GIPCA to host "groundbreaking" Emerging Modernities event

We closed off the show with an interview with Associate Professor Jay Pather – Director at the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts or GIPCA. The Institute will be hosting the groundbreaking Emerging Modernities event, from the 18th to the 20th of February 2011 at UCT’s Hiddingh Campus. According to Professor Pather, Emerging Modernities is a creative platform where academia and the arts meet in an interactive way to explore current conceptual issues around contemporary identities and art. The topics addressed during the panel sessions will include “Emerging modernities and the contested curriculum in the post colony”, “Re-presenting the other, artistic collaboration and identity construction as process in the visual arts”, “Intercultural composition and Pan African re-emerging and merging in music”, and “Performance and the African city: multiple tongues; hybrid formations and translocations”. Registration for Emerging Modernities is open to members of the public, and the fee for attending all the sessions and performances is R350. This includes all lunches and teas, the opening cocktail function and transport to the various installation performances throughout the city. A subsidised student registration is available at R70 (excludes lunches). UCT staff discounts also available. The event opens on Friday evening, the 18th of February, and ends on Sunday the 20th of February. Bookings can be made through Computicket www.computicket.com The full programme is available from www.gipca.uct.ac.za or contact Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton on (021) 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za for further information.

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