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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Welcome by the Conference Steering Group 2 4 Welcome by the host: African Arts Institute PROGRAMME Themes Timetable Speakers Mobile Workshops Conference Venue

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WELCOME Dear Colleagues, We are very pleased to welcome you to the 7th ELIA Leadership Symposium – DOMINANCE//DIVERSITY//DISRUPTION, hosted by the African Arts Institute and the University of Cape Town. Following the success of previous editions of the Symposium at the University of the Arts Helsinki, the Emily Carr University in Vancouver, the Zurich University of the Arts, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the Tate Britain in conjunction with the University of the Arts London, and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, this year’s symposium continues the dialogue of key decision makers on current issues in cultural management and leadership in arts education, bringing together influential leaders in the arts from many of the world’s most important institutions. In addition to inspiring keynote contributions and intriguing mobile workshops, round-table discussions will form an important aspect of the symposium.

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In these round-table sessions participants will engage in discussions, following the input from the invited experts. To all of us time is precious, we intend to give delegates an opportunity for reflection and visionary thinking that is not always possible with our busy day-to-day lives. We hope you enjoy and are stimulated by this symposium and your stay in Cape Town.

Kieran Corcoran. Head, Dublin School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland Carla Delfos. Executive Director, ELIA, Amsterdam, Netherlands Mike van Graan. Executive Director, AFAI, Cape Town, South Africa Thomas D. Meier. President, ELIA; Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland

Steering Group ELIA Leadership Symposium 2015

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WELCOME BY THE HOST Dear Delegates, It is with great delight that we welcome ELIA as an organisation to Africa for the first time, and you as a delegate to South Africa generally, and to Cape Town in particular. You come at a most interesting time in our country’s history, twentyone years into our democratic work-in-progress, and just a few weeks after the most momentous student uprisings in post-apartheid South Africa. The symposium theme – DOMINANCE// DIVERSITY//DISRUPTION – plays itself out in broader South African society on an almost daily basis as we attempt to pour new wine into old wineskins, as we create new wineskins for new wine, as we blend new and old wines and grapple with the most appropriate wineskins. The recent student struggles against fee hikes arose on the back of other student campaigns to ‘decolonise’ the universities, with dominant, hegemonic paradigms and practices being questioned, institutional comforts and traditions being disrupted, and demands for the diversity of our country to be reflected in curricula, staffing and governance, among other things.

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We have little doubt that you will be stimulated by the conversations and by the speakers who will reflect on the theme from within very real experiences; our hope is that you will gain insights that will inform future practices within your own institutions. My colleagues and I have attempted to organise a range of experiences, both to introduce you to the contradictions of our beautiful city, and to provide some ‘lived experience’ of the symposium theme. We warmly encourage you to open your eyes, your minds, your hearts, your ears and your mouths for three days of multi-sensory feasting. Mike van Graan Executive Director, African Arts Institute

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THEMES Post-apartheid South Africa is a laboratory of social transformation. Working within this context we will address this changing world and reflect on how key notions of ‘the canon’, aesthetics and standards of excellence play out in a culturally diverse world. Institutions are shaped by history, by social context, by those who lead and teach, who are themselves shaped by history, education, context and institutional cultures. Increasingly though, institutions are also impacted by the pressures of those who fund them, either as public authorities or as fee-paying students. How do leaders
of institutions - themselves in the process of transformation - disrupt, reinforce or
nuance the tensions between the economic, the political, the cultural and the artistic dimensions?

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While many art schools and universities are facing some of these questions in the light of economic pressures and demographic shifts, the intensity with which South African institutions are dealing with these will provide a new lens and focus for leaders of institutions to reflect on these issues of transformation and change. The tripartite conference title is reflected by the keynotes and correlating round table discussions, each focusing on one of the key terms: DOMINANCE reflects on what has been called the ‘Canon’ in recent aesthetics theory and puts up for debate the relevance of ideas like objective standards of excellence - which are largely Eurocentric in historical origin - in art and art education in the 21st century and future developments.

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DISRUPTION reflects on how the emergence of alternative sources of knowledge and value has affected and transformed the established social, cultural, economical and educational institutional structures. DIVERSITY reflects on different points of view on cultural diversity and the challenges, as well as the opportunities, developments such as globalisation, worldwide migration processes and cultural changes in society present for established institutional structures like art universities and colleges - now and in the future.

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TIMETABLE TUESDAY 1 DECEMBER 18:00

Welcome Cocktail. ELIA delegates will be joined by representatives of African Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities. Venue: African Pride15 on Orange Orange Street, Cape Town

WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER 08:00 Registration Venue: Little Theatre, Hiddingh Campus 10:00 Opening

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10:30 Njabulo Ndebele Q&A 11:15 Coffee Break 11:45 Albie Sachs Q&A 12:30 Lunch Venue: Societi Bistro, 50 Orange Street 14:00 – Mobile Workshops: 17:00 Engaging with the arts and culture of the City. All mobile workshops start and end at Hiddingh campus. 19:00 Diversity Dinner In small groups, delegates will travel across the city landscape to experience local cuisine and hospitality at the homes of local artists, arts administrators and thought leaders. Venues: Various Transport: Instructions will be communicated on the day.

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THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER 09:00 Vishakha Desai Table Talks 10:15 Coffee Break 11:00 Xolela Mangcu and Mark Fleishman Table Talks 12:15 Lunch Venue: The Company’s Gardens The Gardens border Hiddingh Campus to the South. Delegates will be directed to a demarcated picnic area. 13:30 Inès Sanguinetti Table Talks 15:15 Coffee Break 15:45 Aino Laberenz Table Talks

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17:30 18:00 19:00

Closing Bus leaves from Hiddingh Hall for Symposium Dinner Dinner, Disrupted Venue: Hoghouse, Die Werf, Spier Wine Farm, Stellenbosch Host: Chef PJ Vadas, twice recipient of the Eat Out Top 10 Awards. Delegates will return after dinner by bus back to Hiddingh Hall.

FRIDAY 4 DECEMBER 09:30 Gavin Jantjes Table Talks 10:45 Oussama Rifahi Table Talks 12:00 Coffee Break 12:15 Closing 13:00 - Lunch 14:00 Venue: Bertram House Garden, Hiddingh Campus

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Friday afternoon If your Cape Town stay extends beyond lunch on Friday, we suggest below optional visits or city tour options. Please notice that these optionalcity visits or tours are not an official part of the Leadership Symposium and that participation takes place on your own, which may include additional costs and may require advance booking. However, the organising staff will be happily of service and assist you if you wish to participate in one of the suggested city visits or tours. •Take the Table Mountain Cableway for an up close and personal experience of this UNESCO Cape Floral Region World Heritage Site and its diverse and often rare and endemic flora, and magnificent views. Advance booking recommended. www.tablemountain.net •Take a boat-ride to Robben Island, where President Nelson Mandela spent the better part of his 27 years in prison. The island’s multi-layered 500 year history tells diverse stories of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity, suffering and injustice. Advance booking essential. www.robben-island.org.za

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•Hop on and hop off a double-decker red bus to discover Cape Town. Informative audio commentary gives a historical overview of the cityscape including information about all major attractions in 15 different languages. www.citysightseeing.co.za •The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront lies at the edge of Cape Town’s charming historical harbour. Here you will discover shopping, dining, entertainment and a host of leisure activities. www.waterfront.co.za •To traverse and explore just about any Cape Town cultural route, from choral music to cuisine, beer to backyard theatre, fashion and design, get in with our friends at coffeebeans routes. Advance booking is essential. www.coffeebeansroutes.com

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SPEAKERS Vishakha Desai A recipient of five honorary degrees, Dr Desai holds a B.A. in Political Science from Bombay University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Asian Art History from the University of Michigan. From 2004 through 2012, Dr Desai served as President and CEO of the Asia Society, a global organisation dedicated to strengthening partnerships between Asia and the United States through arts education and foreign policy. In addition to several featured articles and numerous editorials, Dr Desai’s publications include Asian Art History in the Twenty-first Century (2008), Gods, Guardians and Lovers: Temple Sculpture from North India (1993), and Life at Court: Art for India’s Rulers (June 1985).

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Special Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University, Professor of Professional Practice at the School of International and Public Affairs and Senior Advisor for Global Programmes to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, United States.

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Mark Fleishman Magnet Theatre has been performing works created and directed by Fleishman with his partner, Jennie Reznek, for close on three decades. The company’s use of theatre as tool to address social injustice and transformation on mainstream stages, in urban townships and in rural communities has brought them local and international acclaim. Mark has published in the South African Theatre Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review, Theatre Research International and in numerous edited collections, most recently Anthony Jackson and Jenny Kidd’s Performing Heritage (Manchester University Press; 2011) and Nicholas Whybrow’s Performing Cities (Palgrave Macmillan; 2014). Mark edited Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa: Cape of Flows in the Studies in International Performance series at Palgrave (2015) and is an active member of the Performance as Research Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre Research. He was the group’s co-convenor from 2009-13.

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Professor, Department of Drama, University of Cape Town and Co-Founder and Director, Magnet Theatre, South Africa.

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Gavin Jantjes In 1989 and 1990, the United Nation’s High Commission for Refugees and its Special Commission on apartheid, commissioned South African-born artist, Gavin Jantjes, to support their campaigns against Apartheid. He was then senior lecturer at Chelsea College of Art in London and served as a trustee of the Tate, Whitechapel and Serpentine Galleries. He subsequently advised and structured policy on cultural diversity for both the former Arts Council of Great Britain and the European Commission. In Norway he served first as artistic director of Henie Onstad Art Centre and then senior curator for the National Museum, for ten years. He was a member of the finding commission for Documenta 12 and he served as a trustee of the Office for Contemporary Art. In 2011 Jantjes initiated the Visual Century Project and authored Visual Century: South African Art in Context 1907-2007 for Wits University.

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He lives and works in Oslo and Cape Town. His paintings and graphic work feature in collections at the Tate Gallery and the V&A in the UK, the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian in the US, the South African National Gallery, the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg, the Gothenburg Art Museum, Henie Onstad Art Center and in numerous private collections.

Artist, Curator & Museum Director, Norway and South Africa.

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Aino Laberenz Aino Labarenz had studied art history before she assisted as a costume designer at Schauspielhaus Bochum between 2001 and 2002. Later she worked as a photographer and costume designer at several theatres like Schauspielhaus Bochum, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Voksbühne Berlin, Wiener Burgtheater, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Opera of Manaus in Brasil, Bayreuther Festspiele, Staatsoper Berlin and Oper Bonn. Labarenz took over the management of Festspielhause Afrika gGmbH, continuing Christoph Schlingensief’s project The African Opera Village, established in 2009. In 2011 she designed the German pavilion together with Susanne Gaensheimer at the 54th La Biennale di Venezia and was honored for that with the award Goldener Löwen. She is the editor of Christoph Schlingensief’s biography Ich weiss, ich war’s (Kiepenheuer & Witsch; 2012) and cocurated a Christoph Schlingensief exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and in New York.

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Set and Costume Designer & Director of the Festspielhaus Afrika gGmbH (Opera Village Burkina Faso), Germany.

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Xolela Mangcu Mangcu was the Founder of the Platform for Public Deliberation and the Founding Executive Director of the Steve Biko Foundation. He obtained his Ph.D in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University and holds fellowships at Brookings Institution, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Rockefeller Foundation. His research interests are in African intellectual history and biography, comparative race studies and transformation of higher education in South Africa. South African weekly, the Sunday Times, has described Mangcu as ‘possibly the most prolific public intellectual in South Africa’. Mangcu has authored and co-authored eight books, numerous journal articles, book chapters and newspaper columns. Biko: A Biography (Tafelberg; 2012) was finalist in the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for NonFiction, the Recht Malan Prize, and the South African Book Awards. The Colour of Our Future, dealing with the issue of race in contemporary South Africa was published by Wits University Press earlier this year.

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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town and Oppenheimer Fellow at the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele Prof Njabulo holds a Ph.D in Creative Writing from the University of Denver; Honorary Doctorates from Cambridge University, Michigan University, University of Denver, University College London, Soka University, Wesleyan University, Free University of Amsterdam, the University of the Witwatersrand, and was inaugurated as the Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg in November 2012. He served two terms as President of the University of Cape Town following tenure as a Scholar-inResidence at the Ford Foundation in New York; and has been a key figure in South African higher education. He has served as Chair of the South African Universities Vice-Chancellor’s Association; President of the Association of African Universities; and founding Chair of the Southern African Regional Universities’ Association. He has chaired three Commissions on broadcasting policy, school curriculum in history, and African languages as media of instruction in Higher Education. In 2014 he chaired the Council of Higher Education Task Team on Undergraduate Curriculum Structure in South Africa. An award-winning author, his first book Fools and Other Stories won the Noma Award in 1984, Africa’s highest literary award for the best book published that year. His highly influential and seminal essays on South African literature and culture were

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published as Rediscovery of the Ordinary. His novel The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003) was received with acclaim. In Fine Lines from the Box: Further Thoughts about Our Country (2007), he writes incisively on a range of public issues of democracy and social change in South Africa today.

Chairman, Nelson Mandela Foundation / Mandela Rhodes Foundation

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Oussama Rifahi Oussama Rifahi joined the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture as Executive Director in July 2010. Previously, he was Managing Director for Museum Development in New York with Global Cultural Asset Management, and provided cultural consultancy services to governments, cities, foundations and private collectors in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. As Director of Special Projects for the Guggenheim Foundation, Rifahi led feasibility studies of modern and contemporary museums in Lithuania and France in 2007. From 2003 to 2006, he was project manager at Mubadala in Abu Dhabi and an advisor to the chairman of Tourism Development and Investment Company, TDIC. Rifahi directed the market analysis, strategy definition and development of the business model for tourism and culture in Abu Dhabi and supported the first architectural developments on the cultural district of Saadiyat Island, as well as the initial negotiations between Abu Dhabi and the Louvre and Guggenheim museums.

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Executive Director, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Beirut, Lebanon.

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Albie Sachs Albie Sachs was detained in solitary confinement in the 1960s because of his anti-apartheid activism. He went into exile in Britain in 1966, working with the banned ANC, and moved to Mozambique after Independence. Here he became a professor of law at Eduardo Mondlane University. After 24 years in exile, Sachs returned to South Africa after the unbanning of the ANC and other anti-apartheid organisations in 1990, and took an active part in negotiations for a new Constitution for a non-racial, non-sexist democratic state. In 1994 he was appointed by Nelson Mandela to the first Constitutional Court where he served a fifteen-year term. In 1991, Sachs won the Alan Paton Award for his book Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter, which chronicles his response to the 1988 car bombing in which he lost an arm. He is also the author of Justice in South Africa (1974), The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (1966), Sexism and the Law (1979), and The Free Diary of Albie Sachs (2004). His most recent book, The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law (2009), also won the Alan Paton Award, making him the second person to have won it twice. His Jail Diary was dramatized by David Edgar for the Royal Shakespeare Company and for television and broadcast by the BBC in the late 1970s.

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He played a major role both in the design of the building for the Constitutional Court as well as in the murals, paintings, sculptures and other art works which has won the building international acclaim. Among other groundbreaking judgments, Sachs wrote the judgement legalising same-sex marriage in South Africa. He continues to have a significant interest in African arts generally and serves on the

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Inès Sanguinetti Inès Sanguinetti has designed and currently coordinates the implementation of ’arts across the curriculum’ in 19 public schools for the City Government of Buenos Aires. The programme’s aim is for general improvement and social cohesion in education. From 2005 until 2009 she coordinated the Latin American Network of Art for Social Transformation which now operates in 17 countries. Sanguinetti is also a council member of the Latin American Community Live Cultures Network. She obtained a B.A Social Studies from Salvador University in 1982 and subsequently received a St. Andrew’s University upgrade in Academic Actualization of Education. She is currently busy with her Masters Diploma in University Education Management at FLACSO. Sanguinetti is the current President of Crear Vale la Pena where she is developing Teaching for Teachers programmes in Art, Welfare and Creativity for community schools and cultural centres.

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Dancer, choreographer and social activist, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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MOBILE WORKSHOPS Cape Town is a vibrant, cultured and creative city. Artists and other creatives of all disciplines live and work here. Mobile Workshops will take conference participants to an interesting place in the city where they will meet practitioners and producers. Through dialogue with these experts, delegates will explore the relationship between art, the artist, the place and their combined connection to their city. Following lunch on Wednesday 2 December the mobile workshops will set out from the conference venue. Depending on the tours, participants will take transportation or follow a route by foot. All tours will end back at Hiddingh Campus. Delegates have been asked to select their preferred mobile workshop in advance; on the back of your badge you will find which mobile workshop you’ll be attending.

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01. Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (Zeitz MOCAA) Zeitz MOCAA is a new public not-for-profit cultural institution that focuses on collecting, preserving, researching, and exhibiting cutting edge contemporary art from Africa and its Diaspora. Opening in 2017 it will be the first major museum in Africa dedicated to contemporary art, housed in a silo and spans over 9,500 sqm across 9 floors. Bus to location; easy walk. Guide: Mark Coetzee, Executive Director and Chief Curator. Meet at the construction site of the future home of the museum, explore the building (and experience bay views) from an adjacent rooftop. Walk to the Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion taking in public art by Mohau Modisakeng, Claudette Schreuders, Cameron Platter and others. View the current exhibition Harvest by Michele Mathison, including installations from the 2013 Venice Biennale Zimbabwe Pavilion. This tour will end with afternoon tea and cakes at the Pavilion.

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02. Cape Town Architecture & Landscape A guided tour of hidden architectural gems and popular public spaces of Cape Town, from historic buildings to contemporary experimental eco-architecture. Walking tour, leaving from Hiddingh Campus. Easy walk; 2km out, optional taxi back. Guide: Clare Burgess, Institute for Landscape Architecture South Africa. Your walking itinerary will include the Company’s Gardens, St George’s Mall, Station Forecourt, Heerengracht and Jetty Square. This tour will end with optional drinks at Cartel Rooftop Bar, Waterkant Street.

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03. Cape Town Theatre Landscape Explore the theatre landscape of Cape Town from publically funded institutions to independent spaces, makeshift spaces and public spaces. Bus tour. GUIDE: Ukhona Mlandu, Independent Arts Manager, Facilitator & Producer. Your itinerary will include The Black Box in Delft, the Baxter Theatre, Main Road, Rondebosch, Fugard Theatre, Caledon Street, Cape Town and Artscape Theatre, DF Malan Street, Cape Town. This tour will end with drinks at Alexander Bar/ Theatre at 76 Strand Street.

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04. Meet the Educators Gain insights into the varying arts education offerings in Cape Town through visits to Magnet Theatre, AFDA The South African School of Motion Picture and Live Performance and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. GUIDE: To be confirmed. By bus, you will visit Magnet Theatre and AFDA, Observatory; Cape Town School of Photography; Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town. Tour will end with drinks at TRUTH Coffee Bar, Buitenkant Street.

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05. Design in Cape Town Cape Town was designated World Design Capital 2014. Meet design thinkers, creatives and institutions who are changing the design sector in Cape Town. This tour includes visits to the Cape Craft and Design Institute, The Fashion Council, the Design Indaba and more. Walking tour. GUIDE: Joanne Sandler, Cape Craft and Design Institute . Your walking tour will include vists to The FashionCouncil; Design Indaba; Cape Craft and Design Institute. Tour will end with drinks at TRUTH.

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06. Africa in Cape Town An introduction to the lives and work of members of one of Africa’s largest diaspora communities, Experience Pan-African cuisine, fashion and craft in the intimate settings of private homes, studios and work spaces. Guides: Sophia Sanan, AFAI and Sylvestre Kabassidi, musician, Congo. Your itinerary: At The Bijou, Observatory, Maurice Mbikiye, Visual Artist from the Congo; down Station Road, Observatory with Lizette Chirrime, Visual Artist from Mozambique; and in Mowbray Main Road, Nadjanara Rosada, Multimedia Designer from Angola. The tour will be rounded off with drinks at Paper Bench Studio in Mowbray.

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07. History of Cape Town Cape Town’s history as an important port city that marked the beginning of the era of global travel is still tangible today, the city’s melting pot of cultures and civilisations predates the colonial era. This history comes alive in this guided walking tour of Cape Town’s indigenous, colonial and post-colonial pasts. This tour includes a tour of District Six Museum, an important living memory in Cape Town’s apartheid history. Guide: Mandy Sanger, District 6 Museum Your itinerary includes the District 6 Museum Homecoming Centre in Buitenkant Street, Church Square and surrounds, Caledon Street, home to the infamous Caledon Square Police station & passing by sites of forced removals. The tour will end with coffee and a ‘koeksister’ at the Museum, and conversation about the spatial planning logic behind ongoing development of the city.

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CONFERENCE VENUE Hiddingh Hall, Hiddingh Campus, University of Cape Town. A leafy campus for the art and drama departments of the University of Cape Town, Hiddingh campus is home to the interdisciplinary Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), the Michaelis School of Fine Art and the Michaelis Gallery, all of which host regular exhibitions, events, seminars and workshops. It boasts the impressive wood panelled Hiddingh Hall and Hiddingh Hall Library which in 1911 became the University’s first purpose built library. Today it is a branch library serving the Departments of Drama, History of Art and Fine Art. Founded in 1925, the Fine Arts department of the University of Cape Town is better known as the Michaelis School of Fine Art, and has a long and proud tradition of producing outstanding graduates. Today Michaelis is staffed by some of South Africa’s leading fine artists, curators and art academics. Internationally the school is recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost institutions for the study of fine art and new media at an advanced level.

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Special recognition is given to the school’s place in Africa, and the School strives to provide a stimulating and supportive environment in which both undergraduate and postgraduate students can achieve their full potential. The location of Hiddingh Campus – adjacent to the historic Company’s Garden
– ensures that students have access to many cultural institutions and heritage resources. These include the South African National Gallery, the South African Museum and the National Library of South Africa, as well as some of the country’s leading commercial art galleries and creative hubs.

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION INTERNET ACCESS Free internet access is available at the main conference venue, Hiddingh Hall at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. Please refer to the details provided in your conference pack. USEFUL ADDRESSES Symposium venues Little Theatre Hiddingh Hall 31-37 Orange Street, Cape Town Tel: 021-480 7111 African Arts Institute District 6 Homecoming Centre 15 Buitenkant Street Cape Town Tel: 021-465 9027/8 www.afai.org.za

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USEFUL INFORMATION Emergency telephone numbers All emergencies (fire, police, medical, traffic): 107 City Safety: 082 415 7127 Hospital 24-hour service Cape Town Medi-Clinic 21 Hof Street (off Orange Street) Cape Town Tel: 021-464 5500 Taxi services Rikkis Taxis: 0861 745547 Excite Taxis: 021-448 4444 Uber: https://www.uber.com/cities/cape-town

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Cape Town Tourism The Pinnacle Building Corner of Burg and Castle Streets Cape Town Tel: 086 132 2233 Email: [email protected] www.capetown.travel Restaurants Cape Town has numerous excellent restaurants. Carne (Meat) 70 Keerom Street (CBD) Tel: 021-424 3460 http://www.carne-sa.com Bukhara (Indian cuisine) 33 Church Street Tel: 021 424 0000 http://bukhara.com Also, see www.eatout.co.za Contact numbers for the Conference Managers Marte Brinkman (ELIA): +316 339 68987 Marí Stimie (AFAI): +2776 4800 643

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ELIA, The European League of Institutes of the Arts is the primary independent network organisation for higher arts education. With over 300 members in 47 countries, ELIA promotes dialogue, mobility, research - and the sharing of best practice and activities between artists, teachers, administrators - and leaders, all of whom together represent more than 300,000 art students. ELIA represents and promotes the importance of the arts and higher arts education and is internationally recognised as an influential body. AFAI, The African Arts Institute is a not-forprofit company whose work in cultural policy, research, information dissemination, capacity-building and public art is pursued within the framework of the ‘cultural dimension of development’. AFAI’s mission is to harness relevant expertise, resources, infrastructure, markets and knowledge to develop sustainable creative practice in Africa both in its own right, and in contributing to human rights, democratic practice and the elimination of inequality.

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STEERING GROUP Kieran Corcoran. Head, Dublin School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland Carla Delfos. Executive Director, ELIA, Amsterdam, Netherlands Mike van Graan. Executive Director, AFAI, Cape Town, South Africa Thomas D. Meier. President, ELIA; Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland CONFERENCE ORGANISERS Marte Brinkman, Conference Manager, ELIA Sophia Sanan, Research Manager, AFAI Annie Hoosain, Office and Financial Administrator, AFAI
 Belisa Rodrigues, Business Development Manager, AFAI Mari Stimie, Project Manager, AFAI DESIGNERS Ziana Jenneker and Nadjanara Rosada, Paperbench Design Studio, Cape Town, South Africa

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