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UJ ARTS & CULTURE
UJ Arts & Culture produces and presents world-class student
and professional arts programmes aligned to the UJ vision
of an international university of choice, anchored in Africa,
dynamically shaping the future. A robust range of arts
platforms are offered on all four UJ campuses for students,
staff, alumni and the general public to experience and engage
with emerging and established Pan-African and international
artists drawn from the full spectrum of the arts.
Through the Arts Academy students have access to a number of
extracurricular arts and culture activities including two choirs, a jazz band,
drumming circles and poetry, drama and dance classes. Additionally, a robust
artistic programme is presented and includes local and international drama
and dance productions, comedy shows, music concerts, arts and culture
festivals and art exhibitions presented at the UJ Art Gallery.
Arts & Culture’s flagship programme is the Interdisciplinary FADA Theatre
Programme, which is implemented as an integral component of course work
for second-year FADA students. During a two-week lecture series entitled
Theatre 101 students attend theatre design lectures and briefing sessions
and then work in groups to design various aspects of a play produced by the
division with a professional cast.
The division also hosts external events at the Art Centre on the Kingsway
Campus with a 428-seater Theatre, an 18-seater conference room and two
studios; the Experimental Theatre, also on the Kingsway Campus, is a flexible
space primarily used for and by students; and the 180-seater Con Cowan
Theatre with adjacent studios is based on the Bunting Road Campus.
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