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It provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy while attempting to circumnavigate different policies & funding dispensations.
List of contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
PART 1
Chapter 1. The Political is Personal: Smal Ndaba and Phyllis Klotz in Thumbnail Portraits of Origins and Orientations
Sarah Roberts
Chapter 2. Founding Sibikwa: A Professional Partnership Tempered in the Forge of Apartheid’s Final Years
Sarah Roberts
Chapter 3. Democracy, the First Decade: The Mandela-Mbeki Years (1994-2005)
Sarah Roberts
Chapter 4. The Trouble with Freedom: Mbeki’s Dream of an African Renaissance, Nation-building and Issues Surrounding HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Sarah Roberts
Chapter 5. Issues of Governance, Policy, Delivery, and Accountability Escalate: Sibikwa Responds to Developments in Arts and Culture Policy Documents and with Theatre-in-Education Projects
Sarah Roberts
Chapter 6. The Struggle for Social Justice in Confronting Gender-based Violence and Srategies of Intensifying an African Cultural Heritage as the Project Moves into the Future
Sarah Roberts
Appendix :1 A Chronology of Major Political Events, Cultural Developments and Sibikwa Plays
PART II
Chapter 7. Governance of Sibikwa Arts Centre: A Reflection on the Agility, Progress, and Longevity of the Organisation
Munyaradzi Chatikobo and Caryn Green
Chapter 8. Sibikwa’s Educational Programmes
Vanessa Bower and Hazel Barnes
Appendix 2: A Chronology of Educational and Vocational Training Programmes
Chapter 9. Living Proof: Thirty Years of Sibikwa’s Theatre Productions
Sarah Roberts
Appendix 3: A Chronology of Sibikwa Productions
Chapter 10. Celebrating Sibikwa’s Legacy of Dance and Physical Theatre from Community to Professional Dance Development
Clare Craighead and Lliane Loots
Appendix 4: A Chronology of Sibikwa Dance Company Productions and Festivals
Chapter 11. Keeping the African Sound Relevant
Evans Netshivhambe
Appendix 5: A Chronology of Sibikwa’s Music History
Chapter 12. Framing the Intersectional Gender Politics of the Sibikwa Legacy
Lliane Loots
Appendix 6- A Chronology of Gender Based Productions, Festivals and Training
Index
About the author
Phyllis Klotz is the artistic director and co-founder of the Sibikwa Arts Centre in Benoni.
Smal Ndaba is the co-founder and managing director of the Sibikwa Arts Centre in Benoni.
Summary
It provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy while attempting to circumnavigate different policies & funding dispensations.
