Memory
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Sam Turpin’s notes on grief
The legacy of photographer Gisèle Wulfsohn echoes through her son’s music as Sam Turpin confronts sorrow through art
Directors Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar push creative boundaries with Variations on a Theme
A poetic, genre-blurring film, Variations on a Theme excavates ancestral grief, memory and forgotten histories in a Northern Cape community still waiting for justice
Berita’s ‘Echoes of The Soul’: A meditation on migrant workers
Berita’s Workers’ Day performance becomes a powerful meditation on migration, memory and xenophobia in a nation built through labour, movement and forgotten solidarities
What does it mean to forgive? A play asks, 30 years after the TRC
Drawing from archives and lived experience, the international production probes the emotional and political complexities of reconciliation in a fractured world
‘Cape Fever’: When fiction fills the gaps of history
Through Soraya’s journey, Cape Fever explores identity, resilience and the hidden histories of Cape Malays in post-war South Africa
Ndumiso Zondi’s three must-reads
Many commit to reading books every year and are not sure where to start. Here are three books poet Ndumiso Zondi suggest
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Theft: A story of servitude, survival and the search for home
Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with Theft, a moving portrait of loss, longing, and the elusive idea of home.
The long and short of a 50-year artistic career
Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon
uNomkhubulwane and songs of the water spirits
Nduduzo Makhathini unpacks the philosophy and traditions behind his new album
The Portfolio: Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose on bringing eBhish’ home to KZN
The artist reflects on the homecoming of his exhibition, and how it interacts with the gallery and its environment
The Portfolio: Tshepiso Moropa digs up family treasures
Tshepiso Moropa used her parents’ marriage as inspiration for her latest collage, titled Til Death Do Us Apart
The Portfolio: John Phalane’s art ‘gives me a sense of being myself’
Emanating from years spent behind the wheel, the artist’s style is part memory, part imagination
Why handwriting is still important in the age of tech
Your brain remembers differently when using tech or simply pen and paper
Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’
As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War