fordsburg
Johannesburg
Closes 12 December 2006.
The gallery is open daily 10h00 – 16h00.
Performances
9 December 2006
Time : 09h30 to 10h30 Tour of Constitutional Hill and Court
10h30 to 13h00 Performance by Youth
Venue: Constitutional Hill
Kotze street
Braamfontein
Johannesburg
For more information:
Market Photo Workshop
Iqbal Tladi or Nonceba Ntintili
Tel: 011 834 1444
Fax: 011 834 1447
info@marketphotoworkshop.co.za
or
The Living Together Project
Betsi Pendry
082 666 5505
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