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A Grand Night for Singing: A Musical Celebration

Breyten Odendaal

August 17, 2023

Join us for a spectacular evening of opera and song, as UJ Arts & Culture presents ‘A Grand Night for Singing’. This much anticipated annual event takes place on Saturday

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Upcoming Events at UJ Art Gallery

Breyten Odendaal

August 1, 2023

A Forthnight of Conversation – 31 July – 11 August 2017

Conservator, Ekkehard Hans, will restore castings of ancient Greek sculptures, donated to the University of Johannesburg by the Greek community

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Shifting Conversations: Visual Art Exhibition

Breyten Odendaal

July 20, 2023

The UJ Art Gallery will host an exhibition entitled SHIFTING CONVERSATIONS, in collaboration with the MTN SA Foundation, from 18 October to 22 November 2017.

This exhibition, with artworks from the

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UJ’s experimental theatre film Skeletons premieres at DIFF 2022

Breyten Odendaal

July 5, 2023

UJ Arts & Culture, a division of the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture (FADA), is proud to announce the premiere of Skeletons, directed by Jade Bowers at the Durban International Film

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Futures and Beyond: Creativity and 4IR Dialogue Series

Breyten Odendaal

July 1, 2023

The Futures and Beyond dialogue series in July kicks off the conversations to be explored at this year’s Futures and Beyond Conference.
UJ Arts & Culture, a division of the Faculty

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The Pandemic Project :: Athena Mazarakis

Breyten Odendaal

June 10, 2023

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]UJ Arts & Culture’s featured artist for today’s The Pandemic Project is Choreographer and Performer Embodiment Practitioner, Athena Mazarakis along with performers Alex Halligey and Jennifer Halligey.

As a response to

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UNFESTIVAL Programme Announced

Breyten Odendaal

May 20, 2023

UJ Arts & Culture (FADA) has [apparently] ‘announced’ ‘counterintuitive’ as the ‘theme’ for its ‘all-new’ Covid-19 responsive UNFESTIVAL SA partnered by Business and Arts South Africa (BASA).

“Why counterintuitive? Because very little makes

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The Sounds of Hlakanyana wins NIHSS Award

‘The Sounds of Hlakanyana’ won the Award for Best Public Performance at the 7th Humanities and Social Sciences Awards 2022.
Presented by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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The Pandemic Project :: Fana Tshabalala

Breyten Odendaal

April 20, 2023

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today’s featured artist for the UJ Arts & Culture’s ‘The Pandemic’ project, is South African multi-award-winning dancer, choreographer and co-founder of Broken Borders Art Project, Fana Tshabalala.

The work is inspired

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Comedy Con 2020: Developing the Business of Comedy

Breyten Odendaal

March 15, 2023

Comedy Con 2020, in partnership with UJ Arts & Culture, a division of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg, is a two-day conference hosted

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