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Empatheatre is excited to be co-facilitating an exciting Online project
Empatheatre is excited to be co-facilitating an exciting Online project, a partnership with the British Council - a first for the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK)
Empatheatre is excited to be co-facilitating an exciting Online project, a partnership with the British Council - a first for the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) – and aims to create a unique opportunity for young women from the South African town Oudtshoorn to connect meaningfully with like-minded rising stars and leaders in the
United Kingdom (UK).
For this project, the KKNK has joined forces with Empatheatre as part of the British Council’s Developing Inclusive and Creative Economies programme (DICE), in collaboration with the SICK! Festival and Young Identity in Manchester, UK.
After an extensive interviewing process by our Empatheatre facilitators, four local participants were identified to attend a series of ongoing facilitated Zoom workshops interacting closely with the UK participants.
The online sessions commenced in April and will end in May – and have been taking place each Thursday. The digital experiences and workshops are facilitated by UK’s Young Identity team Shirley and Nicole May and South Africa’s inimitable Tshego Khutsoane, using processes and methods inspired by their own collaborative theatre, poetry and performance backgrounds.
“This project is a springboard for long-term cultural collaborations between the project partners, with the voices of young female leaders at its centre,” says Hugo Theart, Artistic Director of the KKNK. It will be a dream come true if the four successful candidates’ participation in this programme could result in further involvement with other activities and future projects of the arts festival.”
To learn more about the incredible work done by our UK co- facilitators and partners please visit www.youngidentity.org
and www.sickfestival.com
Empatheatre with support from the Bertha House, is excited to be hosting a screening and post-film discussion around Complicite’s film Can I Live? at the Bertha House cinema in Cape Town on the 12th of October from 16:00 - 19:30.
Empatheatre and Mbazwana Creative Arts (MCA)in association with Amehlo Productions are proud to present a short documentary film centring on the devising of their acclaimed musical theatrical production Umkhosi Wenala .
How do we make sense of the violent histories that mark our past? This play, Isidlamlilo, forces us to engage seriously with this question. Depending on your own relationship with our violent history, this play awakens a profound and at times unsettling realization that history is a living breathing force in all our lives. Isidlamlilo is set in the dying days of Apartheid, and in the present democratic South Africa.